WeGotWood98
-
Posts
34 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Content Type
Profiles
Joomla Posts 1
Chicago Cubs Videos
Chicago Cubs Free Agent & Trade Rumors, Notes, & Tidbits
2026 Chicago Cubs Top Prospects Ranking
News
2023 Chicago Cubs Draft Picks
Guides & Resources
2024 Chicago Cubs Draft Picks
The Chicago Cubs Players Project
2025 Chicago Cubs Draft Pick Tracker
Blogs
Events
Forums
Store
Gallery
Everything posted by WeGotWood98
-
Minor League Discussion & Boxes 8-28-11
WeGotWood98 replied to Outshined_One's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
As far as Baez: - On draft day I compared his scouting reports to a young Aramis Ramirez. Cocky, arrogant, athletic, great bat speed, easily line drives, potentially big power... - That said, after SS he should be tried at 2B. - Then 3B. -
Justin Verlander earns 20th win.
WeGotWood98 replied to Little Slide Rooter's topic in General Baseball Talk
Meh on actually going out and getting Matt Kemp. COF pretending to be a CF so he can get CF money. It's not even that he's not a good or very good player, but I think the Cubs can do better. In fact, I see that BJ Upton is a FA in the same season as Kemp. Now that's a CF that plays CF extremely well year in and year out, and he's got a bat himself. Kemp is the better offensive player, but I don't think the gap is so overwhelmingly huge. Plus if you're paying for a CF, why not pay for someone who's really good at playing CF defensively? -
This is the same group of people that want to see this perfect, infallible, touted group of young players we can officially classify as worthy, so they ignore that the team is a CF away from producing their whole up the middle group. If you don't like Barney as a 2B, there's two other guys in the minors who might be next year's 2B. Jackson could be next year's CF by June. They'll also ignore that the team has built the whole bullpen, a strength, and will lose the worst and only non-homegrown arm this offseason. This is the perfect time for the Cubs to add an elite outside talent, especially an offensive power bat. The offense this year wasn't all that terrible, but statistcally they lagged behind in power and weren't good enough in AVG/OBP to overcome that. Add a Fielder/Pujols and the Cubs have an easily above average offense. Get some solid pitching and that could lead to something. Either way, it's a great point to build from once all that elite pitching potentially hits the FA market after the 2012 season.
-
This is the same group of people that want to see this perfect, infallible, touted group of young players we can officially classify as worthy, so they ignore that the team is a CF away from producing their whole up the middle group. If you don't like Barney as a 2B, there's two other guys in the minors who might be next year's 2B. Jackson could be next year's CF by June. They'll also ignore that the team has built the whole bullpen, a strength, and will lose the worst and only non-homegrown arm this offseason. This is the perfect time for the Cubs to add an elite outside talent, especially an offensive power bat. The offense this year wasn't all that terrible, but statistcally they lagged behind in power and weren't good enough in AVG/OBP to overcome that. Add a Fielder/Pujols and the Cubs have an easily above average offense. Get some solid pitching and that could lead to something. Either way, it's a great point to build from once all that elite pitching potentially hits the FA market after the 2012 season.
-
I mega-loathe this kind of talk. The Cubs are not the A's or the Twins, they are a major market and can afford to develop the farm system and imrpove the major league team at the same time. It's really mind-boggling that there are people who call themselves "Cubs fans" who think the Cubs have to do one or the other. Not true, the Cubs can do both and they should do both. The people I talk to who believe this crap don't think we shouldn't spend at all, they think we should wait until the prospects are all up and producing them somehow go on one huge off season spending spree that fills all our holes in just that one off season. There's clearly a bit of delusion going on there. Those are the same people that ignore that the Cubs have developed at least half of the up the middle portion, and have their best prospect depth at the other two. They're looking for something more obvious, maybe. Hell, the Cubs have built their whole bullpen internally once Grabow is gone. Honestly, given the resources this team has this is the perfect time to add a big time outside talent. It's mostly a matter of convincing the big time outside talents of that IMO.