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  1. jersey cubs fan
    No Hawk today on CWS broadcast. Not sure how I doubled up this post, but for this one I will just change it up by adding a note that somebody named Mike Huff is filling in.
  2. jersey cubs fan
    No Hawk today on CWS broadcast.
  3. jersey cubs fan
    They knew he was injured at the time of the trade, which was the whole reason why he was available in a trade. If you are a good team that cares about winning games in the present you are going to trade injured pitching prospects for guys that make you better today every time. Injured pitching prospects are not hot commodities.
  4. jersey cubs fan
    Scouts are routinely wrong about a lot of things, and the whole point is that his value decreases as he goes down the defensive spectrum. You can say "the bat will play anywhere" all you want, but the position matters. Yeah, but I don't see him ending up anywhere further down said spectrum than 3B or 2B...so that bat (if it pans out - which is the only way he'd pan out as a player) is going to play really well regardless. If he ended up having to move to LF or something, that'd obviously be a bummer. And I'd like to think there's something to Tim's theory. Well then I think it is either disingenuous or a mistake to say you honestly couldn't care any less about all those errors. If you care about the guy's development, you should care about where he can play. And the bat playing well thing isn't a black or white scenario. There is a gray area where a lot of his weaknesses could carry over throughout his career with his talent/ability allowing him to stick. It's not like he's either going to be a superstar or flame out in AA.
  5. jersey cubs fan
    So the Cubs broadcast is CSN and CWS guys are on WGN? Guess my TV will be on mute this afternoon.
  6. jersey cubs fan
    the new way to exploit the CBA is stashing guys on the 60 day DL.
  7. jersey cubs fan
    Scouts are routinely wrong about a lot of things, and the whole point is that his value decreases as he goes down the defensive spectrum. You can say "the bat will play anywhere" all you want, but the position matters.
  8. jersey cubs fan
    What's the issue with what he said? He wrote an article entitled "Vizcaino shut down for the year", which isn't true? People were talking about his tweets, and beat writers don't write the titles of their articles. I also don't see a Sullivan article with such a title on the website.
  9. jersey cubs fan
    But they've only played one game 7. 2-1 at "forcing game 7's" and 0-1 at winning them. Wait, how have they forced 2 game 7's but have an 0-1 record in them? Or am I missing something? 2-1 forcing game 7s includes Monday's game. 0-1 in game 7s does not included tonight's game. They've only played one game 7 in recent years, and lost.
  10. jersey cubs fan
    what? it's another year of not developing. this means that he's unlikely to play any kind of significant role on the big league team until at least 2015. It's not impossible that he could go the Wainwright route and close mid 2014 and then stretch into a starter for 2015 and beyonf if they feel he's physically able. From what I understand, development isn't so much the issue for him as health. I don't get how that is the Wainwright route. Wainwright threw 182 innings in 2005, was a 75 inning reliever in 2006 and then a 200 inning starter in 2007. He had over 775 professional innings pitched before settling into his major league role. Vizcaino hasn't thrown a pitch since 2011, and he only threw 97 innings that season. He has less than 300 pro innings pitched spread over 4 seasons, and he will enter 2014 having not pitched competitively in 2 years.
  11. jersey cubs fan
    This is a pointless statement, because nobody is "just" looking at stats. If not for the talent, his stats would have him nowhere near the top prospect lists. It's his talent that has gotten him the attention, and kept some people from dismissing him based on his awful K/BB rates. But those K/BB rates aren't just random stats, they are quite vital to his progress as a baseball player. The talent is what has gotten him this far; however, going forward it is the stats that are going to determine how much further he goes.
  12. jersey cubs fan
    What's the issue with what he said?
  13. jersey cubs fan
    AJ is Pete Campbell
  14. jersey cubs fan
    http://deadspin.com/mariners-manager-says-sabermetrics-made-dustin-ackley-s-510150363 Eric Wedge blames sabermetrics for ruining Dustin Ackley, by making him too selective, or something.
  15. jersey cubs fan
    Like I said.
  16. jersey cubs fan
    Imagine if everyone actually got that channel. Imagine if the NHL wasn't riddled with strikes and lockouts and had any leverage at all to sign a TV deal Couldn't NBC justify just putting in on the main channel? I know it would be tough to bump another stirring round of "The Voice"... They want NBC Sports Network to succeed, so it doesn't make much sense to move stuff off that channel to the main network.
  17. jersey cubs fan
    The douchebags are real though
  18. jersey cubs fan
    Chris Kuc tweeting a bunch of Stones related questions being answered by the team.
  19. jersey cubs fan
    http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-puck-daddy/chicago-blackhawks-double-cubs-vs-white-sox-ratings-182245437.html big ratings for hockey
  20. jersey cubs fan
    I'm pretty sure somebody reported the Cubs weren't interested in Brown.
  21. jersey cubs fan
    http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseball/cubs/chi-chicago-cubs-wrigley-field-video-board-signs-20130528,0,4970876.story
  22. jersey cubs fan
    Also inexcusable was how Oduya didn't know it was even strength and iced the puck. It was pretty hysterical though, that they actually caught him on camera saying, "It was 4 on 4?", and didn't just have to speculate that he was unaware.
  23. jersey cubs fan
    Not every batter is a threat, but they are using aluminum bats, and what is the comparison between college offense versus MLB offense? In the rah-rah environment of college sports, along with having scouts watch your every move, are these guys really just cruising along with nominal effort against their weaker opponents? You also have an issue where the coaching may not be as good in the "monitoring mechanical consistency" aspect of the game, and they have little-to-no interest in the long-term well-being of those pitchers. The context is different, but not necessarily better.
  24. jersey cubs fan
    The sentiment against the penalty call seems to be that Detroit has gotten away with so many illegal things all series long that it's not fair they actually got called on one of them.
  25. jersey cubs fan
    I'm not gonna lie, I really kinda like Babcock. From the interviews and PC's I've seen during this series, just strikes me as a pretty straightforward, no excuses type. I hate his stupid pinched face
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