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  1. UK1679666180
    I'm content with my team now and ride what I brung and hopefully gets some hot weeks from here on out.
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    Raisin gets an exempt pitcher, my best prospect, and a #1 pick. I'll keep Manny for next year and maybe fit CC in there but it's doubtful.
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    Rays trade U. Jimenez, C. Friedrich, and the 2010 1st rd. pick to Alamo for Sabathia and M. Ramirez.
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    I like Gorzelanny and think that overall it is a good trade for the Cubs. As previously mentioned, Grabow's best pitch is his change-up and is more similar to Remlinger than someone like Ohman. If they keep Gorzelanny in the pen, he could be like Ohman without the baggage. Gorzelanny has increased the velo back to where it was in '07 and has thrown the slider as much as he did that year compared to last year where his FB sat around 88 and threw way more change-ups than sliders. His change-up can flash avg. at times, but often stays up in the zone to RH'ers. Hopefully, they can keep Gorzelanny at Iowa and let him build up some stamina, cont. to show similar velo reading, sharp slider, and show me change to RHers to poss. compete for a spot next year as a starter. I think Gorzelanny would be a good pitcher to work with Rothschild given what he throws. Worst case scenario, I think he ends up as Ohman and Grabow ends up as a misused lefty specialist.
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    I'd rather watch the Ronnie Woo Woo documentary while finding the story on how the dentist fixed his teeth for free more captivating than this waste of time. Unless Bartman walked down the street in the same outfit as he wore that evening, would anyone recognize him?
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    It doesn't involve any draft picks so I didn't include in that thread but... Rays trade Travis Snider and Jerrod Parker to the Screwballs for Wandy Rodriguez.
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    Yeah I don't see the Astros wasting Oswalt early. Most likely scenario is if he leads off an inning like the 7th or 8th and one of the teams has a sizable lead IMO. They still have two more days after today to get him if it's a tight game tonight. He'll get brushed back and deserve it. We'll see how Oswalt handles it, I love his moxie as he's a bit of a punk so he might drill him.
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    Tim Stoddard, watch him in The Rookie of the Year when he's pitching for the Dodgers. :)
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    NC Cubs at Valenzuela's Screwballs Quakers at The Eyes of Texas The Fighting Manginos at Harrys Budcrew Lynx at Saber Metrics Tampa Bay Rays at Galesburg Hand Sanitizers Alamo Stealth at Fuzzy Logistics Severe Tooterstorms at Northside Baseball Raw Dawgs at Tootielicious Hopefully I can this win this week as it would almost guarantee a playoff spot.
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    It's easier to find an offensive player at 2B than SS, especially with the way MLB values defense at SS compared to 2B. It'd be great to find an offensive SS but given their budget, it would take a miracle. Even though he should have a job regardless, Ray Durham would be a starting SS right now if that was his position. Deal with defensive shortcomings (lack of arm, limited quickness) at SS and improve at 2B.
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    back to uk? Yep. It just feels right.
  12. UK1679666180
    Gregg has been much better as of late, but he's still been only the 4th reliever on this team this year. 1)Guzman 2)Marshall 3)Marmol 4)Gregg
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    They aren't teaching linear hitting, you'd see every hitter on their front foot. I'm sure they are teaching some aspects of it as far as the striding forward as almost every does, but they are teaching some aspects of rotational hitting as well which you can see the Cubs hitters clearing their front side and not locking up their front hip.
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    I've never had a problem with their hitting style, most of the hitters I've seen at Peoria use a combo of linear/rotational. They're supposed to to keep the barrel above the hands before contact/knob to front hip because it creates a more level swing at contact and then finish high. You definitely don't see a bunch of Charlie Lau (linear) type of hitters in this organization. You also don't see pure rotational (Adam Dunn) type of hitters either with the extreme uppercut.
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    Just a question but how many teams product superstars for years on years? I give you Yankees, Boston, and Dodgers but off the top of my head thats got to be it? No, that's not it. There are many more teams that consistently produce major league talent year after year. Tampa has a great track record at this point, and they aren't close to being done. Even with all the talent they have produced already, they are still miles ahead of the Cubs in talent still in the minors. The Cubs biggest issue has been the constant change in philosophy and/or complete ignorance in what is needed to produce major league talent. Hendry still needs to be fired yesterday. He needed to be fired yesterday a few years ago. Tampa also had top pick after top pick after top pick in every draft. Its also took now 10 years for them to finally accumulate this talent into a playoff team. No, much of Tampa's base of prospects came later on. They've missed on guys like Neimann (not elite but decent), Townsend, etc. It's the Davis, Hellickson, Jennings, Barnese, etc. that has separated them from the other systems. Tampa is currently a better team than the Cubs, just sucks for them that the two most talented teams in MLB are in the division. If they played in the NLC, they would be easily leading this division.
