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didn't figgins have like an .900 babip?
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Well, Roberts did VORP 8 runs higher than Hill last year, but as others have pointed out, we've got DeRosa and a few other options at second. The drop from Hill and the next starter is almost certainly greater than the difference between Roberts and the Cobs current options. I'm not really confident that Jim Hendry understands that, though. and it was hill's first full season in the bigs and he makes a fraction of what roberts does. and i think hill's top 10 in the NL showing in whip, k/9, k/bb, and h/9 were better than most #3 starters.
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instead of trading valuable young players for a 2b with a .370 obp how about we just play the 2b we already have that put up a .370 obp? if hendry trades hill for roberts, i'm done with the cubs.
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if you named a closer, make sure you list that closer's back up with your next turn.
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And then they have to sign Santana. Must be nice to not have a budget. if they can't santana, it won't necessarily be because of their unlimited budget...they actually have the prospects to trade for him. the cubs don't.
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DRAFT TEX ouch.
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Hendry: Sam Fuld is an untouchable
abuck1220 replied to JohnF's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
signing marquis turned out well? -
Hendry: Sam Fuld is an untouchable
abuck1220 replied to JohnF's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
Another example of Hendry bashing. When Hendry dismisses a player, he gets criticized and if he talks up a player, he gets criticized. Nobody is burning up the phone lines asking for Fuld, so what's the matter with building up the kid's ego. As for whether Hendry believes this, I don't think any of us know what he believes. Bruce Miles has pointed out that the Cubs are very tight lipped about what their plans are, but all of us "experts" know what Hendry's inner most thoughts are. how much longer does hendry continue to get the benefit of the doubt? people act like this is his first offseason or something. -
Hendry: Sam Fuld is an untouchable
abuck1220 replied to JohnF's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
exactly. they're going to have a tough time pulling off a trade for a decent outfielder if non-top 10 prospects are untouchables. -
but this time the rest of the lineup will be awesome.
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i think you're missing the point. just because X has a negative effect on people, doesn't mean that X necessarily has a positive effect on some people. of course, it depends on what X is. but it is impossible for me to imagine how pressure could make a baseball player play at a higher level than he normally does. generically speaking, say player A is typically an 7 on a scale of 1-10. i can see how pressure could bring him down to a 5, but i don't see how pressure can make him a 9. it just isn't possible. if he had the ability to elevate his game to a 9 at will, he'd just be a 9 all the time.
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not really, by then they will be trading Uggla, Ramirez and Olsen among others. It's a neverending cycle. After the win another World Series... I hate how they do that. Trade the entire team, win the WS a few years later, and repeat. it's better than the cubs' plan of spending money on the henry blancos of the world, producing a junk farm system, and trying merely to compete within a turd of a division by finishing over .500.
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it's like the NL teams and AL teams operate in completely different ways. the AL powerhouses throw around all this money and all these talented prospects to get actual, huge difference makers like arod, beckett, cabrera, johan, etc, while the NL teams just try and round out their mediocre, 84 win teams by signing todd hollandsworths and trading for will ohmans. it's really strange.
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i get the feeling that prior hates the cubs and i'm pretty sure the cubs feel the same way. what a messy, sad ending to what could have been glorious. please trade him to the AL.
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must be nice to have a farm system not made up of complete garbage.
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Santana to Red Sox?
abuck1220 replied to Geech's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
i'm surprised the twins seem to prefer lester to hughes. -
yeah, cancer's the best.
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give me a break. you speak that as if it's gospel. you have no proof or reasoning to back up such a statement. it's ridiculous. why the hell not? having a broken arm only takes away from a player's ability. there isn't some kind of unseen balance in the force that mandates every outside force has some kind of equal effect on the universe. what a moronic couple of statements. abuck, you insist that its on one way street, that you can only do worse in a "pressure" situation. That is a facetious arguement. my statements are not moronic. they are arguements. The "proof" is simply what I just stated. personally, I dont really want to believe in either a "clutch" hitter or "choke artist". I would like to believe haltz's explanation. But, as of yet, I see definitive prove of neither arguements. It really is abit of "mental masturbation." My whole reason for this discussion is the lack inclusion of "clutch" to the "choke" arguement. I am sorry if you were offended because I think your cancer analogy was stupid, but it was. no, it wasn't. just because something has a negative effect on some people (whether it's pressure or cancer) doesn't mean it has to have a positive effect on other people. that's stupid.
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who do you plan on replacing it with? because hendry seems dead set on it not being matt murton.
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give me a break. you speak that as if it's gospel. you have no proof or reasoning to back up such a statement. it's ridiculous. why the hell not? having a broken arm only takes away from a player's ability. there isn't some kind of unseen balance in the force that mandates every outside force has some kind of equal effect on the universe. what a moronic couple of statements.
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well, they used jones to get infante, so i don't know how you can subtract him from it completely.
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if you're referring to jones, i don't know how you can refer to him as a marginal piece of the puzzle when the cubs are currently (at least in hendry's mind) an outfielder short.
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besides, it'll be more fun for the patriots to run the table in the regular season and then lay an egg in their first playoff game anyway.
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The timeout did turn out to be a bad idea, but Billick made a good point in the press conference that he'd be roasted had he not called a timeout even though the Ravens had the wrong personnel for what they thought the Pats were going to run. They got lucky on the stop, but the timeout (which was probably the smart thing to do) canceled out that luck. It still doesn't excuse the horrific "holding" penalty the refs handed to the Pats. Saw a replay on SportsCenter where they showed a view from behind the Pats line of the play and the Pats WR did appear to be held after the 5-yard limit. It was holding. possibly, but that type of "holding" occurs on just about every play.
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how can you hate them more than the patriots?