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  1. Northside Blues
    Yeah but this earthquake was off the coast of Japan in International waters!
  2. Northside Blues
    Carpenter has had injuries problems as a starter. Not sure it wouldn't hurt.
  3. Northside Blues
    Though with Prior and Wood you were looking at two guys with immense talent that the organization were counting on being able to build around. Obviously, they want Cashner to be a big part of the team's future, but Wells is Wells. Once he starts getting more expensive his value is going to plummet. I meant in terms of the injury developments, not so much the actual affect it'll have on the field. With Wood and Prior there was always mystery around if and when they would return. This already smells like that. How many times did we hear that Prior would be back?
  4. Northside Blues
    So "yeah really" would be bouncing back towards a lovely .325ish OBP? Like I said he's not going to be an offensive blackhole again, but do you really expect him to hit like he did in 2009 or even 2007? I think his career line of .270/.325/.427 is about what you should be expecting him to bounceback to, best case scenario. If he bounces back more, fine. Don't expect it. Keep in mind that Jeff Baker's career line has a higher slugging and OBP than that. Hell his abysmal 2010 is essentially the same.
  5. Northside Blues
    Fixed. Just as shocking.
  6. Northside Blues
    I can sense this being a Prior + Wood saga. When are they coming back? Aren't they supposed to be shutdown and re-evaluated in 15 days? That doesn't sound like the Cubs are even remotely expecting either to be ready to start a Major League game in 15 days. The Cubs are probably preparing for at least a month without them - especially in Cashner's case.
  7. Northside Blues
    .196 BABIP last year. He's about the easiest candidate for a bounceback in the entire league. Not really. He's been useful an entire two years out of his career. He's never been an OBP guy either. I'm not opposed to acquiring him or anything. He's at worst better than Barney obviously, but I don't think he's a slam dunk bounceback.
  8. Northside Blues
    pfft, im hoping for the second coming of arky vaughan!
  9. Northside Blues
    Will he be done with his rehab by then?
  10. Northside Blues
    Yes?
  11. Northside Blues
    Because that approach worked so well with Corey Patterson.
  12. Northside Blues
    "face high fastball"
  13. Northside Blues
    Yet he still gave up a bunch of runs! Death to statistics!
  14. Northside Blues
    yeah because the cubs lack of success against them from 1998-2008 is going to have such a large impact on their success this year. We had better watch out for Schilling and Johnson.
  15. Northside Blues
    Kaz Matsui did it THREE years in a row. They were also his first three years in the bigs. 2004 http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/ATL/ATL200404060.shtml 2005 http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CIN/CIN200504040.shtml 2006 http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/SDN/SDN200604200.shtml The third year was actually an inside the parker.
  16. Northside Blues
    relief. that's a little over 1 million usd. Good for him. I wanted better quotes. I WANT MORE ICHIRO QUOTES.
  17. Northside Blues
    I could be wrong, but I'm not expecting him to be one of the better hitters in the lineup. He stands a pretty decent chance of being our 6th or 7th best hitter. Seriously?? He was our 6th best hitter last year....and that was ahead of Aramis Ramirez and Derrek Lee (Pena now) who he's not better than. He had a lower OPS+ than Soto, Fukudome, Soriano, Colvin and Byrd. He also had a lower one than Carlos Pena, though he was not a Cub. He'll probably have a lower one than Ramirez, as Castro's OPS+ last year was beat by Ramirez every year from 2003-09.
  18. Northside Blues
    Oh Christ, what was I typing. I obviously meant Ramirez.
  19. Northside Blues
    Yup, and much like Jake, Max strikes me as more of an AL player. I know Boston had their eye on him at one point but I don't know what their 25th man situation looks like. Didn't we claim Fox off of waivers from Boston?
  20. Northside Blues
    Yeah hes going to be monitored closely there. No surprise really. With Prior it's probably not so much a question of whether or not he can get major league hitters our with even crappy stuff, but a question of can he pitch on back to back days, can he loosen up quickly enough to come into a pressure situations. You don't need to be in an advanced league to learn those things.
  21. Northside Blues
    Yeah, and Jake Fox has 10 homers this spring. Ten.
  22. Northside Blues
    There's so much behind the scenes stuff, especially during an ownership change, that it's very hard for someone outside the circle to know really how good of a GM Hendry is. We can criticize him all we want, but we really don't know what the Padres were asking for from us for Gonzalez. We don't know if, say, Adam Dunn or Rafael Furcal didn't really want to sign with the Cubs and would have required more money than his worth. We don't know if Baker put a ton of pressure on Hendry to go out and get a leadoff hitter (ie Juan Pierre), so he did. (Really isn't a GM's job more or less to put his manager in a position to succeed and get the players he feels he can win with?). And regarding Soriano, I really dont think it's all Hendry. It's hard to bitch and groan (at Hendry) about the signing when there are rumors like this.
  23. Northside Blues
    Imagine if he ends up being successful, makes it back to the Yankees, becomes a fixture in the bullpen and wins the WS. People will make movies about his fall, comeback and redemption. and what if he replaces Rivera...then they certainly will make movies about him. that's a lot of what if's, but I'm certainly rooting for him and will be rooting for the yankees when he's there much like I did when Wood was there.
  24. Northside Blues
    To be fair, I don't think the Milton Bradley contract was that bad. He gave 3 yrs 30 mil to a guy coming off a .321/.436/.563 season who hit a combined .295/.391/.488/.879 the previous six seasons that was only 30 years old. It was a gamble on a guy with his character faults, yes, but had Bradley actually performed the way one would expect him to his character faults probably would never have been an issue. Soriano's contract was a bad contract. Grabow's contract was a bad contract. Bradley's has turned out to be bad in retrospect but hindsight is always 20/20. I'd much rather give out a relatively small contract to a bad apple than giving out a ridiculously long and expensive one to a good apple who is no more than average.
  25. Northside Blues
    hahaha silva's a loser. what a jerk. i hope he never gets another job and is robbed by someone for every last dime he makes. my lord.
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