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This is lunacy. Yeah, it's not that hard to get lucky two years in a row. It happens. But his luckiness didn't even result in all that good of results. You don't lock up middle relievers to longterm contracts because middle relievers are completely replacable and inconsistent. Also, you are saying it's fine to pay what they paid because some other teams would offer less? The only point in guaranteeing a 2nd year to a guy like Grabow is if you get a discount. Otherwise just give him the one year arbitration offer and leave yourself some flexibility. This is going to be another guy they end up paying to play elsewhere at the end of his contract. When Hendry signs these marginal guys to multi-year deals, it never works out. -
It means that with the exception of last year(which is much more about Marquis than Millwood), that Millwood has consistently been anywhere from 10 to 30+ runs better than Marquis. He has similar good qualities, but he's much, much better. Except you're talking about what he did in his prime late 20's years while some of Marquis's time includes his young 20's. And as a 35 year old now, Millwood's value at 29 is meaningless. He is not a very good pitcher. He's a pitcher who shows up and generally doesn't get destroyed. The Cubs don't need guys who can show up, they have that, they need guys who can either shut down opponents to compensate for their weak offense, or help them score more runs.
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I don't really see what 8 years ago has to do with mid-30's pitchers. Millwood shows up, that's the best compliment you can give him. Same as Marquis. So over the last three years Millwood has 1.1 WAR more than Marquis. What does that mean?
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Something is being lost in translation here. Everybody is reporting this is all but done, nobody is reporting they are about to make the necessary follow-up moves to make it fit. You can either be committed over the cap next season up to a certain date, or you can't at all. If this is all but done, and what you say is true, then it can't be true that Bowman might wait to do some trimming.
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How much better is Millwodd than Marquis?
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Deferring is good. I think he meant backloaded, and while backloading can have its advantages, it can, and in the case of the Cubs, it has, severely handcuff you in the near future.
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Unless something changed while I wasn't paying attention, I don't think he ever was. He made it known he'd like to stay as a Cub. I don't see the harm in it, Milwood or not. If Milwood is on, a rotation of Z/Harden/Lilly/Milwood/Demp is a division-winner. Granted, it's not quite Prior/Wood/Z/Maddux/Clement, but it's still pretty damn good. That frees us up to trade Wells or Marshall in a package for a bat. You might not see the harm in it, but according to every single media report, Hendry sees a tremendous amount of harm in it. He gives away draft picks to sign middle relievers and doesn't value picks enough to offer arbitration to departing free agents. In Jim's mind he must think they can get the same quality picks just by paying overslot later in the draft. They gave up a good amount for Harden, he performed to expectations and they are just going to let him walk for nothing.
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There's a part of me that's hoping for another crappy offseason, followed by a 71-win season, followed by Ricketts firing everyone and starting over with some actual baseball minds. I know that's messed up, but I can't help it. Screw baseball minds. The Cubs organization has been littered with baseball minds, including several former GMs and other well respected baseball people. Baseball people are really stupid. They need smart people.
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That's crazy. Yes, it's widely thought that it will go down. But under better economic situations it should go up every year, that would make it nearly impossible to resign anybody during the season - unless you were significantly below the cap that year. I have serious doubts about this claim. Every major media outlet is reporting deals are imminent, and if what you say is true, the only way this can happen is if the Blackhawks trade away Sharp, Buff, Huet and/or Campbell before the contracts are signed, and nobody is reporting anything about such a deal or even hinting that such a deal is close.
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Eagles at Bears Sunday 7:20 on NBC
jersey cubs fan replied to jersey cubs fan's topic in Other Sports
And the Bears primetime sruggles have all been on the road. However, Philly can throw the ball and they dominate the turnover game - the two things that have doomed the Bears this year. Philly should win this game, but hopefully they screw it up. -
I don't really care about Vitters because he hasn't done crap outside of one hot month as a pro. Doesn't look at all like he's going to be a solid replacement at 3B for when Ramirez leaves.
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So they are going back to the 2006/7 offseason when the plan was just to get innings eaters - potential for mediocrity be damned? They do realize the problem with this team was a lack of scoring runs, not a lack of mediocre innings pitched, right?
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Why is a mediocre reliever such a high priority for this team?
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A couple of posters on a Wings site said the same thing, I turns out you cannot go over next years salary cap. This may be the hold up with the signings. Just for those scoring at home if these contracts are true the Hawks will be 5 million over next years cap. That will only be for 16 players You can't go over next year's salary cap this year? But they don't even know what it will be.
