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Harden: minor tear in shoulder joint
UK1679666180 replied to Schwarber Fan's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Depending on the severity of the injury and recovery time, I wonder if the Cubs would be better off with Harden having shoulder surgery and coming back later in the year more healthy for a post-season/2nd half run rather than yo-yo'ing between the DL, occasional starts, etc? The Cubs will more than likely win the division, I just wonder what the outlooks are between hoping rest and a throwing/lifting/stretching program will heal it, trying to pitch a season a minor tear or correcting the tear via surgery. Personally, if there are questions that he won't be able to give them 15 starts the current route they are on or that the tear won't be healed and be reaggravated, just get the surgery done with it and see what happens. This is what I had said on it after his first start coming off the initial and still existing shoulder troubles.. http://www.northsidebaseball.com/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=51048&p=1953448&hilit=harden+shoulder#p1953448 -
6th in '07 and 6th in '06 in below avg. farm systems. Similar FB velos, but Maine had 4 ML pitches while Olson has 2 ML pitches.
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Pitt 27 AZ 13
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Winning 9 of 10 will do that. The Illini would've been in the top 25 had they had more size and athletic ability last night.
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They had no room for Pie. Olson has 1 more option, I doubt he'll beat out Marshall for that 5th spot and it'll be interesting as far as who'll replace Harden if he misses extended time in '09, Olson might compete against Samardzija, Gaudin, or Atkins as a darkhorse.
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Watch Haley school Johnson and the Eagles strategy makes me want to forget some of teh god awful game planning done by Shoop and Turner over the past 5 years.
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UK looks good again against UGA and will ranked after today. The SEC is horrible this year with UK likely being the best of the bunch.
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Don't the Cubs have a scout with a lot of connections to Lamar? The Cubs have drafted a sizable number of guys out of there in recent years, including Micah Hoffpauir and a few current minor leaguers. Lamar probably had nothing to do with this one, Scouts seen Williamson at San Jacinto's fall games/scout day. Yeah, the cubs have drafted several guys out of Lamar but I don't see the correlation of this one since he was drafted by the O's. I'm sure Hendry/Wilken had the '07 draft report and whomever was responsible for covering the NY/Penn league for the Cubs last year.
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FB, SL, CH FB 87-90 SL 79-82 CH 80-83 Nothing special FB, best pitch is his slider, his change-up is a token pitch to RH'ers. If he develops confidence and the change-up, he could become a starter & if not, he projects as a situational lefty.
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Non-threatening rival update.
UK1679666180 replied to wolf stansson's topic in General Baseball Talk
You beat me to it, Ping. They played in the best HS game I've seen in the last 5 years vs. St. Rita. -
This is his draft report: Hank Williamson RHP So. R-R 6-5 205 San Jacinto JC Houston (Lamar) SCOUTING REPORT: Williamson attended Rice as a freshman and did not pitch, but got everyone’s attention with a solid mid-90s fastball during fall practice after he transferred to San Jac. He became the ace on a talent-laden Gators pitching staff, going 7-3, 2.68 with 68 strikeouts in 89 innings. He’s been more steady at 89-93 mph this spring. His secondary pitches are a split-finger, which shows quality life at times, and a developing slider. Scouts still consider Williamson projectable and a work-in-progress, and would like to see a better breaking ball. He’s signed to go to Lamar next year, where he could blossom. This is a very good trade for the Cubs, IMO.
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Harden: minor tear in shoulder joint
UK1679666180 replied to Schwarber Fan's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
It was obvious last year that his shoulder was injured and he pitched thru pain, his body language was that of an injured pitcher. -
http://www.prepticket.com/video/market/national/id/823292:Video:75052# (UK recruit Mossakowski) Raisin, Brooks was likely down on an in-home visit with two potential College of the Canyons recruits who are scheduled to come to UK.
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I don't see Pie as a deal breaker. Given how Pie's value is right now, I expect that they would get a minor league filler at the lower levels. Even with a bad Cubs' system, I would be thrilled if whomever they get would come close to cracking the top 30. Cedeno prob. has the most value of the 3.
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Non-threatening rival update.
UK1679666180 replied to wolf stansson's topic in General Baseball Talk
Morton and Washington are dueling Peoria burbs (I guess you could call them burbs). Fwiw, Washington has the better HS baseball team, so I give the edge to Washington. -
Non-threatening rival update.
UK1679666180 replied to wolf stansson's topic in General Baseball Talk
I don't care. I'm from Morton so I have to mention my superiority to him. Plus I assumed it was me because the Cardinals stadium does suck. Morton is superior to someone? I'll be damned. -
As far as Arkansas: Keuchel-LHP Forrest-RHP Bolsinger-RHP Bingham-RHP Owasso: Austin Kirk-LHP (committed to OU)
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OU always blows in baseball. Oliver may not even be able to play. Never said they usually have good classes. Fwiw, Oliver would still likely get drafted in the 1st, even with Boras as his advisor and poss. being ineligible to pitch.
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Non-threatening rival update.
UK1679666180 replied to wolf stansson's topic in General Baseball Talk
For STL's sake they would be better off using him as a starter and get what they can from him rather than close. -
IMB; OU probably won't have a 1st rounder as A. Oliver of OSU is the only probable 1st rounder in the state but OU should do well with Richards, Baker, Hubbard, and the Quad Cities product Doyle with several others likely to go between 10-20. JUCOs are looking pretty bad in OK HS (if you're still around Norman) maybe head to Yukon, maybe do the 20-30 minute drive to Yukon and see LHP Chad James or another lefty Andrew Heaney out of Putnam City.
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It'll be weird knowing that neither Arizona or Arizona St. will likely have a 1st rounder this year.
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I'd rather see the Cubs become less of a micromanaging team with pinch-hitters, double switches, etc. and use 12 pitchers to allow to monitor starter workload closer (espec. Harden and Zambrano). Except for the rare extra-inning marathon, there is no reason to burn out a bench unless a manager is overmanaging with 13 position players.
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But it's 500k all over the place over several years. If you refuse to supply the back of your roster with cheap players from within your own system, you end up spending millions extra every season, because those guys you pay double for marginal short-term improvements have to be replaced and/or given a raise earlier and more often than the younger players that can do virtually the same thing. While this is a flaw under Hendry (espec. with someone like Miles compared to someone like Cedeno in a hopefully similar role) is separate IMO given that I think Gathright will be worth that 500K difference over Pie unlike the 2 mil or so Miles will be making over Cedeno.
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They can and should develop kids on their 25 man roster and I mentioned inferior kids, which Pie is and will likely be which is different than someone who has the ceiling and the likely possibly that they will be an everyday player like Soto was and hopefully Vitters and/or Colvin will be down the road.
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yeah, i agree. i just remember thinking the Gathright signing indicated that Pie was probably part of the Peavy deal. They have too many CF'ers as it is.