UMFan83
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Yeah that thing was stupid back in the day when the leagues still had their own presidents and never played each other until the world series, but at least it made a little sense. It's even dumber now. Edit: On further thought, I guess it makes sense for league leaders and league awards purposes. But when Geovany Soto comes up to bad for the Rangers the first time, as much as he'd like to hide his .199 BA, the Rangers TV network should not display .000 0 HR 0 RBI .000 OPS and pretend this is his first AB all season.
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From an old-fashioned statistical model, his season is shaping up to look great. On pace for .285 17 HR 82 RBI 13 3B 25 SB from a 22 year old SS. So at least the Joe Morgans of the world will think he's having an awesome season offensively.
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I dunno it didnt seem to be that hard to find solid starting performances on this team that wasn't built to be anything but awful. It's possible that Garza, Shark and Wood will all be back. Shark and Garza should be solid most nights. Wood could go either way, if he is decent now you just have to find next year's Maholm and you are in good shape. Probably won't find someone out there that will put up a sub-3 ERA 2/3rds of the way through the season like Dempster did but I don't know if that's necessary to field a .500 team. I would think that the rotation that the Cubs have been trotting that out there this year is good enough to make the playoffs with a solid offense and pen.
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God I hope not. If team is still this bad in year 6 and the farm system wasn't about to bust with ML ready guys, Theo and Co would probably be forced out and a new guy would come in and his plan would probably involve more spending (if possible, I know you are the leader of the Cubs won't be able to spend like a big market team of we suck too long band).
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2 more sucky years. 2015: C - Wellington Castillo, 28 1B - Anthony Rizzo, 25 2B - Javier Baez, 22 SS - Starlin Castro, 25 3B - Josh Vitters, 25 CF - Brett Jackson, 26 LF - Albert Almora, 21 RF - Jorge Soler, 23 Matt Garza, 31 (that's right, extension) Jeff Samardzija, 30 Arodys Vizcaino, 24 Pierce Johnson, 24 Travis Wood, 28 I know these things never happen like that.
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8/1 Pirates (Karstens) @ CUBS (Wood), 1:20pm, WGN
UMFan83 replied to CubmanPi's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
new career high for HRs for Castro with 11 and its still 8/1 -
This Lions thread is fun to read. Thanks for the link. Not sure if this guy was intentionally being a homer, or really thinks this, but I wouldnt put it past a Lions fan... If I put on my "trying to be unbiased" Bears tinted glasses: QB - Bears OL - Lions WR - Split/slight adv Lions RB - Bears TE - Lions DL - Lions LB - Bears CB - Bears S - Lions ST - Bears Coach - Split/slight adv Bears (not just X&O's evaluation) Team more likely to have a stater in jail at gametime - Lions Team more likely to have a player stomp on the face of another and claim he was catching his balance - Lions Bears.
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8 posts above yours
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Who else on the Bulls was particularly good in 2002 besides T-Mac and Rip? Hinrich was still in college Boozer was still in college Deng was in high school Robinson was in high school Noah was still in high school Gibson was still in high school Bellineli was overseas probably in the equivalent of high school Butler was in grade school Teague was in grade school Also, JVG said the Bulls will be lucky to make the playoffs this year. Radmanovic and Mohammed were both NBA scrubs/bench players
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Quit worrying and enjoy Theo's magic
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I actually agree with your negativity for once. I am worried about the D-Line. As good as this team appears, they have major question marks on the offensive and defensive lines, which I tend to believe are the two most important position groups on a football team besides QB.
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Just for fun... 2005 Cubs on active roster: 0 2006 Cubs on active roster: 1 (Marmol) 2007 Cubs on active roster: 2 (Marmol, Soriano) 2008 Cubs on active roster: 3 (Marmol, Shark, Soriano) 2009 Cubs on active roster: 4 (same 3 plus Jeff Baker) 2010 Cubs on active roster: 9 (same 4 plus Castro, Castillo, Barney, Coleman, Russell) 2011 Cubs on active roster: 14 (too lazy)
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Well there goes a 7th round pick we'll never see again! Man...that could've turned into something amazing too.... The next J'Marcus Webb
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Again, as I've learned today Mayo sucks, but he's the only one showing some semblance of updating the Cubs prospect ratings so, I noticed he had Vizcaino 3rd and Villanueva 6th in the Cubs org. This doesn't include 2012 draftees though, and strangely still has Jackson at number 1 ahead of Baez.
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7/31 Pirates (Burnett) @ Cubs (Coleman) 7 p.m. WGN
UMFan83 replied to soccer10k's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
Has Casey Coleman ever had a good start? Him and Volstad are 2 of the worst emergency starters I've seen in some time. Even most mediocre to poor starters throw a good game once in awhile. -
Dudes still breathing at least.
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Yeah who wants the opportunity to represent their country in the stupid Olympics? Great Britain is getting embarrased in these games, and Deng is going to miss signficant time because I don't see how he can't have the surgery at this point, so who's really won here? GB lost by 6 today to a pretty good Brazil team despite their best player shooting 3-13. I wouldn't call that embarassing. Their first game was though.
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Are you implying TJS has no bearing on a prospects value? Nope, just that assuming he gets healthy (which is a fairly safe bet given recent TJS success rates), he will likely still be ahead of Delgado. If he's not, its probably because of durability and/or being a little older for the league he's in due to the injury. He will still likely have the stuff and the makeup to make him a better prospect than Delgado.
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we may have gotten nothing good for maholm/johnson if dempster went to atlanta. it still sucks because delgado is clearly the best of the bunch, but this seems like a decent haul. I could care less about the pieces maholm/johnson got us, the big catch in this was Delgado. I'm for quality over quanitity. You do know that Vizcaino was rated in front of Delgado before this season, right? He's not anymore. Again, I don't mind these trades and trust Theo and Jed, but I still have a letdown of no Delgado. Plus I'm sure there was another landing spot for Maholm other than Atlanta. Right, but not because of poor performance or a lessened ceiling on Vizcaino's part.
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Noted for future reference
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Does Mayo update his top 20 team lists regularly? I ask because he's already added Vizcaino to his rankings (at #3), but I'm perplexed that Brett Jackson is still his #1 over Baez.
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Neither of them were top 20 guys in the Rangers organization in the preseason according to Mayo.
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Pretty sure the handbook comes out in February. BA might not, but the beat guys routinely speculate how a team's system has risen or fallen whenever they take on meaningful prospects. Check the Twitterverse, or maybe ESPN/BA chat sessions, but obviously they won't be official until February.
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I guess if we weren't going to be able to get another crack at a legit prospect like Delgado, getting a couple of lower minor's players isnt bad. In this case we can get players that might not crack a team's top 10 but have projectable upside, particularly something that Theo/Jed sees from them that gives them a better chance of evolving into something useful.
