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  1. UK1679666180
    He was hurt for most of last year too. This year, he has had really poor command and everything has been up in the zone compared to last year.
  2. UK1679666180
    He's showing some pop against RH'ers with 5 of his 11 hits being XBHs.
  3. UK1679666180
    How did you get that he wanted Soriano back at leadoff, after he specifically mentioned that Fukudome was doing well at leadoff?
  4. UK1679666180
    Doumit has been activated off the DL and I put him in the starting line-up for tomorrow.
  5. UK1679666180
    Mechanically, Francouer is different than he was early on. His stride has gotten longer and he start his swing earlier as well as elevated his swing and it has hurt against breaking balls. Combine that with an already bad approach and it has hurt him. Even with that bat speed and natural gifts, he hasn't been able to overcome that approach and now regressing mechanics.
  6. UK1679666180
    thank you I feel like he gives me a bad name. Get off your knees for god's sake man. Stop looking for approval. edit: And you had the audacity to question the same thing about Maybin/Rasmus? Give me a break. NPC asked a question as to why I felt that way as to which I answered, you wanted to round up the Rasmus' defense society by saying some idiotic remark without providing anything of use. There's alot different between what NPC and what you said.
  7. UK1679666180
    I'm sure that Gary is down at East Cobb this week.
  8. UK1679666180
    It looks like a great matchup between the Rays and Fuzzy.
  9. UK1679666180
    I've never seen anyone say Maybin has a higher ceiling, but okay. And you'd be wrong but thanks for the in-depth contribution. You can start by looking at where they were drafted.
  10. UK1679666180
    I agree with DJ, Kirk, and Raley that they'll do everything it takes to sign them, but with kids that are later round picks that are posturing for more money that they're going to run into a situation where if the Cubs run out of open roster spots (which they will as most teams only have a handful of kids they really want to sign right now) and they know who they want to sign and who they don't. There might be one or two that they overslot to get but it's looks less likely this year. At this point, it's not about money allocated towards the draft as that was likely established before everything began compared how many spots are there at Fitch and maybe Boise (for the college kids). I would probably put the odds of signing DJ and Kirk at nearly 90%, Raley at 75%, with likely only one of the 3 HS kids.
  11. UK1679666180
    Fukudome and Sanchez would be outstanding at the top of the order. I'm willing to give Fontenot and Baker a shot, but I'd much rather see Sanchez.
  12. UK1679666180
    I only know Gary among UK's staff. It's good you went to someone with the knowledge of a coach. I'm looking forward to seeing what they have to say. Good article, I enjoyed it. One more thing... If you analyze what he is saying... You should factor that collegiate pitchers typically have higher pitch counts given lesser command/control, aluminum bats, weaker defenses, and usually 6 days rest as well as some coaches that are careless given they have at most a 4 year window with the kids.
  13. UK1679666180
    Better runner, more bat speed, & more raw power. They have similar arm strength and Rasmus projects to be better defensively.
  14. UK1679666180
    Although Maybin still has the higher ceiling, it frustrates me that him in the minors and Rasmus doing well has made me look wrong.
  15. UK1679666180
    At this point of the draft, I would assume the Cubs maybe have 2-5 slots open for draft picks remaining, obviously Raley will have a spot and we'll see who gets the remaining spots and who even gets offered anything at all. Just b/c they're drafted doesn't mean they'll even get an offer, many of the HS kids drafted late won't get an offer and was selected for the remote chance they would sign below what they're worth b/c of not qualifying academically or no desire to go to school. Other HS kids will get drafted late based on evaluating over the rest of the Summer.
  16. UK1679666180
    Depending on how sharp his slider is, he probably isn't any different than most AAAA lefties wondering around. Name matters little after you have gone thru what he has gone thru and putting up those velo reports.
  17. UK1679666180
    The Cubs wouldn't draft LeMahieu and Kirk that high without knowing their demands and knowing they would meet them. With Kirk, they're evaluating over the Summer as he plays travel ball and with LeMahieu (Is he playing in the cape?) likewise. With Raley.... They know what he wants, they know as a draft eligible Soph. he does have more leverage than many draft eligible college players but are likely evaluating him more and going thru the song and dance thru the Summer. Problems arise when advisors suddenly increase demands once drafted.
  18. UK1679666180
    Next time you plan on going, let me know so I can slash your tires. My fantasy team has only 1 good player and that's it. :)
  19. UK1679666180
    Have a newspaper writer piss off DeWitt, it worked with the draft.
  20. UK1679666180
    The only way Fox would've did anything would've been off of sliders like he seen on Sunday. You're looking at it on face value rather than breaking it down, Soriano is deadly vs. RH'ers and Fox can't hit good sliders, it's a horrible match-up for Fox. It doesn't make sense to try and assume that Fox would do better than Fontenot (who has been better of late) against Soriano. The odds were terrible of them doing anything against Soriano, he doesn't give up much and the Cubs collectively can't hit. The odds would have likely decreased if Fox was in there over Fontenot. It would've been a dumb decision had Fox PH'ed for Fontenot.
  21. UK1679666180
    It's close as far as which one is better between Vitters and Beckham, I'd give the edge to Beckham right now given that is approach is better and defensively (while he's not a natural SS) he's above avg. at 3B if he sticks there as I think he will, while Vitters only projects to avg. at 3B. He doesn't have the bat speed and raw power of Vitters, but he's still above avg. with both. Both are light years ahead of Fox. As far as sports talk DJs trying to break down farm systems, that's why they seem clueless when they have some like Callis on. They basically know a little bit about every topic to hold a conversation with an avg. fan, but unless it is their particular sport (Mulligan FB/Hanley BB), they just try and get by without looking dumb when discussing a subject they seldon follow (like the Cubs farm).
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    You're hoping for a mistake from an outstanding reliever while (in that situation) putting in an inferior hitter over Fontenot. That would've reduced the odds of anything good coming out of it, even lower with Fox over Fontenot.
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    That may be, but Fontenot looked pretty ridiculous against at least one slider last night. The other problem with using Fontenot, is even if he gets a pitch he can really drive, he wasn't likely to do much hitting into that wind. I guess I just don't like the idea of leaving Fox on the bench with the way he's been crushing RHP when the tying run is on base in the 9th. You don't need a HR though, you would've needed an XBH to score Soriano against a defense that was shaded back. The most likely outcome would've been back to back hits, not HRs, especially with that wind and Fox vs. that slider. I could've hit those sliders Fox hit on Sunday. His weakness is still sliders low and away as he's a dead pull hitter, he happened to get two up and out over the plate and crushed them.
  24. UK1679666180
    Soriano's stuff is best suited against RH'ers with that plus/plus slider, his OPS against is nearly .150 lower vs. RH'ers and Fox still struggles against RH'ed sliders (despite crushing them vs. MIL). It was the right move keeping Fontenot in at that time.
  25. UK1679666180
    It's okay. Our other starts tonight are against each other. I have money on Josh Johnson tearing Zito up. I don't know how I'm still in it this week, this might be one of the rare times my offense carries me.
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