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Impossible. The Cubs are DOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMEEEEEEDDDDDDD because they didn't spent 160 million on someone who has never pitched in the Major Leagues and has built up a lot of innings playing in Japan. Good point, since this was the only quality free agent the Cubs have missed out on and they have otherwise done a marvelous job building a competitive team every year. -
i'd put our big 4 up against any other in baseball, especially regarding power potential in a league that lacks it. That's all well and good but does not address the point you quoted.
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So just, random collection of names associated with the position?
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Who is the Cubs #10 Prospect?
jersey cubs fan replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
Bummer for you jersey. I kind-of think it is getting more interesting because the top guys were so well covered that there is a bit of a consensus. I really like getting opinions on the guys...oh lets say from 10-30 because those are the ones I haven't heard as much about and for me (not being a scout or wannabe scout) this is how I form my opinions on the rest of the guys in the system. What can I say, guess I need a real life. :roll: It just seems to me that every guy at this point has a, "well, that's nice but he's 25" or "he's been good but his stuff is unimpressive", or "he's got some upside but has not done anything yet", or "but he's probably still injured/handicapped/dying". There's not a guy on the list that I think has to be voted here. -
Who is the Cubs #10 Prospect?
jersey cubs fan replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
For all the depth in this organization, this is when the interestingness of these guys plummets for me. -
I mean, yeah...but meh. I'm not gonna be upset if they take him or anything but I'm just not so overwhelmingly enthused about that profile that I'd strongly favor it over drafting a pitcher. My interpretation as well. I am almost always going to side with the elite college bat, but at least at the outset, that doesn't seem to be the case here.
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To think that veteran FA pitchers give two shits about the rankings of 20 year prospects is a bit of a stretch. Baseball veterans hate young players. They aren't putting their future in the hands of kids.
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I don't think promoting the culture of winning is as important as avoiding a culture of losing. It can't be good for player development when the team obviously tanks.
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Or it feels like a play on the "well, it's called the 'THEORY' of evolution"-argument. Just because some people act like it's set in stone doesn't negate it's value or mean that the people that use it correctly don't understand that it's not perfect. Not at all like that. The problem with war is it's attempt to quantify defense and baserunning. Hitting and pitching stats work because of what they measure, one on one matchups. Football stats don't work because of what it attempts to measure, and the same is true for defense in baseball.
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Not impossible. Heck, not impossible now. I'll take the under.
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Nothing interesting
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Who is the Cubs #9 Prospect?
jersey cubs fan replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
Whoever voted dunston must hate this system. -
For one, it is hard to negotiate with one entity if you have no other fallback. Second, WGN falls under tribune broadcasting which is a very big entity with all sorts of networks and reason to want to be a part of the sports biz. Although I have no idea if they do actually that interest.
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Sorry, but this just goes back to the point that if you spend a few years with the only mandate being to acquire prospects, it is not an accomplishment when you actually acquire prospects. The better run organizations don't run on a single, prospects only, mandate where results in the major league do not matter. This thread may be about prospects in the news and be located in the minor league forum but it still falls under a Chicago Cubs website.
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And another 3 or 4 may owe some of their standing to Epstein/Hoyer player development despite not being drafted or signed by them. sure, why not.
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The same reason the Trib wanted to field a good team while in the process of selling the team. It's a lot easier to sell a television product when lots of people are actually watching it than to make up numbers that ask you to ignore the last few years when nobody watching but assume they will watch again.
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Well yeah, that's the one name I recognize, but I don't follow other teams enough to know who these other guys are or where they came from That Shoop was the head coach at Columbia, and they sucked. Gattis played for the Bears at one point.
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Shoop!
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If this deal sucked and Kenney negotiated it why would Ricketts keep him, promote him and sign him to an extension?
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Just to see where everyone stands on the Cubs sucking
jersey cubs fan replied to davell's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
God this is dumb -
He's gonna hate the super bowl
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The cubs sold half a million more seats than the madoff mets despite a worse record and 3 straight 90 loss seasons. You think that happens in groupon park at Allstate field?
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It was signed at a time when sell-outs were the norm and seen as an extra source of revenue not available to them otherwise.
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It's not whether you would win or lose in litigation. It's whether the rooftop owners could get an injunction while litigation is pending. This seems to me like the theory that in order to win consistently the team has to be built the right way and the only reason to build the team the right way is to lose a lot of games for several seasons to build up the farm system. We've already dealt with a year long delay. An injunction isn't going to cause a bigger problem than not doing anything in the first place.
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I don't think you realize how much of a draw Wrigley is. Compared to the temporary draw of a new stadium, increased seating, as well as what I previously mentioned, I don't get it. What don't you get? The temporary draw of a new stadium might last two seasons, the Wrigley draw works every season. Increased seating is not necessarily a good thing. The scarcity of seating at Wrigley is part of what makes it such an easy sell when the team is any good at all. It will also cost $1B or more to build the stadium. And who knows if the rooftops will sue the Cubs if they abandon them in the middle of their contract.
