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  1. Little Slide Rooter
    I'm not going to lie, I became quite confused for a moment when I saw Torreyes in tonight's Tennessee box score.
  2. Little Slide Rooter
    So much for Samardzija. This begins the death spiral for him. Remember when Rizzo, Castro and Shark were the core of the next great Cubs team? And now they're a bunch of washed up hacks. What a joke. May as well call them Choi, Patterson, and Hill. I am of course being facetious and give you the benefit of the doubt that you are as well.
  3. Little Slide Rooter
    Alamo isn't in it for the money. It's about the glory. It's about bravely making the ultimate sacrifice for the sake of a brighter tomorrow. A willingness to lose the battle knowing that his sacrifice is one that will help his comrades win the war. William Barrett Epstein drew a line in the sand. Alamo was the first to bravely cross it. Money was the furthest thing from his mind. A willingness to accept defeat so long as it paves the road to the ultimate victory tomorrow. I can go on.
  4. Little Slide Rooter
    Oh, hey 2009-2010 Shark. It's been a while.
  5. Little Slide Rooter
    Please be good.
  6. Little Slide Rooter
    My one memory of Joba Chamberlain involves him being swarmed by gnats and the teams trainers having to come out and hose him down with bug spray.
  7. Little Slide Rooter
    Whatever it is that you want to call it essentially began when Epstein took over. But when a non contending team openly announces that they're open for business on virtually their entire big league roster, it's generally referred to as a fire sale, whether or not it's correct use of the term. There's a difference between a team that's fallen out of contention looking to move a few expiring contracts and one that is clearing out their entire big league roster in 2-3 year time frame.
  8. Little Slide Rooter
    Ever see the Monty Python argument clinic sketch? Just curious. By definition, in a fire sale, everything has to go, and the merchant will take any reasonable offer made because they plan to liquidate, they've gone bankrupt, or the merchandise is damaged. By that definition, the only time that I know of when a baseballl team had a fire sale was the Cincinatti Redlegs in 1879-1880, the very one which brought young Michael Kelly to the then Chicago White Stockings. Other than that, when teams break down their current roster to rebuild for the future they tend to want a higher value for the assets they're selling off, not a discounted price. And more often then not, the plan is to hang on to their younger, cost effective players, as we are. But they refer to it as a fire sale. Which is what we're seemingly having. Or at least willing to have. And by the traditional definition of a fire sale, the fashion in which we moved Zambrano, Marmol, and were trying to move Soriano is more representative of a proper fire sale then simply trading players for prospects.
  9. Little Slide Rooter
    They kinda have to. Have to hesitate or have to pull the trigger? Because I'm going with the later. I get that Russell has far more time under team control, but he's simply not the guy that Marshall, who had established himself as an elite set up man was. Even if he could be , let's face it, Dale seemingly has no intention of using him as such. At the time, Wood was 24 and already had two big league seasons under his belt. The first of which was a very good one, the second not as much, but not a disaster. At the time he looked like a guy who could easily be a cost effective 4 starter for several years. Torreyes was very well thought of and very young, and we could have done a lot worse then Sappelt as a 3rd piece. If we could get that return for Russell, I take it.
  10. Little Slide Rooter
    There's not going to be a fire sale. There never was going to be a fire sale. They weren't ever going to trade off a huge part of the team, you tremendous oaf. Maybe not in the traditional sense, in which a fire sale suggests that everything goes, down to the seats. But anytime a team says that everybody on the team is available, with the exception of 3-4 guys, then yes. They have every intention of selling off a huge part of the team, assuming that they have takers. We've already traded or released 8 guys from or opening day roster (Feldman, Marmol, Hairston, Camp, Takahashi, Lillibridge, Clevenger, Gonzalez). If you count Stewart who was at the time thought of as a lock to be our starting 3B when he returned from the DL, make it 9. And one lost for the season to injury, so make it 10. Assuming that at least Garza, Gregg, 2 of Soriano/DeJesus/Schierholtz, Navarro, and Ransom follow them out, that makes 12 from our opening day roster, 2 projected to be on it but started on the DL. and another 2 who were later added, one of whom was a major player for us. Wood, Villnueva, Russell, Guerrier, and Valbuena are a few others who could be moved at the right price. So what's a huge chunk of the team in your mind?
  11. Little Slide Rooter
    With Parker, Guerrier, Strop, Russell, and Gregg, this team's Achilles heel has quietly made quite an upgrade. Probably too little too late, but this team could be fun to watch in the weeks leading up to the fire sale.
  12. Little Slide Rooter
    Wellington Castillo: 233 AB, 2 HR, 15 RBI, 12 BB Dioner Navarro: 114 AB, 8 HR, 19 RBI, 13 BB Just sayin'
  13. Little Slide Rooter
    [expletive] the Dodgers. Want Garza? Give us Puig. He should have been our's to begin with.
