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If the Cubs trade Garza to the Rangers, could it be Profar coming in return or do we need pitching for sure? I ask because I'm not so sure Profar is viewed as elite by some in the game anymore, right or wrong.
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2013-14 International Free Agency Thread
Bryants Disco Ball replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
If he turns out to be a "useful player" like Theriot, nobody is going to care. We can sign that type of player almost every year in free agency for a million bucks. Well, unless it's Ryan Sweeney. He's that exception to the rule thing. -
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I'm not speaking for anyone else, but why would anyone have a problem with Starlin this season? So far he's gone 11-for-36 (.305 avg.) with a home run, two runs scored, a double and two walks in the first eight games.
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Cespedes is the one you can point at and say the FO messed up. I see this a lot, and, I don't know. Is he really that great? I don't lose much sleep over not having Cespedes.
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So we agree that they haven't had some superhuman hit rate on pitchers and we are justified in looking at the pitchers they acquired and forming our own opinions (at least as justified as fans can ever be in this matter)? I don't agree. For the pitchers we are talking about in which none of them were sexy pickups, they are doing real well.
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No, not even a little. Wood, Feldman, Maholm, Villanueva and Gregg HAVE to give you faith they can find under the radar, cheap yet effective pitching options. Volstad, Baker, Fujikawa, Camp and Corpas have told me they are pretty capable of whiffing, too. I'll easily take that percentage when considering they haven't paid any of them huge money. Not to mention on the offensive side, Nate Schierholtz has been a steal. Yeah, I'd say in a very short amount of time they have earned my trust. Of course, they already had it.
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This. Imagine if it was the other way around. I wouldn't be giddy today if our contending team just acquired Scott Feldman. In fact, I'd think we'd all be saying that if that's all we are going to do, then we suck. And then somebody would complain about how we gave up a once touted prospect for Feldman. I'll take lottery tickets, including one guy who still has some potential and was highly thought of just a few years ago, for a back of the rotation guy who wasn't going to be here next year.
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Thank you! From this point forward, it's a brand new season for Starlin Castro.
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I know I'm desperate, but can we get Starlin Fan to change his name to Borbon fan? Seriously. It's time to do whatever stupid thing is possible to get back the old Cassy.
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After 10 years, yeah, you've established a large enough set of data that that's probably a safe assumption. What we're talking about here is an in season ERA that's much lower than previous performance would indicate. Things like an unsustainable HR/FB ratio, a really high strand rate of baserunners, and low K/BB ratio would be dead giveaways that the low ERA isn't sustainable. Those things are factored into FIP and xFIP to give you a more accurate assessment of performance. Gotcha. Makes sense. Thank you.
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OK. I know I'm going to come off stupid, but I haven't totally grasped the whole concept that ERA means nothing. I understand that some circumstances like having a bad defense would possibly inflate an ERA, but doesn't it still somewhat represent the quality of a pitcher and his work? If somebody has a, say, 3.60 ERA or lower each year of a 10-year career, isn't it almost a lock that without looking at anything else, that the guy was probably considered by almost everybody to be a quality pitcher? Again, I'm just looking to become educated. Help me out.
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At least Cassy has 17 doubles. That's pretty good.
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Becky Slater for me. They are sisters, though, so Winnie could come along if she wanted.
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It hit 101 at one point.
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It's really annoying that we might actually have been better off listening to all those "Trade Castro, call up Baez immediately" idiots. Even those idiots didn't think Castro was going to be this bad, though.
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I said about two weeks or so ago that it was time to start thinking about doing so. Now, it's time to actually do it.
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The only good news is that for the people who can't understand how it's possible for the Cubs to go from, let's say 90 losses, to wild card contention next year only have to be told that Carlos Marmol will no longer be here. Screw all the other numbers.
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You said it best a few posts above. Put him back in a closing situation with some pressure, and the dude just melts down. But the thing is, there should have been basically no pressure. He MADE the pressure. It's a horrible team, it's the bottom of their lineup; even after the first HR he's still in the driver's seat and he somehow manages to pitch them out of a victory. 100 percent agree that there shouldn't have been. But I'm not sure Carlos and his head viewed it that way.
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You said it best a few posts above. Put him back in a closing situation with some pressure, and the dude just melts down. Maybe he can have another good season in him. With a different team. In a different year.
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Calm down, guys. If you look at Marmol in between his constant blowups, he's really not that bad. Pathetic.
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Never mind.
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In all seriousness, let's try to do that a few more times here Starlin.
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Good thing you're not the manager. Why? Travis would have gone yard on that meat pitch.
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I'd seriously pinch hit Travis Wood for Starlin right here.