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  1. Little Slide Rooter
    Chris Sale may be one of the most valuable assets in baseball, but beyond him, Addison Reed, and Jake Peavy showing some flashes of his former greatness when healthy, they're a mess. Basically the 2010-2012 Cubs when we were simply waiting for contracts to expire. Even their fans have given up on hanging their hats on 2005.
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    Matt Garza's final start in a Cub uniform, Take 12.
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    Hey, how'd Sappy get on base?
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    True. But if we're patient with Castro and Rizzo, hopefully the filler can bring back something for nothing at the end of the month. And I'm not so sure I'd lump Schierholtz in with the flotsam. Also, Hairston is below the Mendoza line. Hairston's one of those guys that is what he is and has been for long enough that a team looking for cheap, right handed power would probably look past his 2013 stats and more toward his career line. Alone, he doesn't bring back much, but he could sweeten the pot if packaged with one of our more valuable chips.
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    True. But if we're patient with Castro and Rizzo, hopefully the filler can bring back something for nothing at the end of the month. And I'm not so sure I'd lump Schierholtz in with the flotsam.
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    Travis Wood on Thursday.
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    The season record for blown saves as a team is the 1996 Rockies with 38. It's certainly within range, especially if/when Gregg's traded and we go back to closer by commitee.
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    He's got a plus fastball and a good slider. The question with him is always going to be command. If he improves in that area there's no reason he can't be a good set-up guy. I feel we've said this about every pitching prospect in the system.
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    Villanueva must have earned himself a few more starts before they start pushing guys through Iowa's revolving door again.
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    I'd definitely like a lot of those, especially the Rockies, Indians, and Pirates. Assuming an extension isn't a possibility, Bauer or Pomeranz would be great compensation.
  11. Little Slide Rooter
    This shtick is getting tiresome, coming from so many. Assuming that it's in reference to Soriano, it really does bear more relevance than it would to most players. Soriano's Cubs career has been such a mix of peaks and valleys, that no streak is going to be too hot or cold intl fooling anybody into thinking that he's no longer who he's been all along. It's sure looking like when the season draws to a close, he'll have his usual 25-30 HR and mid .700s OPS.
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    Didn't Bryant essentially come out of nowhere this season? There's a hell of a lot more risk than benefit to the off chance that he doesn't sign. Best case scenario is that he holds out, has another monster year and maybe gets another .3-1 MM more than the 6MM were reportedly offering. Worst case scenario is that he completely falls off and someone maybe takes a chance in a later round. Then there's a ton of middle ground in which he costs himself somewhere between .5-5.5 MM.
  13. Little Slide Rooter
    Can't wait for some media joker to lead with something along the lines of "Almora tests positive for 'roids."
  14. Little Slide Rooter
    oh brother. this guy has a future in broadcasting for sure. Truffle have you ever played ball before? These ball players see each other more than they see their families. Traveling together, eating together, and hell they even shower together. When you compete in a team sport against other teams you bond together. It sort of like having a little brother...you can beat the hell out him anytime but by god if someone else lays a hand on him all sorts of hell will get unleashed. I don't think anyone here has actually played baseball before. We all just obsessively talk about it for other reasons that don't involve ever playing the game. To put into a more familiar perspective, I'll assume that most of us have been to college. Maybe some in a frat. Becoming one of the boys can happen very quickly. Think about how much time these guys spend togeter starting with Spring training. Very similar situation.
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    Is that supposed to say something else? Like, "the guy"? "A guy" sounds like a rather mundane description, especially for a description for what somebody might become if he gets his head on straight. I was going to snark that and say yeah he might become just a guy if everything breaks right, but I've been cranky enough. The fact that he quoted "guy" makes it a compliment. Yeah, I assume it's meant to be a compliment, but is what he is saying that if everything goes right he might turn into a replacement player? That's what it sounds like. The term "a guy" is a Twitter thing which is meant to mean something good, though I'm not sure exactly what. I remember Keith Law or someone of that nature saying that Anthony Rizzo has a good chance to become "a guy." After further Twitter research, the term "a guy" was one they attempted to use to replace "a thing," so it does mean something good.
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    Yes, the question I want to know is the frequency of the big leaps and what not for teams with the last four to five years being poor. Why haven't you signed yet?
  17. Little Slide Rooter
    Especially if Soler and maybe Junior Lake are in the OF. And I wouldn't complain if Stanton was out there with them, though I suspect that it would mean that either Soler or Baez would not be there. Then again, if Kris Bryant's at 3rd by 2015, perhaps a Baez-centric package for a guy with a good chance to be one of baseball's premier sluggers for years to come wouldn't be the worst thing.
