abuck1220

Are you still crying about this? well, you got to break the rule you wanted to break, so you don't have anything to cry about. once again, i think it's pretty obvious that tim gets to keep the japanese guy on his minor league roster (unless he starts out in the minors). believe me, if i thought there was an argument that would prevent tim from having success, i'd be all over it...this one is just clear cut.

neither is me not being allowed to deem ben sheets "injured" even though he's clearly injured.

omg, do you have a learning disability? no one is saying the cubs shouldn't have traded hill or that hill is currently awesome at pitching.

Ted Lilly was/ is much better. What I dont understand is why so much love for a guy with a 4 + era? Are you guys enamored by the strikeout? Do you know how many guys have shown a flash of brilliance and then fizzled out? If he was a great pitcher for 3/4 of a season or even a couple of seasons I would be on your side. The fact is he has so much going against him that this is pretty much his last chance. I trust that the cubs have made the right decision here because he wasn't good enough to even make this team. Ill take sean marshall over him anyday at least I know what pitcher is going to show up. There is no room for inconsistency in the mlb. What I want to know is why all the love for a mediocre pitcher with control problems? what pitch counts are indicative of his failure to perform under pressure please.

isn't a full count the most pressure-packed count? career .200 BAA in that count. he's nails. uh oh, nevermind, a .350 BAA in 1-1 counts (let's face it, that's when the pressure is greatest). choker.

I think its pretty clear from this quote that I wasnt happy with his performance hence the qualifier "as a pitcher." I dont see how that is remotely about his personality. well, then that's just dumb. over the course of 06-07 he was the best pitcher the cubs had and he was making like $300,000. it would have been better if you had said you didn't like his personality. i guess. i'm curious...what counts exactly are indicative of wilting under pressure? talk about an idiotic, cherry picked statistic.

If you are referring to me, I'm not sure what you are referring to. I've never had Mark DeRosa on my roster. You must be confusing me with someone else. It's me that has DeRosa on my roster. And abuck has it backwards. I plan to play him at 2B (which he has eligibility at based on previous years) even though he was signed by Cleveland to play 3B. not really my point...i just don't think that tim stashing the japanese guy in his minor league system is any more skirting the rules than using a guy with multiple position eligibility...derosa was just the first guy i thought of.

so does the japanese guy. irrelevant. has nothing to do with the minor league roster eligibility requirements.

what is this skirt the rules stuff? is playing derosa at 3b even though he isn't the tribe's 3b "skirting the rules?" the reason fukudome, dice-k, etc weren't on a minor league roster was b/c they were immediately good. come on.

where do you guys get the [expletive] you come up with to argue about? first the sheets thing, then this. it's not even a debate in my opinion.

yeah, he's clearly minor league eligible. the rules say you can be on the minor league roster if you've played less than X number of games in the majors. it doesn't say anything about having played X number of games in the minors.

it is?

jeff francis i guess.

Zambrano sucked for a lot of last season and 2007 was Hill's best year. So what's your point? Zambrano at his worst matches Hill at his best. I guess I can agree with that. Carlos Zambrano had a 4.52 ERA when removing his best month in 2007. Fine. You win. Rich Hill and Zambrano are equal pitchers. Next can we compare Ryan Theriot to Aramis Ramirez as hitters based on batting average? Almost everyone liked Rich Hill. Then he flamed out. I don't see why some people expect undying love and loyalty from all fans for a guy that had one pretty good season. Rich Hill was better in 2007 than Zambrano was in 2007 or 2008 If 2007 Rich Hill would like to come back I would love to see him in the rotation. I will also fill out that rotation with 1976 Mark Fidrych, 2003 Mark Prior and 1981 Fernando Valenzuela. Unfortunately, I want the 2009 versions of none of those pitchers taking the mound for the Cubs every 5th day. So again, I don't see what the point is. People liked Hill when he was good. Now that he can't throw strikes and has no options remaining, time to move on. Sean Marshall seems to have a chance to be a pretty comparable pitcher to the "good" Rich Hill. I would rather take my chances with him instead of having to sweat out every start with Hill and wonder if he is going to be effective. hey einstein, no one is arguing the cubs shouldn't have traded hill. also, learn math.

koji uehara

clayton richard

I won the best farm system contest AND the championship last year. Have fun with that. one whole championship? that's a good start.

and good luck to all of you in the 2009 best farm system contest. always a fun debate to have while the grownups are playing for the championship. ghs takes aj pierzynski.

don't cry when sandoval isn't eligible at 3b. oh wait, rules don't apply to him so he's eligible.

I took him just for you. i mean, it's only fair. both guys have arm injuries that will keep them out 1/2 the season, but you can stash hudson on your DL and i can't do the same with sheets solely because sheets' injury happened to occur while he was a FA, hudson's while he was under contract. makes perfect sense and is completely fair.

good thing hudson's not a free agent.

i was going to take schmidt, but that dude's like 50. he's gotta be done, right?

frank francisco

vernon wells starting out his hand sanitizers career with the ever so rare february injury. nice job, douchebag.

Well, just me. Now Chuck is gone, see what you did Shane? :) i'm still here if you want to talk about rules, eligibility, etc to kill the time.