  14. Little Slide Rooter
    Is this something that could have an effect on their development? Balaguert has been a very pleasant surprise so far.
  15. Little Slide Rooter
    Johnson was a toss in with Maholm.
  16. Little Slide Rooter
    Granted the Garza extension talk talk could simply be them trying to add leverag. But they could also in fact be considering extending Garza. If nobody's offering up a worthwhile return, then why not? The upcoming FA class offers little. This way we have a 4 strong starting pitchers going forward, 5 if you count Villanueva. We could then focus our assets toward upgrading the offense and the bullpen.
  17. Little Slide Rooter
    I'm thinking that Raley's call up will be a quick roun tripper, just long enough to rest the pen. He'll likely be back on the bus by midweek. They might not bother making a corresponding move unless of course more trades are to come by then. In other news, after canceling its regularly scheduled rain delay to play baseball, The D Cubs are up 7-0 in the 3rd; but their Baez&Soler-less lineup is about as uninspiring as they get.
  18. Little Slide Rooter
    Eh. They play pretty well at home and against bad teams, but they go through some serious offensive droughts a little too often. That said, your point stands - they'd be in the hunt if they had even half as many blown saves. 10 games under and with an average pen, they're a .500 team right in the thick of a playoff spot. I know this team is rebuilding and the goal is much more than just contend for a wild cars spot. That said, that's the reality of this season. Yeah, well, if you improve most teams weakest spots they would be better. But this is a pretty big discrepancy. Convert half of our 18 blown saves, and we're 47-39.
  19. Little Slide Rooter
    They are going to have to clear 40 man roster spots eventually in the offseason so they can protect guys for Rule 5 so if Watkins / Lake can handle the roles next season being done now by Ransom / Hairston I think that is a better use of the spots. Lake will have a shot to play a bunch next season if he can take platoon roles at 3B/LF and also hopefully do well enough to also take some starts from Valbuena / Schierholz against RHP. Watkins can be groomed now as a utility player because if the young middle infielders in the organization develop as planned he is not going to have a spot long term as a middle infield starter on this team anyway no matter what he does. Depending on who's in the OF and 3B, there should be no shortage of PT for Lake. I remember last year back when Cubs fans were pounding away at the minor league experts about Lake on Twitter, I think it might have been Goldstein that said that Lake's ceiling was Wilson Betemit with serviceable defense. I'll take that any day of the week. While there's nothing about Warkins that leads me to believe that he's more than a utility guy, the point is that there's no reason that they should be stock piling retreads rather than auditioning these guys.
  20. Little Slide Rooter
    I'd rather Lake get regular AB's somewhere. Now, I haven't really followed much of late, but his swing used to get out of rhythm, and if he's getting inconsistent AB's, don't know how much use that would be for us. That said, maybe he's adjusted. Furthermore, at some point, you have to give him a shot or move on, and he's done enough to get a shot. I guess it's not the worst thing if he's up as a util/super-util guy, just don't ... love it. This is why Watkins would be my choice. I understand them wanting Lake to play everyday, and/or they don't feel he's had enough time in at AAA, but Watkins is becoming a [expletive] or get off the pot guy, who's future likely is utility. There's no guarantee that he's anything more than a Brent Lillibridge, but once the truck starts backing up-and ours seems to have, then it's time to start auditioning guys that could be of use going forward rather than 30something retreads.
  21. Little Slide Rooter
    I think its TBD on which of Schierholtz or DeJesus is moved. But I do think one will be here next year. I'd be a tad surprised if DeJesus is moved. Not impossible, but it's hard to see which team, barring injury, would move for him as a starter, and it's hard to imagine a team moving for him as a bench piece. I don't know the severity of DeJesus' injury, but if it is one that he can come right back from at least a few weeks before the deadline, I'd think it would have minimal affect on his value. Especially with his 2014 team option making him more than a rental.
  22. Little Slide Rooter
    Oh, good. Brent Lillibridge. I bet Dale can't wait.
  23. Little Slide Rooter
    He should be up by September at the very latest. Obviously there's a chance he gets called up tomorrow once Hairston is traded but I think they'd prefer to get him more regular at bats which he won't get in the big leagues right now. Not sure why not. As of now, we have two serviceable OFs in Soriano and Schierholtz. He could also get some time at 3rd vs. lefties.
  24. Little Slide Rooter
    My guess is that the IFA slot money's the prize here and the pitcher is something along the lines of a Hunter Cervenka.
  25. Little Slide Rooter
    I think it might currently be the least interesting team we have in the minors now. Amazing what a couple weeks'll do. Easily. Tennessee and Kane County had the depth all along. Daytona basically had our two top prospects (2/3 when Almora returned) and later added Johnson. Beyond that, they have a lot of fringe and filler. Take away one of the two to injury, and the other to a promotion, and it's no surprise that they lose their luster. All they really have left is Johnson and to a lesser extent, Wells and Cates.
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