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  1. Outshined_One
    4-0 Reds after a Ross homer.
  2. Outshined_One
    And the hits keep coming! Hooray!
  3. Outshined_One
    I can't wait to hear the fallout from this one. Here's what I'm expecting:
  4. Outshined_One
    Watch, it'll be something that has to do with Dusty pinch running him.
  5. Outshined_One
    The mediots in Cincy seem to have it in for him. Reds fans are pretty evenly divided on Dunn; half of them think he's the best player on the team who will be an offensive force for years, the other half of them think he's an unmotivated, lazy, strikes out too much, and needs to get his BA to a respectable point. Personally, I'd commit all sorts of crimes if it meant getting Dunn in LF. He'd be a gold glover compared to Moises Alou and Glenallen Hill.
  6. Outshined_One
    Teixeira plz.
  7. Outshined_One
    Jake Fox's Cumulative Splits. Fox was promoted to West Tenn in Mid-June and struggled for a bit. However, he managed a good turnaround at the end of the season. He had enough passed balls to make me concerned for his future, though.
  8. Outshined_One
    Over who, though? He hasn't trotted out Bynum at 1B yet, now has he? :P
  9. Outshined_One
    Thankfully Tampa and Pittsburgh have been holding up their end of the bargain. :D
  10. Outshined_One
    Hello, old thread. Never. Gonna. Happen. Hhahaha, you'd be surprised. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...
  11. Outshined_One
    Eh, John Mabry's gotten his share of PT over other guys despite being pretty darn bad.
  12. Outshined_One
    You know my one regret about this trading deadline... Would you still trade Z for Abreu?
  13. Outshined_One
    I don't think it's that, though. He put up pretty darn good power numbers and his LD% is fairly reasonable. What most people have been criticizing him for is his lack of patience, which tends to be something that works across aluminum and wood bats.
  14. Outshined_One
    Tends to be the case unless the prospect was highly thought of. The vast majority of college draftees at the least start out in Rookie ball or Short Season A. Over the course of a season, some teams keep them there, other times they get promoted up the ladder. Depends on their success and what the team values in development. The Cubs tend to be more conservative with position players, but that could also be a result of the lack of really top notch hitters in the system. Criticizing Colvin because had a sub-.800 OPS is a bit deceptive, TT. If you said you were concerned with a guy who posted a .796 OPS in Short Season A, I'd understand and would have no quarrel. But the fact is, he was four points away from breaking the .800 mark. Would an .800 OPS on the mark have made that much of a difference in your assessment of him?
  15. Outshined_One
    He's still in my Top 10. Part of that is due to the quality of prospects already in the system and part of that is due to Colvin's performance. The power definitely came as a surprise to many, imo.
  16. Outshined_One
    With the way his numbers project, he's beginning to strike me as a potential Jock Jones type at his ceiling. Except with better numbers against LHP.
  17. Outshined_One
    IsoD by month (not including postseason): June: .069 (9 PA) July: .050 (131 PA) August: .033 (124 PA) September: .047 (24 PA) Yeah, I can't say I'm too thrilled with that trend. One can only hope he was tired and will improve next season...but I am concerned.
  18. Outshined_One
    In all fairness, coming into the season the Dodgers, Angels, Diamondbacks, and Marlins arguably had the top four farm systems in all of baseball. Because of his youth, upside, and five tool potential, Pie has been one of the top prospects in all of baseball for awhile now. He was in the Top 25 coming into the season and likely will find himself there again. The Cubs' farm system is now bereft since a number of their pitchers no longer qualify. We have a TON of ML-ready and cheap pitchers which the Marlins would be thrilled to get their hands on. Coupled with that, the system has some rising stars who will appeal to any organization. The Cubs have a lot of trading chips they can use in the offseason. Frankly, given how questionable the majority of the position players are in this year's crop, part of me would simply rather the Cubs look to the trade market. Pie alone won't get Cabrera, but a package involving Pie, Veal, and Marshall would be mighty tempting, no?
  19. Outshined_One
    I still get really angry whenever people bring up 2004. Remember when this team was ahead in the WC and merely needed to take down the Reds and Mets, who were at the time basically AAAA teams due to injuries and trades? Ugh, ugh, ugh, ugh. I HATED the way that season ended.
  20. Outshined_One
    If Baker is back next year which is highly unlikely at this point, I imagine a big riot outside of Clark/Addison I imagine some one sneaking rotten fruit into the Cubs Convention in the offseason.
  21. Outshined_One
    I'm curious; why?
  22. Outshined_One
    From what I've read with Wieters' bat and questionable lack of a position, he sounds like another Travis Snider-like situation waiting in the wings. Yay! Also, I always thought guys with good arms were put in RF to keep runners from advancing to third?
  23. Outshined_One
    My man love for Dierker just went up exponentially.
  24. Outshined_One
    He wasn't rated as a 10-read the quote again. 10 is what La Russa would give himself for all his over managing. HA! I misread that. Nice dig. :lol:
  25. Outshined_One
    Since when did TLR become a 10 on the managerial intelligence scale? This is the same friggin' guy who uses four pitchers to get three outs in an inning.
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