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  1. Tryptamine
    Any chance Wood or Marshall takes over temporarily?
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    Where are you coming up with that? I'm showing you statistical evidence to argue my point, you're giving me a mantra. Organization wide, the Cubs are one of the least patient teams in MLB. The Red Sox are among the most patient. Part of this has to do with the kind of players the Red Sox target in the draft and internationally, and part of it has to do with player development, which, um, includes the kind of coaches that are hired to teach the kids how to play. Am I really saying something controversial here? Are you a hitting coach? You're from the south side. Ever heard of Charlie Lau? Read up on him, then tell me your "Do as I say, not as I do" mantra again. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charley_Lau So by your standards then it's best to just go out and find the best pro player you can get to coach? You must have been devastated when Sandberg left and Quade got the job.
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    Teheran down to number 12. Apparently that sub 2 era in AAA has turned them off. Miller and Moore are the only pitchers who I can even fathom being ahead of Teheran.
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    I prefer my players genuinely crazy like Turk Wendell.
  5. Tryptamine
    To be honest I thought Koyie Hill would make it. If we were talking single season I would have nominated Aaron Miles as well.
  6. Tryptamine
    I had completely forgotten just how bad Guillen was. For some reason I thought he was a decent player.
  7. Tryptamine
    Yeah I hate that Jim Hendry. How dare he not expect 4/5 of the rotation to go down, 1 for nearly a full season. He also should have anticipated J.Jackson suddenly being terrible, McNutt having injury problems and all other Iowa starters suddenly forgetting how to pitch. I don't like Hendry either, but what did you really want the guy to do?
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    Waiting for the right opportunity? I can't believe two people in this thread have said that Brenly chose to stay in the booth instead of taking a managing job. All of the reports in the offseason indicated that he was, yet again, trying his damndest to get hired as a manager, including with the Cubs, and came back emptyhanded. Maybe Brenly doesn't want to take ANY managerial job. It could be that once he gets into the negotiations, he sees how the franchise is run by the owners and says no thanks. There's plenty of reasons... He's got a good job in broadcasting and isn't desperate. If the right job opens up and he's interested then, he'll interview. Bunting is a fundamental of the game and EVERYONE needs to know how to do it. Like how to throw to the right base, etc.. Even slow-footed ARAM needs to know how to bunt. Jesus Christ, again with this?
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    If Brenly was such a great manager, as you seem to believe, then why is he still in the booth? I wouldn't be particularly upset if the Cubs did hire him, but don't pretend like he's some cure all to the many problems this organization has.
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    It was clearly staged. The guy hanging onto his left foot is smiling. Absolute lack of class and any decency by the lot of them.
  11. Tryptamine
    Aramis would end up beating Brenly to death within the first month of his hire if the lazy Aramis comments from the both are any indication of how Brenly would handle things.
  12. Tryptamine
    I'd do that right now, no second guessing.
  13. Tryptamine
    I would think it would be Crawford to AA since Ha is struggling lately.
  14. Tryptamine
    It's nice to see Rhee putting together good outings more and more consistently. If he was able to return to his previous status that would be a nice boost for the farm.
  15. Tryptamine
    Over/Under on hearing the word "back" 150x tonight?
  16. Tryptamine
    Chicago sports journalism, where spending time with your family makes you an [expletive].
  17. Tryptamine
    Seriously, what is with these types of posts the last few days? His WHP is still pretty high, but he's managed to significantly decrease his walks. Even so, his K/9 is fairly low. He's having a nice stretch, but so far the peripherals are nothing all that exciting.
  18. Tryptamine
    Not all that close in my eyes. Brignac is awful, Darwin has been superior this year and I feel safe in saying one of DJ/Flaherty could outperform him next year. Niemann has been poor this year with his H/9 on the rise and his K/9 falling. I can't confidently say he'd start over Wells and I wouldn't want him starting ahead of Cashner. BJ, despite being a good player, is only under team control for one more year. If you want a deal with the Rays I'd want Moore, but I'm sure he's untouchable. I would think something more along the lines of Desmond Jennings+Hellickson, but again Hellisckson might be untouchable. Either way it would be something like Jennings+Cobb+Beckham. I wouldn't mind getting Lee back, but the way he's surged I don't know if that's reasonable.
  19. Tryptamine
    Nope, he's white and will therefore be loved by all the reporters. They'll need to vent onto Castro.
  20. Tryptamine
    ....wow there is not a lot of intriguing things down on the Pirate's farm. Obviously Allie and Taillon wont be part of any Pena deal and I don't see a whole lot of intrigue other than those guys. Starling Marte looks pretty good, but another CFer is the last position the farm needs. Maybe Colton Cain or Tony Sanchez? I'm not particularly thrilled by any of them.
  21. Tryptamine
    Are you expecting the '12 Cubs to give 1/3 of their starts to Casey Coleman, Doug Davis, James Russell, Rodrigo Lopez, and Ramon Ortiz? Because the '11 Cubs have played at a ~82 win pace when these losers aren't starting. I'm aware of that. But we can't assume health. I feel like it's a pretty safe bet that 4/5 of our starters wont hit the DL before the all star break again next year.
  22. Tryptamine
    More like 2 years of Cesar Cedeno's career. If he did that for 8 years, it would be hard to call it a disappointment. cedeno was top 7 in WAR among NL players for 5 consecutive years, to suggest that he was a bust or an average player would be a mistake. if he hadn't suffered so many injuries - playing half of one's games on the rock-hard Astrodome surface can't be good for a guy who runs a lot - he probably would've been as great long-term as everyone expected him to be. one can also hope that mike trout doesn't accidentally shoot his girlfriend in the head. Yeah, I was talking more about the statistical milestones that I (stupidly) deleted from the string of quotes. Cesar Cedeno hit over .300 three times, hit 20 home runs three times, and had a slugging percentage over .500 twice. Obviously a different era, but the expectations for trout, assuming he stays injury-free, are higher than that. Of course, Andruw Jones looked like he was destined to be the best player on earth, too. He's got over 400 home runs and a mantle of gold gloves, etc, but i'd say he was a disappointment. If a player being a possible HoFer is disappointing then projections were unrealistic and frankly absurd.
  23. Tryptamine
    You're probably right, but that's not the reality of the world. The superior talent is always going to be given priority based solely on their greater likelihood to succeed.
  24. Tryptamine
    Well, I have faced 90 mph fastballs but I don't see how my experience there has any bearing on this conversation. I mean, considering Aaron Boone's "expert" analysis in today's Futures Game (amongst a whole host of horrible MLB color commentators), playing experience sure isn't any sort of requisite for meaningful analysis. It isn't a leap of faith to assume a guy drafted in the 36th round at the position of "utility" from Martin Methodist is going to be an organizational guy. ETA: I assume hot box is just batter's box and not pro baseball. I clearly didn't play pro baseball. Joe Morgan...'nuff said.
  25. Tryptamine
    I'm not sure if this is how Aramis feels, but to me this invitation was meaningless. Being picked as the 5th different 3B in the NL is absolutely insulting. I wouldn't have wasted a second on it either.
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