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If they can get him to put up a 740 OPS for relatively little cost, it probably improves the team.

He wasn't in the tourney. That was a cards fan. No, he was Raisin's 1st round matchup. Oops. raisin the liar?

good work

If they are only paying $1m, I wouldn't expect much in return. But the Cubs sending a PTBNL makes it interesting.

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Given the real estate market in Florida, that might be cheaper than Jacque's contract.

anyone listening to Fat Hank? Yes, he's a slow talker.

You gotta love the "pressure on players in Chicago" excuse for Jones's bad numbers. He's past the prime of a very mediocre career. Why is it shocking to some that he's playing poorly?

The BS detector is off the chart right now. I don't know if its bs or not, but deals where money changes hands generally take awhile for the Commish to sign off on. we might have received word soon after the paperwork was sent in, but Bud is busy trying to unload a '83 Monte Carlo. Even if they were working on the cash part, reports tend to get out.

It must be Ryno week, ESPN.com has a puff piece as well.

http://www.weather.com/outlook/recreation/boatandbeach/map/interactive/60613?from=36hour_map_large&zoom=7&interactiveMapLayer=radar Should blow over

That's none of our business.

You mean Hammerin' Hank? The guy with the football picks? I think he's their horseracing analyst Horseracing and Dolphins football.

It's not yet on the Marlins official message board, or the espn version. Although I don't think many people use either.

Did they get a mermaid? http://florida.marlins.mlb.com/fla/images/fan_forum/im_mermaid_fanforum_061206.jpg

If we got the whole state, or even just the team, that would be a fine trade.

I'd like to see what the details are

Brutal. I guess they have some study that says there will be more total jersey sales by marketing them to to the home team's fans, who are more likely to be excited about the game, as a whole, than the national fan base.

diddly poo :mamoru:

Right on. I don't want to keep Izturis by any means. I have been against his presence on the team from Day 1. But a straight up release doesn't really help the team right now. If it's true that somebody would have interest, I'd rather give it a couple days than have the need for 12 pitchers force my hand today. I'm 100% for Theriot being a Cub and Izturis being elsewhere in the future, however, Theriot's horrible play of late makes it very easy to send him down for now and give Hendry more time to deal Izturis or Jones. You wouln't be sending down the guy who is performing better, and you wouldn't be sending down a guy who has been given an unfairly small opportunity. The Cubs franchise as a whole is better off if they can get another team to pay a good chunk of Izturis's money, and/or get something in return. Same with Jones. Refusing to send down an unperforming optionable (at least I think he has options) utility player and therefore losing any chance of getting something for these guys doesn't help the team.

.365/.447/.533 19/19 K/BB in 137 AB.

It is when you consider that nobody else on the roster can play SS for more than an emergency fill-in role... which means it's going to be all Izturis all the time. Bingo. Izturis has been outplaying Theriot. As the starting SS, Theriot has been abysmal. There's a negligible difference defensively, and Theriot is a better bet to produce offensively going forward, despite what he's done in an small sample at SS. There's nothing to support your claim. Theriot has been worse in June. Theriot has been worse for the past couple weeks. Theriot has been abysmal at SS, .186/.255/.209 over a not all that small sample of nearly 100 PA. SS is a really hard position to play, combine that with Theriot playing way too frequently and it's easy to see why his numbers have taken a hit from when he was provided a boost as a role player. Theriot has sucked for a considerable amount of time. Freaking out because a player like that gets sent down is pretty absurd to me. Now, I'm not calling for Izturis playing SS everyday for the rest of the year, but there's no reason to think the team takes a hit with him playing there the next 10 days or so. He's a decent bet to at least flirt with getting on over 30% of the time. Can't say the same for Theriot, who has been abysmal for a very long time and is a good bet to just ground out to 2nd repeatedly.

Theriot had been bringing less to the table than Izturis recently. As long as this doesn't mean Izturis the starting SS for the rest of the season, I can't complain about the move. Jim is trying to get something for Jones. If they are authorized to pay his salary when he leaves, it could help them actually get something back. A self imposed deadline of today for a deal doesn't help the team at all. where was the press release by the Cubs stating they must trade Jones by today? What the hell does that mean? I'm saying that sending down Theriot temporarily is certainly reasonable. The only reason not to would be if there was a self imposed deadline to make a Jones/Izituris deal today. There's no value in that.