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  1. SouthSideRyan
    Corey's never going to be a good OBP player. His value is from providing a power bat with good defense at a premium position. 320/450 is what you hope for if you take a shot on Patterson. .338 in AAA doesn't project to .320, though. He's never been able to consistently get his OBP up to the bare respectability that would let his defensive and power add value, and I don't think .338 in AAA is projecting to him doing it. I said 320 is what you hope for. You should expect something like 300/400 which isn't bad for a 5th OF.
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    I like this. Yep, going to a place with a much better coach than he had in Waukegan. I'm more concerned with him playing top level talent every game, so he can come in and be a beast from day 1. I don't think that is as big an issue now as it used to be because of the AAU tournys. It won't hurt either though. I admit to not having seen AAU basketball,(at least in its current form) but I think of it as more of a showcase for talents, than a teaching exercise in the game of basketball. Playing team basketball against top competition is I think a much better learning environment than AAU. This is definitely a stereotype, and possibly a misrepresentation of AAU ball though.
  3. SouthSideRyan
    I like this. Yep, going to a place with a much better coach than he had in Waukegan. I'm more concerned with him playing top level talent every game, so he can come in and be a beast from day 1.
  4. SouthSideRyan
    I like this.
  5. SouthSideRyan
    Corey's never going to be a good OBP player. His value is from providing a power bat with good defense at a premium position. 320/450 is what you hope for if you take a shot on Patterson.
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  7. SouthSideRyan
    Cause fire and emotion good things to crave when a team is struggling. When they actually happen then everyone's out of control.
  8. SouthSideRyan
    So what? Philly is within an hour of much of Northern New Jersey, but there aren't many Philly fans up there. Probably because the Yankees have existed for the last 109 years.
  9. SouthSideRyan
    What? Why?
  10. SouthSideRyan
    Dave Kaplan knows les than I do, and I don't know [expletive].
  11. SouthSideRyan
    I know Oakland's stadium is ass, but they've also got a winning tradition and a good team. Maybe there's a disconnect between what we're thinking for drawing. Barring a perennial contender(which what 3 teams can consider themselves?) I don't see the Nats pulling more than 2.5M per even in their best years. It's a terribly located mediocre park in a city full of transplants, and if they aren't transplants, they've already had a franchise within an hour of them for the past 55 years.
  12. SouthSideRyan
    I'd take Ryan Freel 10 times out of 10 over Gathright.
  13. SouthSideRyan
    Fox can't play 3rd base. Either Fox, Hill, or Soriano is going to be playing the infield shortly.
  14. SouthSideRyan
    Guess Fox will be playing 3B
  15. SouthSideRyan
    What are you basing this on? It's a metro area about the size of Oakland/San Fran. Oakland won throughout the early 00s and couldn't draw. And they had 30 years of established fanbase. The Nationals are trying to build a fanbase as a 2nd banana in a non-huge market full of transplants.
  16. SouthSideRyan
    They attendance was 11th in the NL in their first season. It's a fair criticism when a team can't draw [expletive] in their first season in a city.
  17. SouthSideRyan
    He's sucked in May.
  18. SouthSideRyan
    If Hendry wasn't satisified with Dusty, he probably shouldn't have let him manage the 2nd half of a lost season.
  19. SouthSideRyan
    Because then we'd have to live with Uggla at 2B.
  20. SouthSideRyan
    It's part of the Cub front office stubbornness/arrogance.
  21. SouthSideRyan
    Nobody is trading actual pieces for Mitch Atkins or Kevin Hart, or any other AAA pitcher we have besides Samardzija.
  22. SouthSideRyan
    Or move it to the fantasy sports thread.
  23. SouthSideRyan
    I think Dre Henley is getting really overrated.
  24. SouthSideRyan
    Hopefully it lights a fire under Hendry to try and get approval of it from the Trib/Ricketts and to re-start things with Towers. Like it was already mentioned it gives guys like Ascanio, Wells and Patton a little more time up to prove something and maybe makes 1 of them a little more attractive in a trade. The only thing that would "light a fire" under Hendry would be a 20-foot tall pile of donuts. Seriously? Take it easy pot.
  25. SouthSideRyan
    But you know what else is a joke? Suspensions given to Cubs' players. You just know they'll make an example of Z and give him 7 or 8 games or something to force a missed turn in the rotation. You just KNOW it. I think Z's getting off easy if he gets single digits. He chucked a ball to the warning track and kicked the umpire out of the game.
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