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The Winter Meetings Thread
Gmoney08 replied to David's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
Tulo had a pretty insane WAR considering half a season of play this year. I'd assume one of his months had to be close to 3. -
The Winter Meetings Thread
Gmoney08 replied to David's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
I see the Cubs waiting him out unless something amazing comes across the table. One, this would be selling fairly low on him. Two, his potential bat at 2B is worth the risk. He could have league best power at 2B with a good glove there and on the other end you can live with your 2B struggling through growing pains, if he does struggle & he is batting 7th or 8th (80% of 2B can't hit in the post steroid era now anyways). Three, he has struggled in every stint at each level to start.. I want to give him another shot at it. Hell, everyone pretty much expected him to struggle coming up last year (maybe not striking out THAT much but what happened wasn't totally unexpected). Nobody is untouchable, but I hope he isn't moved. -
The Winter Meetings Thread
Gmoney08 replied to David's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
Jurko says the Cubs shouldn't keep Bryant down because he will be worth an extra 3 wins in April. Silvy responded so he is an 18 WAR player over the year? Jurko says yes, he could be LOL... Well I agree if we are getting 18 WAR out of Bryant than we should just bring him up... -
The Winter Meetings Thread
Gmoney08 replied to David's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
Is it possible to get CarGon or Upton without giving up Javy, Addison, Soler, or Bryant? Braves supposedly want pitching, can Edwards headline a trade? -
Recent high profile targets: FA: Furcal: No Bradley: Yes Pujols: No Fielder: No Sanchez: No (though talk didn't really heat up until the report that we'd signed him) Trade: Roberts: No Harden: Yes Peavy: No Granderson: No Garza: Yes And of course, Epstein: Yes The one that came to mind for me was Juan Pierre, though that was a little older. What about Pudge? Carlos Lee?
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He meant James Edwards of the 96 Bulls and James Russell clearly..
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Shark sounds a little jaded about the Cubs (brought up he will remember things that were said to him and made it almost seem as if the Cubs may have lied or been telling him things they didn't intend to do). I say screw him. He looks like a Sox player with that stupid mullet anyways. He is on Espn1000 right now with Jurko & Carmen.
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Giancarlo
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:-s Holy crap Phil Rogers is a hack On PtI today, Kornheiser was slamming the White Sox trading for Samardzija because of his win/loss records. Im confused? Do people think Rogers was ripping the Cubs potential rotation here? I think he is clearly explaining why this gives the Cubs instant hope with a pretty damn good rotation next year if they land Lester.
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I was just looking at Lester's stats on BR. Anybody know what was up with him in 2012? He has been pretty damn good every year except for 12'? He made 33 starts that year so it doesnt look like he was significantly injured at all?
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Yeah no thanks. Been there done that. http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/196grzxfny1dygif/ku-xlarge.gif omg that is [expletive] up Yeah, being an Illini, Bulls, and Cubs fan I am pretty much conditioned to 2nd place in FA & recruiting. I've been posting on message boards since about 2005 when I was a sophomore in HS and the only elite players that have went my teams way in a recruiting or FA battle have been Soriano & Arrelious Benn and maybe Jereme Richmond. So, many hours wasted reading and getting my hopes up about Shaun Livingston, Derrick Rose, Eric Gordon, Cliff Alexander, Jake Peavy (trade that never happened), Masahiro Tanaka, Yu Darvish, Cespedes, thinking Pudge Rogriguez was a done deal about a decade ago, to Lebron, Kobe (trade), Carmelo, Garnett (trade), Amare (trade) and I feel I'm forgetting another 30% of these. Hopefully Lester changes the luck a little bit!
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wrong duquette Wouldn't it be great if a GM just stopped caring and ended up reporting what all the teams were doing on twitter with his inside info. Freelance work or something. Probably what Steve Phillips would have done in the twitter age.
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Bonds was drafted in the 85 draft. His debut was May 30, 1986. Pretty amazing a little over 3.5 years in the 80's and he is 13th.
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It has to be frustrating for all the 2nd and 3rd tier free agent pitchers putting their lives on hold waiting for Lester to set the market. Yes, Terrible. They have to grieve in Hawaii or the Caribbean somewhere while mixing in a work out and having to wait possibly multiple weeks to find out if they are going to make 12 million a year or 14 million a year. Lester is evil for doing this to them.
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Not true at all. NoCodes source is from the wifes side of the family. If she is similar to Sandberg's wife he could end up the number 1 insider in baseball.
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If NoCode is wrong.. have the Rolling Stones killed!
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The Winter Meetings Thread
Gmoney08 replied to David's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
What would the Cubs have traded in a similar package for Shark? Could Almora have headlined a deal? -
Cubs fans will be like this till at least a replication of the 1950s Yankees happens for the Cobs.
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Yeah, that's what I'm actually leaning towards; seems like he has a real shot of sliding in to that manager spot there pretty soon. That's what people thought about him in Tampa too. With how many times he has been passed over, or not even a candidate for, managerial jobs, there must be something missing that is preventing him from making that leap. I'm beginning to think that he may just be a bench coach lifer. Is it possible he banged someones wife...
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Any reason we aren't going after Scherzer?
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Not with the same degree of probability. I'd guess similar though. I dont know the stats but id guess you see more TJS surgeries from the under 30 group as well. There is an abundance of of pitchers blowing up in every age group. http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=1658 Seems to me you made my exact point for me. I said similar probability between both age brackets. Between ages 25 to 36 the attrition rate fluctuates back and forth in a narrow threshold between 12 to 17%. It also doesn't increase uniformly up, in fact the attrition rate of 25 year old pitchers is higher than 31 & 32 year olds. It's pretty fair to say there is pretty similar risk of blowing up for any pitching age bracket in baseball which my first point "that can be said about every pitcher in baseball under 30 as well" implied. Also, my assumption that there is at times even more risk for young pitchers seems to be supported as well. Pitchers 22 and under have over a 20% attrition rate, attrition for the old guys doesn't hit 20% until age 39.
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Not with the same degree of probability. I'd guess similar though. I dont know the stats but id guess you see more TJS surgeries from the under 30 group as well. There is an abundance of of pitchers blowing up in every age group.
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So based on this, Lester's arm might die in 4 years. I'm fine with that. Based on this, his arm might die after 1 year and is highly likely to die after 3-4 years. That can be said about every pitcher in baseball under 30 as well..
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Popping Champagne, high fives, desserts.. i dont know only spoke to him through texts. His words was it seemed celebratory.. also said it was 10 people in the private dining room.
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Fwiw my buddy is a Waiter at RPM & confirmed Theo & Lester were there. He said it looked like a celebration meal too. He isnt a big baseball fan and he is from Miami so wouldnt expect a Cubs koolaid bias from him.