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Not clear at all. Lee was stinking up the joint before Ramirez got hurt, but he's been great since. Bradley stunk long before Ramirez went down. Soriano's numbers were already well on their way down in the three weeks leading up to Ramirez getting injured. Theriot was a 750 OPS player at the end of April and he's a 750 OPS player now. They were a subpar hitting team before Ramirez went down (12th in NL in April OPS) and when Ramirez went down they had to play Fontenot against more LHP than they would have liked and inserted a variety of crappy players into the 2B position on a daily basis. Plus Gregg struggled before Ramirez went down, and Marmol hasn't thrown 2 consecutive strikes all year. -
And they apparantly just killed a guy on Brazil, oh wait, he's fine, nevermind.
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We are dead last in baseball in OPS. It doesn't take much to be better than us right now. I don't really think they've kicked the Cubs butt. They are a little better, yes, but they aren't Boston. They are the best of a weak division.
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I was focusing primarily on his closing career and that may have been a mistake. Even still, he's on pace to decimate even the 10 HR and 8 HR seasons. Maybe they're just blowing out of Wrigley at a higher pace, I'm not sure. Maybe he's just an inconsistent second rate reliever? He had more career IP pre-closing days (oh and by the way he was relieved of that duty last year due to ineffectiveness) so I have no idea why you would only concentrate on his "closing career". He's a relief pitcher.
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Hey give Hendry his due, we ain't getting swept in the first round this year. He's a true problem solver! I haven't decided yet if getting swept out of the first round for the third year in a row would be worse than not making the playoffs at all. I think it would be. It wouldn't be worse. This whole "we're going to be 0-5 games back for 6 months" scenario is pretty brutal. See 2004. Getting swept in the first round at least means you get to enjoy clinching the division. And since this isn't Atlanta we'd still enjoy seeing them win the division.
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Good thing it took 6 weeks... And where does Fox go when Aramis comes back? Back up 1st, 3rd, LF. I'd rather have Fox around than Hoff if we can only pick one. What a crappy choice though. Both those guys have really been a couple of the only guys swinging the bat... And the whole point is to get him in the lineup....backup doesn't do that. He can PH everyday and start occasionally.
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It helps when you get to close in Pro Player. I notice you seem to concentrate exclusively on his last two years, the two he spent in Florida, but ignore he gave up 10 HR in 78 innings in Aneheim and gave up 8 in just 64 IP the year before that. He's a flyball pitcher who walks too many guys, that's just not a good combination, unless you have a terrific K rate, which he does not. And there's no point in just talking about his "closing career". He's a relief pitcher. He's been a relief pitcher throughout his career and has plenty of pre-Florida relief pitching stats to talk about his career as a whole. Pulling out his two best years and saying that's obviously who he really is and who he will stay in his 30's just doesn't make sense. Second tier relief pitchers just aren't consistently effective. A 1-2 year period of success doesn't mean anything.
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Exactly. "But Jim Hendry traded for Aram in 2003", pleaded the teary eyed Cubs fan...... And has a large part of the responsibility for turning this team from a perennial doormat to back-to-back division champs. There are lots of reasons why hendry is not a great GM, but he's not as terrible as you'd love to make him seem. Before that he turned them into back-to-back disastrously awful seasons. The money did more to make this team successful than Hendry did.
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Wood was a ballsy move, letting a high paid closer walk because high paid closers are overrated. But he negates that smart move by trading for another over compensated relief pitcher who gets the "proven closer" tag. If you don't want to waste money on a reliever, good for you, but don't then go right back out and waste money on another reliever.
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Font is my biggest disappointment this year. I really thought he was capable of coming in on an everyday basis and putting up a .285 .360 line with 15 HR pop. How in the world is Fontenot a bigger disappointment than Bradley? Because Bradley looks like he's coming around, other than the power stroke. Fontenot looks as clueless as ever. Fontenot gets paid peanuts and his being used out of position but he's still outhitting Bradley against RHP, which is what Bradley was supposedly specifically brought in to do, for big money.
