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  1. Little Slide Rooter
    Have to wonder if that's due more to the fact that Sanchez has been awful for them or that the guy that they traded for him for is on pace for a 7 WAR season.
  2. Little Slide Rooter
    I hate to sterotype myself by using the term flier here, but I will anyway. Flier.
  3. Little Slide Rooter
    I'd certainly put McNutt and Struck above Batista and Hatley. Probably Whitenack as well. Even if I can't imagine him making it a full season on someone's big league roster, they could easily hide him on the DL for the bulk of the season. I could actually see Raley and/or Rusin on the big league team to replace Dempster and/or Garza. They must be sick of looking at Wells and VOlstad by now, and I can't imagine them going with LOpez rather than give one of the younger guys a look. I could see someone taking Logan Watkins, but more power to them. Maybe Burgess if he continues to hit well.
  4. Little Slide Rooter
    Hey, if he wants to sign up for 2/20, or 1/12 with an option, I'll be happy to have our cake and eat it to. If we do put together a contender, he's be great to have on board at a home town price. If we suck again, hopefully he has a repeat season and we trade him for more prospects. And then do the same the following year, until he has nothing left to give. It could be like the popular Shel Silverstein children's story.
  5. Little Slide Rooter
    When a 20 year old in year 3 of DSL guy is doing as well as he has this year, you have to figure if he's going to ever be relevant, he might need to be pushed a bit more agressively. He'd certainly be age appropriate for Peoria. While the power's down since his initial surge, the rest of the numbers are still there.
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    Carlos Rodriguez, the DSL pitcher turns 17 tomorrow. Carlos Martinez is a 21-year old Cuban defector. Are you really suggesting either is in a conversation to be the organization's top pitching prospect? Also, I'm not sure who you're referring to in the first question. The DSL kid. It's really more testement to the weakness of our pitching prospects. Who knows if Wells will pitch in 2013. McNutt seems to be in some type of limbo. Whitenack, though coming off TJS still needs to re-prove himself. Maples has yet to do anything but collect a hefty bonus. Rodriquez has done more than Johnson, Blackburn or Underwood. And with the possible exception of Nick Struck, the rest of our starting pitching prospects seem to fall somewhere between Casey Coleman and Randy Wells.
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    What are the chances that at some point in 2013 that Peoria or Daytona look like this: 1B Vogelsbach 1B 2B Hernandez 2B SS Amaya 3B Candelerio LF Encarnacion (I'm aware that nobody other than myself cares about him, but I can't think of another option: Dunston? Saunders?) CF Almora RF Soler C Krist SP Maples SP C. Martinez SP Wells (if ready to return) I simply can't imagine Baez not being a step ahead of the rest. Even if he started at Peoria, by the time some of the others joined he's likely be in Daytona. Soler could be there as well. Still, for lack of a better term, it would be damned sexy.
  8. Little Slide Rooter
    2 questions: 1. Is DSL SS ready to join the ranks of our young, high ceiling middle infield prospects such as Amaya, Hernandez and Alcantara? Baez left out because he's on a whole different level 2. How close is Carlos Martinez, who will be 17 tomorrow, to being considered our top pitching prospect?
  9. Little Slide Rooter
    Any reason why the Brewers refuse to put K Rod in the closers role instead of alwoing Axford to blow every other save? K Rod's had a hell of a lot more success in the role than Axford, and they should be trying to build his trade value.
  10. Little Slide Rooter
    Last year, we could have but Aramis refused to waive his NTC, and Wood preferred not be traded, though I don't recall if he had an actual NTC or not. And Pena was claimed, but no deal was made.
  11. Little Slide Rooter
    They really could be, though. Like I said, Ludwick's their current LF, and rather than rebsign him, they could probably get similar production from LaHair from the left side. They also have Heisey who could spell him vs. lefties. It just depends what that's worth to them. The Votto injury just makes it good timing.
  12. Little Slide Rooter
    Hmm, could this be an opening? As much as LaHair isn't fit to hold Joey Votto's jock strap, he could be the best option as a 2 week fill in for the Reds. 2 weeks is a long time to go without your top hitter. After Votto's back, LaHair can be a bat off the bench, and ultimately take over LF be it this season or next. Basically, a cheaper Ludwick.
