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Nobody should have been predicting 100 losses, that's silly. Now the people in the "Add Pujols/Fielder and Lee/Darvish and this team is a contender in the crappy NLC" camp? I'd say it's pretty safe now to tweak them. Fortunately, people more meatbally than that are running the Cubs now. Ah, another fine davearm2 WHOOOOOSH-moment. Please show me a single person who wanted to sign any of them because they thought THIS year was the priority. I don't care enough to go back months and find a bunch of quotes. But there were quite a few people that thought the Cubs could be contenders this year, and they voiced that opinion repeatedly during the height of the hot stove season. If you can't recall that, or choose not to, then that's on you.
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Nobody should have been predicting 100 losses, that's silly. Now the people in the "Add Pujols/Fielder and Lee/Darvish and this team is a contender in the crappy NLC" camp? I'd say it's pretty safe now to tweak them. Fortunately, people more meatbally than that are running the Cubs now.
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Dale Sveum to re arrange the deck chairs
davearm2 replied to Little Slide Rooter's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Good point. In the last four pages of the Castro thread, walks were mentioned once. Lots of discussion going on. Tons of concern being expressed. Oh wait. I bet that's the wrong place to look too. -
Dale Sveum to re arrange the deck chairs
davearm2 replied to Little Slide Rooter's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Don't forget the Starlin Exception: if everyone likes you and you don't walk much, then BA matters and OBP is ignored. Great point; people never talk/complain/worry about Castro and walks here. NAILED IT. I refer you to the Olney thread in Transactions. No concern about walks in evidence there, as folks equate Castro's trade value to that of a young Alex Rodriguez. -
Dale Sveum to re arrange the deck chairs
davearm2 replied to Little Slide Rooter's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Don't forget the Starlin Exception: if everyone likes you and you don't walk much, then BA matters and OBP is ignored. -
Dale Sveum to re arrange the deck chairs
davearm2 replied to Little Slide Rooter's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
If only Theo had signed frontline starter and a real 1B the Cubs would be contending and this whole thread could have been avoided -
Some pretty basic comprehension skills would have prevented it from going 5 posts, let alone 10 pages.
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Age related decline is a much more important consideration for guys getting $200M contracts than it is for guys that can be non-tendered pretty much whenever. Age-related decline is a much more important consideration for guys who were NEVER EVER EVER GOOD until their 29th birthday. That's not age related decline. Are you serious right now? If you believe any of the crap you spew about decline, you of all people should realize that LaHair is a good bet to decline almost immediately after his likely one good season in the bigs. Is there more obvious a "short term player?" I really can't think of one, but that won't stop you from arguing about it. What you're describing is not age-related decline. The last thing the Cubs need to worry about is Bryan LaHair getting old on them.
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Age related decline is a much more important consideration for guys getting $200M contracts than it is for guys that can be non-tendered pretty much whenever. Age-related decline is a much more important consideration for guys who were NEVER EVER EVER GOOD until their 29th birthday. That's not age related decline.
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Age related decline is a much more important consideration for guys getting $200M contracts than it is for guys that can be non-tendered pretty much whenever.
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Size, with Mason being 3-5 inches taller? Age when drafted out of HS? Both irrelevant? Ben Revere at age 20 was (similarly) putting up huge BA's in single-A, and even hitting XBHs more frequently than Williams; speedy OF is actually a relative area of depth in our system, too - so move over, Matt Szczur, somebody even slappier's in town! getting a 150 lb. project OF as the main prize for Garza might just make me physically ill Slappy 150 lb. project sounds a bit like Starlin Castro circa 2009. Just sayin.
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Why is LaHair a shorter-term player? If he turns into a pumpkin at some point in 2012, so be it. You can't get much for him in trade now anyway. If he doesn't, the Cubs have many years of club control. Probably the same as Rizzo, in fact, although I haven't double-checked. (And no need to remind me of each guy's age. It's irrelevant to the issue of years under team control.)
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Pineda for Montero?
davearm2 replied to David's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
I can't imagine the Yanks would hesitate for a moment to shell out ace money for as many ace guys as they could acquire reasonably. I bet they'd be thrilled to have last year's Phillies rotation, for example. -
Does he have to fall of a cliff for this to be a terrible contract? He doesn't have to pull a soriano. If he's merely above average for his position for 6-8 years of the contract, was it a bad deal? It's only a bad deal if it cripples your team for many years. That's what I've heard, anyway.
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You make yourself sound like a total idiot when you say this garbage. Just because I don't lay out every conceivable option doesn't lead to your goofball conclusion that I'm only considering the ones I've mentioned. If you're so stupid that you need everything spelled out for you, then we're not going to get along very well because I'm not going to stoop to that level.
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You had better care if you're going to misconstrue them constantly.
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Too much garbage in WAR. You trust the defensive metrics for catchers and 1Bs? I sure don't. LaHair will out-OPS Soto. The defense-challenged 1B will out-OPS the defensively solid catcher? GET OUTTA TOWN. Nobody here would have taken that bet before the season. CW then was Soto was due for a big bounce-back, and LaHair is complete trash. Once again there is no middle ground in the davearm2 universe. I don't think you understand what the term conventional wisdom means.
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This. The level of elitism around here is ridiculous. Oh, please. One of the reasons this place took off is because it offered an alternative to Cubs.com-style meatball-ism. And one of the reasons it has fallen off so badly is because of the elitism. Typical meatball. Typical elitism.
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This. The level of elitism around here is ridiculous. Oh, please. One of the reasons this place took off is because it offered an alternative to Cubs.com-style meatball-ism. And one of the reasons it has fallen off so badly is because of the elitism.
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Too much garbage in WAR. You trust the defensive metrics for catchers and 1Bs? I sure don't. LaHair will out-OPS Soto. The defense-challenged 1B will out-OPS the defensively solid catcher? GET OUTTA TOWN. Nobody here would have taken that bet before the season. CW then was Soto was due for a big bounce-back, and LaHair is complete trash.
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I was going to say you have no idea what you're babbling about, but it actually makes sense if one understands dave-speak. Once again, there is no in-between for him: if you don't think Soto is hopelessly horrible, you apparently have "unconditional love" for him because he's a "goldenboy." You're in denial. One: what a nonsensical response. Two: about what? About how awful Soto is. The original poster had it right. The guy's lost at the plate and has been for more than a year. Who knows what became of "good Soto" but you and others need to realize he's been AWOL for quite a while now. You made it sound crazy that the Cubs might just need to turn the page. It's not at all crazy.
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Too much garbage in WAR. You trust the defensive metrics for catchers and 1Bs? I sure don't. LaHair will out-OPS Soto.
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I was going to say you have no idea what you're babbling about, but it actually makes sense if one understands dave-speak. Once again, there is no in-between for him: if you don't think Soto is hopelessly horrible, you apparently have "unconditional love" for him because he's a "goldenboy." You're in denial.
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The unconditional love for Soto amongst several on this board is truly mystifying. I'm looking forward to some heads exploding when the whippingboy LaHair has a better year than the goldenboy Soto.
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It's difficult to imagine just how dreadful a team would be with Ramirez pitching, and Ramirez at every defensive position.