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  1. jersey cubs fan
    Sounds to me like they are trying to rush him back pre-ASB. Why not just try and get him completely healed and bring him back after the break in DC? On a sidenote, I feel like I've seen a lot of Lou and Aramis one on one conversations in the dugout while he's been out. I wonder what they are discussing. Strategy, how much they suck, Aramis's health, dinner plans? I don't really see Lou having anything more than a word or two with other players, but those two will spend entire innings chatting.
  2. jersey cubs fan
    Won't bring him back, right. I sure as heck don't think you waste resources on another freaking reliever when the team can't score a damn run.
  3. jersey cubs fan
    Boy, I just don't see the Dusty comparisons at all. Why not? He's obsessed with small ball and making things happen.
  4. jersey cubs fan
    I hope not. It would be nice if they traded for something that mattered, like a person who can hit the ball, instead of a post 30 year old reliever who is nothing special away from cavernous pitcher's parks. This season he's got a better WHIP and K:BB ratio on the road than at home. His ERA is higher, but that's only because he gave up 3 runs in 13 innings (road) instead of 2 runs in 20 innings (home). He was much worse on the road last year, but in 2007 he was only slightly worse on the road than he was at home (better ERA on the road, .150 points worse WHIP on the road). Two out of his three years in San Diego he's been something special on the road. Why does it only matter what he's doing most recently? He's a reliever. He's not going to consistently put up solid numbers. This obsession with getting guys who are doing well in the last year or two is mind boggling. A one or two year trend does not define a player, especially a reliever.
  5. jersey cubs fan
    I thought espn used to have a feature where you could find splits for all OF combined, but I can't find it. They are 11th among NL LF, 6th among NL CF, and 9th among NL RF. Of the teams that rank lower at spots, San Diego, Washington, Arizona and the Mets each have a top 1 or 2 ranking in the OF. It looks to me like Atlanta is likely worst, STL is pretty low, but the Cubs might be the bottom 5 or so, since they are weak in so many spots and not strong in any.
  6. jersey cubs fan
    I hope not. It would be nice if they traded for something that mattered, like a person who can hit the ball, instead of a post 30 year old reliever who is nothing special away from cavernous pitcher's parks.
  7. jersey cubs fan
    Yes, like the lack of hitting, which can be helped by increasing the number of bats on the bench instead of wasting a roster spot on a 7th freaking reliever.
  8. jersey cubs fan
    So the plan is to trade a starting pitcher who in his first exposure to the major leagues has been terrific for another freaking reliever? Awesome. Hope they keep racking up these guys. What a terrific job Hendry has done so far getting nothing but high quality bullpen arms that consistently year-in-year-out justify their contracts and stabilize the late innings. Oh wait, I'm sorry, this always blows up in their face and they end up cutting guys because they have one or two good years, at best and then get overpaid and take up space before the manager refuses to use them. Sometimes I get those scenarios confused. Fing brilliant. Do it again big fella, you've never missed on a bullpen acquisition and I'm sure you never will. Because if there's one thing a team that can't hit can use, it's more relievers. A guy who has spent his entire career in pitchers parks, Shea and Petco, has a 150 point differential between home and away OPS against, and a 1.60 different in home and away ERA. What a must have.
  9. jersey cubs fan
    2 days off to "work on left handed swing".
  10. jersey cubs fan
    Heh well Lou says 1 thing again, and then changes his mind. Lou had said Fuld would start in CF tonight with Fuku playing RF, so much for that(not that Im complaining). I'd much rather have Hoff's bat in the lineup than Fuld's, so I think we're much better off. Fuld shouldn't be starting while he's up here. He's a 4th outfielder at best. Plus he got caught stealing in his first action, so he's probably done as far as Lou is concerned.
  11. jersey cubs fan
    That's kind of ridiculous. The Brewers, like 4 other NL central teams, are 4-6 in their last 10. They've scored 7 more runs than they've allowed. The Mets aren't kind of bad, but the Brewers aren't exactly good. Getting upset over not sweeping them is stupid.
  12. jersey cubs fan
    $3m is meaningless when Hendry is going to turn around and hand it to the next Aaron Miles.
  13. jersey cubs fan
    So I guess that's another short lived experiment with Samardzija starting.
  14. jersey cubs fan
    whatwhatwhat?
