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  1. jersey cubs fan
    I don't know about you, but I've lost my appetite for his hard throwing walkathon pitchers. I'd rather employ guys who can find guys who don't issue free passes at will.
  2. jersey cubs fan
    The cap makes the rule unnecessary. If you already have a cap, the rule is just a pointless addition to make it more difficult to improve your team. I still haven't heard anybody justify the rules existence. That is what I was asking. I'm not here to lay out my plans for the NBA. I just don't understand the point of a rule that only makes it harder to fix roster problems. All it has accomplished is create a market for overpaid veterans with one year left on their contract.
  3. jersey cubs fan
    Slip sliding away. The Cubs are in danger of letting go of their pythagorean title along with their hopes of the real life version of the thing. They've been held to 4 or less in 7 of 8 games and given up 5 or more in 4 of 8 games. They've lost 6 of 7 series and are assured of back to back sub .500 months. I'm guessing today is the day they win 6-1 to put some hope back in the theory that they are much better than their record says. Their next game starts the always forgiving month of June. If they fall any further back in that 28 games in 30 day stretch, those pythagorean hopes may be completely dashed.
  4. jersey cubs fan
    The majority of NBA teams are over the salary cap but under the luxury tax threshold. If a team is over the salary cap, the salaries of the traded players need to match up within 25% of each other. I understand that they need to, but my question is what's the purpose? I generally understand the rules of baseball's CBA and the reasons for specific rules. But I don't get the point of the NBA having this rule. The only goal, it seems, is to stop teams from making trades. Unless it was just a failed attempt to force teams to think twice before signing guys to bad deals in the first place. What would you suggest as the alternative? It's hard to suggest an alternative to a concept without knowing the desired goals. It seems to me rather pointless and redundent to have these rules on trades. If you have a salary cap, and a luxury tax, you can enforce those to maintain a competitive balance. Artificially handicapping the teams by placing heavy restrictions on trades doesn't seem to serve any purpose whatsoever, accept for giving ESPN a reason to start that trade machine thing.
  5. jersey cubs fan
    Absolutely not. Selective means choosing the right pitch to hit regardless of the count, whereas patience means working the count - which in turn translates to two quick strikes and a third one in the dirt swung at. I wouldn't say absolutely not. They are very similar. You have to be patient in order to be selective. It's one thing if you just refuse to ever swing until you have 2 strikes, but I don't think that's what anybody really means when they talk about patience. I think it's the other way around. If you are selective, then you automatically become patient. My favorite example is Sammy Sosa. He was the least patient hitter I had ever seen as a young player. He did not become an elite player until he realized, "hey, I can hit a thigh high, middle-in fast ball or a mistake slider". He didn't swing at anything other than that until he got 2 strikes. Because he became a selective hitter, he was patient. Well I'm not arguing the chicken or egg theory. I'm just saying selectivity and patience are tied at the hip. chris and grace is saying they are completely different.
  6. jersey cubs fan
    The Cubs financial situation will always keep them within 2 years of contending. As bad as Hendry has been, this team is not barren of talent. And given the money they have, they can make moves to get them to the top rather quickly. The key is to stop Hendry from doing anymore damage. And they desperately need a great draft from Wilken this year that can produce a couple guys who will contribute within the next 3-5 years.
  7. jersey cubs fan
    As per usual.
  8. jersey cubs fan
    The majority of NBA teams are over the salary cap but under the luxury tax threshold. If a team is over the salary cap, the salaries of the traded players need to match up within 25% of each other. I understand that they need to, but my question is what's the purpose? I generally understand the rules of baseball's CBA and the reasons for specific rules. But I don't get the point of the NBA having this rule. The only goal, it seems, is to stop teams from making trades. Unless it was just a failed attempt to force teams to think twice before signing guys to bad deals in the first place.
  9. jersey cubs fan
    Honestly, you haven't been watching the Cubs swinging the bats pretty well lately. Aside from one good inning in LA, this team hasn't done crap offensively since the White Sox series. They've put up a bunch of zeroes, and far too few crooked numbers over that time.
  10. jersey cubs fan
    I disagree. Good hitters should be able to launch first pitch fastballs right down the pipe over the bleachers. That doesn't negate the need for patience. A selective hitter can swing on the first pitch if it's in his zone. But if he's impatient, he'll also swing at the face high fastball or slider low and away. You are confusing patience with deciding before the pitch you are not going to swing. That's not patience. That's predetermined.
  11. jersey cubs fan
    Certainly we would keep Lee, Ramirez, Soriano, and Barrett. That's would be a good balance of Vets and Youngsters. Not sure why Barrett is a certain keeper. He's a free agent, and in my opinion, the Cubs got the most out of him they could expect, and should let him go, if not trade him this summer.
