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And that's the end of that chapter.
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SouthSideRyan replied to Transmogrified Tiger's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
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SouthSideRyan replied to Transmogrified Tiger's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
So, Stinnett Tseng Mitchell Sands Blackburn Zastryzny Caratini Vogelbach are all in the top 30. Villanueva and Jeff Baez are not. -
Unless you're talking about corking his bat, you don't know that.
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SouthSideRyan replied to Transmogrified Tiger's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
Wow, I thought we might have only had 6. The actual designation doesn't mean much, but that'd be pretty sweet to see Torres crack it. -
Seriously. Get out.
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Somebody punch Deion in the throat.
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Smoltz is pretty much a lock. http://www.baseballthinkfactory.org/newsstand/discussion/the_2015_hof_ballot_collecting_gizmo/P1000/
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He had backne.
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Sammy's probably getting booted from the ballot for falling below 5%. It's sad.
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Same I barely flinched at Williams or PSH but this one hit me.
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They just purposely acquired Alfredo Simon, so I'm guessing they're ok with him.
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Yeah, I would have liked to hear the justification
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I don't really pay attention to the NFL but it's pretty astounding that Detroit has 1 playoff win ever.
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Whoops, knew I'd screw up one of them.
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Well now you just made me sad looking at our current bench. But you did leave out Denorfia, and presumably somebody in our starting lineup will be joining that bench by May.
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I see 6 teams who could be in the market for a catcher. BOS ATL LAD CHW ARI TEX Boston and Atlanta would be if they don't yet want to turn over the reins to their respective Christians. (And ATL has to be set on moving Gattis either to another team or the OF) LA now employs the GM who ran Jose Molina's anemic bat out there forever due to his pitch framing. The White Sox seemingly still believe in Tyler Flowers. Arizona has absolutely nothing at catcher, but it would seem strange to me that the Montero trade wouldn't have been expanded to include Castillo if they wanted him. Texas started TT's favorite playing at catcher for half the season, but he actually did a cromulent job at it. So we need to rely on teams -Not valuing pitch framing the way we apparently do -Not believing their young catchers are ready -Believing Castillo would be a good mentor to said young catchers -Not seeing Geovany Soto as an equivalent option -Believe that they can be competitive this season to the point that it makes sense to trade prospect(s) for Castillo(Neither Arizona nor Texas have shown any signs of adding pieces this offseason) I'm not optimistic.
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Castillo is replacement level based on the absurd number applied to his pitch framing stats taking away all the value(and then some) of his fWAR. Matt Kemp on the other hand was a 2 win player last year and had a net pitch framing number of exactly 0. You sold Castillo as a guy who can hit lefties well(along with every other right handed bat in MLB) so he could be the weak side of a platoon. How is that not a backup? Equating him to CJ Edwards means you think he's worthy of a top 100 prospect in return, which is crazypants.
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You don't trade pieces of value for a backup catcher.
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http://www.northsidebaseball.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=60112&start=125&hilit=butthurt&p=2700693&view=show#p2700693 http://www.northsidebaseball.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=59904&hilit=butthurt&p=2669371&view=show#p2669371 lol
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The point is the Cubs have no leverage, and unless they can play teams against each other, there's no need for Team X to give in just because we have a guy we think is worse than Dave Ross. Silly is saying the argument is either trade things of value for Castillo or run out John Baker rather than signing Geovany Soto or trading scraps for Carlos Ruiz. ETA: And there were multiple teams vying for Seth Smith.
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Unless there are multiple teams vying for Castillo's services what is the motivation for giving up anything to the Cubs for a guy they clearly want nothing to do with.
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We've been told that Castillo is replacement level because of pitch framing and Travis Wood probably should've been non-tendered.
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I don't believe either of them have any trade value.
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Am I missing what Dakich is going on about? It looks like he's running through a screen