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Font is my biggest disappointment this year. I really thought he was capable of coming in on an everyday basis and putting up a .285 .360 line with 15 HR pop. Same here. :( And really, there was nothing that would lead you believe otherwise before this year. I mean sure he's going to regress from that 906 OPS or whatever he posted last year....but I didn't think this would be what would happen upon him receiving a starting role. Really depressing. Nothing? He hit double digit HR once as a pro and just barely put up those AVG/OBP as a relatively older minor leaguer. His pre-2008 numbers didn't come close to what he did last year and every indication was he was not an everyday player, because he can't hit against LHP. I thought he'd be a little better than he's been, but not much. His numbers are dragged down by a 400 OPS against LHP in more PA than he should really be getting against them. But his .246/.342/.401 line against RHP is not that disappointing from realistic expectations. Last year was a fluke. He's 29 now and he's not getting any better.
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who exactly are you benching to get Mr. Dunn into the lineup? Can I choose more than one?
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Ran over Theriot trying to make a wide ranging play rather than letting Theriot make the easy play on a ball hit right to him. The Detroit radio guys described it as normally the 3B's ball. If he can get to it it is his play.
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The legs are the first thing to go. yeah but they didnt go at a normal rate. he went from 40 stolen bases to below average in no time. I don't see how he went to below average in no time. He still stole 19 in 2007 and had a higher rate. The difference is he attempted more in Washington. But that's a stupid strategy. He got thrown out a lot. When he was in his mid-to-late 20's he stole just as much with a higher rate of success. And as he passed into his early 30's he started to get injured and his legs got worse. It wasn't over night. He's a worse runner now than he was in 2007, pre-injury.
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The legs are the first thing to go.
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foxy bomb
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These Detroit guys are very sympathetic to the Cubs problems.
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Hoff with another just foul almost HR. Detroit radio people saying Lee's flyout was on a "lazy breaking ball" and that he got himself out there.
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He's stunk all year and hasn't been close to healthy. He has to sit frequently. What is the confusion?
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Fuku still has an OBP near .400 and we dont have anyone better to play CF. And that's why I'd like to see him batting leadoff, or at the minimum #2, so that he at least has a CHANCE to be driven in when he's on base 40% of the time. When he's got Fontenot or Soto or some crap behind him, when he's hitting 6th, he's completely worthless in the lineup. It's "still" that high only because it started off so much higher. He's had a .267 OBP in June.
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Boise/AZ Cubs Roster Speculation
jersey cubs fan replied to Outshined_One's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
He's finishing out his commitment to the Canadian national team before coming to Mesa in July. What is the Canadian national team doing right now? http://66.241.210.162/files/2008-09%20Junior%20Schedule.pdf Looks like they are playing the USA Collegiate National and then the Cuban Junior National Team. -
That's about all they have available.
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Nationals to fire Acta; replaced by Riggleman
jersey cubs fan replied to manbearcub's topic in General Baseball Talk
They weren't referenced in the earlier post. But they sucked for a long time before finally being run properly. Still, they were a little lucky to get there, still lost, and probably won't be back in the playoffs this year. Washington would have to seriously change course to get to that level of play. The Cubs are much better off. Regardless of the woe is me attitude amongst Cubs fans, there's no good reason why they can't win a WS before the Nationals. -
Nationals to fire Acta; replaced by Riggleman
jersey cubs fan replied to manbearcub's topic in General Baseball Talk
That's a stupid bet. I'm sure someone said the same thing about the Diamondbacks and Marlins when they were expansion teams and being terrible. Both of those teams had owners who aggressively purchased players in order to win in the short-term, and they won in their 4th year. The Washington Nationals are in their 5th year (if you don't count the 36 in Montreal) and so far have just gotten worse each season. -
Nationals to fire Acta; replaced by Riggleman
jersey cubs fan replied to manbearcub's topic in General Baseball Talk
That's a stupid bet. He might not own very much.
