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looks like raw pulled off a lucky one too.
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didn't loduca catch like 50 innings yesterday? my apparent victory today has to be one of the biggest surprises of my rk career. i was down 15 and behind in starts 2-0. dice-k and eaton both suck, but i'm still down b/c my offense doesn't do anything. then, in the late afternoon game, russ martin goes nutty to put me ahead. barring a four error, three gidp game from andruw, i should pull off the miracle. that mccann hr helped me by getting AJ a point, costing maddux points and giving mccann points. hopefully that cancer barrett will continue to ruin maddux's start... :twisted:
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moral of today -- if you're ahead by a lot and you have starts remaining...you may just want to not use them.
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Cubs will be Buyers
abuck1220 replied to E.J.'s topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
buyers at the deadline and competing with in the division -- it's a cubs fan's dream come true! -
wow, screw you, bedard. where was that [expletive] when you were on my team walking six guys per start? is that the most points in a non-no-hitter this year?
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and throwing jones and pagan (whose baseball IQ makes michael barrett shake his head in disgust, by the way) will? you say that it was ok for pie to play when the cubs sucked, but not now...well, part of the reason the cubs sucked was jones. so now that they're good again, it's time to go back to the guy that led you into suckiness? that makes sense.
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The same Barrett had 5 guys steal out of 5 attempts the day before with Chris Young on the mound. One of those steals was Russell Martin stealing 3rd. Barrett was never good at blocking balls, but he's been absolutely brutal this year in regards to passed balls. And 3 guys did still bases successfully against Barrett last night, including Luis Gonzalez. So basically, he nailed 1 out of 9 in the last 2 games. look at him go.
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What the Cubs can do!
abuck1220 replied to Cubfan_N_nebraska's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
dempster went down at around the same time barrett was traded...why is barrett's absence the reason for the turnaround, but dempster's isn't? -
Guess you better watch out for next week. next week is a bye. i think i read somewhere that fantasy baseball karma only extends for a week or so.
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What the Cubs can do!
abuck1220 replied to Cubfan_N_nebraska's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
i like to correlate the cubs' recent success to dempster going on the DL. -
like that wasn't going to happen after all your talk about your great pitching! and like marquis wasn't going to suck after you said that! when are you guys going to learn about fantasy baseball karma? ps - i'm going to lose this week anyway, so this post of mine won't really come back to haunt me karma-wise.
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Floyd Limited to PH Duties This Weekend
abuck1220 replied to vance_the_cubs_fan's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
yeah, we definitely don't want to mess w/ the great outfield set up we have going right now. -
defense wins!
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You're in the playoffs as of right now! Which is exactly why I traded Webb to you rather than him; I can't help him get even better since I'm trying to overtake him. :D well, if your goal is to win it all, making tim better isn't helping your cause either. My first goal is to make the playoffs, since I haven't come within sniffing distance in previous years. If I were two-time defending champions I wouldn't be satisfied with just making the playoffs, but being among the bottom three teams in the league in both previous seasons results in a different perspective and expectations. come on, that sounds like jim hendry talking! :D
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You're in the playoffs as of right now! Which is exactly why I traded Webb to you rather than him; I can't help him get even better since I'm trying to overtake him. :D well, if your goal is to win it all, making tim better isn't helping your cause either.
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You're in the playoffs as of right now! yeah, but raw is clearly better than me and HBC has added penny and hawpe essentially w/o losing anything that hurts his team. and i haven't had any luck trading...everyone that's wanted to trade w/ me has asked for a player that, if i traded, would just open up another hole in my lineup. i'm not holding a fire sale or anything, i'm just saying i'm open for offers. i realize that my team isn't as good as it's been the past two years. of course, i could just stand pat and hope that andruw and the drews get their act together...
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picked up fantasy superstar pedro feliz to replace a predictably injured glaus.
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are you kidding? for starters, last year at the end of the season and this year to start the season. and a bunch in the minors. well, that's a dumb way to evaluate guys, but since you asked, hill has 9, marshall has 6. over the past two seasons, hill has 16, marshall 15. hill has has a QS in 47% of his starts the past two seasons, marshall 46%. apparently that's not the case. over the past two years, hill has put up era+'s of 111 and 116. marshall's career era+ is 91. even when you factor in his horrible 2005 when hill was shuffled back forth b/w the minors and the majors and the rotation and the bullpen, his big league career numbers are better than marshall's. i like marshall too, but hill's been better as a starter for the cubs and as a minor leaguer. and he's been healthier. and marshall is not really showing the same skills and attributes. hill has been harder to hit, he's walked fewer batters (surprisingly), and he's struck out a ton more batters.
