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Confirmation of Stark's earlier post:
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Do they want $ or the coach back? hasn't the relationship between Fisher and the stloen coach hurt their relationship so that the USC coach wouldn't even want to come back? He would be looked at as traitor by the Titans. That's what I can't figure out – what is the object for the Titans here? It's probably just a PR move I'm thinking.
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Tim-I know that some teams(Dodgers and Seattle) value their Far East scouting and have had success, but I don't think the Cubs are good at it. Fukudome has been a disappointment and Hee Seop Choi couldn't get out of other players way. We've had catching and pitching suspects who languish at A or AA. Are we missing out on the really good ones or just not enough to around? There are some really interesting young players in the minors right now from the Far East. Hak-Ju Lee is a 19 (I think) year old shortstop who is a whiz defensively and is developing offensively. If he progresses like it appears he will, he'll force Castro off SS in the future. We also have Dae-Eun Rhee, a real interesting pitcher coming off an injury. There are others, but I can't think of more off the top of my head.
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I'm still not sure he drove down the value of the other players. Most were already either really old (Sammy) or were playing badly (Bradley, Eyre, Patterson). Wuertz is the only exception as he was young and pitching well. Hendry did sell too low on most of them, though. He made it pretty well known that Sosa, Bradley and Eyre (through Lou's weird nonuse of him) had to go. He pretty much based the 04 and 09 offseason on that contention. Right, I'm just saying I think their value had pretty much bottomed out already. Sammy was 36 years old and his OPS had just dropped 70 points, Bradley had a .775 OPS and was a clubhouse headache and Eyre had struggled (if I remember right) that entire season. My point is that their value was about as low as it would go and Hendry talking about how they had to go likely didn't drop the value a significant amount.
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There's also the injury risk with Lilly pitching in the second half of the year. It's unlikely his arm would fall off in the next 2-3 months, but there's that chance.
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I'm still not sure he drove down the value of the other players. Most were already either really old (Sammy) or were playing badly (Bradley, Eyre, Patterson). Wuertz is the only exception as he was young and pitching well. Hendry did sell too low on most of them, though.
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What did Hendry do to ruin Barrett's trade value? Barrett punched Z and then the Cubs traded him. I don't recall Hendry stressing the need to trade Barrett or anything. Plus, we got Kyler Burke for Barrett, not a bad haul considering he had a .734 OPS for us when we traded him.
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They could, yes. However, you'll know a lot more about a guy like Archer, even if he's not rated real highly, and his ability to get guys at the pro level out than you will about a guy coming in from high school or college. I'm not really advocating targeting those types of players for a guy as valuable as Lilly, keep in mind. I prefer focusing on the more highly rated guys who are a bit more of a sure thing. However, I simply wouldn't be surprised if Hendry targets a similar, but better group of players that he got in the DeRosa trade.
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I'm definitely in favor of getting something. Hendry and the scouts tend to be pretty good at picking out the high upside, flawed guys in the low minors, so that could actually be a nice addition for us. I guess the best part of trading him would be that it would all but guarantee that he wouldn't be playing for the Cubs next year. It would definitely eliminate the possibility of offering arbitration.
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I'm definitely in favor of getting something. Hendry and the scouts tend to be pretty good at picking out the high upside, flawed guys in the low minors, so that could actually be a nice addition for us.
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That's basically the same thing that they got when they dealt Todd Walker to the Padres. And honestly, I could see both of them (Theriot and Walker) having similar value across the league. Walker was severely undervalued for some reason (defensive issues primarily, I think) and Theriot, while his value is lower than it was this time last year, is probably the type of player to be overvalued (semi-high average, good perceived speed on the basepaths, "true leadoff" type hitter, etc). Walker was the better player no doubt, but I think the return could be similar between them.
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This has bad trade written all over it. I hope Hendry can find a trade that makes sense from the Cubs' perspective, and if he doesn't, he holds onto Lilly. I'm not too surprised that teams are bringing up reasons why they wouldn't have interest in Lilly. It's about trying to drive down his price this week. By Friday or Saturday, we should start seeing the interest increase again and teams start to get serious. It wouldn't surprise me, though, if we got a package similar (but better) to the one we got for DeRosa. The scout in Hendry probably likes the high upside, yet flawed, guys like Archer, Gaub and Stevens.
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Money shouldn't be an issue since Theriot's salary this year was only $2.6 mil. An acquiring team would be looking at, probably, a million or less to spend the rest of the season on him. That's not much even for the Padres. I think we could expect a raw, low-high A, hard throwing pitcher with some upside.
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Not sure this is worth a new thread since it's just a blurb, but I didn't know where else to put it. According to Jayson Stark:
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Stark's latest on Lilly:
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Yep. B-R has him in AAA Charlotte this year.
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would be a bit redundant, but i guess i can't put it past Hendry anyway. It'd actually be a good move by Hendry to give DLee a full NTC with a new deal. It might cut down the cost and the 10/5 rights would make it irrelevant. Why would it cut down the cost? Considering the 10/5 rights it wouldn't. The post was more than a little tongue-in-cheek in response to the previous joke about Hendry handing out needless NTCs.
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Yeah, you're right. I forgot the Brewers were rumored to be asking for one or both of Floyd and Danks for Prince. And for Truffle, I didn't mean all three of the players. I was thinking Floyd and Danks were brought up as possible returns (individually, not paired) for Dunn, but it was Beckham and Hudson I believe the Nationals wanted.
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would be a bit redundant, but i guess i can't put it past Hendry anyway. It'd actually be a good move by Hendry to give DLee a full NTC with a new deal. It might cut down the cost and the 10/5 rights would make it irrelevant.
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I actually think Z is more likely to be good going forward than Figgins. Z is still not yet 30 (turned 29 in June) and while his stuff has dropped off some, he's still been effective. Figgins, on the other hand, will be 33 by the start of next season and will likely become very reliant on speed to maintain his solid OBP and average. He doesn't slug (hasn't slugged .400 since 2007), so pitchers will likely begin to serve up hittable pitches to him, decreasing his amount of walks and increasing his need to be BABIP lucky. Neither is likely to be good for the extent of their contract, but I think Z is more likely to be productive going forward.
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Figgins this year: .232/.334/.275 :shock:
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I see about 4 or 5 winnable games this year for the Lions... Bears at Home Redskins at Home Bears at home Bills on the Road Bucs on the Road Plus, Dolphins on the Road? You counted Bears at home twice. I think Detroit will be better, but I don't know if they'll win at Soldier Field.
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6+ is probably pushing it a bit. The most realistic path to 6 wins would be: v St. Louis, v Washington, @ Buffalo, v Chicago, @ Tampa, @ Miami. Otherwise they have 2 with Minny, 1 @ Chicago, 1 v Philly, 2 v GB, 1 @ NYG, 1 v NYJ, 1 @ Dallas and 1 v NE. Winning vs Chicago and vs the Jets are probably interchangable for the most part. I could see 4-5 wins this season, which would be a nice step in the right direction.
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That's a good point I hadn't thought about. I wonder if there's a standard rule for NL only leagues.
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From Bruce's blog: