SouthSideRyan
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I can't imagine how anyone would believe we'd have a full fire sale youth movement. You're seriously talking about a payroll drop of about 75M. There'd be roughly 8 fans at Opening Day -
So sign the 28 year old Fielder. The point is we can have that kind of superstar player again if we're willing to pay them and a combo of Fielder/Wilson without giving away Zambrano makes this team a contender in a really horrid division. It should tell you something about where this team is, when the strongest argument in favor of the Cubs potentially contending next year is that they play in a really horrid division. You never hear "well the Cubs' pitching is terrific" or "the heart of the order is killer" or "look at all the young players entering their prime". It's always, "they might suck less than everyone else". How about focusing on building a team that can contend in any division, even if the process takes more than a year and involves trading a Marshall or a Ramirez for pieces that will be more valuable in the longterm. Wouldn't the strongest argument be that we have one of the best hitters in baseball in this scenario?
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Next 6 years.
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Sox going after Rasmus?
SouthSideRyan replied to Backtobanks's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
It'll be even harder to believe if we're still not in contention for the division in 2012. 6 years minimum -
Why would you want that?
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He can't really be any worse than what gets run out there every other night lately. He's a worse fielder and hitter.
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This would be really dumb.
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It's not like his name is on half of a stupid trophy.
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Don't worry Cardinals fans, I'm sure this is the first in a series of moves.
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Just great, anyone but the White Sox. I don't want to have to worry about facing Frasor in the World Series
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He always gets his man!!
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General 2011 Other Games Thread
SouthSideRyan replied to soccer10k's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
If the ump had correctly called Lugo out, I'm not sure that the Pirates couldn't have turned a double play getting Proctor at first. They would've, Proctor faceplanted coming out of the box. -
Fred
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That 68M number is way off. After this season, we owe him 3/54.
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CJ
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Or Jeff Francouer when he showed he had no ability to tell a ball from a strike as he put up hilariously bad numbers in the major leagues for 3 seasons. Or Brandon Wood who hasn't hit outside the PCL in 6 years. Francoeur's plate discipline alone doesn't preclude him from being a successful player (look at Kemp, Soriano, Crawford, CarGo, Hart, Pence, ...) and Wood's defense at 3B has been good enough he could still hit his AAA MLE of .293 obp/.416 slg and be an above-average player where are you going with this? my central premise was that these guys were underperforming their potential. Alex Gordon had 0.1 WAR the last two seasons, getting oft-demoted and i was (outwardly) hoping like hell we would heavily pursue him That it's a lot easier to see these as guys to pursue in hindsight. Kotchman and Francouer haven't been prospects in a long time. How many major league ABs before a guy is no longer considered a former prospect, and instead is a mediocre major leaguer? (Or worse in Francouer's case.) You've got 2300 major league PAs of 720 OPS from Kotchman and you want to pick him up because BA rated him highly 6 years ago. You've got 3400 major leauge PAs of 730 OPS from Francouer, and you want to pick him because he had a good 250 ABs 7 years ago.
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You'd think a Packers fan would know this.
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That wouldn't make grammatical sense.
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Or Jeff Francouer when he showed he had no ability to tell a ball from a strike as he put up hilariously bad numbers in the major leagues for 3 seasons. Or Brandon Wood who hasn't hit outside the PCL in 6 years. Or Casey Kotchman who had 0.7 total WAR over the past 3 years. (With that 0.7 coming from 1B defense?)
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Wouldn't that make sense?
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I didn't know the Metra ran to African safaris
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Of course Barney's "terrible pitch" was a strike. I can only assume Soriano's was much the same?
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At least we have a smart player up to bat now.
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Minor League Discussion & Boxes 7-26-11
SouthSideRyan replied to Outshined_One's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
Keith Law was starting to throw things at him while he was hitting. I guess utk couldn't make this game?
