Cubswin11

Drop Ryan Zimmerman Add Adam Dunn

[expletive] yeah! :oldbluekoolaid:

:-k

I haven't seen Trout play a whole lot, but check his stats fairly often and have him in a fantasy league, he seems like he's going to be really good one. I think I'd maybe take him over Harper.

http://deadspin.com/5917235/indians-closer-chris-perez-celebrated-earning-his-20th-save-by-projectile-vomiting-all-over-the-mound

This effing team What's the franchise record for losses in a season? Would have to guess somewhere between 110-120.

I also forgot to add, regarding Gonzalez. His LD% is higher this year than for his career (23.3 v. 21.1), GB% is lower (39.4 v. 41.2) and his FB% is nearly the same (37.2 v. 37.7). HR/FB rate is way down as you would imagine (6.2 v. 16.4). So it really looks like he just really has lost his power.

As long as he keeps bunting, attempting steals, diving for balls in the OF and sliding into first, it won't matter what his stat line is at the end of the year they will still be demanding he be the Cubs starting CF for the next decade.

What the F happened to Adrian Gonzalez??? I went to look at box scores and saw he was hitting 6th so I clicked on his name to see his stats this year, his line is .270/.321/.416/.737 and he only has 4 HR's. He's only striking about 1% more than his career average and his BABIP is only .010 points down. It appears he has lost all power, ISO is .143 and he has a career .216 ISO.

I don't think that was a trip nor a slide, rather an explosion of grit inside RJ that simply blew him off his feet

We've all been to this rodeo before. Good luck, Andrew. I have the o/u set on 4.5 starts before he gets shut down with an injury.

Unless they try to turn Almora into a pitcher or make him start doing everything left handed there are no arguments to be made to have those guys ahead of or on par with Almora.

Do the stats back that? I know there is a pretty small sample size. I hear people say that he is a great fielder all the time, but is that just because he is fast and hustles? Or is he really a good fielder? There are no fielding stats (not even the newer ones) that are accurate...for outfielders... You cant judge him much fastre he is than Sori..How many more balls he'd get to. Sometimes just getting to the ball stops the runner. You can only use the 'eye-test on that.. He has speed that takes away hits..obviously and his arm is average. But you are right, in my mind. his sample size is VERY small. He's been used as a bit player until now and he hasnt played as much as we think he has... Dale has been patient with him the last week..as Dale has been with Ian Stewart..who has much more of a track record .. For the record..I'd play him against right handers and use him as the 'bench weapon' when lefties start. If Sori is moved this year..LaHair will go to left and Tony would be the late inning 'caddy' I know he's fast, but just because you are fast and dive at a lot of balls doesn't make you a good defensive OF if you take shitty routes/can't read a ball off the bat/have a bad arm you can be the fastest player in the league (Pierre/Nyjer Moragn) and still be bad defensively. I haven't watched enough games with him in to really know if he's a good fielder by the eye test. Just wanted to know what the defensive metrics say on him.

Yeah, Selig and his goons can all go [expletive] off for what they did to change the draft

Do the stats back that? I know there is a pretty small sample size. I hear people say that he is a great fielder all the time, but is that just because he is fast and hustles? Or is he really a good fielder?

Raisin has our picks up into the teens on post 2 on page 1, I think he said yesterday he's going to be finishing up posting all of our picks with some information on the guys soon. Edit, found his post

I'd love to see a thread on this at some point. How badly do we want the No. 1 overall pick? On the one hand, that's obviously a huge asset. On the other, it would mean that we'd have to be really, really bad the rest of the season, and that means some long-term assets we are hoping will appreciate will have to perform badly. Unless we can somehow manage to suck entirely on the backs of the expendable veterans while Rizzo, Castro, Samardzija dominate. Or we just have to trade Dempster and replace him with someone awful. That'd go a long way, I'd imagine. I think trading some combination of Garza/Dempster/Soriano (at least with how he's playing lately he's really been our only power/production source) is enough to probably make us the worst team in baseball for the rest of the year. It would at least lock up a top 3 pick for us in next years draft, at least I feel pretty confident about that.

if he's completely obliterating the mwl, to the point where he's not getting anything out of playing there, then i'd imagine (or hope) that they'd move him up. but he'd have to be pretty great for that to happen. the other scenario is if daytona makes the playoffs and peoria doesn't (neither will win their league's first half); maybe he gets bumped up for that if there's a need. I selfishly want him to stay at Peoria as I plan on going to Appleton for a game Aug. 18-21 to watch him. That being said, I hope he performs well enough that the sats could suggest he gets a call up at some point.

Would you rather play the Thunder or Spurs?

And if McNutt would stop sucking, that would be nice too

98.1 IP, 105/23 K/BB, 2.84 ERA, 1.30 WHIP Wow, those are some impressive K numbers. What's the deal with this guy?

What's crazy years and money? I could see 5/35, Cespedes got 4/36 (granted Cespedes was more polished/seasonsed/had a better pedigree at the time of signing). I could maybe see as high as 6-7 for 40 being possible. Is he currently 18 or 19? "Crazy" was probably the wrong way for me to put it. Hell, it's not my $$, so I don't really care, especially since the new CBA limits spending... The bidding on Soler isn't affected by the new CBA, still falls under the old one. So teams can offer whatever without being penalized. I wasn't questioning the use of the word crazy you used, just wanted to know what those crazy years/money figures actually are you have seen other places. I haven't seen or been looking for what people are saying he might get.

What's crazy years and money? I could see 5/35, Cespedes got 4/36 (granted Cespedes was more polished/seasonsed/had a better pedigree at the time of signing). I could maybe see as high as 6-7 for 40 being possible. Is he currently 18 or 19?

Does he do anything different when he comes out of the bullpen like throw more or less of a certain pitch? Does he throw more strikes? Does his velo tick up? From what I've heard his velocity goes up a decent amount out of the pen. I've heard up to 95 out of the pen, while he's around 90-91 as a starter. Ok, cool. That's fairly significant. I think at this point his only way to MLB is as a relief pitcher. I guess if they feel they want him to stay a starter in the minors to get more consistent outings, get more pitches in per outing, really focus on something I'm fine with that. But hopefully he's in consideration for a call up next time we are looking to add a bullpen arm from within the system.

If we trade of Demp/Garza/Soriano we could easily get into worst team in baseball bad range, even if we just trade one (with one being demp/garza) or two of them we, likely, get there.