UMFan83
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Perfect. Off season a success. The pieces are in place, to steal an old Wanny phrase.
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Actually, they haven't scored since Aramis hit the 2 run homer in the first inning. 17 innings of 0's. And the Brewers have scored a whopping 2 runs in the same time frame. 5 actually since they scored their 3 runs yesterday in the bottom of the first (assuming you were replying to Ballgame's post and not mine) -
I dunno, I think the 2006 team was worse to watch. Horrible team, horrible starting pitching, and Quade has a long way to go until I consider him worse than Dusty. John Mabry, Phil Nevin, Neifi Perez, Freddy Bynum, Tony Womack, Roberto Novoa, Glendon Rusch, Wade Miller, these are the names that made up your 2006 Chicago Cubs.
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Cubs still havent scored since the blown bases loaded 0 out situation yesterday
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Man U killing the MLS All Stars for the 2nd year in a row. Now up 4-0. Looking to finish the MLS portion of their American tour with an aggregate score of 18-2.
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Sounds about right with Hendry at the helm. Yup he's never turned around a 90 loss team into a playoff team in one season. Anything is possible with a 120+ million payroll. He's a horrible GM and good luck to you for having faith in him. He's done it twice and didn't have a 120 million payroll in 2003. I don't have much faith in Hendry but I won't discount that it's possible we could contend next year with Hendry as GM. It's just less likely than if we had a competent GM.
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Sounds about right with Hendry at the helm. Yup he's never turned around a 90 loss team into a playoff team in one season.
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General 2011 Other Games Thread
UMFan83 replied to soccer10k's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
No hitters definitely seem less cool when the pitcher manages to give up a run, even if its completely unearned. Also is much less cool when its a combined no hitter. -
It actually looks more conclusive that he missed the tag in that photo than he made the tag IMO. Maybe I'm just blind. Either way, he's so far from the plate there it's hard to believe that there was no contact between the 2 before he went back and stepped on the plate. I think the Holliday/touching the plate call and of course the perfect game botched call are both worse than this one, but this is still pretty bad.
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Who cares if it is a proper fire sale? I'm not particularly worried that the Cubs are gonig to cut spending down to like $80 million, and I'm not particularly sold on Zambrano being an integral piece on the next Cubs contender. So if they want to sell off Z and Soriano and save $25 million in the process, we probably got better unless Hendry sets his eyes on a couple of veteran lefty relievers.
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Thanks for the midday pick-me-up Biggs
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Is a .730 OPS the baseline for what he's going to do going forward? Or is he going to rebound some and get back into the .800 OPS area he's been in each of the past 3 years (excluding 2009 since he was hurt the entire time)? You can't exclude 2009 when Soriano has some level of injuries every year. The way I look at it now is 2 of the last 3 seasons he's had a sub .740 OPS. And after a hot start in 2010, he really tailed off. In fact, if you take the last half of last year and tack it onto this year so far, this is what he's done: 191 G 705 PA 651 AB 155 H 39 2B 2 3B 30 HR 95 RBI 37 BB 4 SB 168 K .238/.277/.442/.719 This is pretty much the Soriano that we're left with. Maybe he'll go on a hot streak starting tonight and skew that, but I think it would be foolish to expect a .800+ season OPS from Soriano ever again.
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Gotta say I am disapointed so far.
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You wouldn't trade Soriano even if we ate 60%? That would save over $20 million over the next few years. The problem is, we'd have around $7 million extra over each of the next 3 years, but most (or all) of that would go into replacing him. There's not much in the minors or free agency that's going to be better than Soriano for the money we'd free up. That said, I wouldn't flat out oppose trading him at 60% value but I'd hesitate a lot. Who cares if that $7 mil goes towards replacing him, either we pay $68 million for Soriano or $68 million for a likely younger and better option. There are 37 qualified corner OFs in baseball right now, and Soriano has the 28th highest OPS, and the 2nd worst OBP (only Carl Crawford at .283 is worse than Soriano's .287) So you are looking at one of the probably 5 worst corner OFs in baseball, especially when you factor in defense (although I'm not sure how Soriano has fared this year). 7 million could easily give us better production there.
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For Soriano I wouldn't expect much back even if they eat the majority of the deal. For Zambrano, if they are picking up a significant portion they better get an excellent prospect or two back. For Soriano its a matter of paying $68 million over 4 years for a starting corner OF to give you a .730 OPS and sub .300 OBP, or paying $60 million + cost of a replacement to actually perform adequately at his job and a token prospect with mild upside.
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No hitting coaches arent going to completely change a veteran's approach to hitting or swinging. Where their value comes in is identifying when a hitter has something off with his swing. They'll also introduce subtle changes when a vet is struggling. Bob picked up on one with Aramis Ramirez between April and July. But yeah, blaming the hitting coach for an team like this is just a waste of energy. That said, when the hitting sucks and you cant fire the manager because its his first year, the hitting coach quickly becomes a scapegoat. Then again, Hendry gave Rudy a lot of money to come here, so with his job on the line it probably isn't in his best interest to admit failure there.
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I can't remember, is it last 3 years or last 2 years? Stupid down season for Aramis carrying him down to B range.
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Why couldnt the 3B just try the 3rd to 1st double play on that Soriano grounder like most other players would have done? I didnt see the play, but Pat Hughes thought he tried to step on 3rd and throw home. Because he fucked up and didn't touch the bag, we're going to lose because no way he gets the tag out at home I'm guessing.
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Ps I hate Soriano so much. I think he'd be more valuable to us on the bench. He's just not a starting caliber player anymore IMO.
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Hahaha oh man. They hold Soto at 3rd because there were 0 outs and they end up no scoring of course.
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What situation? They could contend this year with a couple of bounce back years couldn't they?
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Yeah didn't mesh with Martz. Also in week 1 he was the number 2 receiver I think and was was thrown to something like 12 times and only caught 2. He ran some routes wrong and dropped a bunch of passes. After that he was burried on the depth chart. He's an interesting low risk player with medium upside but there's a reason he's been cut by 3-4 teams already.
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670 radio reporting Bears may pursue Mike Sims-Walker It was spoken over the radio so no link yet although I'm sure there will be one later today. Does that help? LOL It's better than nothing, but not the most exciting name out there. I guess if they don't want to commit to a high priced WR (which is respectable), this would work.
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No, they don't. There's no standout #1, and I'd have no problem adding one, but I'm confident that given the talent of the QB, a stronger OL and a more well-rounded running threat would make the receivers the Bears already have look a LOT better. The O-line isn't really that far away, so I don't see the need to sign more than 1 starting O-line anyways. Maybe 1 starter and 1 backup. Between Carimi, Williams, Kreutz, Garza and Webb, the only one's I'd even consider replacing are Garza and Kreutz. But Kreutz is probably the best C we could get in the FA market even if he's pretty mediocre now. So I'm willing to replace Garza (aka make him the backup at G and C), and go with those other 4. Williams hasn't been consistently good yet but giving up on him now would be foolish as he's shown real flashes. Webb seemed like he came on strong at the end of last year and the Bears love him, so I don't think it makes sense to demote him.
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I don't understand this. We have 99% of 37 million to spend. Why not spend a little to improve your team at WR. I want to tie up Angelo and make him watch all his WRs routes in the Patriots and Packers (playoff) game on a loop. I actually kind of like the receivers we have, its just we need that marquee guy, not some undrafted FA. He might work out just fine but based on the odds, he probably won't.
