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You cannot underestimate the importance of speed
abuck1220 replied to anemic offense's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
i think speed is more important than chemistry, if that makes anybody feel better. -
You cannot underestimate the importance of speed
abuck1220 replied to anemic offense's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
wow. i strongly disagree. Well, if you can put together a team with great OBP, power and speed, I'd like it more than if you put together an equivalent team minus the speed. If that's the point, then yeah, okay, I can agree with that. If the argument is the listed "speed team" back a few pages, I think the only reason that team would not finish last is because of Lee and Abreu, where speed is just the finishing touch on what makes them such great players. the part i disagree with is the idea that the speed team will win more games even if the power team scores more runs (assuming pitching is equal). he seems to be saying that if both teams have the same pitching, the fast team (scoring, let's say, 4 runs a game) will win more games than the higher scoring power team (scoring 5 runs a game). -
You cannot underestimate the importance of speed
abuck1220 replied to anemic offense's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
wow. i strongly disagree. -
You cannot underestimate the importance of speed
abuck1220 replied to anemic offense's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Not attempting a pass in football is dumb (unless you have the most unstoppable running game out there), not attempting a SB is not dumb. yeah, the 'two out of three outcomes are bad' theory is ridiculous. the two bad outcomes apply to running the ball as well. -
i saw valdez in mesa, but i didn't see him (or anybody for that matter) throwing. guzman starts tonight for the i-cubs in an exhibition against the univ of iowa.
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You cannot underestimate the importance of speed
abuck1220 replied to anemic offense's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
that's not the point of this conversation at all. The point is that on a large scale, home runs are better, like with a club that hits over 300 of them. My argument was that, and I'm just using these numbers as an example: a team with 175 home runs and speed is better than a 225 home run team with little speed/baserunning ability. as long we're making proclamations w/ nothing to back them up...a team that has 104 sac bunts is better than a team that has 34 wild pitches. -
Giambi's OBP doesn't count, though, since he's slow. i thought the same thing, but he didn't have any problems scoring on matsui's homer. :D
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2006 Adam Dunn Thread (trade proposals encouraged)
abuck1220 replied to rocket's topic in General Baseball Talk
who cares if he sucks in the outfield? you gonna bench his .400 obp and 50 homers and put tom goodwin out there? the speed and defense bender that everyone is on is insane. -
You cannot underestimate the importance of speed
abuck1220 replied to anemic offense's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
same thing happened last year on opening day, and people were saying the same thing. yeah, it'd be great if the cubs could single their way to 17 hits every game, but it ain't gonna happen. -
normally, i would be disappointed that matsui is hitting sixth. but i think he'll have plenty of rbi chances batting behind two .400+ OBP guys. :shock: i may have to change my mvp prediction...
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why is our best (supposedly) set up guy throwing 30+ pitches in a six run game? thankfully tomorrow is an off day.
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i'd have to check on it, but i don't think you can walk across the plate.
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me too. fielder w/ the golden sombrero.
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what are your feelings on sixth inning double switches? couldn't get walker and cedeno out of there fast enough...
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walker's defense is just KILLING the cubs today!
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big sigh of relief for ollie's start today. of course, jenkins gets on by a dropped third strike, so he doesn't get the QS, but i'm not complaining.
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normally i wouldn't like it, but it did get jones' limp dick bat out of the game.
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dunn spent the offseason working on his one weakness.
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jackson and weston were at fitch when i was in mesa in the middle of march. i thought that i'd seen spearman at some point this spring, but i haven't heard/seen anything about bartosh, norton, or frese.
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ah, gotta love the old 'save this guy for one strategically placed ab/late inning defensive flexibility' over getting him 4-5 ab's.
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once again, you guys are assuming that everything that went wrong last year was merely bad luck and will reverse itself this year. and everything that went right was not a fluke and will repeat itself. wood and prior missing the whole season won't likely happen, so this argument is pretty meaningless. you may disagree w/ me that missing your #2 and #3 starter for the entire season will cost you seven games, but it's going too far to say that this makes me delusional. and i realize that the team has made upgrades. but i don't think the improvement added thru jones, pierre, howry, eyre, mabry, pagan, and bynum are that substantial, especially when you consider the possible/probable regression of guys like lee.
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i like cain and all, but if he's comparable to sheets and patterson...well, i guess nsbb is going to be pretty good. geez, they're pretty high on oswalt. and if barrett's only 18 points better than estrada, i was pretty stupid to take him in the 4th round. sorry to leave you out raw...use it as bulletin board material for your team. :D
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Agreed. That crowd was so jacked up when he hit that. I thought for sure the game was going to the Cubs after that. I'll never forget Len Kasper saying that Wood's home run was the loudest crowd he's ever heard. Now excuse me while I go puke for a moment. Uh, Kasper wasn't around back then. with the marlins.
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those rotations are bad. i think we're going to have to agree to disagree, b/c those rotations are terrible (unless guzman experiences NO growing pains and is able to throw 180 injury free innings). the cubs lost 83 last year w/ prior and wood making 37 starts. if they make ZERO this year, i don't see how the cubs' worst case scenario for them in 2006 can be losing 83 again. jones, eyre, pierre, and howry aren't big enough upgrades to counter the loss of 37 starts from two great starting pitchers.
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so you're saying that group A (jones, pierre, eyre, howry, rusch and marshall) are not only as good as group B (burnitz, corey, remlinger, hawkins, prior and wood), but are SEVEN WINS BETTER? now who's being ridiculous? I don't see where anyone is writing that. Back to the argument, if you're confident in your prediction that we're a 90 loss club, then let's make a wager. If they lose 90 games this year, I'll buy you a year of premium. If we're .500 or above, you owe me a year of premium. Anything in the middle, and no one owes anything. dude, have you even read my posts? i said they were a 90 loss team IF PRIOR AND WOOD MISS THE WHOLE SEASON.