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  1. Cubswin11
    That roster would have potential to be all kinds of bad. What Castro is that, that you are listing as the #3 starter? I'm not aware of any Castro SP in the system.
  2. Cubswin11
    I don't think the sample size argument applies here. The trend is so overwhelming that it transcends ss. Pretty much agree, especially when just yesterday someone posted that article stating that they are/have been explicitly working with Javy on pitch recognition/selection. So you know he's been putting in a concentrated effort to take more pitches/walk more and it's not just a random sample that he's lucked into some walks (though I'm sure he has had some ab's where he sees 4 pitches that aren't even close).
  3. Cubswin11
    Wait, they got rid of that rule, or implemented that rule? Got rid of it, that's why guys like Garza have a slightly dimished trade value as the teams can't even net a compensation pick if he leaves via FA the next season. So they implemented the rule. What you wrote suggests those players now net a compensation pick. Yeah, i'm sorry, I have no idea why I wrote that. They got rid of the old rule that those players used to be able to net teams a pick that acquired them mid-season. Implemented that they now don't net picks.
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    The first 10, though we don't technically know who will be type A yet. Maybe I've been too absorbed with work lately, but I thought they got rid of the whole type A/B/C thing and just work off who gets a qualified offer and who doesn't. Yeah they did and also got rid of the rule that pending FA who gets traded, even if they receive a qualifying offer (Garza for example), can't net the acquiring team a compensation pick. Wait, they got rid of that rule, or implemented that rule? Got rid of it, that's why guys like Garza have a slightly dimished trade value as the teams can't even net a compensation pick if he leaves via FA the next season.
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    The first 10, though we don't technically know who will be type A yet. Maybe I've been too absorbed with work lately, but I thought they got rid of the whole type A/B/C thing and just work off who gets a qualified offer and who doesn't. Yeah they did and also got rid of the rule that pending FA who gets traded, even if they receive a qualifying offer (Garza for example), can't net the acquiring team a compensation pick.
  6. Cubswin11
    Are any of the top 5-10 picks protected for signing a type A FA (Choo, Ellsbury, Cano, etc.)?
  7. Cubswin11
    While I mostly agree, it's not like he made it terribly difficult for the media to find off the field things to rip him on. Though mostly what he has done off the field 90% of college kids are doing, to an extent, and it was more him being a douche than actual things to care about until now. It doesn't help he was doing this over the slowest sports news months either (no NBA/NFL).
  8. Cubswin11
    Las Vegas Hilton took the Bama v. A&M game off the board
  9. Cubswin11
    Any updates out there on Soler? A google search didn't bring anything up anything recent
  10. Cubswin11
    He should be headed to KC or Daytona soon I'd imagine.
  11. Cubswin11
    I think it's fairly likely he can be a well above average late inning guy, but obviously the intrigue/potential is there for him to be a top/mid rotation starter as we can see today.
  12. Cubswin11
    BABIP normalizing
  13. Cubswin11
    Who the hell is Murphy?
  14. Cubswin11
    The Cavs have a chance, it's not huge, but they have one. Kyrie has the ability to be a top 5 player in the league and if Bynum is healthy they could challenge the Bulls, lots of ifs but they could be there all season. And the Pacers absolutely have a chance of keeping up, regardless of Thibs or Rose. They made some excellent moves to improve their depth and their starting lineup can go blow for blow with the Bulls all day.
  15. Cubswin11
    Call up Javy
  16. Cubswin11
    Because the MLB draft is not the NBA Draft. Let's look at the two extremes of your range, the #4 pick and the #14 pick, over the last 20 years. #4 pick 17 of 20 played in MLB 4.7 average career bWAR 3 of 20 have careers of significance(greater than 10 WAR) Best player: Ryan Zimmerman, 32.1 bWAR #14 pick 14 of 20 played in MLB 5.3 average career bWAR 5 of 20 have careers of significance Best player: Derrek Lee, 34.1 bWAR (honorable mention to Jason Heyward) The difference in these roles is not remotely worth hoping and cheering for the current major league Cubs to collectively fail. The impact of their performance the rest of the season will have on expectations for next season and beyond is many, many times over more important than the piddling difference in the most extreme example of rooting for fecal league glory. Monetary difference in draft pool given to #4 and #14 is pretty significant though, isn't it?
  17. Cubswin11
    We have 19 games left with the top 14, 6 games against the Phillies, 3 against the Padres, 3 against the Marlins and 7 against the Brewers.
  18. Cubswin11
    Other than Prior blowing up, Guzman is the prospect I regret most who never developed to what he could be (more than Patterson and Pie). I still remember scouts saying right as Prior and Z were coming up that Guzman still had more potential and was a better prospect than them. I don't think that was the consensus in the scouting community but I know that was a few scouts sentiments.
  19. Cubswin11
    The 2002 (?) Boise rotation was pretty awesome. Andy Sisco, Ricky Nolasco, jae Kuk Ryu, Donald Veal (maybe), Luke Hagerty and Rich Hill also may have been on that team. That's a good group. Was there ever a time when a combination of Cruz, Guzman, Z, Prior, etc. were on the same team?
  20. Cubswin11
    Either have I and I forgot about using that in my equation for no, but yeah that still rubs me the wrong way. I still don't understand what his angle was for such a threat, presumably Castro/Rizzo are smart enough to know that their manager has very little influence in promoting/demoting them.
  21. Cubswin11
    No, he's done a terrible job managing the bullpen (although I will admit he doesn't have the greatest talent) and he sent Jackson out there to keep pitching last night after a hour long rain delay.
  22. Cubswin11
    As is Geno Smith to Sanchez (idk if that's surprising or not) apparently.
  23. Cubswin11

    Castro

    Cubswin11 replied to Tim's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk

    K's are still high- is that a result of being more patient and working into deeper counts? Yes, that's typically an effect of taking more walks/seeing more pitches. A 19% k rate isn't all that high, especially if Castro can stay between 7-8% on the BB%, obviously we'd like to see him more around 10%+ BB rate but I can live with Castro being a 7-8% BB rate guy with a 20% or less K rate moving forward.
  24. Cubswin11
    Phil Hughes, Kazmir, Josh Johnson, Jason Hammel, and Jason Vargas all intrigue me as FA options to varying levels.
  25. Cubswin11
    Of course a maybe a 5% drop in revenue from the loss of ticket and in-stadium sales with simultaneous revenue increases from other sources requires an enormous drop in payroll. That's accounting. Just write it off, it's what all the big companies do
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