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  1. Derwood
    Chapman is a much better version of Carlos Marmol, and both are/were more valuable in short situations than long ones. Marmol would have been a far less successful starter than he was a closer
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    and all those eye-popping peripherals plummet when he goes more than an inning
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    He has 63 K's in 31 1/3 IP this year. His WHIP is 0.83 And his FIP is 0.58
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    Shark is doing really well with the A's. Hammel, on the other hand, has been a dumpster fire
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    Last 25 years: Arkansas: 164-132-2, 0 conference titles, 4-9 bowl record Wisconsin: 195-102-4, 6 conference titles, 10-9 bowl record Either way, his departure from the Big 10 to the SEC was a stinky pile of sour grapes, and he's run his fat mouth ever since taking the job. I hope he never wins again
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    He's "puffing himself up" by trying to justify his demotion from Wisconsin to Arkansas (yes, that's a downgrade) by comparing conferences. It's typical meatballery
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    I am not in Arkansas to hear the talk radio goons, but the general consensus I think is that he should STFU. You can be an ass if you are winning, but another O for conference play will give the fans who already dislike him a reason to go after him. Bue the SEC is where the winners are! Winners like, oh wait winners like 7 of the last 8 years whilst your conference has 1 win in the last 15 years. You don't get the irony of a coach who won ZERO conference games puffing himself up by including himself with the "winners"?
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    10 years isn't nearly enough time for all of the BBWA members to die horrible deaths
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    I am not in Arkansas to hear the talk radio goons, but the general consensus I think is that he should STFU. You can be an ass if you are winning, but another O for conference play will give the fans who already dislike him a reason to go after him. Bue the SEC is where the winners are! Winners like, oh wait
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    #karma I have seen this before but don't get it, but then again I don't get the whole hash tag thing anyway. I get that you guys don't like Beliema, but he still gets another year at Ark before I start to really worry. If you're a Big 10 fan and DON'T hate Beliema, there's something wrong with you. He's just the worst
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    How many of our current core prospects are in the system due to the major league team sucking? Five? Everyone but Soler and Alcantara Unless you're talking about sucking brought about by this PLAN, and to the depths they sucked. Then it's Kris Bryant, and whoever we draft next year. And Russell, Hendricks, Ramirez, etc. those trades don't hallen if the Cubs are contending for a post season berth
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    How many of our current core prospects are in the system due to the major league team sucking?
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    It mattered to the seven front offices that got fired in that stretch, I imagine. The seven front offices no one remembers because the team won a bunch of World Series? Those front offices?
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    I didn't say they had to win 100 games for three straight years. But you absolutely have to consider the horrible job they have done in the first three years fielding a major league baseball team when all is said and done. This losing counts. If they win the next three years you can't claim they built a consistent winner when it took 3 years of excessive losing to get there. It will take a very long time of major success to justify what has happened to date. Maybe they do it. Maybe they don't. historically, why does the losing matter? The Yankees missed the playoffs for 12 or 13 straight seasons in the 80's/90's before they hit the Jeter years....did that losing "matter" in the long run?
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    They need to make the playoffs enough to end their tenure having done so a reasonable percentage of the time. Jim Hendry made it 3 times out of 9. Epstein's got some work to do to beat that. Ok, I slightly misunderstood your point. I thought you meant "they" were the Cubs, not that "they" were Theo/Jed. My bad
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    That's the dirty little secret of The Plan. Unless they go on an unparalleled run in the current MLB environment, they aren't going to win enough to make up for the hole they've put themselves in. Why do they have to balance anything out? Just wine nought toget into the post-season crap shoot every year. Fun fact: the Cubs have something like the fifth or sixth best historical winning percentage in MLB The issue is the phrase "every year". They've already spent a lot of time not winning enough to get into the "crap shoot" any year. You can't take a dive and focus exclusively on the farm system while losing an inordinate number of games and then claim you've won consistently. These years happened. Yes, they've sucked (historically sucked) the last 3 years, but that doesn't mean you have to win 100 games the next 3 years to "balance" anything out. That's stupid.
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    That's the dirty little secret of The Plan. Unless they go on an unparalleled run in the current MLB environment, they aren't going to win enough to make up for the hole they've put themselves in. Why do they have to balance anything out? Just wine nought toget into the post-season crap shoot every year. Fun fact: the Cubs have something like the fifth or sixth best historical winning percentage in MLB
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    apparently not, as they are attributing a lot of young pitchers' arm troubles to throwing cutters in high school
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