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  1. SouthSideRyan
    So it's your opinion that despite Flaherty and Guyer being similar hitters, and Flaherty having the ability to play multiple positions passably, that Guyer is the better bet to get more ABs because he only plays LF.
  2. SouthSideRyan
    The odds are very heavily in favor of that being the case. He's 24 years old and has one 100 inning season under his belt. He's never shown any inclination that he can handle a 30/200 type season. What inclination has he shown that he can't?
  3. SouthSideRyan
    I would call Cashner, Flaherty, and Russell solid bets to be league average for their positions. There's a couple others who still have reasonable chances to be that good. i meant more "league average" as a 2-win guy Cashner's bound for the pen, it seems like we're priming Flaherty for utility duty, with how he's been slotted (2B, 3B, LF, SS, RF, 1B), and Russell is replacement level Cashner's bound for a career in the pen already?? And even if this were true (it isn't), relievers can be 2 win players. This will be the 3rd year out of 4 that we've had one on the Cubs. Flaherty can't be league average because he's played different positions in the minors? What's separating him from Brandon Guyer's? Other than Guyer not being in our system? And the fact that Flaherty can play passable defense at something other than LF? Russell as a reliever has been good.
  4. SouthSideRyan
    Can we give our stupid fans to the Nationals so they can make jokes about Strasburg now?
  5. SouthSideRyan
    If you won't take a chance on a recovering drug addict coming off a 685 OPS in Low A ball as a 25 year old in his first 55 professional ABs in 3 years, then why bother having a Rule 5 draft at all??
  6. SouthSideRyan
    No all over.
  7. SouthSideRyan
    can't wait to watch this [expletive] for another three years. Check out these splits: .231/.271/.409/.680 against right handed pitching .333/.380/.606/.986 against lefties (only 66 ABs though) He had similar splits last year (.944 against lefties, .764 against righties) Also, remember the awful year Sori had in 2009 when everyone said he was playing really hurt and it was effecting his hitting (not saying it is or isn't true). His line that year was .241/.303/.423/.726. He's definitely approaching that range this year. Is the run environment approaching that range this year?
  8. SouthSideRyan
    That was PrimeTime.
  9. SouthSideRyan
    I obviously meant to include McNutt. Not a big Cerda fan.
  10. SouthSideRyan
    On the sad flipside, Wilken's drafts for the Cubs have produced -0.2 WAR. On the how bad was John Stockstill side, his last 2 drafts with the Cubs produced -1.8 WAR. Tyler Colvin ('06) was the first first rounder to make the majors since Mark Prior ('01)
  11. SouthSideRyan
    And Sosa's OPS is inflated due to his 2007 when he wouldn't have been under contract to us, while Fontenot's is deflated based on his numbers with the Giants. Plus the nonzero chance Crawford can become a 5th OF. Trashing him to the media by the entire front office and dugout staff certainly didn't help his trade value, however. If they would have just kept that whole thing quiet, maybe they could have gotten slightly more than Fontenot and Hairston. Would they have got him to waive his option that vested upon being traded?
  12. SouthSideRyan
    Except they weren't producing good drafts. You don't think Wilken's produced good drafts? Really? Where did these good prospects we have in our system come from? What good prospects? Yes, it's been 5 years and the Cubs have a mediocre system. 5 years of good drafts would have produced a much better system by now. Agreed. Outside of BJax, McNutt, Szczur, and Cashner, where are all of these good prospects the Cubs have drafted that you speak of? Looking back, '06 is the only draft I really hate. There's a lot of intrigue from the 3 drafts prior to this year. And yeah, lots of franchises have these guys, just saying they were mediocre at worst. 2010 Szczur Reggie Golden Ben Wells Aaron Kurcz Dallas Beeler 2009 Jackson DJL Austin Kirk Robert Whitenack Justin Bour Nick Struck 2008 Cashner Ryan Flaherty Chris Carpenter Jeff Beliveau Logan Watkins
  13. SouthSideRyan
    Maybe if we shorten the season to 2 weeks, Shaq can unretire and be ready to go.
  14. SouthSideRyan
    I'd be more surprised if they start on time than if they cancelled the season.
  15. SouthSideRyan
    You're gonna love when you find out who was the 1 player of those 5 to amount to anything. (What a mess of a sentence) And how the Pirates re-acquired him at their normal trade deadline dump that same year. (despite him doing nothing all season at the major league level. Only to trade him away later for a guy they'd non-tender a month after acquiring him. Sorry Jake.
  16. SouthSideRyan
    I wouldn't worry about breaking down the November portion of the schedule.
  17. SouthSideRyan
    The Cubs could've drafted Albert Pujols. The Cubs could've signed Miguel Cabrera. And the Cubs didn't have the 1st overall pick, they just didn't want anyone in the draft so they traded away the rights to the smartest baseball mind in the world Wayne Krivsky.
  18. SouthSideRyan
    Because morons like 98% of Cubs fans exist, language that shows we didn't miss on Josh Hamilton is necessary. This buffoonery has gone on on this site alone roughly a bajillion times.
  19. SouthSideRyan
    Then every [expletive] GM is a moron for not offering the Cubs 75K so they could draft him. All hail lord Wayne [expletive] Krivsky for he is a true king among men.
  20. SouthSideRyan
    The only problem I had with Lou in the playoffs was playing Fukudome in 2008. He was clearly done for the season, and Fontenot should have been out there. Obviously wasn't the reason we lost though. I wanted Pie in CF and Edmonds in RF, and said as much somewhere on here before the playoffs started.
  21. SouthSideRyan
    Sounds like the topic of the next @thekapman article.
  22. SouthSideRyan
    We haven't had a long-term CF or anything, but the only bad year we've had in CF was '05 Patterson.
  23. SouthSideRyan
    God, our CF situation was just abysmal for the 5-6 years between Lofton and Byrd. I just kind of got used to it. Jimmy will cut you.
  24. SouthSideRyan
    Al Alburquerque has a 2.73 ERA and 47 Ks in 29.2 innings this year for the Tigers. Though he wasn't much of a prospect at the time and he did nothing with the Rockies. FML nevermind then. He was signed as a minor league free agent by Detroit, you might as well fault Hendry for not picking him up in the offseason.
  25. SouthSideRyan
    Being out for the year (or should've been out for the year) vs. the continued nagging injuries he's had in '10 and '11 are 2 different things. 2 wins a year certainly hurts at 18M, but it does mean he has some value, and if we have to eat the majority of his contract as we all assume, it makes it difficult to replace that on the free market. I think it's a mistake to assume Soriano won't get any worse going forward. Where did I do that?
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