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That's the kind of package I was thinking of, even if we had to include another mid-level prospect. The names that were being thrown out there (Vitters, Castro, Theriot, Marmol, etc.) were too much, especially in a package of 3-4 players. They can have Theriot. He's a 30-year old middle infielder who is quite mediocre and is about to start making 7 figures.
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Re: Lincecum's Hairstyle Explained
jersey cubs fan replied to BCVM22's topic in General Baseball Talk
Only a pot head would think nobody can tell that they are a pot head or that they are acting like a normal person when stoned. Hate to lay it out there, but we can tell, and most of us are cool with it. not everyone can tell...i dated a girl for quite some time and she could never tell when i was or wasn't stoned. pretty sure my boss can't tell i'm stoned right now either ;) The boss probably just assumes you're always stoned. -
Re: Cubs to Leave Mesa for Florida?
jersey cubs fan replied to Falling5tarr's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
There might not be a large commute distance, but there's a huge time distance. Metro Phoenix traffic blows. You can drive from the gulf coast to the atlantic coast quicker than you can go from the eastern side of Phoenix to the western. -
Re: Lincecum's Hairstyle Explained
jersey cubs fan replied to BCVM22's topic in General Baseball Talk
Only a pot head would think nobody can tell that they are a pot head or that they are acting like a normal person when stoned. Hate to lay it out there, but we can tell, and most of us are cool with it. -
That's what my gut tells me. But otoh, there's no guarantee Castro becomes what we think he will become. Granderson is an established commodity, a good bat at a defense first position, which also happens to be a position of relative need. I would go for the bird in hand, but it could be all those years of our top prospects tanking. If I did cough him up, they wouldn't get much more. Maybe Castro/Fox/Marshall. That's my feeling as well. As mentioned above, I wouldn't want to move Castro, but since HJ Lee is in the system, I could stomach it. I could stomach trading Castro, but not for a guy as flawed as Granderson is. Stars do not become completely incompetent when facing LH pitching. He is established as a guy who cannot hit lefties. That is a very bad thing when trying to justify trading away top talent for him. If you deal your top prospects, and a guy like Castro who has rocketed up most people's lists this year, you better get back a real star, and not some limited guy like Granderson.
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The problem contracts are those that pay a huge portion of the money up front and then finish with a few years of bare minimum payments, and usually take guys into their age 40 season or beyond. There's nothing wrong with a long term deal where the average cap hit at least closely proximates the yearly salary. A deal that pays Keith $6-7m early and $3-4m per toward the end of adeal that takes him to 39 shouldn't be all that much of an issue.
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Cubs Top Prospect Lists (NSBB, BA, etc.)
jersey cubs fan replied to Outshined_One's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
Doesn't he have control and consistency issues? Coupled with being considered a thrower and I'd find it very hard to believe his mechanics are all that good. -
I'm sorry but that's a really weak defense. Every time a new coach takes over for a failed coach there is a carryover effect from the regime change. He's on the hot seat now because his team has lost 4 games in a year when many expected a BCS game and he doesn't have a signature impressive win. Claiming that he's currently suffering from Ty because a couple years ago he had to recruit while being on the hot seat just doesn't hold up. That's an excuse college coaches don't get. He's fired after Stanford b/c his teams haven't performed to expectations. I completely agree. He was on the hot seat (in the media if not reality) in 2007, months after taking the team to a second consecutive BCS game, b/c his predecessor tanked the program. He was on the hot seat because he lost 5 games in a row 10 months after getting absolutely destroyed in a BCS game his team had no business playing in. You make it sound like people just suddenly turned on him for no good reason.
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I'm sorry but that's a really weak defense. Every time a new coach takes over for a failed coach there is a carryover effect from the regime change. He's on the hot seat now because his team has lost 4 games in a year when many expected a BCS game and he doesn't have a signature impressive win. Claiming that he's currently suffering from Ty because a couple years ago he had to recruit while being on the hot seat just doesn't hold up. That's an excuse college coaches don't get.
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Absolutely. It was a desperation signing. They were desperate for scoring and desperate for positive PR. Not many people realized where they were poised to go. But the reason a guy like Campbell quickly lost his value to the team is because they have players like Kane who can score.
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Well the current offensive coordinator was brought in after being fired for doing a far worse job at less of a name football program. I'd be all for Weis as Bears O coordinator. Right, he's a step up from Turner, no question. But my point is, if he's fired from ND, he's not going to have a very high profile in Chicago, and if the Bears replace Turner, it's going to be as an olive branch to Chicago fans in the face of not being able to can Angelo and Smith. Would they really hire such a guy? Or would he take the job? I have my doubts about both. Also, I'm not sure Lovie and Charlie would work well together, given the talk of Weis's ego and Lovie's low key all for one one for all mentality.
