Jump to content
North Side Baseball

SouthSideRyan

Old-Timey Member
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    48,494

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    3

 Content Type 

Profiles

Joomla Posts 1

Chicago Cubs Videos

Chicago Cubs Free Agent & Trade Rumors, Notes, & Tidbits

2026 Chicago Cubs Top Prospects Ranking

News

2023 Chicago Cubs Draft Picks

Guides & Resources

2024 Chicago Cubs Draft Picks

The Chicago Cubs Players Project

2025 Chicago Cubs Draft Pick Tracker

Blogs

Events

Forums

Store

Gallery

Everything posted by SouthSideRyan

  1. SouthSideRyan
    And Sandberg isn't the best 2B of all time.
  2. SouthSideRyan
    Off the top of my head, I'd imagine pitchers who bulked up would have a higher attrition rate than hitters due to the stress throwing a baseball puts on your arm, compared to swinging a bat and running the bases.
  3. SouthSideRyan
    Brenly was a coach under Dusty Baker on the Giants according to his wikipedia page. I'd rather a guy study under Terry Bevington
  4. SouthSideRyan
    Good point. I can see it more for position players than relievers, I guess. I think I just found it odd because of what I think of when I hear overpaid. If a reliever is overpriced he's likely in his 30s, not still in arbitration years coming off of a leg injury his braindead organization made him play through.
  5. SouthSideRyan
    Was he really the most likely candidate for the job? I wouldn't have thought they had him at the head of the line even before this outing. I have no idea who they'll pick. They seem to be following their plan to put Z back in the bullpen. Cashner probably would be determined to not be stretched out either. Marshall's certainly not going to move. It will probably come down to one of Diamond, Jackson, Samardzija, or Atkins. Atkins would be the dumbest choice of the 4, so I'll bet on that.
  6. SouthSideRyan
    White Sox? I can't even see anyone claiming him on waivers. If Alex Rios can be picked up on waivers, anything is possible. Z's owed like twice as much annually as Rios was
  7. SouthSideRyan
    Larry Dierker is the success story in that regard. Brenly wasn't a good manager, but he did win a world series without prior experience.
  8. SouthSideRyan
    It's a good thing Cashner is stablizing the bullpen. Far more important than him starting somewhere.
  9. SouthSideRyan
    I listed Lake (and Rhee) as my most highly anticipated prospects this year so screw you guys
  10. SouthSideRyan
    Another game to these [expletive] bums
  11. SouthSideRyan
    Something about Brett Myers being afraid to bunt like his wife is afraid of him coming home after a few beers
  12. SouthSideRyan
    They only lost one player from last year's team but he soaked up a lot of minutes that they were counting on Coble to take on. They should be able to make it to the NIT based on beating up the absolute garbage in the bottom of the conference. The Big Ten will probably have the best top 4 in the country, and the worst bottom 4 (of power conferences; yes worse than DePaul +3)
  13. SouthSideRyan
    That's a gut punch. I think Northwestern was pretty safely in the tourney with Coble.
  14. SouthSideRyan
    To be fair, Jordan is stuck with Charlie Sheen on his team.
  15. SouthSideRyan
    So will they give it to OU or just not award one for that year? USC is just going to tell everyone they're the national champs anyway just like they did to LSU in '03
  16. SouthSideRyan
    Damnit, today would have been the perfect day for Lilly to have been dealt, as we could have slid Jay right into the start tonight...... Wouldn't the same be true 5 days from now?
  17. SouthSideRyan
    I think you're underselling the potential of our minor leaguers from the Pacific Rim
  18. SouthSideRyan
    How? If a player agrees to waive the NTC once, I don't believe he waives it forever. i.e. agreeing to being traded from the Cubs to the Yankees doesn't mean the Yankees can then trade him wherever they want.
  19. SouthSideRyan
    Only if you don't count last year's contract year where had his worst season since he was 19.
  20. SouthSideRyan
    If I'm not mistaken, we have the longest streak of not being no-hit.
  21. SouthSideRyan
    And also stop acting like a petulant child and stomping around all pissed off on the mound when he gets squeezed by the ump. Z is the very embodiment of the term "Million Dollar arm, ten cent head." I'd love if this phrase was banned forever.
  22. SouthSideRyan
    So the Cardinals aren't planning on re-signing Albert Pujols then?
  23. SouthSideRyan
    That's not really the reason. That's like saying dollars are worth more than yen because dollars come in denominations of up to $100 and and Yen up to 10,000. The scale has nothing to do with it. And if you were to figure out your net worth by adding your total US$ to your total yen, the yen would be overvalued
  24. SouthSideRyan
    Can someone reference something that I can read as to why this is. I've seen the argument made lots of times - but never read anything indepth. It comes down to outs being the most important thing, most specifically not making them. I get that, but, you can't avoide making them - it is impossible - a team is going to make an out roughly 66% of time. You are obviously going to have stretches where a team is going to do much better than that but its going to even out in the end. That's probably the one certainty in baseball - outside the home half of the 9th and beyond you are going to make 3 outs. In my head - which is why I am looking for some reading material - what you do with the "non-outs" is more important than simply making one or not making one. But not every team does make outs 66% of the time. Getting on base 35.5% of the time like the Yankees have this year makes a big difference compared to the Astros getting on 29.6% of the time.
  25. SouthSideRyan
    He's eating innings you guys
×
×
  • Create New...