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    I was talking about Minaya as far as him and Hendry being in similar situations (high pressure market, huge payrolls, disappointing results) and both likely on thin ice if things cont. to go poorly.
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    Week 16

    UK1679666180 replied to bukie's topic in Fantasy Sports

    I'll take the cheap win this week.
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    I want to see how UZR accounts for defensive positioning, which side of the plate the batter is hitting from (given the slice or hook of the ball), etc. before I put too much validity into it. It's great that it does factor PBP but it's just the start of where defensive metrics could be. It's a stat that has value, I think some get carried away with as the defining defensive tool. Like a hitter that has 150 ABs and trying to determine whether or not they can hit ML pitching even with a respectable minor league career, I don't think you can accurately judge an OF based on limited chances they get throughout a season to accurately gauge whether or not they have plus range. It isn't helped by the wild swings in flucuation, I could understand a regression once a player gets past his prime (espec. CF/SS) but there's often nothing consistent about the stat from year to year. It's not reliable enough yet to put on the platform many put it on. Also if I have an OF/IF that is shading based on pitch location and that pitcher missed that side of the plate completely & if that defender gets a late break b/c of that b/c his weight is shifted to where that pitch is supposed to be thrown, it'll hurt him and not really be his fault.
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    It starts at the top with Hendry. He had a poor off-season and hasn't delivered the ultimate goal for an organization that has provided the resources to do so. If the Cubs don't make the playoffs as I don't see them doing at this time, it would be pretty telling if Hendry and Minaya are let go. I don't see them letting Hendry go but it would be justified. Wilken still hasn't had enough time to accurately judge his performance, whether or not it is doing or from above, their early draft picks have been safer players that despite that project more based on tools. Colvin and Jackson both projected as likely ML avg. OF'ers that were considered raw collegiate players. Cashner was a tweener b/c no one knew whether or not he would become a starter or stick as a reliever, he doesn't have the stuff of a #1 starter. The 4 highest profile picks of the last few years have similar traits between Jackson/Colvin and Samardzija/Cashner. They've made steps towards improving the farm, I like the fact they are becoming a major player in the Pacific Rim, but I would like to see them take a more aggressive approach to the draft like Detroit does.
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    Because if they don't have the farm system, they're still going to be paying FA market value on players they'll need to replace who are past their prime (Z-2012, Lee-10, Lilly-10, Dempster-12). 2011 gives some hope given the most likely dead weight of Fukudome and Bradley will be off the books and hopefully Vitters has progressed to compete for the Ramirez spot. I don't want them in the same spot of trying to build a team thru FA, it doesn't work, this current regime doesn't have the same evaluation skills nor the farm of teams of recent champions.
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    eh it's possible, but baltimore is a middle-market team while the cubs can keep their payroll high. i can see them having a short down period but i don't see any reason that they should be in the toilet for 10 years. Balt. had one of the highest payrolls at the time. Unless they cont. to build up the farm, I can see them being medicore (78-85 wins) for the next 5 years or so.
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    The Cubs are stuck in limbo right now, similar to the Orioles about 9 years ago as far as generally declining with aging, regressing, and overpaid players absorbing most of the payroll and little from the (while slightly improving) farm system. Oh god no, please don't say that. The Orioles of 9 years ago, ouch. Look at the O's of 96', 97', and 98'. I don't have to look to know what you are referencing. And it makes me cry. I definitely don't want that path but it is a possibility these next few years.
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    The Cubs do need a backup C (although I'm usually not a fan of an over the hill backup C since it leads to a revolving door of backup Cs and likely quick regressions), Zaun has produced in that role unlike most of years past.
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    The Cubs are stuck in limbo right now, similar to the Orioles about 9 years ago as far as generally declining with aging, regressing, and overpaid players absorbing most of the payroll and little from the (while slightly improving) farm system. Oh god no, please don't say that. The Orioles of 9 years ago, ouch. Look at the O's of 96', 97', and 98'.
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    That doesn't take away the fact that they're still dead-locked b/c of the contracts of bad againg players. It's great that players like Marmol, (hopefully as a starter) Marshall, Soto, Theriot, etc. have contributed (although none are true impact players) but that core of lack of production per $$$ spent is there. Personally, I don't know what I want them to do (ideally I'd rather them blow up the shop but they can't b/c not many want what they would want to get rid of). They have talent that isn't producing and b/c of that don't likely have what it takes to get it done and limited ability to improve on what they have.
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