SouthSideRyan
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Castro for sure, probably one other. -
http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CHN/CHN199208110.shtml I was 8, and I insisted on staying the entire game.
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viewtopic.php?f=26&t=60739&p=2781570&hilit=gamel#p2781570 Not nearly as clairvoyant, but still.
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viewtopic.php?f=26&t=60754&p=2783374&hilit=backtohendry#p2783374 YOU WILL LISTEN WHEN I SPEAK
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I guess time-traveling gypsies stick together.
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Richmond committed as a freshman after one game, not a sophomore. He was never #1 in his class.
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Minor League Discussion & Boxes 4-12-12
SouthSideRyan replied to Outshined_One's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
2 Ks in 26 PAs in his first taste of AAA = nice. I'm more encouraged by his SSS walk rate -
We haven't been no-hit in like a bajillion years.
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And they've won 100 5 times, so, well, that's nice. So we're more than twice as likely to win 100 than we are to lose 100.
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Obviously a big reason why the Cubs' SRS is so average is because their 6 games have been against the 2nd and 3rd rated teams.
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I tend to agree with that. I'd argue ESPN has played a major role in college basketball's popularity as well. How many games a week would they air back in the early 90s? (Legit question, I have no idea)
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I have no idea how accurate an indicator is (after 6 games probably not at all), but BR's SRS has the Cubs 8th in the NL. Basically they have 4 teams who have been excellent (STL, MIL, WAS, LA) and 4 who've been terrible (HOU, ATL, COL, SF)
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When excellence is the norm it's not impressive. Also, excellent is a pretty big stretch to describe Volstad's start. Dempster, Shark, Dempster
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What are you basing this on?
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Half the Cubs starts were excellent, one was a disaster.
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When we know how terrible they likely are going to be coming in I'm not sure why we can't point it out. It's not like this was a team expected to put up good numbers that has surprisingly underperformed. Do you expect BacktoHendry to talk about the team statline after 7 games if they put up 8 runs today?
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But this proves how good a Cub fan he is, because he knows they'll be historically awful. He just knows man. Too many times! 1969!
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Cubs are 12th in OPS among the 16 NL teams, 60 points below average. I was referencing their numbers through 5 games. I don't calculate up to the minute stats, I just use baseballreference. ETA: HEY!! Maybe when numbers swing that much from one game we shouldn't say how terrible everything is already!
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Their offense has been terrible - .221/.294/.338 The offense has been the worrisome point since this team was put together. Obviously there's some cause for hopw when Brett & Rizzo are recalled, but we're in trouble until that happens. Lahair has been one of the bright spots offensively. I'm Backtobanks and I don't understand relativity. I don't undestand what relativity has to do with my response that the offense sucks after you posted that "they've actually looked good". Because when I posted it, the Cubs were close to a league average offense, but you probably think a league average offense is something like 270/340/450.
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Even with the bleak outlook on this year's team, walk-up sales are a pretty small part of ticket revenue. They sold 34,000 tickets for a Wednesday afternoon game in April when nobody thought the team would be any good.
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Rizzo would have to be putting up about a 1400 OPS to make it necessary to bring him before June 23rd. I don't really care about Super 2 status, so sure, bring up Jackson whenever, but shy of injuries to the OF, there's really nowhere to put him until after he probably gets past super 2 status.
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Third Rail. On Madison just east of Racine. I don't think they have shuttle service but there's a bar across the street, Crossroads that does. I don't know how much they pay attention, but I'd imagine you could finagle your way on to that. It's only a 20 minute walk or so.
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Minor League Discussion & Boxes 4-11-12
SouthSideRyan replied to Outshined_One's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
Wasn't there talk of a deal with TB centered around Jeff Niemann or Wade Davis at one point in the offseason? I'd take it if we could get a decent prospect as well. I swear you try to trade for Wade Davis every week, and I have no idea why. -
If he's ready, I don't think you waste 2 months of big league development for super 2. Super 2 service time changes from year to year too, so it's really not worth it in my opinion.
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lololololol