  15. jersey cubs fan
    MB, Murton, Eyre, Wuertz, Gaudin, maybe Pie and Cedeno. DeRosa says the reports of him feuding with Lou are unfounded, but maybe they weren't. It says you couldn't list your manager, not necessarily any manager you've played for. And with all the time these guys have to BS with each other, I'm sure word gets around. That and he has a longstanding reputation, and a team full of guys in Tampa where things didn't exactly end well. Torre doesn't surprise mere. There was always talk of friction with players, especially relievers. Plus, Torre got an insane amount of the credit for the success.
  16. jersey cubs fan
    It would indicate which managers are more likely to be listed as "guy I don't want to play for" among free agents. Free agents can sign with the same team though. What does that mean? I just mean that when Milton Bradley, for example, becomes a free agent, he can say Piniella is a "guy I don't want to play for. I'll sign with anyone but the Cubs"... But for the purposes of this poll, he wasn't allowed to say Piniella. Okay, yes I realize that Milton couldn't say Lou. I'm talking about the general sentiment among all players, who at one point in time will become free agents in one way shape or form. I'm not talking about Milton.
  17. jersey cubs fan
    It would indicate which managers are more likely to be listed as "guy I don't want to play for" among free agents. Free agents can sign with the same team though. What does that mean?
  18. jersey cubs fan
    It would indicate which managers are more likely to be listed as "guy I don't want to play for" among free agents.
  19. jersey cubs fan
    I'm just not a big fan of a plan for the rest of the year where we wait for people just suddenly start playing better. I might be entertaining this idea more just because it involves getting rid of Bradley, who I've really grown to dislike. Yeah, the plan isn't all that exciting, but making deals just to make deals seems to me to be awfully similar to managers who insist on making things happen on the basepaths. This looks like a situation where they'd run themselves into an out. I don't want to see the 2011 Cubs stuck with a $6m 35 year old second baseman who does nothing particularly well. It's not like we're talking about some guaranteed .400 OBP player here. He's a bit sketchy on defense and has his own history of significant missed time.
  20. jersey cubs fan
    Who are these people?
  21. jersey cubs fan
    Doesn't Castillo kind of stink? I'm fairly pissed about the Bradley situation, and regret more and more the easy way he will be able to get that 3rd year guaranteed. I might be talked into a give him away situation, but taking on a pretty crappy older middle infielder who has his own onerous contract doesn't seem like any sort of solution to the problem.
  22. jersey cubs fan
    You don't have to be the best to get a promotion, but you should earn it by more than one month of a great play. I'm of the opinion that Vitters should have stayed in the MWL all year long unless he proved he was so far ahead of the competition that it was doing him a disservice to stay. Clearly that is not the case. He's young, he's inconsistent, and he's yet to dominate either of the two low level leagues he has played in. You don't OPS sub 700 for a month and then get promoted based on your "dominance". I'd rather see them treat him like the Mets did with David Wright, who played his entire age 19 season in low A, then his entire age 20 season in the FSL. I'm just afraid that bumping him up to high A at 19 is going to increase the likelihood that starts next year in AA and gets put on the fast track to Wrigley because this team's decision makers are so desperate to win now so they can keep their jobs that they'd feel pressure to call him up to the bigs at some point next season.
  23. jersey cubs fan
    He was indefinitely suspended after the guilty plea and that means he basically has to plead his case to the commish to be reinstated.
  24. jersey cubs fan
    He has a lot to work on, but he's fifth in the MWL in OPS and second in SLG at 19. What more did he have to do to dominate the level? How about be first? He sucked in June, so I really don't see how he could be considered to have dominated the level. Had he maintained that May, or even just performed well in June, then yes you could talk of domination. But one month of high numbers over three months of a season is not domination.
  25. jersey cubs fan
    I think time in prison is probably much worse for his physical state than time out of prison but on suspension. He's 29. If he's suspended for all of this year, he'll be 30 at the start of his first training camp back in action. He'll have missed 3 seasons, but he'll have had over a year to train with any and every piece of equipment and nutritional options he could like, as well as a chance to play in Canada if he wants. If time away was going to ruin him, it was the time he spent in prison, not a year on suspension. With time to get in peak physical condition and a lack of physical wear and tear from playing the past couple seasons, he could come back and play for 5 years. He can choose to live like a victim of unfair treatment if he wants, but it's not going to do any good.
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