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let's hope rogersmetrics doesn't catch on like sabremetrics.

ARod's excellent offense + His excellent defense at SS + His good defense at 3B > Manny's excellent offense + Manny's horrible defense. I'm surprised you think that defense at 3B isn't significant.

Especially from you, I figured you'd weight in A-Rod's defensive ability to determine the best player in the game.

According to the Mike Tirico show.

If Woody is just going to be a middle reliever I don't see the need to sign him.

I'm not so sure it's a salary dump. I still think it's Hendry doing Jacque the favor of trading him. Why make this move before free agents are even eligible to be signed? Couldn't Jacque's trade value increase once the biggest free agent losers look to fill their outfield holes? Couldn't the smaller market teams find interest in a guy in the last year of his contract over signing a similar guy to a 3 or 4 year contract? Why trade a guy from a position of weakness compared to trading him from a position of strength? If the Cubs already had Fukudome signed, then you consider trading Jones, not the other way around. Jones made for a decent back up plan if they didn't find an improvement over Jones. Not sure I follow. You say that it's best to trade a guy from a position of strength (which I agree with), then go on to say that we should have waited til after we signed Fukudome and then traded Jacque? That doesn't make sense. At any rate, even if Hendry traded Jacque at his request... it's still a salary dump. At the end of the day, Hendry has 3 million more than what he started with. Lastly, with Infante now on board, Cedeno becomes even more worthless than he was last year. I wouldn't be surprised if we see him included in a package somewhere. For Crawford maybe? With the Cubs reportedly eating some salary and Infante due for a raise in arbitration, I don't think we'll be gaining that much in salary.

is infante really toolsy or is he as terrible as his stats suggest? and what's the consensus on infante's defense? that'd be the only saving grace of this trade, if infante is an incredible defensive shortstop.

oh that jim hendry.

haha the bengals are still sucky even when winning and shutting out their opponent.

career ops+ of 48, color me unimpressed.

lol buckeyes better to lose today than get humiliated in the national title game again, i guess.

i voted for the best player on the #1 team

Why? because he has nothing left to prove at aaa anymore and he's probably going to put up better numbers than theriot with better defense.

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Team speed....lol. Worked great in 2006, Hendry.

Pitchers are probably more at risk then the coaches. Should they wear helmets too? It's probably only a matter of time, unfortunately, before a major league pitcher is struck and killed by a line drive.

FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT

AYE

i agree with murtonfan it's time we stop these people

he must be REALLY tired of playing baseball.

it's probably just due to writers hating jd drew's complete lack of gritfactor and his hatred of the game of baseball.

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/rumors/post/J-D-Drew-a-good-fit-with-Cubs-?urn=mlb,52283

What happened? hit hard while diving for a catch. assuming a head/neck injury, but it was hard to tell from the replays how severe it was.

chad johnson being taken out in an ambulance :(

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