SouthSideRyan

I'm quitting baseball if the Cubs run out a team like davell just posted next year.

I wouldn't trade Dempster for Hughes/Banuelos.

I'd say our 22 year olds are pretty decent, too. Rizzo, Vitters, Lake, Szczur, etc. If either Vitters or Lake could become something close to Headley, especially his road splits. I think we'd all be thrilled. We do have some guys that will be ready to help as soon as 2013, but not enough in terms of quality or quantity that they'll be able contend without some significant external additions. I completely get where Theo and Jed are coming from in not signing free agents to ridiculous contracts or giving up too much in trade, but that doesn't mean that they should just pass on every option that will require spending or trading prospects. This being said, I like Headley and while he would cost a package of 3 young players or prospects, he's not an elite talent and would not require mortgaging the future. As I recall, in the winter when we were in talks, or at least rumors of talks for him, 2 name that came up were James Russell and Darwin Barney. If he were to cost those 2 plus one top 10-15 prospect with us getting one of their top 25-30 back as well, would anyone object? Yes, The San Diego Padres. Why wouldn't it work for us? Russell is our best reliever but he's far from Dennis Eckersley. Barney looks to be a productive player for years to come, but nothing special. As for a top 10-15 from our system, obviously, it wouldn't be a pitcher, because if our 2013 were to be put together today I suspect that the only pitcher on the list would be Maples who I woudlnt give up for him. It would probably include in no order Jackson, Soler, Baez, Almora, Vitters, Lake, Szczur, and perhaps be rounded out by Candelerio and Amaya. Who outside of that group would we refuse to part with for Headley? I also wonder if Volstad would interest him. Petco would be a far better place to reinvent himself than Wrigley. THE PADRES WOULD OBJECT BECAUSE THEY'RE GETTING TERRIBLE VALUE IN RETURN

I'll have what you're drinking/smoking. I don't think you could get 1 guy in the top 80-100 range for him. Unless we're talking about really young high ceiling guys, most teams hope that a top 75-100 pitcher becomes Travis Wood. Yes, so let's trade for one.

Wasnt that the point of not bringing him up until now, and not 2 months ago? Yes

And even as somebody who really likes Barnes's potential, he's not a "Deng replacement"

But SSR has been telling me that Deng has negative value for a long time now. Like a year and a half ago when you guys were trying to trade him straight up for Melo?

But somebody told me it wasn't a bad deal because it hadn't hurt the Phillies yet.

He also has an uglier offensive line than Ha

BENCH HIM TO TEACH HIM A LESSON MILLIONDOLLARARMTENCENTHEADMEAT

His offense needs to make up for all the fly balls that are dropping for hits.

TT and myself both called him out on this, and he abandoned his brilliant plan and moved on to a bizarre FCC tangent, where he continuously got beat over the head with wooden oars. viewtopic.php?f=44&t=56101&p=2394103&hilit=rather+worst+nets#p2394103 I highly recommend it. 3.5 stars.

I'll wait to see if Archer can walk less than 15 guys/9 in the majors before I start regretting giving him up

At the risk of having this post search functioned in October, aren't Utley and Howard worthless at this point?

You lucky son of a bitch.

We're 3-3 in our last 6

@brucemiles2112 DeJesus CF Castro SS LaHair 1B Sori DH Clevenger C Barney 2B Valbuena 3B Johnson RF Campy LF Wells P

Uhhhhh

Not a team player imo

It just so happens that the best basketball players happen to be the best students.

Yousel P-we-eg?

Is that adjusted for park?

A team beating another team 3 games in a row has happened a lot of times in the NBA playoffs. To be clear, those were my odds, not Vegas, I imagine those are closer to 12-15 Its just never happened in the finals What makes the finals unique? no idea. Maybe the switch to the 2-3-2 format? All I know is that teams that go up 3-1 in the finals are 30-0 all time That's not really statistically significant when you'd expect them to be 28-2 all time.

League average for a 3B this year is 255/318/409

A team beating another team 3 games in a row has happened a lot of times in the NBA playoffs. To be clear, those were my odds, not Vegas, I imagine those are closer to 12-15 Its just never happened in the finals What makes the finals unique?