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I'd rather have Rich Hill over Sean Marshall because Hill still has a higher upside and doesn't have Marshall's injury history. While I trust your opinion is accurate it doesn't seem logical here. Hill is older, has less velocity, less control, less # of pitches and can't show any consistency. Marshall has seemingly grown over the offseason and has surpassed Hill. The only negative is his unknown injuries. less consistency? hill is coming down off a stretch of baseball nearly equal to a full season where he was one of the top 5-10 pitchers in all of baseball. has marshall even strung together more than five consecutive good starts in his career? what's the longest run of good health he's ever had? three months? and that's not even considering hill's vastly superior minor league numbers. by the way, every one is crapping themselves over hill's last four starts...his four starts before that... 27 2/3 ip, 18 h, 5 bb, 24 k's, 1.63 era, 0.83 whip i'm concerned about him right now too, but let's have a little perspective.
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no kidding...he hasn't had ANY success to this point. You know Shawn Estes had isolated stretches of success for the Cubs in 2003. maybe the worst comparison i've ever heard. I like Rich too, but it's clear something is wrong beyond just having a few bad outings. It seems that unless he has total command of his curveball(s), he's increasingly horrible. His fastball is adequate, but only with paired with an effective curve. Without the curve being sharp and thrown for strikes, he's a BP pitcher. Fortunately for Rich, he has gone through prolonged stretches where his curve was good, and the league was still trying to get a solid read on him. It appears they have, and a trend has developed, and it's not a good one. Rich needs another pitch to cover his butt when his curve is less than spectacular. Either that, or he is going to have to continually change up his pitch/situation strategies to prevent hitters from sitting on pitches. It seems a lot simpler to just add a pitch. Plenty of players have come into the league and looked awesome, only to fade into obscurity as they were figured out. Rich can still be awesome, but it may be evolve or die time for him. wow, that is being ridiculously harsh. It's a metaphor, abuck. i realize that, but i still think it's extreme.
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MAKE ROB BOWEN HIT .100 OR KICK HIM OFF THE TEAM.
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no kidding...he hasn't had ANY success to this point. You know Shawn Estes had isolated stretches of success for the Cubs in 2003. maybe the worst comparison i've ever heard. I like Rich too, but it's clear something is wrong beyond just having a few bad outings. It seems that unless he has total command of his curveball(s), he's increasingly horrible. His fastball is adequate, but only with paired with an effective curve. Without the curve being sharp and thrown for strikes, he's a BP pitcher. Fortunately for Rich, he has gone through prolonged stretches where his curve was good, and the league was still trying to get a solid read on him. It appears they have, and a trend has developed, and it's not a good one. Rich needs another pitch to cover his butt when his curve is less than spectacular. Either that, or he is going to have to continually change up his pitch/situation strategies to prevent hitters from sitting on pitches. It seems a lot simpler to just add a pitch. Plenty of players have come into the league and looked awesome, only to fade into obscurity as they were figured out. Rich can still be awesome, but it may be evolve or die time for him. wow, that is being ridiculously harsh.
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no kidding...he hasn't had ANY success to this point. You know Shawn Estes had isolated stretches of success for the Cubs in 2003. maybe the worst comparison i've ever heard.
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Just because Young likely threw at Lee doesn't mean he's not a good pitcher and not the most worthy, out of the Last Ballot candidates, of being in the All-Star game. Z isn't saying that Young's a great guy. All Z is saying is that Young has outpitched Z this year. Which is true. As far as the rest of it, what you said later is probably correct - that he's not best buds with some of his teammates. I don't think it matters who goes to whose house for cake and punch. I also don't think we can know who likes who and who doesn't. and most impotantly, who gives a carp? Not me. Abuck has some unkown reason to hate Zambrano. Keep it, it is your bricks to carry. Enjoy the load. that's quite an imagination you got there.
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i thought i'd be in good shape this week with like 5 of my 7 starts coming against pittsburgh and washington. guess not. by the way, i could be convinced to become a seller if people want to start making offers.