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    You're probably right, but we've certainly got the guys to pull a rabbit out of a hat. You never know who's in need at thd deadline, how in need they are, what they had to offer, and what they're willing to give up. Maybe we can get ou hands on a broken prospect, or even a guy who's simply blocked. Even if we were offered some variation of Arodys Vizcaino and a few more high ceiling pieces in exchange for Wood and a bucket of spare parts, would it be worth it?
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    I'd say so. Solid peripherals, 104 K in 105 IP. Time for another shot. I don't think it's about a shot at this point. It's just that they don't feel any urgency to shuffle at this point. The whole reason for starting him at AA was to get him reaclimated with starting. After a rough start, he's done great. I think increased in Twitter that he leads his league in K's. however, while the Iowa rotation might not offer much excitement, it's full of guys that they feel they're not ready to give up on, and depending on how the fire sale goes, they may end up auditioning several of them on the final months. Loux is one that still has some glimmer of hope to be a 4-5 starter and now with Arrietta in the mix, that rotation is loaded with potential depth; something we've learned is of value the past few years while parading out a revolving door full of awful everytime a starter's been hurt. Struck, Raley, Rusin, and Mosocorro are all probably depth at best, but if they fell there's any chance of them being even useful 6-7 starters down the road, they simply aren't ready to pen them. And there's really no urgency to do so. Vizcaino, Cabrera, Hendricks, and Jokisch could make a very interesting AAA rotation next year, unless some of them end up breaking camp with the big club.
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    Hopefully Smardz' uncharacteristically bad outing is just his way of venting about their trading away his buddy.
  21. Little Slide Rooter
    You have much more confidence than I do that he has some weird ability to have an sustainable, incredibly low HR/FB rate on non pop ups. Wood obviously has a broad spectrum of usefulness to the Cubs; he doesn't have to be this good to be very valuable. Even if he is a 3-4 guy, that is certainly quite valuable, especially when you look at some of the garbage that we've passed off as rotation depth up until this year. This being said, a 3-4 starter is not the type of guy that's off limits, not if someone in more of a win now situation is willing to part with a few of their top prospects. Then again, it depends on when they decide that they want to win. We already have Smardz as a nice front end starter and Jackson as a solid 3-4. If the powers that be do decide that winning in 2014 is just as fun as winning in 2015, and they find a way to extend Garza and trade for David Price, Wood is a very affordable, very good addition to that rotation.
  22. Little Slide Rooter
    I know that Jordan and Winn were pretty solid pros who had good careers, but I personally see the best-case scenario for Soler and Almora to be better than that... Not sure who I would compare them to, but I just think that is a pessimistic best-case Brian Jordan (31 bWAR during his 8-year peak) and Randy Winn (25 bWAR during his 7-year peak) were pretty awesome; if Soler slugs better than .475 for a decade and Almora tops 13 years with a .284 career BA i'll be on cloud nine Can't argue with this, but when thinking in terms of best case scenario for two of the our top three prospects, the guys that keep us involved in a time when the big league club's been horrid for the past several years and the farm system is better than its been in the past decade, you want to think more along the lines of Sammy Sosa and Rickey Henderson. Realistic? No, but best case scenarios usually aren't.
  23. Little Slide Rooter
    Horrible logic. By this way of thinking then anyone and everyone the Cubs have of any kind of value is a "sell high candidate." Wood's different. Here's a guy who's 26 years old and under team control through 2016. Everything points to him ending up a 3-4 starter in the long run, but we're close to the halfway point and he still has a sub 3.00 ERA, as obsolete as some seem to think that stat is in this day and age. It's one thing for a veteran with a big contract to be having a big season, but this is a guy who looks like he could be having a big breakout. Or he could just be getting very lucky. More likely than not, he's worth more to us to keep than whatever we're likely to get in return, but as long as there are any GM's out there convinced that he's having a breakout, he could be worth a lot more than just a guy with some value.
  24. Little Slide Rooter
    There may be no player in baseball that epitomizes sell high more than Travis Wood. I understand the value he brings as a long term asset even if when the smoke clears he is a 3-4 starter, but if you're really building a team for 2015 and beyond, and he can bring back a top 25 prospect and then some, I'd think you have to do it without thinking twice.
  25. Little Slide Rooter
    He has tightness in his hamstring. We should all pitch in and get WSR a jump to conclusions mat. It was very plausible based on the timing and suddeness of his being pulled.
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