  12. jersey cubs fan
    The late 90's Yankees were stacked with home grown talent. The 114 win 1998 team had Jeter, Bernie and Posada among everyday position players, along with multiple bench players. Then you had Pettite, Irabu and El Duque who came into the bigs via NY's system. Plus, you had Rivera, and a couple bullpen arms. It wasn't until they started going hard after the biggest money free agents that they stopped winning it all. The Braves have been mostly internally developed. I believe the Angels teams were quite home grown as well. No team is ever going to win with 25 home grown talents, but good ones generally develop a significant amount of their players from within. The Cubs have zero everyday players developed from their own system. Coming into the season the closest thing they had to an internally developed everyday position player was Matt Murton, who actually spent more time in Boston's minor league system than the Cubs'. Theriot is the only position player on the roster who was drafted and developed by the Cubs. Obviously they've done a better job of it with the pitchers, with Hill, Marshall, Zambrano, Marmol and Wuertz.
  13. jersey cubs fan
    Absolutely not. Selective means choosing the right pitch to hit regardless of the count, whereas patience means working the count - which in turn translates to two quick strikes and a third one in the dirt swung at. I wouldn't say absolutely not. They are very similar. You have to be patient in order to be selective. It's one thing if you just refuse to ever swing until you have 2 strikes, but I don't think that's what anybody really means when they talk about patience.
  14. jersey cubs fan
    You have it backwards. By using "greater than" signs when you probably meant to use "less than" signs you actually have Mesa as the top farm team and Iowa at the bottom. If you are using hope and expectation that a Cubs prospect will be somebody one day, this may actually be true. The higher up the ladder they go, the less hope and expectations we have in them.
  15. jersey cubs fan
    Yes, the problem in general is they need to be more selective, and have a better approach at the plate. Just standing there and watching a first pitch strike wizz by isn't going to help anything. There has to be a threat of a swing on any pitch.
  16. jersey cubs fan
    Lee's batting average is being propped up by an insanely high, and impossible to maintain, batting average on balls in play. Once some of these hits stop dropping in and start finding gloves, the average will go down. If he starts hitting more homeruns that will be less of an issue, because a homerun isn't in play. It's not a coincidence that Lee's highest batting average season was also his highest HR season. What once may have been a flyout is now a hit.
  17. jersey cubs fan
    Can somebody explain to me the reason behind the NBA's rule where salaries have to match up in order for a trade to happen? It's obviously not just because of the salary cap, since teh cap itself is routinely circumvented. It seems to me that the only purpose it serves is to give teams a reason to pay some worthless veteran $10m for one year and hope they can use him in a trade.
  18. jersey cubs fan
    Did he pull a Scott Eyre and foolishly work out this offseason?
  19. jersey cubs fan
    If he's such a bright guy why did he leave Hendry as GM this past offseason? I really don't think a newly appointed interim GM would have the clout to fire any GM. Interim president perhaps? You are probably right, Andy's ill-timed Hendry extension more or less guaranteed Jim would be back this year.
  20. jersey cubs fan
    Why is this such a talked about issue? The Cubs and Marlins both left 10 runners on yesterday. The Marlins had 2 doubles and a homerun, the Cubs had no extra base hits. FLA had one extra baserunner along with those 5 extra total bases. The Cubs did nothing until the 9th inning, when they had 4 of their 8 singles, but it was too little too late. Lots of stories are focusing on the LOB, but 10 stranded is nothing out of the ordinary. Unfortunately, neither is 8 scoreless innings by the offense and bullpen struggles.
  21. jersey cubs fan
    Here's to carrying on the tradition!
  22. jersey cubs fan
    As in passed balls past him?
  23. jersey cubs fan
    How far away do you think Patterson is from being our 2nd baseman? He is already considered one of the oganizations best baserunners and plate disciplined hitter (I know, it's funny). I wonder about Chris Jackson, the outfielder, also. Lots of speed coming up. Chris Walker? He's 27 (or actually turns 27 this July) and hasn't done much in the minors. He might be a lesser version of Pagan, although with more speed. I think you really have to have a solid and settled OF situation if you want to have a guy like that on the roster. I think Patterson might be able to start at 2B by next year, but with DeRosa around I'm not sure he'll be given the chance. I also don't think the Cubs future has Murton in a corner OF spot.
  24. jersey cubs fan
    when Lee's average drops to the .290 range, his slugging percentage will be around .510 based on his career IsoP. he's obviously not hitting for power like he did earlier in his career, so i would expect his slugging percentage to drop to the .470 range, making Lee a .290/.360/.470 player. I doubt Lee falls that far. He's a much better pure hitter than he ever has been before, and one of the better ones in the league. I would guess he'd be somewhere between .310 and .320 on the season. He will have to up the HR totals if he wants to maintain that average.
  25. jersey cubs fan
    So anybody have a list of bodies to fill the role? I'll nominate Chad Bradford.
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