Clem Fandango
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If I get a day off work, casual day, or cake and ice cream, I'm not going to complain. "Guys, Stan Musial turned 90 today, I'm taking the entire company to the Caribbean "
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Bradley and Guillen together would be monumentally awesome -
Our best chance is if Halladay limits the teams he can be traded to like Santana did. Didn't he have some sort of list last summer when the Jays shopped him around? Like Philly, St Louis, Chicago? I seem to remember something like that... probably a list that featured only contenders (as one would imagine). Also with Santana, IIRC, he would only waive his NTC if the team he approved a trade to extended his contract. That also hurt his trade value.
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top 50 FA list
Clem Fandango replied to Radar3454's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
I would take a flier on Billy Wagner in a heartbeat if he came at a reasonable cost. But knowing him and his history (as well as Hendry's penchant for bad reliever contracts) the cost won't be too reasonable I would presume. -
This still makes me laugh every time I see it http://www.sportsargumentwiki.com/index.php?title=Steve_phillips
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I hear Steve Phillips plans to set up shop and do mock press conferences. We can finally ask him about the Scott Kazmir trade once and or all!
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I do know there is a job fair there. When I worked at Hank Aaron Stadium (Mobile Bay Bears) half of the people I worked with said they got hired from the winter meetings job fair. Soooo if anyone is interested in getting into the baseball job market the winter meetings are apparently a pretty good place to find a job I would imagine there might be some fan events though, maybe not much, but surely there must be something
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Too soon.
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i'm interested to see what the offseason publications have to say about him. last year he was an interesting prospect in rookie ball who hardly anybody had seen play. this year he played the full year at two more prominent levels, became one of the most highly-regarded prospects in the system, and now is tearing it up in the AFL, which any respectable scouting service is watching closely. there should be a lot more info and opinion on him now. Yeah, I'm really wanting to see what people say too. Last year about all we had to go on was a small writeup in BA and a Fleita interview where he gushed over him. We should hopefully have a better read on him this winter. I believe you're referring to a Wilken interview, not Fleita. Oh yeah, I think you're right. Probably both, considering this article from October 31st's Chicago Tribune... didn't see it posted http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseball/cubs/chi-31-arizona-fall-league-oct31,0,240603.story
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That's so god damn depressing :(
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Cubs' Offseason Moves Thread
Clem Fandango replied to NCCubFan's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
failure to re-sign... traded... what's the big difference? -
There's a part of me that likes Chone Figgins and a part that doesn't. There's the part that likes how he knows how to draw a walk, is a pretty good contact hitter, and can play solid defense at multiple positions in a pinch... then there's the part where he has really low slugging, has a terrible SB%, he's about to be 32, and is tremendously overvalued likely because of his AVG and SB totals (while people ignore his actual success rate)... I wouldn't mind having Figgins, I just wouldn't overpay for him. 4/48 is absurd. He might be a 3/30 guy at best, but someone is going to overpay, I just hope it won't be us. If I were to offer him a contract I'd peak at something like 2/16 with a 3rd year club option to make it 3/25. And even typing that imaginary number makes me feel a little queasy
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They look like throwbacks a little. Not sure why they needed new ones, they don't look all that different from the previous ones
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Wells and Jones over Coghlan??? Hanson will be good/great, but I don't think he was good enough to merit the award. Coghlan is the man, and absolutely deserves the honor. Wells is a flash in the pan, I know I am the only one on this board with that feeling though. It's not a best future career award. Wells and Happ both deserved it over Coghlan. I knew I was forgetting someone.
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Coghlan wasn't a bad choice, but he wasn't a good choice either. Hanson, Wells, and Jones were all much more deserving, IMO
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The Mets need a first baseman now. Unless they're content on bringing back Carlos Delgado again
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To be fair, Mike Cameron isn't chopped liver out there, and he's been there the past couple years. JJ Hardy was also pretty solid defensive SS. They've effectively replaced good defensive guys with better defensive guys, but have sacrificed a whole truckload of offensive talent and potential in the process (in relation to who they've replaced them with)
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I'd say they traded the wrong SS. I do not like Escobar. I can see your reasoning behind not liking Escobar, but when you have the #1 ranked shortstop in the entirety of major league baseball prove that he's ready to contribute at the major league level, you don't say "Well he's good, let's get rid of him and keep the guy who got out OPS'd by Brendan Harris this year instead". Hardy was on his way out, they just traded him for the wrong person. Escobar isn't going to provide the power that Hardy could, at least not for another few years if he develops a little more power, but even then it probably won't match what Hardy was capable of. They should've traded him for someone who could've at least matched his offensive potential, like Delmon Young or someone. At least with Young you take a disappointing project and see if he can still reach the potential he's had for years. With Gomez they're getting a player who will consistently hit at a rate worse than what Hardy did this year which was one of the most god awful performances ever (hyperbole), and that might be a peak for Gomez. It was a terrible trade for the Brewers. They traded the right shortstop, but they just traded him for the totally and completely wrong person.
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They didn't need JJ Hardy. While I agree that they traded him for the wrong guy, Escobar is their starting SS next season and thus Hardy was expendable. Gomez sucks something fierce but Hardy barely outperformed him this year. Hardy is about to enter his prime years and he's struggling pretty badly. At least with Gomez there's still some time to develop, it seemed like Hardy just forgot how to hit last year. A change of scenery was probably best for him, but they sure as hell weren't going to get anything great for him after his season this year. He was beyond terrible
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Also, IIRC a lot of the media were baffled that Minnesota settled on such a weak trade package for Santana. No one was really giving Carlos Gomez the royal treatment when that trade was going down
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No one is asking for both Vitters and Castro for one year of Crawford. I'm not even willing to part with one of them unless the Cubs get to extend Crawford. And I agree, but sadly I'm pretty sure that most of the GM's would overvalue Crawford because of his SB potential. SB's are sexy, and Carl Crawford is the sexiest of the sexy because aside from stealing truckloads of bases, he's pretty good at everything else required of a baseball player, whereas guys like Juan Pierre have one skill only... But look at what we gave up for one year of Juan Pierre... now pretend Juan Pierre was good at hitting and defense and imagine what we'd have to give up for one year of him, because that's what Crawford represents. And why wouldn't they take Vitters even though they have Longoria? They could always use a DH, or groom him to play another position, or at the very least use him as a premier bargaining chip EDIT: Doesn't really matter, appears to be a nonsense rumor...
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Marlon Byrd
Clem Fandango replied to Coach C's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
In his three years in Texas since breaking out, his home/road OPS splits are .900 at home and .742 OPS away. .742 isn't terrible, but it's not spectacular either. He plays subpar defense in center, and he's going to cost way too much in terms of players we'd send back. We'd be overpaying for someone who simply just isn't that special. We'd be better off keeping Bradley -
I would imagine Crawford would cost the most, and would also be one of the premier trade targets of the offseason if he were available. He'd cost us a lot if we were to trade for him. If people think we need to trade Vitters or Castro in a deal to land Granderson, the Rays would probably demand both for Crawford.
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Didn't really know that :oops:
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Saw this on Rotoworld, haven't... And saw this blurb on mlbdailydish.com, though I think it's merely speculation at this point...
