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  1. Some Guy
    As it has been foretold. Stuck hoping for some spring training attrition around the league, cuz no one values Castillo much more the myriad other options. I wonder though, if it really is possible we take 3 catchers. It's not like we're overflowing with obvious bench options right now. Castillo might just wind up our best option as RH PH, preferable to paying $2.1M for him to just go away. Unlikely, I know, but not impossible. And of course, maybe one of our guys gets injured.
  2. Some Guy
    As I've been saying about the negligibility of Castillo's trade value, "The truth will reveal itself to you in the fullness of time." Here's Arguello finally opening his heart to that truth - that his framing is so bad it wipes out the value of his positives: http://www.chicagonow.com/cubs-den/2015/01/news-and-notes-diamondbacks-no-longer-searching-for-a-catcher-plus-notes-on-rizzo-soler-moncada/ "I am continuing to hear some confirmation that the sluggish market for Welington Castillo has more to do with teams looking for qualities that Castillo does not have at this point. I am getting to the point where I am not expecting much in return..."
  3. Some Guy
    Not to be confused with this Some Guy (capitalized).
  4. Some Guy
    Straily to AAA. Turner and Doubront either make the team or get dumped on waivers - no trade value. Wood has more value to us in the bullpen than in trade, unless we're kicking in half his salary. Jaxon, Castillo...whatever.
  5. Some Guy
    Wrong. Transmogrified Tiger did. (a 3 way deal "centered around Castillo and/or Wood," lol) I don't know why you're using Kemp as a comp for Castillo, but bravo for that. Anyway, just let the fullness of time reveal to you how minimal Welington's value is.
  6. Some Guy
    Jim Duquette said on MLB Network Radio this morning that we made a 1 year offer.
  7. Some Guy
    Thinking he can be a centerpiece in a Zobrist trade is thinking he has a lot of value. But yes, put me down as thinking he has almost no value. His framing wipes out his positives, and I think the market knows that by now. It's not like there's a huge unmet demand for catchers right now anyway.
  8. Some Guy
    I guess we'll have to see how it plays out, but I am quite confident that those who think Castillo has much trade value are going to end up butthurt. You're counting on other FOs brazenly contradicting our FO's (correct) assessment that he needed to be banished behind 2 new Cs for his costly receiving inadequacies. Wood, too, has minimal trade value because he makes too much. Unlike Castillo though, he has value to us. I like him as a reliever and rotation depth. But no one's eager to trade value for a guy like him who's making $5.5M.
  9. Some Guy
    Love hearing we made an offer to Rasmus, and that we are seriously pursuing Zobrist. The Wood+Castillo "centerpiece" idea for Zobrist is a laugher tho.
  10. Some Guy
    You don't know that either of these are true. LaStella is here and it looks quite plausible that he could open the season as the starter. And while it's possible that the Drew rumors were fictions created by his agent, "highly likely" is an overreach, just like your last comment about a celebrity softball game. The point is, those things and Javy's winter league K pileup have happened since Theo first stated the plan for him to be the 2015 2B starter. Therefore it's not right to present that September quote as the current gospel truth. I'm not saying Javy is hopeless - just that it is now plausible that he opens the season in AAA.
  11. Some Guy
    Quoted without further comment.
  12. Some Guy
    TT, I would like you to be right. But I agree with others who think it's silly to sweep Javy's PR league issues under the rug. His 2014 can be chopped into discrete smaller sample sizes, each with their own excuse, but put them all together and they tell the same story.
  13. Some Guy
    I only chimed in to respond to this comment, which presented the notion that it was current news that Theo said they're rolling with Javy. "Theo *talks*..." "the Cubs *are* sticking..." Verbs in the present form. But that statement came over 3 months ago, and since then the Cubs have acquired La Stella and inquired about Drew - indicating plans may have changed, as they often do. And rightly so, when Javy is doing nothing to allay existing concerns, but rather exacerbating them.
  14. Some Guy
    Nope, don't know them. Were they always right too?
  15. Some Guy
    You'd be singin a different tune if he was doing well against PR league pitching. He's there to work on not striking out, yet against inferior pitching he's striking out at an even more alarming rate than ever before, after a full season of raising it as a serious issue. Theo said in September that the plan was for Javy to open the year in MLB. But their actions since then in acquiring LaStella and sniffing around on Drew indicate a concern that the plan may need a change.
  16. Some Guy
    That article was from September. Much Javy disappointment has happened since then.
  17. Some Guy
    We'll see. I hope you're right and he does bring back some value but I am very skeptical, especially with how front-and-center his receiving inadequacies have been made by his attention-getting banishment. But regarding 295 strikes and the fact that one borderline call has (conservatively) around .300 OPS effect on the average batter's resulting damage... If you figure on facing ~40 at bats per game, those 295 strikes equal about 7 and a half games in a season where Castillo turned the entire lineup into Giancarlo Stanton when Montero + Ross would've turned them into Darwin Barney. It might be conservative to estimate you go 1-6 vs the Stanton lineup and 6-1 vs the Barney lineup. (rough and unscientific I know, but illustrative) Or if you want to keep it to the "2 per game" avg, that's twice *every game* that Barney gets DHed for by Stanton, if Castillo is catching instead of Montero or Ross. Again, easy to picture a 5 win or more difference on a season. Looks like a big deal to me. I don't see how Castillo's throwing, blocking or mediocre hitting can make up for that, but hopefully you're right and there remains a market for him.
  18. Some Guy
    Hi guys, first time emerging from a longtime lurk. I'm here to say Castillo tremendously sucks (due to his framing inadequacies, of course), and I think he is unlikely to get much in trade. What he costs the pitchers in strike calls more than wipes out any positive value he provides with his throwing, blocking, or mediocre hitting. The chart in this article shows the avg OPS that results after every count. It looks like one borderline strike/ball call means the difference of somewhere around .300 OPS points (on average, roughly, depending on how deep into the at bat it is). http://www.sportingnews.com/mlb/story/2014-09-15/whats-the-most-important-pitch-of-an-at-bat-mlb-hitters-offer-their-thoughts According to BP, Montero + Ross gained 193 strike calls over actual in 2014, and Castillo lost 102. So compared to Montero+Ross, That's 295 times that Castillo turned the batter into a .900 OPS guy instead of .600. If there were any potential Castillo-suitors left that didn't think about how costly a bad framer is, it seems hard for them to ignore it now, with how obviously the Cubs have banished him for that reason.
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