SouthSideRyan
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Hey, if guys always having career years turned into success why didn't Bryan LaHair and Dempster lead the '12 Cubs to success? -
And the previous year's game 3 starter fell off the face of the Earth before the first month was over. It's not enough that Hendry oversaw the worst run of 1st round picks this Earth has ever seen, now we need to tear down the best Cubs team of the last 80 years so we can excuse the flaming ball of garbage the organization is today.
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His teams were highly flawed because he had no interest in finding players that could get on base. The one truly good team he built (2008) was built on a bunch of career years. The good teams he built on paper (2004 specifically) were ruined by his hand-picked manager. He wasn't very good (although certainly not the worst, as some made him out to be at the time). Although it seems many on this board are suddenly pining for an 80-win juggernaut with a huge payroll. Hendry was pretty good at those. Those "bunch of career years" being the middle IF and Dempster? While not technically a career year, getting what we got out of Edmonds was obscenely lucky, FWIW. I'm still not sure what the hell that was. Also, while not really career years, we did manage to get good-for-them seasons out of pretty much everyone. Ok, but those guys were in their prime putting up the types of seasons you'd expect. It's not like they were an out of nowhere '89 Cubs team. They were a great team on paper.
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His teams were highly flawed because he had no interest in finding players that could get on base. The one truly good team he built (2008) was built on a bunch of career years. The good teams he built on paper (2004 specifically) were ruined by his hand-picked manager. He wasn't very good (although certainly not the worst, as some made him out to be at the time). Although it seems many on this board are suddenly pining for an 80-win juggernaut with a huge payroll. Hendry was pretty good at those. Those "bunch of career years" being the middle IF and Dempster?
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I wouldn't use the term "crippling," but he did leave a mess behind. A lot of what he did wasn't so much harmful as wasteful. Aaron Miles and John Grabow are some examples of spending money for no other reason then because it was there. And those NTCs hurt toward the end. The farm system was in complete disarray when he left. I'm still not quite sure why he allowed Hayden Simpson to happen on his watch. Oh did those NTCs hurt toward the end? Which of them do you think hurt the most? The one that didn't matter since Soriano had 10-5 or the one that didn't matter since Dempster had 10-5. I can never quite decide.
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You already promised me I could call your wife ugly. You can't change the deal to farting on your heart.[/quote You'd be too afraid to talk to her anyway
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I dunno, are you talking about the 8 million guys who wound up sucking after putting up that line or the 3 that didn't? to be fair to neely (wait, why did you see his post, lol), there aren't 8 million guys who had olt's pedigree/prospect status. He had like 8 of the last 15 posts, I had to check.
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I dunno, are you talking about the 8 million guys who wound up sucking after putting up that line or the 3 that didn't?
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Minor League Discussion & Boxes 5-13-14
SouthSideRyan replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
I just don't get Baez -
That happens when you hit more flyballs than groundballs and have a LD% of 10 None of which is sustainable. Flyballs will come down, LD% will come up, HRs will come down, BABIP will go up. So he'll hit less HRs and more singles. Yay?
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That happens when you hit more flyballs than groundballs and have a LD% of 10
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If he qualified, he would have the lowest LD% in the majors.
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Minor League Discussion & Boxes 5-12-14
SouthSideRyan replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
I can't believe he's been at AA for so long, I don't understand. I'd love to see him jump AAA and go to the majors. His approach isn't going to get exploited by veteran minor leaguers. I'm guessing they want to keep a major league vet as one of the catchers and Luis Flores has an even more hilarious .351/.547/.432 aided by his 16/3 BB/K -
Sorry Sulley, Olt still sucks, and your wife is a doll
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Hopefully it'll get him kicked out of the league.
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Because the batter isn't sacrificing himself
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I'm not going to catch those AIDS by watching am I?
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Draft pitchers from cold weather areas
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I got it
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I'd like to see Olt bring his LD% higher than worst in the majors before getting too sold on him.
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[expletive] fantastic
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Luckily all of our OFs suck, so if any of our guys Marreroed it won't matter.
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It looks likely that TOR pitchers will be available for nothing but money 3 offseasons in a row.
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God, this [expletive] sucks. It happened to a player on a Jeff Loria owned team. It's glorious.
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Minor League Discussion & Boxes 5-12-14
SouthSideRyan replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
Now fix that K rate and trim those sideburns.
