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.659 career home OPS .849 career away OPS he swings at too much and doesn't draw enough walks, but he's still a mile better than any of the trash that we have available at SS. I agree. He just doesn't bring to the table what this team needs. Also, its best to adjust his home stats, rather than just throw them away. this team needs something from SS though, and that's probably the biggest need.

I'm all for more OBP -- don't get me wrong -- but Greene is a marked upgrade over Theriot, and that's really the point -- find upgrades for the weak positions, SS, C, CF, and RF. Given that RF was the best of the bad bunch, and C is covered by Soto, SS and CF are the best places to upgrade the team. MLV indicates that Greene is a 17.8 run upgrade over Theriot, that's a nice upgrade. So where's the problem? I'm pro-Green. He's got flaws, but he could be such an enormous improvement over what the Cubs have at SS, that it could be a bigger upgrade than just about anything else they do this year.

Sam Fuld 8? Is he that much higher on Fuld than most or is the system that devoid of talent?

I heard it elsewhere first, so, ha! (nice work IMB)

Was the NL really that devoid of good pitching?

Jon Daniels for worst sabermetric GM EVER! no way, i'm sticking with coletti on this one. Though Dave Littlefield would've been a strong runner in this race if he hadn't been fired. Coletti is sabermetricly inclined?

Gonzalez is a no brainer top 50 prospect and possibly/probably top 25. In other words...you've set the bar pretty high for most ridiculous trade proposal of the day. Thanks for being such an ass about it. u could have merely said that wouldn't get it done/be enough. It's replies like this that keep me away from most discussions on this board. So the initial Marquis comment was serious? Jason Marquis is a pretty crappy pitcher. But he's reasonably durable. He would work best with a high scoring team that needs somebody to give them innings at the bottom of their rotation. He may win you 12 games, but he's probably going to lose you at least another 12 making him a placeholder more than anything. He's been left off playoff rosters in two consecutive seasons, for two different teams. And right now he's got a 2/$16.25m contract. A team like Arizona isn't going to have any much use for Marquis. They are relatively cost conscious, and can't score much. Perhaps they could use the innings out of a starter, but with $10m of a $50something million payroll going to Randy Johnson to not pitch, they need cheap pitching. Perhaps if the Cubs picked up most of the salary they'd take him. But I doubt it. What the Cubs need to do is find a team like the Yankees, that can hit but needs pitchers. But they are going to be hesitent to take on mediocre NL pitching, given their troubles. The NL version would be Philly, a team paying big money year after year that keeps coming up short thanks to a lack of pitching.

The Cubs could hire a dozen Asian personal assistants for Fukudome at a lot less money than paying Matsui. Plus a couple Japanese massage therapists.

At least I'll have a use for the ARod jersey I bought a couple years ago for a Halloween costume. I was looking forward to wearing it over a cubs shirt, but I'm sure Alex will do something over the next year to inspire a new costume.

Well, he was an All Star in 2002 and he has his .281 with RISP over the course of his career.

I've had Randy Winn on my brain for a while. I assumed it would be for Murton. But there was talk the other day of Marquis in an exchange of bad contracts. That's better, if not optimal. If Randy Winn is the big change in RF that would be awful.

I'm guessing not ticked at all, since they won the world series and are probably the favorite to win it next year.

Taking big money from an American team has got to be a lot less tempting than it was a few years ago, when the dollar was actually worth something.

I've always had a hard time convincing people how much they look alike. It seems so obvious to me.

So Hendry said he's going to be looking for a "different type of player" to fill the RF spot, and I can only hope he meant it, and actually knows that Jenkins is no different from the slew of other part-time RFers he's had here.

The problem with that is I don't see it working unless Anaheim or LA come right back and offer something huge. If it's a charage, he's not going to be able to keep it going long. "charage"? Forget it, he's rolling. Sorry, charade. For anybody thinking Bruno is a credit whore, espnnews is running a note saying Len Pasquirelli is reporting Rex Grossman will start, even though the Bears officially announced it themselves over an hour ago and everybody else is also reporting the story. Please note my post was an attempt at humor, not trying to be a dyck van [expletive]. Well I laughed at my own stupidity, so the attempt was successful.

If Tejada can, ARod can.

Nah. The people writing the articles are still idiots. True, but this is basically a big push in the argument that he's all about the money. Granted, the Yankees are still the Yankees and could win it, but some other competitive teams could have given him a good chunk of change (at least $20 million per for 10-12 years) where him being there could have very easily pushed them over the top. Or it supports the notion that Boras was driving him to take more money, and he decided enough was enough and he wanted to win in NY.

822 post ASB OPS 183 post ASB IsoP just my opinion. He doesn't look like he's in great shape any more. If he's really off steroids (who knows with the HGH business) then I think he's going to fall off pretty quickly. Steriods were banned going into the 2005 season. 2005 and 2006 were two of his three best seasons in the majors. HGH Yeah, Truff said that... I have no problem waiting until the Mitchell report comes out. If hes on it, I'll take him for 50 cents on the dollar, if hes not, I'll still take him. Tejada-HGH>>>>>>>Theriot+Hendry spending 13M/season for the next 2 years. I'd take him too, my point is steroid testing doesn't really mean anything here.

extremely

822 post ASB OPS 183 post ASB IsoP just my opinion. He doesn't look like he's in great shape any more. If he's really off steroids (who knows with the HGH business) then I think he's going to fall off pretty quickly. Steriods were banned going into the 2005 season. 2005 and 2006 were two of his three best seasons in the majors. HGH

The problem with that is I don't see it working unless Anaheim or LA come right back and offer something huge. If it's a charage, he's not going to be able to keep it going long. "charage"? Forget it, he's rolling. Sorry, charade. For anybody thinking Bruno is a credit whore, espnnews is running a note saying Len Pasquirelli is reporting Rex Grossman will start, even though the Bears officially announced it themselves over an hour ago and everybody else is also reporting the story.

The problem with that is I don't see it working unless Anaheim or LA come right back and offer something huge. If it's a charage, he's not going to be able to keep it going long.

It will be quite interesting to listen to Yankees fans and media backtrack.

The fact that he was supposedly talking to NYY w/o Boras was mentioned, but this was the first I'd seen anybody say it was close to happening.