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i thought fontenot would be fine, and i still thought it was a stupid move. fontenot doesn't hit lefties, so even if you used a strict platoon, derosa would start about a quarter of the time. you're also going to a 2B who doesn't hit well again power RHP, so derosa could start again them. then you have an aging roster with a 3B, LF and RF who are good bets to miss at least some time due to injury. a proven bat who can fill in capably at all those positions becomes invaluable. and in case fontenot can't be an everyday player, derosa gives you insurance there. instead they trade him for three marginal prospects and sign aaron miles, saving the relatively small sum of $3M to bring in a guy who cannot hit. great move. In a way they didn't even save $3m since they are on the hook for next year as well with Miles (not to mention the theory that it allowed them to overspend on Bradley for 3 years).
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I don't know about you, but that looks "nearly as bad" to me. A significantly lower OBP with a higher SLG equates to just about as pathetic. Where are you getting your numbers Truffle? I have: .247/.325/.398 (.723) for the season and .219/.326/.337 (.663) with RISP for the season. He is saying with nobody on, you are saying overall. Cubs have .248 .311 .407 with none on and .247 .344 .384 with runners on. The difference in SLG is probably Soriano's 9 bases empty HR, which is going to happen when you bat leadoff for a team with a plethora of absolute garbage in the 7 and 8 hole and an impatient power hitter leading off. The focus on RISP is misguided. They suck whether they have a man on base or not. They have a terrible OBP and just as bad SLG. They don't get on and they don't hit for power. The RISP is just a sympton, it's not the cause.
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Minor League Discussion & Boxes 6-25-2009
jersey cubs fan replied to Outshined_One's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
Fixed...and kidding. Good luck Brett. Hopefully you can make MLB quickly. He's 20, in short season A ball. He's several years away from MLB. Hopefully they don't rush him. If things go well it'll be: 2009- Boise 2010 - Peoria 2011 - Daytona 2012 - Tennessee 2013 - Iowa/Chicago 2014 - Chicago that's pretty slow for a guy who played three seasons of college baseball in a big-time conference. most college players don't take 5 years to make the bigs. The ones that struggle to make contact probably do. And that pace has him seeing Wrigley in 4 years. -
Geo failed a WBC drug test (marijuana)
jersey cubs fan replied to Old Style's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
it's baseball and he's a catcher, how frequently is he going to run enough to lose his breath? By the looks of him everytime he climbs the dugout steps. -
Winning your division is a success, it's just not the ultimate success.
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Again, they aren't really getting on in the first place, and with so few threats, it's easy for a pitcher to walk the one guy who could do damage in a situation to get to the next schmuck. Everybody is focused on leaving men on, but with a .311 OBP with nobody on, they still need to focus on getting more people on base overall. And the difference in SLG with runners on and nobody on is probably closely related to Soriano, who has a heck of a lot of PA with nobody on than with runners on.
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Minor League Discussion & Boxes 6-25-2009
jersey cubs fan replied to Outshined_One's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
Fixed...and kidding. Good luck Brett. Hopefully you can make MLB quickly. He's 20, in short season A ball. He's several years away from MLB. Hopefully they don't rush him. If things go well it'll be: 2009- Boise 2010 - Peoria 2011 - Daytona 2012 - Tennessee 2013 - Iowa/Chicago 2014 - Chicago -
Nationals to fire Acta; replaced by Riggleman
jersey cubs fan replied to manbearcub's topic in General Baseball Talk
The fans don't really come either way. Attendance only really skyrocketed once they started contending with regularity. Decreasing win totals will result in fewer tickets being sold, especially the big money tickets. People seem to forget it was extremely easy to get Cubs tickets in the 90's. February sell-outs were unheard of. When they first sold tickets online it was easy. Multiple successful seasons and playoff appearances changed that. But had they not turned around the 2005/2006 failures they would never have continued to sell the way they did in 2007 and 2008. -
I really hope the Cubs aren't taking a Conservative approach to early round drafting because of the string of busts they had from 2003 to 2005. As a big market franchise the Cubs should not be drafting players simply because they are safe bets to reach the majors. It looks to me that this is exactly what they've been doing though, since Wilkin arrived. Lots of guys who can contribute something to the major league team but very few with any real shot at stardom. Maybe they figure they can buy/trade for any impact players they need, but want to fill out the roster with organizational (cheap) guys.
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I don't know about you, but that looks "nearly as bad" to me. A significantly lower OBP with a higher SLG equates to just about as pathetic.
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Geo failed a WBC drug test (marijuana)
jersey cubs fan replied to Old Style's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Because he was high and didn't want to leave the house. -
Maybe he's doing exercises? I don't see a base anywhere close to him to make me think it's an in-game shot. His profile picture makes him look like he's 12. It looks like he's playing defense at third and expecting the bunt, but without a glove. Or he's leading off in reverse from third.
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STL on pace for 87.5 wins after losing 3-2 to Mets. Cubs need to go 54-39, a .581 (94 win) pace, to get to 88 wins.
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I guess it says he realizes Bradley isn't a good hitter against RHP. They would've walked Bradley and gone after Soto anyway. I doubt they put the go ahead run on base especially when he's got about a 650 OPS against RHP.
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I guess it says he realizes Bradley isn't a good hitter against RHP.
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Get it high
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Smoke 'em if you got 'em Soto, how about a big ol' bong hit right now.
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And no young contributors on the horizon.
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They were a good hitting team last year, not because of any one player, but because of contributions from everybody. But they replaced phenomenal CF production from Edmonds and crew with Bradley who hasn't done crap, they replaced terrific 2B productioon out of DeRosa/Fontenot with a horrible combination of Miles, Fontenot, Blanco and Scales. They've gotten less out of the C spot becuse the 2nd year starter regressed and they went with a lesser backup. And Soriano has been crap. Throw in the Ramirez decline and there's a lot of stuff working against them and multiple holes. It's not a matter of one guy going down. Not at all.
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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.
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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.
