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Can we please trade Silva and Gorz and Lilly?
jersey cubs fan replied to RegulusBlue's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
So you are advocating signing Lee to an extension? He's going to be a 35 year old first basemen with 2 great seasons in his career, coming off 2 of 3 disappointing seasons (assuming he doesn't completely catch fire this year). I think you have to strongly consider letting him walk unless he's willing to take a one year deal with a paycut. -
Stanley Cup Champion Chicago Blackhawks Thread!!!!!!
jersey cubs fan replied to chuckywang's topic in Other Sports
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If you were a good hitting coach, would you take a gig at Wrigley? :D Wrigley, where fake good hitting coaches go to become exposed for who they really are. Bad hitting coaches. What matters is the overall ability of the players and that is determined by the GM. That's where changes need to be made. Whether it's Lou, or Alan or Ryno, it doesn't matter if it's still Jim.
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Why don't they fire the hitting coach again? There's got to be another best in the business guy they can waste their money on.
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Stanley Cup Champion Chicago Blackhawks Thread!!!!!!
jersey cubs fan replied to chuckywang's topic in Other Sports
Hmmm...they gonna start trying to run the goalie? I get the strategy. Bumrush the goalie, get some retaliation penalties on the Hawks, etc. But that whole "50 years" business is nonsense. Like that adds any extra pressure to a 26-year old kid from Finland who had probably never even been to Chicago until about a year ago. I think they gave him a crack of doubt on Saturday night when the dinged him for five goals. And it did them no good. I know it's all talk and a product of constant news conferences, it just gets tiring. I don't think it's nonsense. I think it's a desperate strategy from a coach who wants the media to help him win. He's telling them to start asking Niemi about the pressure of history. -
Go Hawks!
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Oh, if only. I would love it if they fired Lou, let Trammel finish the year and then signed him up for at least one full year with Sandberg as the bench coach. I've resigned myself to the inevitability of Sandberg as manager at some point, so at least with that outcome he spends some time with the big league club under someone else as opposed to jumping right in. That's been my hope, and given Ryno's good soldier status maybe he'd go along with it. But then would Trammel? Would he take a gig where he's essentially a lame duck already just keeping the spot warm for the chosen one? maybe if it earns him another shot somewhere else. I doubt he wants his managerial career to consist entirely of his tenure in Detroit. So if he can be a manager again here, even for just a few months, it might be enough to get him a shot with another team next year. Who knows. He'd almost definitely take the actual interim tag for this year, but I was referring to taking the gig next year with Ryno as his bench coach. He's going to want a 3 year deal.
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Really? They've given out bonuses of 500k or more to Jin-Yeong Kim, Wilson Contreras, Dong-Yub Kim, and Kyung-Min Na in just the last year. I know they aren't signing the 2-3 million bonus guys, but that's a pretty decent alotment for international free agents. And it kind of fits the quantity over quality theory. 4 guys getting 500k each instead of one guy getting 2-3m.
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Stanley Cup Champion Chicago Blackhawks Thread!!!!!!
jersey cubs fan replied to chuckywang's topic in Other Sports
I hope nobody bothers with nonsense like that. -
Oh, if only. I would love it if they fired Lou, let Trammel finish the year and then signed him up for at least one full year with Sandberg as the bench coach. I've resigned myself to the inevitability of Sandberg as manager at some point, so at least with that outcome he spends some time with the big league club under someone else as opposed to jumping right in. That's been my hope, and given Ryno's good soldier status maybe he'd go along with it. But then would Trammel? Would he take a gig where he's essentially a lame duck already just keeping the spot warm for the chosen one?
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To be fair, I guess, one would expect a team to have gone 1-8 against the Pirates to be a LOT worse than 5 games under .500. I'm not saying that Lou's is off the hook, but whatever. if it weren't for the fact that as a whole, the national league sucks and is rather unimpressive, my opinion is that lou would have been long gone by now. in a normal year, any team that is that close to .500 but is 1-8 to the pirates should have been fired well before the start of june. the extreme mediocrity of the nl is saving a lot of jobs now. I really think the only way Lou would have been fired by now was if they got off to some 0-14 start and were 20 games under .500 right now. And even then I'm not so sure. Maybe if the manager was some generic guy Hendry would have canned him by now. But he's still Lou Piniella, and Jim Hendry is still Jim Hendry. I'm not sure Hendry has the option to fire a manager and hire a new one right now.