  13. Little Slide Rooter
    The rumors were that Theo asked for Turner, Castalannos, and 1 of Smyly or Crosby.
  14. Little Slide Rooter
    I don't see how that's even possible. The White Sox barely have anything even resembling a farm system. That also implies that they actually gave up bullets to get Youkilis. This is very true. Seriously though, I'd love to see any package they think they could possible get Greinke for. If it doesn't involve Chris Sale, which would be giving up a front end starter with 5 years of team control for a front end starter with 3 months of team control, it ain't happening. Next.
  15. Little Slide Rooter
    I think it's entirely feasible that GMs and other "baseball people" are still hung up on Soriano's reputation (albatross contract, old, bad) and simply won't accept that he's apparently a different player now. It's the same idea as people still assuming that Jeter is a great defensive SS now because he was 5 years ago, whether he really is now or not. When you get a reputation, either good or bad, it's really hard to get rid of it and I think you're probably right that that's having a negative impact on getting interest in Soriano. I brought it up on the last page and completely agree. They assume he's a certai type of player without actually looking at the numbers to see how he's doing this year. It's one thing for fans to think that way, but I simply can't imagine that big league GMs think that way, especially those actively perusing offense. If columnists are taking note of his defensive improvements, scouts are too, thus it's being passed on to their GMs.
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    I don't know why Soriano would have a stigma, so we're even.
  17. Little Slide Rooter
    There are several possibilities -While it's been said that we're willing to eat a big chink of salary, perhaps not enough to get the return that would make it worth while. It would probably take us eating 95%, or at least 90% of his remaining salary in order to get a return that would make it worth paying as much as we'd end up paying him to play elsewhere or -The fact that it's been so heavily stated that we're agressively trying to move him, other teams may feel as though they have leverage , and while there may have been some decent offers,we'd rather wait until the deadline to hope that interest picks up unless someone gives a great offer. -they could be waiting for the right time to put him thriough waivers in hopes that someone's crazy enough to put in a claim, and if not, try to trade him one he clears.
  18. Little Slide Rooter
    Hypothetically speaking, if it were due to a change in coaching you wouldn't expect the teaching to be erased in an instant. There would be a transition between adjusting from Jaramillo's way to that of...whoever our hitting coach is now.
  19. Little Slide Rooter
    Do we know why Arismendy Alcantara has been out for the past 3 games?
  20. Little Slide Rooter
    What do you think it's worth? The fact that the guy was the hitting coach for Castro's big league career, while he was a .300 hitter with an OPS in the high .700s for nearly 2 and a half seasons? I don't think that hitting coach have a ton of inference on veteran players who have been doing things a certain way for several years, but with younger players, I think that they're more likely to have an impact. I'm not saying that Jaramillo was fully responsible for Castro's success, but I won't say that he didn't have an impact either.
  21. Little Slide Rooter
    Vitters 3B, Baez 2B, and Brett Jackson has only Kd once through 3 innings and 2 ABs. It's a good day on the farm thus far.
  22. Little Slide Rooter
    Since June 24th, Castro's put up a line of .175/.266/.228. This is becoming concerning. For what it's worth, that was roughly 2 weeks after the firing of Rudy Jaramillo.
  23. Little Slide Rooter
    Makes sense... having both Theo and Jed is gonna help but we're still going to need to make at least one move in the next week to ten days so we can get everything done we need to get done by the deadline. While the more rational Cubs fans eagerly await the commencing of the sale, I'm very curious to see how the, for lack of a better term meat headed fans react to a fire sale when the team is finally starting to play well for an extended stretch.
  24. Little Slide Rooter
    Timothy Saunders sure looks like a guy who could be ready for a promotion. He's 22, so could he get leaped to Peoria? With so many SS/3B/2B types, I'm not sure how much shuffling it would require though.
  25. Little Slide Rooter
    His trade value will never go up. Contract or not, he's a little too close to the southernmost border of 40. As long as he's around and somewhat productive his value will always be whatever a team in need for his services is willing to pay. Every year, teams give 1 year deals or minor league deals with an invite to guys like Matsui, Manny, and Vlad. If he were a FA this coming winter, that's what he'd be looking at. We just need to hope that a win now contender wants a big bat because by the Winter, many of them would just as soon give 3-5 mil to Andruw Jones.
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