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  1. jersey cubs fan
    I'm pretty sure they talk to their players about the possibility of being traded. You can't just drop the bomb on the guy without warning. Of course you can.
  2. jersey cubs fan
    Why? Serious why or sarcastic why? They wouldn't trade him to a team they are about to play and have him turn around and hurt them right away would they? In the division no less? I mean, I know its happened before and probably will again, and I know Krivsky isn't bright, but it just doesn't ring true to me. It would be incredibly stupid to hold up a trade for that reason.
  3. jersey cubs fan
    Not to derail the thread, but Grudz produced very well during his time with the Cubs. Hindsight being 20/20 there is no way that any sane person would argue Hill would have been a better option. And to say that Dubois was a better option than Hollandsworth is like saying that Neifi was a better option than Macias. They both sucked. you must not have been around here back then. DuBois was the 2nd coming of Babe Ruth to some people here.... Why must you and others exagerrate so ridiculously the stance that some people hold on players. Saying it would be best to give one of their own cheap young players a chance over an aging unproductive player is not saying you think the kid is a HOF, Babe Ruth II, guaranteed All-Star or anything other such nonsense.
  4. jersey cubs fan
    Sure makes a lot of sense to me.
  5. jersey cubs fan
    Why?
  6. jersey cubs fan
    Wow. That sounds a little excessive. Unless it's heavily backloaded, I'd say very excessive.
  7. jersey cubs fan
    If this was the son of Dunn's barber, I'd believe it.
  8. jersey cubs fan
    I don't believe he can be a free agent until after 2008.
  9. jersey cubs fan
    Did you bother to read any other post before you enlightened us all with the gem above? It is posts like this that are dragging this board down to a lower level. This post and others like them are completely uninformed and vaccous and unfortunately all to indicitive of the general level of analysis as of late. It really sums up how absolutely clueless the anti-Murton crowd is.
  10. jersey cubs fan
    But it's not like they lost somebody of value to put him on the roster. The worst part is starting the option clock, but he isn't exactly a guy we need 4 years to determine if he can help the team.
  11. jersey cubs fan
    well, sample size, right? I would be all for calling him up and letting him play if there weren't 2 or 3 other holes in the lineup What does that even mean? SS is a hole, and at least Ronny provides a chance that it's filled. Status quo hasn't filled the hole. And a Ronny call-up shouldn't prevent filling any other holes.
  12. jersey cubs fan
    I am hardly a Cedeno believer, but young players first breaking into the majors typically improve as time progresses. and i feel the same way about cedeno as i do about pie: they may be good big leaguers long term, but a playoff chase isn't the time to break in the rookies. i know that creates the question of "when is the right time" and right now, i don't know. Good teams break in rookies during playoff chases all the time.
  13. jersey cubs fan
    Dye could help. But if he plays like he has so far, he won't. Dye, at his best, is much better than Murton, as I said. It's a bad trade, however, because Dye usually isn't any better than Murton, he's much older, and likely to decline. He's a free agent to be, so it's either 3 month rental or sign to a bad contract. Murton is under team control for the next 5 years and will be very affordable.
  14. jersey cubs fan
    I'm not saying he's likely to be an ace, or the centerpiece of a major trade. I'm simply disputing your statement that he's trash, which is definitely not supported. There's a world of middle ground between being an ace and being trash. I'm just trying to bring some perspective to this....you are not going to get a bat like Dye for a guy of Mateo's value. He may not be trash, but he isn't very good either and I think he is a 5 starter at best. Put yourself as a White Sox fan, and your team is in selling mode....and one of your biggest chips is Dye. My reaction to a Mateo for Dye trade would be that Mateo is trash compared to what we could/should get for Dye. Except that wasn't the trade you reacted to. It was Mateo and Murton for Dye, which from a Cubs perspective, would be a bad idea. Dye at his best, is probably better than Murton could every dream. But Dye is rarely at his best and is in his mid 30's now, so hoping for a resurgence isn't wise. Typical Dye isn't any better than Murton.
  15. jersey cubs fan
    23 choosing playoff appearance, 14 say nope.
