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  1. Outshined_One
    Gonzalez isn't an above average defender. spare me your frar crap and all those bush league stats that i dont care to look up. Gonzalez is a winner. Who cares about his ISOD i care about his HEART. I hear he had surgery because he had an enlarged heart. WHAT A GAMER!
  2. Outshined_One
    If the Cubs could substitute Jock for Murton, I'd absolutely love this deal. Which tells me the Red Sox probably wouldn't go for it. Actually, they might be stupid enough to do it. After all, they traded Murton away in the first place, and plus Jock is an established major leaguer.... :P Plus, Jock can play CF!!!!! ;)
  3. Outshined_One
    If the Cubs could substitute Jock for Murton, I'd absolutely love this deal. Which tells me the Red Sox probably wouldn't go for it.
  4. Outshined_One
    This season: Wells: .303/.357/.542/.899 Barrett: .307/.368/.517/.885 Three year splits: Wells: .282/.338/.493/.831 Barrett: .289/.349/.494/.843 How much of an improvement would Wells over Barrett be? I understand that Wells would play more games than Bare, but Blanco/Soto would not provide comparable production to Pierre. Blanco is just bad offensively and Soto is unproven without much of an upside. Plus, Wells would only be under this team's control for a year unless he gets an extension.
  5. Outshined_One
    Guys who hit .200/.300 won't last long in baseball. You don't see many veterans who who manage to stick around long with those numbers. Those who do are an anamoly and will almost certainly be relegated to the bench unless they make up for it with incredible defense or power. I can't exactly think of many players who have a career batting average between .200 and .220 and still have an IsoD over .100. Even Adam Dunn has a career BA of .245 and his IsoD is freakishly good.
  6. Outshined_One
    it is helpful for all players, but it loses meaning on the extremes. noone complains when a player has a .400 obp but has a .040 IsoD. similarly, there are ligit complaints if a player is batting .213 but has an IsoD of 100. No statistic is a pure measure of just how good a player is. IsoD is a specialized stat meant to measure plate discipline. That's pretty much about it. However, as we all know, plate discipline is one of the most important things any hitter can have. Odds are, if you have a .100 IsoD, you're going to be a pretty good hitter.
  7. Outshined_One
    Westbrook is 29 and in the last year of his contract, iirc. There's no way I'd trade Murton for him unless the Cubs got something else in return.
  8. Outshined_One
    Probably not, but I'd have to think long and hard about it.
  9. Outshined_One
    Eh, I'm ambivalent towards this trade. The Cubs didn't give up much and they didn't get much. *Shrugs*
  10. Outshined_One
    The fact that Hendry's list does not include Zito or Schmidt does not bode well.
  11. Outshined_One
    Only for questionable home runs and really close calls at 1st, imo.
  12. Outshined_One
    Williams went into the crapper this season, which is a crying shame considering he looked like he had turned it around at the end of last season.
  13. Outshined_One
    Actually, there have been studies done on that. Essentially speaking, very few pitchers have shown the statistical ability to be able to control and sustain their BABIP against for any meaningful length of time. Those that can do it have only been able to do that over a relatively short period of time. Moreover, those pitchers are the best pitchers in their prime (Maddux in the mid-90s, Pedro in the late 90s). Pretty much all other pitchers are at the mercy of BABIP. The bottom line with BABIP is to say that everyone eventually regresses to a certain mean. That doesn't mean every .350 hitter is eventually going to become a .250 hitter or whatever. You can have a high average and still have a BABIP within that mean.
  14. Outshined_One
    Problem is, Lou Pineilla and Jim Hendry might think otherwise.
  15. Outshined_One
    Red Sox won the Matsuzaka Sweepstakes, the Devil Rays won the bidding for Akinori Iwamura. To my knowledge, Igawa's bidding has yet to commence.
  16. Outshined_One
    ...wow. That's an insane amount.
  17. Outshined_One
    sure, they were cheap and young, but their 1.41, 1.56 and 1.58 WHIPS last year weren't anything you'd actively try to acquire. In other words, having seen what they did last year, you wouldn't try trading for them, and they would all be behind Marmol/Marshall/Guzman/Hill/Ryu in the Cub pitching logma. Part of the reason why I personally am annoyed and upset about the Pierre trade was that those three guys could have been put to better use than what likely will be a one year rental of a CF whose only plus tool is his speed. Teams might have been willing to pay more than that for those three guys. Heck, all are still young and developing; I wouldn't expect all of them to continue to have WHIPs that high (especially Nolasco). Plus, given all of the injuries to that cadre of pitching, maybe it wouldn't have been a bad idea to have Mitre, Pinto, and Nolasco thrown in there.
  18. Outshined_One
    We'll see if that was the byproduct of the GM or the ownership. Hunsicker is competent, but if he's under mandate from ownership to attempt to recreate the Kazmir deal whenever possible, well, yeah.
  19. Outshined_One
    Scott Moore is now expendable. Hmmmmmmmmm... :-k
  20. Outshined_One
    At least the Cubs may have submitted a semi-serious bid.
  21. Outshined_One
    I'm just happy he's back, contract be damned. Edit: Crap! Just missed being the one to get the 100th page. :(
  22. Outshined_One
    Wow.
  23. Outshined_One
    This is comparable to having a really hot ex who gave you some awesome times together, but you also broke up with her in an ugly way after she lost her looks and went crazy, now trying to get back together with you and doing it in kind of a sad and vaguely desperate way.
  24. Outshined_One
    I'm guessing most of them would have gotten drunk irregardless and just checked NSBB because they knew the pending deadline. Normally they'd be wiser than to check out NSBB while drunk. Your mom would be disappointed in you. :(
  25. Outshined_One
    One step at a time, imo. Hopefully, that cliff will turn out to be a soft hillside which starts in the 5th year of his deal. :D
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