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Edwin Jackson: This season: 5.16 ERA/4.27 FIP/4.27 xFIP – 6.97 K/9 – 4.02 BB/9 Career: 4.74 ERA/4.65 FIP/4.74 xFIP – 6.45 K/9 – 4.02 BB/9 He is just 26, but I don't really see the appeal.
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Horrible bad lowers ticket sales and attendance that much more. You've got to keep some form of trying to compete in some fashion to keep a few fans in the seats. If you try to be horrible bad, you'd be lucky to have 1,000 fans in the seats for games.
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Yeah, money's the biggest thing with Soriano. He's getting criticized when there's no real reason to as well. Reputation plays a big part in this. DLee has always been considered a good leader, Theriot's always been considered a valuable, gritty player, Dempster's a good natured jokster, Byrd's a hard-working team player, etc. On the other hand, Aramis was long ago branded a lazy, selfish player, Milton a hotheaded jerk, Z a mentally unstable fake-ace, etc.
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Again, DLee has been very good for most of his tenure as a Cub. He has a track record that naturally makes people more patient with them. Milton didn't have that here. He was brought in to be a big time hitter and he wasn't. The casual fans and media will be far more critical and impatient with a guy they know and can relate with. So in a sense, yes, DLee's gotten a free pass for his struggles this year. But it's because he's been very good for the Cubs in the past (especially last season) and has built up goodwill. That's what happens with the majority of players. Milton, Z, Aramis, etc., have been the exceptions in that they've been criticized for no good reason. DLee is much more the norm.
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Milton was bad in his first year here, Lee has a track record and has built up goodwill with the fans and community. There's a really big difference there.
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Interesting. Apparently the Jays had interest in Gose in the Halladay deal.
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I'd keep a player before paying nearly most of his salary and getting an underwhelming package. Maybe in the offseason they could have gotten more. Unless you were under strict orders to cut costs ASAP. davearm's two options were keep and pay him or trade him for an underwhelming package and still pay a large portion of his deal. If you have to trade him no matter what, there's not much you can do.
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I'd keep a player before paying nearly most of his salary and getting an underwhelming package. Maybe in the offseason they could have gotten more.
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He's gotten a lot of positive press, but he's also been very good for the most part in Chicago. I don't think it's so much that he's been "protected" than that he hasn't been ridiculously criticized like Kosuke, Aramis and Z.
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Protected how?
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From everything I've heard, Colvin at first and Geo catching would be a better offensive duo than Geo at first and Castillo/Chirinos behind the plate. Both of the latter sound like poor hitting catchers.
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Five games out with 2 months left, but fading. They were as little as 3.5 out on July 17, but had lost a game and a half in the standings in 4 days and since he turned the trade down, they've gone 1-6. They also had a 7-10 record in the month of July up to the 21st. DLee couldn't have known they'd collapse like this, but they didn't look like a good bet to turn it on even then.
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We're not a last place team – there are two teams currently behind us in the standings. The Angels are also only 6 games better than us and still 8.5 games out of first place, currently sitting in third place in their division. Going to the Angels would only put DLee in a marginally better position to make the playoffs. According to mlbtraderumors DLee turned down this trade 8 days ago when the Angels were in 2nd place and only 5 games behind the Rangers. That would have put Lee in a lot better position to make the playoffs than to stay with the Cubs. Better, but still not in a sure-fire playoff situation. Certainly not close enough to say he doesn't care about winning or is nurturing a culture of losing by rejecting the trade.
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I think money plays a huge part this season. Guys who are owed big money beyond this season are seen as less valuable, or at the very least, acquiring teams perceive the sellers as more desperate to clear the payroll. That would bode well for a Lilly trade.
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Not worth a new thread, but I found this interesting. I wonder how far those negotiations went.
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They seem desperate for a trade. Colletti, I think, has said he's willing to pay a bit extra in prospects.
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Way to go Hendry, lower his value even more! :P With how the Haren and Oswalt deals went down, it doesn't make me confident that we'll see the return we think we should get for Lilly. Yeah, we went from a couple of vast overpayings (Yunel and Lee deals) to a couple of pretty big underpayings (Oswalt and Haren deals). It also hurts that the Mets and Tigers dropped out (insomuch as they were conduits to potentially bump up total value), but it helps that there's really not another SP as good as Lilly available at this point. I have no idea what we're looking at for Lilly now.
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From MLB trade rumors
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From Jayson Stark:
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While that's true, it's not going to happen it appears. Maybe he needs another tractor. It better be one of those enclosed, air conditioned ones or I wouldn't waive that option.
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I could see it being off somewhat, but wildly off seems odd. What difference is there in how it's figured in the majors vs the minors?
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He's specifically mentioned Kila Ka'aihaue from the Royals in the past.
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If they're talking about next year, then yeah there's no chance Vitters will or should be in Chicago next year. I thought CubinNY was saying Vitters wasn't likely to get to Chicago at any point though. He said anytime soon, and the previous guy was specifically talking about Vitters playing 1B next year. Yeah, misread that.
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His .252 BABIP despite an 18% LD% is meaningless? Do you not buy into luck playing a part at any level or just in the minors? I didn't realize he meant next year. That being the case, I agree. Vitters won't and shouldn't be the first baseman for the Cubs next season.
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If they're talking about next year, then yeah there's no chance Vitters will or should be in Chicago next year. I thought CubinNY was saying Vitters wasn't likely to get to Chicago at any point though.