  16. jersey cubs fan
    Did you got to the Jim Hendry school of cost management? Frankly I don't care if you don't care what he makes. The fact is it matters. Smart teams get the most bang for the buck. Poorly run teams pay big money for not big production. Inefficient management is why this team has had the troubles it has had.
  17. jersey cubs fan
    They aren desperate for OBP more, and Murton does provide that. Additionally, OBP is more important than SLG.
  18. jersey cubs fan
    Power isn't the only need. Have people forgotten the OBP issues? OBP has been the biggest problem for years, and they still lag behind there, due mostly to the lack of walks. In the NL, they are 8th in SLG and 10th in OBP. And OBP is the more important of the two factors in OPS. We need more productivity, and Murton can be productive. He already has been at the major league level, and the entirety of his professional career he is likely to be over the next few years. At his peak, that's probably fair. Although he could be a bit higher in SLG. I think he's a guy who would exceed the 900 level in OPS, if things came together.
  19. jersey cubs fan
    Or maybe they are just a poorly run organization with poor decision making capabilities.
  20. jersey cubs fan
    And they had something agianst Rich Hill too. I don't really think that's a valid consideration to make. If there's something about Murton they just don't like, that's their own damn problem.
  21. jersey cubs fan
    Considering he's an inconsistent hitter who is a bit weak in the OBP department and he plays the one position among the 4 needs spots that the Cubs actually could get decent production out of already, I don't see how he's precisely what we need. A productive SS is precisely what we need. A solid catcher would help more. Dye isn't really a guaranteed step up from Floyd. He should help, but not a ton.
  22. jersey cubs fan
    Dye's another one with a strange career path. He was on the verge of stardom in 2000, then plateaued with some rather unimpressive efforts for the next 4 seasons. He took a step forward in 2005 and was tremendous in 2006, but now he's crap. As he enters his mid 30's, you might be looking at a guy who is going to give you similar numbers to his career average line of .274/.337/.483, or an OPS+ a bit above 100, but heavily weighted with SLG instead of OBP, so really, somebody that's not all that much better than average. Of course he could, at any time, rattle off a 125 OPS+ type of season. He probably could help the 2007 Cubs quite a bit, I just wouldn't be the least bit interested in signing him to a big longterm contract.
  23. jersey cubs fan
    For some reason I'm thinking there was a player vote to allow that situation. There is definitely a clause about needing X amount of off days.
  24. jersey cubs fan
    I think the motivation for KW is pretty straightforward: he has a club option on Juan Uribe in 2008 for $5M. Based on comments he's made in the press the last 2 weeks here, he doesn't want Uribe back (can't blame him as Uribe has a .606 OPS), so they'll buy him out for $300K. But the free agent class for SS looks really, really bad as you know not counting ARod. And he doesn't have an in house soluton. So, with the offensive woes they've had if they can get a bat like Renteria for 2 seasons (2008-$10M with Boston paying about $3M of it and an $11M option in 2009), he'll gladly sacrifice Garland. I can tell you from one of my sources that even KW knows Garland is vastly over-rated. From Atlanta's side, they feel they need a starter to stabilize their rotation, and feel good about Escobar backfilling Renteria. Makes a lot of sense. I have my doubts about each player. But given the teams, I'd probably rather have Renteria, to help that anemic offense. Garland is a stable innings eater who might actually look more effective in the NL. But there's something about him that makes me think he could fall apart at any time. Not physically, it's just his numbers.
  25. jersey cubs fan
    Update: I followed-up with the source. Stairs didn't look good against Weaver at all on Saturday: 2 weak ground outs and 2 foul ball outs. In fairness to him, nobody really looked good at the plate in that SEA-TOR game - combined 1 run and 7 hits between both teams. The Cubs may look more at Stairs, but they have other scouts looking at "other hitters" this week. No names. I asked about Jeff Conine. He said "why?" One new nugget: the scout supposedly told Hendry that Josh Towers looked great on the mound. Supposedly, Ricciardi has let teams know that Towers is available. Arbitration eligible again after this season. I would think he'd be available, considering he's not any good. But he doesn't walk people so maybe Hendry would want him in the bullpen. It would be very telling of the Cubs and their ways if they decided not to pursue a guy based on one bad game.
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