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1000 PAs later and we still have to pretend like Justin Smoak is a thing. -
Where are they now: Todd Walker edition.
SouthSideRyan replied to vance_the_cubs_fan's topic in General Baseball Talk
He does have a certain Tom Brady-esque look about him. -
Dale Sveum to re arrange the deck chairs
SouthSideRyan replied to Little Slide Rooter's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
My point is that Trumbo has been spectacularly lucky to put up the numbers he has, and is very unlikely to continue anywhere close to where he has performed thus far. Scioscia also couldn't live without Jeff Mathis until he had his toy taken away from him. He's a giant meatball jock doofus. -
Yes, yes, lowering ticket prices this year will make fans appreciate it that much more when they skyrocket when the team gets good again. It's just smart business is all
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Thanks. And it's true that LD% takes hard and soft line drives into account, however all types of line drives (hard and soft) have a 75% chance to land for a hit, according to the Hardball Times. I know you weren't arguing the point, but I thought I'd clarify that either a hard or soft line drive still has a much better chance of falling in for a hit than a flyball or groundball. But he hits nothing but soft line drives or something.
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I've never seen such abhorrent taste in women come pouring out of a person in a 24 hour period.
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The leadoff double took third on Barney's groundout to short. He probably took a few leadoffs during the AB too
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Wow, Cubs fans are much more attractive in Chicago.
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He's going to have to be moved off of SS at 26???????????
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I'm sure I could find a post-clinch lineup from '08 that is worse, along with tons of lineups from '06 in about 5 minutes but why bother?
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Where are they now: Todd Walker edition.
SouthSideRyan replied to vance_the_cubs_fan's topic in General Baseball Talk
Girl from work and the girl who cuts my hair (and his, so, yeah...) both love him. -
Way to go Barney you stupid jerk.
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Minor League Discussion & Boxes 5-22-12
SouthSideRyan replied to Outshined_One's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
bWAR has him 16th out of 30. (7 guys drafted below him ranking better, 4 guys drafted ahead of him ranking worse.) That seems to sum up our 1st round draft picks quite nicely. A look how smart we are you nerds attitude. -
Both are too far away for me to take just them for Castro. Throw in Weiters/Jones + Matusz for the hell of it and I'd think about it. I don't WANT to deal Castro, but Machado is 19 and OPSing over .800 in AA and we all know what bundy's doing. My guess is both hit the majors next year. And Machado has less than 200 PAs above A ball, and Bundy has 30 innings all at A ball. I'm not saying TINSTAAP, but I'd like to see guys perform at a higher level before trading away a 22 year old all-star SS under team control for 4.5 more years.
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Assuming the run environment is static? 330/400/540 You're assuming one heck of a progression in patience. He is 22 years old. It's his sixth year of playing organized baseball.
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Assuming the run environment is static? 330/400/540
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**** you. Ha, I remember that comment like it was yesterday. I was also at that game. I bought 100 level seats for that game the day before from cubs.com for like 30 bucks. My white sox fan friend insisted on going to watch his first start.
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Ideally they would have better hitters right now who could fit the bill in the middle of the order and allow him to hit somewhere else. Down the line, I see no reason why he couldn't be the type of hitter to rely on everyday in that spot for years and years. If the 2, 3, 4 in 2015 was Jackson, Castro, Rizzo, that could be pretty cool Personally, I'd want to see Jackson and Castro slid up one spot each and #3 filled with awesome player to be named later, or Rizzo slid up and #4 filled by awesome player to be named later. That would also be nice, but Castro could very easily be a 900 OPS type hitter in his prime and awesome enough in his own right. Do you see Castro as a 30+ home run hitter with a decent amount of walks without significantly raising his strikeouts? That is probably what it would take to get to .900, and while I think it's possible for Castro to get there, I don't see it as being very likely. The power will almost certainly improve as he gets into his prime and hopefully some walks will follow, but that's a large jump for him to take. Why couldn't the strikeouts rise in conjunction with a rise in LD%?
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Not just anti Pac-12, but pro ACC?
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Sentences should pretty much never start this way when talking about baseball.
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They also couldn't afford the 8/152 contract he was about to sign. He was also in danger of eating himself out of the league.
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Beckett also had 2 full years of team control left, was injury prone and if he was on the Cubs people on here would say he was more of a #2-3.
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Walker has 39 innings above A ball and Hernandez is signed through 2014 at an average of 19.75M/year.
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You people don't deserve Starlin Castro Woe are we the self-hating Cubs fans, we haven't developed a position player since Mark Grace(God I love him, never wore batting gloves, slumpbuster lol, we should give him a shot as manager instead of bunt-loving Sveum!) Hey!! We've developed a position player since Mark Grace! Now imagine if we had 2 of them...what if...we trade the one, and then we'll have 2!!
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All I really want for Castro is something like a guy who put up a 1.000 OPS at AA at the age of 20 while playing SS. That's really the type of player we need to build our team around going forward.
