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  1. Gilby
    Levine said recently that the Cubs view Valbuena as a prospect. It wouldn't shock me if they think he's the starting 3B next season. There just aren't a lot of great choices, and I'm of the opinion Vitters will be traded.
  2. Gilby
    Javy is 0-3 with 2 K's to start tonight. I suppose you could spin his struggles in Daytona into a positive, but I was hoping we had a fast mover on our hands. Now I question if he'll see Tennessee next year. Not panicking, but just more of an "aw shucks."
  3. Gilby
    Wow I was butchering the pronunciation of Bianchi's name in my head when he was the member of the Cubs 40 man for a few weeks last offseason.
  4. Gilby
    This is the high point of the season.
  5. Gilby

    2013

    Gilby replied to tspain's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk

    Yeah the reality is that we're posting on message boards and he's had a long-time career on many levels of baseball, but in you go ahead and keep believing that you're smarter than he is and he's just been lucky all of his life. So you think that Jim Hendry is definitely smarter than everyone else in the world because he's had that career? Or at least smarter than everyone posting on message boards and not working in baseball? He made some awful decisions, and a lot went wrong for him, but the fact is that there are 30 MLB GM jobs, and a ton of guys that would love to take them, and I'm not just talking about message board posters and radio callers here. Anyone who managed to hold down one of the the most sought after jobs in sports for as long as Hendry did suggests that he was clearly doing a lot of things right, though we might not know just what. We know that he acquired the two cornerstones of the team for basically the last 7-8 years for peanuts.
  6. Gilby

    2013

    Gilby replied to tspain's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk

    Jim Hendry wasn't terrible. I'd definitely take Theo or Jed alone over him, but Hendry is better than guys who currently hold GM positions.
  7. Gilby
    Soler rips an RBI single his first AB.
  8. Gilby
    He has been bad, but this was probably his best game. Two hard line drives to CarGo and a fly out to the warning track in CF.
  9. Gilby
    :lol: 1st and 3rd with 0 outs. If he gets caught, the run at 3rd can still score without a hit. If the catcher makes an error on the throw, it's an easy run. That's like the ideal time to run. It's not stupid because it didn't work.
  10. Gilby

    2013

    Gilby replied to tspain's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk

    This is the last year of Zambrano. Not sure if he's counting that. But yeah, this team isn't filled with large contracts like the national media will probably continue to say it is this winter.
  11. Gilby

    2013

    Gilby replied to tspain's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk

    I think people are getting too upset over tanking the next few seasons when it hasn't even happened yet. Once we got off to the start we did this season, tanking/trading off players was absolutely necessary. While I don't believe the Cubs will contend next season, I think it will be an improvement over this season. Cubs baseball has sucked since August 2009, so that isn't fun for us, but Theo and co. shouldn't care about that. This is their first year, and I'll give them a tank year to take full advantage of the draft. Let's see what they do this offseason, though, before we say the FO is tanking for the first half of their contracts. People have tried to spin Jed's comments from the other day, but they don't mean a whole lot.
  12. Gilby

    2013

    Gilby replied to tspain's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk

    This type of thinking is what got us here. Paying players in their 30s to take a terrible team to average or slightly below average would make it hard to ever build the consistently great team Theo is trying to achieve. It's interesting that just a few posts above this, you bash Jim Hendry. For the 90th [expletive] time, signing free agents is not why Jim Hendry was a terrible GM Was it the drafts he wasn't given the money to do well at? As mentioned before, finishing 20th in the league instead of 29th, does affect the team a lot with the new draft rules. If you hate Hendry for drafts, you should appreciate that.
  13. Gilby

    2013

    Gilby replied to tspain's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk

    This type of thinking is what got us here. Paying a bunch of players in their 30s to take a terrible team to average or slightly below average would make it hard to ever build the consistently great team Theo is trying to achieve. It's interesting that just a few posts above this, you bash Jim Hendry.
  14. Gilby
    "It's a fastball. It moves." :lol: That is pretty much the definition of a cutter, Dan.
  15. Gilby

    2013

    Gilby replied to tspain's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk

    I don't think Theo was totally lying on the duel fronts thing. They clearly, and rightly so, made strengthening the minor leagues their first priority, but I believe the 2012 team was built as an "If everything goes right, we have a chance" type of team. Garza (coming off of an ace season), Dempster, Samardzija (high upside), Wood, and Volstad (he's never been this bad before) isn't a bad rotation on paper. They brought Stewart over who did have upside but he was bad/unlucky/injured, Byrd was terrible and they probably weren't expecting Jackson to struggle as much as he did at AAA, Soto didn't bounce back like he did in 2010. That's not a 100 loss team on paper, but they played poorly to start out, so the best pitcher and the hottest pitcher were both traded. Combine that with the most talented pitcher being injured, and we are even worse the second half. It seems right now that Theo wasn't telling the truth, but I'm not sure that's totally the case.
  16. Gilby

    2013

    Gilby replied to tspain's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk

    Even if the fans go away for a bit, once we start winning again, Wrigley will be the toughest ticket in baseball. But I think we're still a ways from seeing the fan base disappear. I mean there were 30,000 people to see the Astros on a weeknight the last homestand. Either way, I don't think we'll be good next year, but I have very little doubt that we'll be excited for the 2014 team. Based on what? Based on trades like Cashner for Rizzo and Paul Maholm and Reed Johnson for Arodys Vizcaino. Based on signings like Jorge Soler. They've done a tremendous job of acquiring young talent. I think we'll see more of that this offseason and it'll start paying big dividends in 2014. Not to mention guys like Rizzo and Nomar Cano, oops I mean Starlin Castro, will be 24 and hopefully turning into the franchise players they can be.
  17. Gilby

    2013

    Gilby replied to tspain's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk

    Even if the fans go away for a bit, once we start winning again, Wrigley will be the toughest ticket in baseball. But I think we're still a ways from seeing the fan base disappear. I mean there were 30,000 people to see the Astros on a weeknight the last homestand. Either way, I don't think we'll be good next year, but I have very little doubt that we'll be excited for the 2014 team.
  18. Gilby
    After Soler's first 10 games at Peoria he's at: .341/.386/.537/.932. That is accompanied by some very nice peripherals - 3 K's and 3 BB's in 44 PA. Granted it's not even high-A, but that is more contact than I was expecting. When discussing his triple slash/upside, what were some of the predictions on batting avg?
  19. Gilby
    Baez finished 0-6 with 3 K's between the two games. Soler 1-3 thus far
  20. Gilby
    Carlos Gomez forgot the outs last night.
  21. Gilby
    http://www.weather.com/weather/map/interactive/Clearwater+FL+33762:4:US Dear God..
  22. Gilby
    I highly doubt Soler is going to start at Peoria/Kane County next year. Yep, especially if he goes to the AFL and when you factor in April weather. If he has a lot of success in the AFL, I'd think he has more of a shot to start at Tennessee than Peoria. Actually, that's going a little too far considering how hitter friendly the AFL is, but yeah, he's not starting in Peoria.
  23. Gilby
    Same lineup as last night, including Vitters.
  24. Gilby
    Over 600 PA's, that is 180 K's. It would take a .357 BABIP to hit .250. To answer the question, I think it's possible. He clearly sees enough pitches to draw quite a few walks over a full season. Being a plus defender would certainly help. I don't think he'll ever hit .250, but that doesn't mean he can't start, either. he'd only need a .357 babip to hit .250 if you assume he's going to hit zero home runs I'm projecting 15 inside the parkers... Good point though.
  25. Gilby
    Peoria faces Shaun Marcum tonight.
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