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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.
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diddly poo :mamoru:
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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.
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.365/.447/.533 19/19 K/BB in 137 AB.
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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.
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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.
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SWEET 16 - (1) CaliforniaRaisin vs. (4) USSoccer
jersey cubs fan replied to Derwood's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
everyone has to vote for soccer due to raisin's premature theriot report. -
you dried up old grape
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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.
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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.
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Shortstop OBPs
jersey cubs fan replied to HoopsCubs's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
On the other hand, MLB is getting on base at a .332 clip, on average, and 13 MLB teams are getting .332 or better from SS. 28 teams are getting better than the Cubs .276, 29 are getting better than the Cubs 553 OPS from SS. 10 teams are getting an 800 OPS or better from SS, while only 1 team is getting an overall OPS of 800 or better. SS is a position with a 340 point difference in OPS between top to bottom. The difference between 10th place and last place is 250 points, whereas most positions there is just about a 200 point difference between 10th place and last. There's quite a bit of solid production coming out of the SS position this year, unfortunately the Cubs don't have any of it. -
Izturis on his way out?
jersey cubs fan replied to Roast's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
Yeah, I think if you deal Izturis Cedeno has to come up, and play. Then you still need to dump Jones for a pitcher. But the easiest move is still to just send Theriot down. He's been awful for a very long time now. I know they've said they want to keep him up, and they like him. But you aren't losing anything if you send him down for 10 days while this all gets straightened out (unless he's somehow out of options). -
1 shutout inning...wow. Is he any good / worth calling up? http://www.thebaseballcube.com/players/P/Bret-Prinz.shtml His minor league numbers have been solid, not spectaculiar. But he's logged a decent amount of major league service time and everything has been considerably worse. He didn't walk many in the minors, but the rate nearly doubled to 4.9 BB/9 in the majors. His strikeout rate sunk, his WHIP is way up, his HR and hits per 9 are up. I don't see how he's capable of helping the major league bullpen anymore than any other schlub.
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Don't know if he's overrated, I think most everybody agrees with you that Tillman is the better player.
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Not sure how the deal breaks down. The total "value" of the deal is 28 million. I expect the deal is backloaded to some extent. It seems like almost all of them are these days. If I had to guess, I'd say the first year is $900,000-$1m, the second year is probably $1m-$1.25m, the 3rd year is $2.5-$3m, the 4th year is $3m-3.5m and the 5th year is $4+m. That would keep the cap hit below $4m for the first year and possibly 2nd. But the last year would be around $7-8m, meaning he'd likely be cut or renegotiate. So maybe it's more like a 4 year $20m deal, averaging $5m per, instead of a 5 year $28m, averaging $5.6. Some teams go really extreme in the way they fudge the numbers, but the Bears are relatively conservative.
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Jocketty to the Cubs???
jersey cubs fan replied to The Voice of Reason's topic in General Baseball Talk
Angelo had a bunch of experience, but none as a GM. -
$14m over 5 years averages out to $2.8m per year. The next question is what is the base for those years. If the bases are pretty low in the front end, it's a solid deal.
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They have 23 more games against teams that currently have a record above .500. 6 vs MIL, 6 vs AZ, 4 vs PHL, 4 VS LAD and 3 vs NYM. The rest is mainly against the rest of the NL Central. So 64 more games vs .500 or worse teams. If they can take 2 of 3 from all these games, that would be 43-21, leaving them at 79 wins. Have a couple hiccups here and there against those teams and hopefully they can go at least 38-26 (.590 W%). Then you have those 23 games against the good guys. 10-13 against those teams would leave the Cubs at 84 wins. If 5 or 6 of those 10 are against Milwaukee, maybe that's enough. If not, it's probably a bit short.
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If the WC is realistic, so is the division. I personally believe that the Brewers at 7.5 is more reachable than the WC spot at 6.5. Bottom line is that no matter what happens, the Cubs have to be better to get there. Right on. The Cubs just have to leap the Brewers to win the division. They have to leap 2 of Arizona/LA/SD, plus the Rockies, Atlanta and Philly. It's not very realistic to think all 5 of those teams will play at a slow enough pace that the Cubs can pass them. Even if the Cubs don't sweep the Brewers, they have 3 more games against them to make up a pace. Go 4-2 in those games against the Brewers and that makes up 2 games in the standings, then you just have to outpace them by 6 games the rest of the year to win the division. The Cubs have 6 more versus Colorado, plus they play Arizona, LA and Philly. But they are done with SD and Atlanta, so it's a bit more difficult.
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Soriano walkoff single video with Pat and Ron
jersey cubs fan replied to Schwarber Fan's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
It's hysterical. He must have been on his way out of the dugout when Hill was way up the line. What if Hill fell, or if he stumbled and slowed? Or what if there was a tremendous throw that made it a close play? DaRosa would have been a couple feet from the play. -
I need to know the story behind this.
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I didn't take issue with it. I assumed they were hot, considering the last I heard of them was the Yankees series. But I just noticed this morning they've lost 3 straight, which means they are no longer hot. They aren't the lowly Rockies some people remember, but they aren't some juggernaut shredding everybody either.
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Sign Negro League players to MLB contracts!
jersey cubs fan replied to OleMissCub's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
pointless gesture it's like retiring in your original uniform -
Some people said they were, but I think Randy Bush, asst GM, is quoted saying it's not necessarily going to happen. If so, that tells me a trade is in the works and they don't want to be pressured into making a move they don't like due to a deadline of going back to 12 pitchers tonight.