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I don't know, but this looks like the 14th Hill start, which would put him on pace for a good 40-42 starts, which would leave Soto with only 120. Koyie is getting 25% of the PA at catcher, which is too much for a terrible hitter, and leaves Soto with relatively few for a good hitting catcher forced to bat at the bottom of a bad lineup.
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Is Soto hurt? 3 off days over the past 9 days with 2 more off days coming in the next 6 days, plus a day game after night game situation in Houston.
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Wait what? Took me a minute to figure the positions... RF, SS, 1B, CF, LF, 2B, 3B, C?
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True, 100 IP consistently starting is both less impressive and less actual work. This sounds a bit melodramatic to me. If he throws another 40 IP this year, I'm not sure why that would be the disaster you are portraying.
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I'm trying to think of who though. Pujols and Cabrera went from the OF to 1B, but didn't they both start out as 3B? I just think anybody who spent his entire college and minor league career in the OF is going to have a bit of a tough time going to 1B. Lance Berkman. Wasn't he a 1B who moved to the OF in order to crack the lineup while Bagwell was around? Even if Colvin could conceivably play 1B, we're still looking at a guy who is questionable to hit well enough to start everyday in CF. He'd be a terrible hitting 1B.
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It doesn't derail it.
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I'd kill for some mid 700's OPS out of third base this year.
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I'm trying to think of who though. Pujols and Cabrera went from the OF to 1B, but didn't they both start out as 3B? I just think anybody who spent his entire college and minor league career in the OF is going to have a bit of a tough time going to 1B. Adam Dunn Is he a full time 1B now? I thought he just played there on occasion the past few years. Anyway, I don't think he's handled it all that well either.
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I'm not sure you can say it's just fine now based on a couple innings from Howry and Stevens. It's been a mess all season and Marshall/Marmol are the only parts that aren't a mess. Gorzallany is no sure thing back there either. And if that is the worst thing, then I still don't get the outrage. He can go back to Iowa when they fall out of it in August, he can pitch this fall. He can work on stretching out all offseason and next spring. He's at 57 IP already this season, if he stays in the majors it wouldn't take a crazy pace to get another 43 to match last season's total (just 10 2/3 innings per month, or a 65 inning pace).
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I'm trying to think of who though. Pujols and Cabrera went from the OF to 1B, but didn't they both start out as 3B? I just think anybody who spent his entire college and minor league career in the OF is going to have a bit of a tough time going to 1B.
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I would think the major concern should be getting good years out of him, league minimum or not. The primary goal should not be to maximize his first three major league seasons. Again, it's not ideal, but I don't get the outrage. It's a reasonable way of using the guy, assuming they use him.
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Howry sucks. Who's to say that having him go longer and longer as a starter isn't a risk? Sure this pushes back the timetable for when you can count on him as a 180-200 inning pitcher. But why do you need to make sure he can go past labor day by the time he hits arbitration? If anything, a lack of 200 inning greatness would just lower his potential arbitration earnings, and they'd still control him for a few years. He turns 24 this year, the Cubs control him until he's 30. I really don't get the outrage about Cashner being used as a reliever this season.
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I wonder if Colvin could play 1st? A Nady/Colvin platoon, perhaps? Guys move from left to right on the spectrum, and from the infield to the outfield. But I don't think there's much history of guys moving from outfield to infield, even first base. I think some have gone the 3B, LF, 1B route, but OF his entire life then IF? That would be tough.
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How about releasing John Grabow so Lou can't use him? The money is spent, there is nothing you can do about it now. Other teams admit their mistakes and cut their losses. One could argue firing Lou might help the team be better this year. I never said Ricketts is losing games and I know there are no guarantees, but to act like he can't do anything to try to help the team this year is silly. Let's just pretend he does some stuff like this and the Cubs win an extra 2-3 games. Then what? You have a brand new owner with a micro manager label who insists on stepping on the GM's toes and releasing injured players, somebody that nobody would like to work for and therefore somebody who is going to have to spend extra money to convince people to work for you.
