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  1. jersey cubs fan
    i was listening in Brazil
  2. jersey cubs fan
    staying injured saved him $1.5m this spring. It might be his last chance to ever make that much money.
  3. jersey cubs fan
    he's 21 Who is he? Soler turned 20 prior to his first spring training, when he went to extended spring training. He is now 21 and broke camp this season with a full season team. Appel is currently 21, but will be 22 soon after the draft and closer to 23 by the time xst would even be an issue.
  4. jersey cubs fan
    If you are upset with picks being spoiled for you then you have real issues.
  5. jersey cubs fan
    It wasn't meant to be a direct, one-to-one comparison. It's just that this front office seems to like to give new prospects a couple of extra weeks' indoctrination in The Cubs Way before letting them loose in the minors. Didn't Baez start there too, or am I imagining things? Maybe it's crazybuckets, though. It doesn't matter. The main point was that even if they are capable of pitching in the majors immediately in 2014, I doubt this front office is going to do that for a couple of reasons. You are comparing 22 year old college players with teenagers.
  6. jersey cubs fan
    Really? It seems to me like they start almost everyone there. High school or rehab guys, yes. Pierce Johnson is in Kane County. I was thinking more along the lines of Soler. Soler just turned 20 during his first spring training and hadn't played baseball in a very long time, plus he was from a completely different culture. Why in the hell would you compare Soler to Appel or Gray?
  7. jersey cubs fan
    You didn't know the outcome of the game so your first choice was to go find the game thread on here? That doesn't seem very smart.
  8. jersey cubs fan
    I thought he wasn't swinging at that much garbage. Although a lot of pre-swing noise can certainly affect your view of the strikezone. I'll fully cop to that being a "I KNOW WHAT I'M SEEING" judgement. Seems like he's been swinging and whiffing badly at pitches low and inside a lot more than he should be, but I could very easily be wrong. I'll cop to only vaguely remembering something written about his strike zone judgement a few days ago. He's gone 0-11 since with no walks and 5 K, so things can change.
  9. jersey cubs fan
    There's probably a difference between how you treat dead arm from a typical pitcher in a normal routine and how you deal with it for a pitcher coming off an elbow injury and then suffering a setback in his rehab.
  10. jersey cubs fan
    I thought he wasn't swinging at that much garbage. Although a lot of pre-swing noise can certainly affect your view of the strikezone.
  11. jersey cubs fan
    Wouldn't those token starts take place this summer? Prior didn't pitch for the Cubs after the draft. I don't recall the story around his negotiations, or why he didn't start at all that summer. But part of the excuse for starting him in the minors the year after the draft was that he never pitched as a pro.
  12. jersey cubs fan
    I kind of like that management, or at least Sveum, is openly mocking Stewart's horribleness. They have to be disgusted with the guy signing that deal and then being "hurt" for the entire spring training.
  13. jersey cubs fan
    https://twitter.com/Soundcaresser/status/326877634841677824/photo/1 I got the same alert as this guy last night. Had to turn off those push notifications.
  14. jersey cubs fan
    I'll take it Round 2 Pick 6 (ARI): Justin Hunter, WR, Tennessee (B) Round 2 Pick 18: Larry Warford, OG, Kentucky (B+) Round 2 Pick 28 (ATL): D.J. Hayden, CB, Houston (A-) Round 3 Pick 7 (ARI): Arthur Brown, OLB, Kansas State (A) Round 3 Pick 30 (ATL): Barrett Jones, C, Alabama (B) Round 4 Pick 20: David Quessenberry, OT, San Jose State (A-) Round 4 Pick 30 (ATL): Jon Bostic, ILB, Florida (A) Round 5 Pick 20: Lavar Edwards, DE, LSU (A-) Round 6 Pick 20: Chris Faulk, OT, LSU (A)
  15. jersey cubs fan
    draft nerds already lining up around radio city.
  16. jersey cubs fan
    I saw some Hart rankings article the other day and they had Toews 5th...there was another one (B-R though) that had him 1st, but I don't think there's enough buzz out there for him to win it. i would disagree about the no buzz thing. crosby is obviously the leader, but it's not like toews is some unknown schmo having a career year. yzerman never won the hart, i think that toews could win based upon the idea that he's the spiritual successor to one of the greatest ever who was robbed of the most prestigious award. I think the fact that he's at least 50-50 to win the Selke is what hurts his chances of winning the Hart. Just like Ovie won't get the Hart because he's going to win the Rocket Richard. Plus I think him and Kane actually split the Blackhawks vote. That's the main point. People were talking about Kane as MVP, or at least a runner-up type candidate, for most of the season.
  17. jersey cubs fan
    I doubt our FO would do that with him honestly. Maybe by midseason though. I could see us giving him a few major league innings this year though in September. Yeah, I was thinking he'd get the Prior treatment (not to say that he's as good). Mark Prior was drafted at age 20 and made his major league debut at 21. Mark Appel is already 21 and will be 22 this summer. He is probably going to put up a stink about being given major league service time ASAP, and not held back for financial reasons.
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  19. jersey cubs fan
    @GDubCub: Garza scratched from we'd rehab start because of "dead arm" since Sunday pen.
  20. jersey cubs fan
    Come on. Hey, I just really, really hate that show. So I threw it on and now I'm hearing them talk about how Ken Williams is better than Billy Beane because he got a ring and Billy doesn't.
  21. jersey cubs fan
    http://d3j5vwomefv46c.cloudfront.net/photos/large/761625801.gif
  22. jersey cubs fan
    Very true, they have actually spent money. The team is not only stocked with guys making the minimum. This isn't Miami, more like a frugal Cincinnati.
  23. jersey cubs fan
    Depends if Ricketts continues to do a Frank McCourt impersonation Eh, we have 30 million in pending free agents who either haven't played an inning this year(Baker, Garza) or have not exactly provided difficult to replace production(Feldman, Marmol). They can likely add two 8 figure salaries, extend one of Rizzo or Samardzija, and take care of any other increases(the largest non-arbitration increase is 1 million, to Soler) without moving the total payroll at all. Extend one of Rizzo or Samardzija is not one in the same. And easily replaced production from the likes of Baker and Feldman is likely to cost at least as much as what Baker and Feldman cost this year.
  24. jersey cubs fan
    Managers tend to lose their jobs when the team fails to meet expectations or openly and directly clash with their superiors. Cubs management expects to be bad so I don't see that happening unless maybe if they lose 100 again, and/or Sveum starts acting out (essentially trying to get fired). Look at the Pirates the last couple decades. Gene Lemont was given four years to keep sucking. Lloyd McClendon was given 4.5 years. John Russell and Clint Hurdle were each given 3 (assuming Hurdle stays through this year). Only Jim Tracy got canned after two, and that was a disastrous relationship almost from the outset. Two years would be a very brief tenure, and the reaction would most likely be, "hey, you set that guy up with crap for talent, what did you expect." Unless he starts feuding with Castro and destroying arms, or otherwise goes insane with all the losing, he isn't getting fired.
  25. jersey cubs fan
    Because experts are idiots who buy the notion of necessary restraint. The uninformed consensus opinion about the Cubs was that they spent too much on players before. Spending less is going to make those uninformed people happy.
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