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  1. SouthSideRyan
    There isn't. Any player/front office amenities need to go in a different building/underground. At that point aren't you spending a bazillion dollars and still not getting something that's properly functional? It's not like a guy warming up to pinch hit can quick run across the street to use the batting cage. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought one of the main points of the triangle building would be moving the FO space and as much as the non-baseball/fan space over there as possible. You are correct.
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    There isn't. Any player/front office amenities need to go in a different building/underground.
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    The minor league gurus can correct me if I'm wrong but I think we had 4 players (Lee, Jackson, Vitters, McNutt) in the top 100 before the Garza trade. We gave up Lee, so that would leave us with 3 top 100 prospects. No we don't have elite prospects, but we have very good prospects and many more encouraging ones coming up. Vitters fell out of the top 100. I'd be stunned if Jackson, McNutt and Szczur weren't there next year. I expect at least 2 of them to be top 50. (Jackson and McNutt were this past season)
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    We wouldn't be having this problem if we just kept Les Walrond
  5. SouthSideRyan
    I think I'm more interested in hearing the fogey reaction to it than I am actually seeing it.
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    The way the rows are structured down there, there aren't many people sitting in the catchable area. Maybe 50-50 shot somebody else gets a hand on it before Alou.
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    Yes.
  8. SouthSideRyan
    Cashner becoming a closer is probably my #1 reason to not trade Marmol.
  9. SouthSideRyan
    Kevin Collins
  10. SouthSideRyan
    Just another doubter for Justin Bour to prove wrong. I have little doubt Bour makes a run at Bonds, but he's only in High A Ball.
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    Their theoretical ceilings say nothing about how easy it will be to get above average production in 2012. The Cubs have Carlos Pena and tons of cash. Those two options are at least as likely to result in above average production at 1B in 2012. Nobody was talking about filling the void(s) from outside. The fact that we have 4 or 5 guys at AA or higher who could wind up as above average 2B doesn't make it more likely they can produce at an above average rate in 2012?
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    He should've been Chris Wilburry
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    He has been for a month and a half. They started out toward the top of that list, have been plummetting, and will go even lower once Utley registers enough PA to bump their totals. The Cubs sucked at 2B in 2009 and 2010. They could easily be on their way to sucking at 2B in 2011. There is no way you can claim they will easily fill 2B with above average production next year. That is a baseless comment. I said easiest, not necessarily easily. The Cubs prospects may bust. That doesn't mean they should block them because they're afraid of that happening. The Cubs have to identify areas that they can get cheap average to above average production at. Right now, 2B seems to be the top of the list in that department. They have close to 5 legitimate options there to start next season. And it's going to be pretty hard for the Cubs to drop much further in the rankings. Philly will pass them, but everybody else behind them is way behind them. Again, it's a baseless comment. I could say 1B will be the easiest to fill with above average production. That would be a false comment. I don't see what's so hard to understand. We have 4 or 5 guys(Barney, LeMahieu, Gonzalez, Flaherty, Lake) approaching major league ready who have ceilings as above average 2B. We have zero first basemen.
  14. SouthSideRyan
    I don't think the average baseball fan (read: moron) is going to care about spending money in the draft.
  15. SouthSideRyan
    You'd have to be one hell of a believer in Welington Castillo's 125 PAs this season. Yes, he's tearing the cover off the ball at AAA, but he's also coming off a season where he OBPd 317. Sure Geo did the same thing when he repeated as a 24 year old, but we're really really lucky that happened. You can't bank on that happening again. I'm all for Castillo being on the big league roster next year, but not at the expense of Soto.
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    It's not an implication, it's an assumption based on the previous post. I haven't really followed the Cubs closely in several years, so unfortunately I don't know Matt Garza of the Cubs from Joey Garza of the Larry McMurtry novel "Streets of Laredo." Regardless of whether Matt Garza is marginal, sub-marginal, or a budding superstar, I still stand by the basic premise that if you have young players who, regardless of how much raw talent they posess, will never develop into major league performers of any caliber under your system, you are probably better off trading them for the 25th man on your roster than keeping them around. Unless the 25th man you want to trade for has a miserable contract that will tie up half of your budget for several years. In that case you are better off keeping your prospects until they burn out and hiring them to sell programs at Wrigley. I don't understand any of this post. If prospects aren't going to be good trade them for guys who will do something.
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    EVERY GROUNDBALL'S AN ADVENTURE!!
  18. SouthSideRyan
    This is just blatant Roast-baiting.
  19. SouthSideRyan
    what, no for upsides: Trout – Cesar Cedeno Harper – Josh Hamilton + health Maybe Cedeno when he first came up. I'm guessing Trout isn't planning on peaking at 22.
  20. SouthSideRyan
    I'd go Johnson Castro Ramirez Soriano Baker Soto Montanez Fukudome LeMaiheu
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    What? No.
  22. SouthSideRyan
    If your baseball team had 2 elite prospects you would choose to not use a toilet? What a baffling thing to say. Constajaculation
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    http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r71/bcvm22/sigzeon/soto_lol.png Hilarious. I saw that on SportsCenter. Soto laughing after Guillen kicked his catcher's mask was amazing. Did the broadcast show a good view on whether or not that ball actually rolled foul? In the highlights I just watched on MLB.com, it was a field level view and it looked like the ball was right on the edge of the plate, but I couldn't tell. They eventually did a freeze frame of the play, and it looked like part of the ball was on the plate which made it a good call. Didn't matter to Drinkin' Bill Melton. Still swore the ball was foul.
  24. SouthSideRyan
    I don't want Mark Cuban to be the owner of a team we'll be competing against.
  25. SouthSideRyan
    Kaplan's fuming inside that Zambrano didn't get into a fight
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