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  1. abuck1220
    Agreed, the last thing I am worried about is Aramis signing now. Larger, fish are ready to be caught. Let's go get a stud bat and a stud pitcher and play in late October come 07. if the cubs lose ramirez, adding one stud bat (who will undoubtedly be less of a stud than ramirez) and one stud pitcher will get them nowhere close to october.
  2. abuck1220
    I'm counting Hill as a 5 possibly 4 until he proves he can pitch as well as he did at the end of 2006. didn't he prove he can pitch as well as he did at the end of 2006 at the end of 2006?
  3. abuck1220
    i hope everyone knows that if the cardinals win the world series, hendry's going after every guy on this list. but probably only the ones that suck.
  4. abuck1220
    defense wins championships!
  5. abuck1220
    ok, how does a white guy (the white guy, actually) only get to 2nd on that? detroit needs some pfp's.
  6. abuck1220
    If he's signed as the fourth outfielder, that's not as much of a problem. He's still a guy that can put up a great average and still give you a decent amount of HR's a year. I'm sure a starting job will be open to him somewhere. You may be right. But then again, if we offered him more money to be the 4th OF than another team offered him to start, would he take the extra cash for the limited role. My guess is most NL teams will be worried about his age and durability in the field and won't pay him big bucks for that reason. So, it would have to be an AL team with an opening at DH that signs him. I can see Cleveland, Detroit, and Texas...maybe Minnesota. How large of a contract will those teams offer? I can see the Cubs topping what those teams will offer even if they are planning on using him in a more limited role. I really see the Astros most likely to try to get him. I dont see any of those teams signing Alou. Why would anyone in their right mind sign a injury prone 41yr old to a $7 million contract? exactly. so why do you keep saying he's going to get a 7 mil contract? you seem to seem to be simultaneously saying that no one's going to give it to him, but that is what it will take to get him.
  7. abuck1220
    yay bunts!
  8. abuck1220
    I think he brings more than enough with the bat, as a platoon partner, to offset his bad knees and baserunning gaffes. Alou/Jones would be a tremendously productive platoon. Unfortunately, they are two guys who probably would balk at sitting while a kid like Murton gets to play. i think i'd rather trade jones, bring in geoff jenkins, and semi-platoon him with a guy like restovich. from strictly a production standpoint, jones + alou >>>>> jenkins + restovich.
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    and how far did that 'strength' take the cubs last year? I never understood the concept of turning a strength into a weakness. That strength didnt take the Cubs too far last year, because eveything else about the Cubs was a complete joke. exactly. in order to fix the million weaknesses on the team, you may have to give up some of your 'strength,' which, by the way, wasn't that strong at all.
  10. abuck1220
    and how far did that 'strength' take the cubs last year?
  11. abuck1220
    from the suntimes
  12. abuck1220
    intangibles, baby.
  13. abuck1220
    great stuff.
  14. abuck1220
    it seems pretty obvious that he was trying to cheat. of course, i don't know how he thought he could get away with it...that moron mccarver saw it within ten minutes. it was also pretty clear that larussa was being told about it in the dugout during the 1st. larussa screwed up by not going out there then. he should have known that if he knew the cameras had caught it, then the tigers would know too.
  15. abuck1220
    then again, i forgot how sensitive buck is...
  16. abuck1220
    Well, to be fair to Buck, it is a pretty disgusting act. and i'm sure he thought the same thing about taverez's half wool, half pine tar hat.
  17. abuck1220
    joe buck's about to freaking cry about it. can announcers protest a game?
  18. abuck1220
    if you're down by one, then maybe you bunt...but not down by two. you'd need a basehit either way.
  19. abuck1220
    that should be the cubs' slogan.
  20. abuck1220
    that lineup is terrible. It's not supposed to contend in '07. Thanks for your constructive and articulate insight though. :) well, i guess i'm just not too keen on a team with $115 mil payroll going through a rebuilding phase...especially when you have relatively young talent like prior, lee, ramirez, barrett, zambrano, etc. i suppose i just disagree with the idea that they can't contend next year. in the past, i thought that may be the case, but not if they're increasing payroll 15%. i gotta think it's nearly impossible to field a terrible team with a payroll that large.
  21. abuck1220
    that lineup is terrible.
  22. abuck1220
    defense? i heard it wins championships.
  23. abuck1220
    pretty harsh on marmol.
  24. abuck1220
    Player Spotlight (Beta) - Rich Hill ERA W L G GS INN H ER HR BB K Optimistic (15%) 2.69 16 5 33 30 192 143 59 22 54 218 Mean 3.65 12 8 31 28 175 148 71 25 56 190 Pessimistic (15%) 4.53 7 8 25 23 135 129 68 22 51 131 That last little bit completely floored me, to the extent that I was trying to find an excuse to post a Player Spotlight that didn't make me look like I was on crack. Simply put, ZiPS likes Hill better than practically every other pitcher in baseball with minimal MLB experience. The strides he's made in in the last year have turned his career around, as we saw after the All-Star break in the majors. The turnaround from 2005 to 2006 in the minors was just as pronounced, as Hill went from allowing a home run every 6 innings to allowing a home run every 33 innings. :shock: the 'optimistic' projection would likely win him the cy young.
  25. abuck1220
    this might be hendry's most entertaining stretch yet. hell, let's just go ahead and say he's got three. you know what...let's say that he won with the white sox last year too...and one with the 1957 milwaukee braves.
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