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  1. dew1679666265
    Trading Fukudome without having to pick up too much of his salary and/or getting a decent return is more important than playing Colvin right now. You might as well flush those outcomes down the toilet if you effectively bench Fukudome for Colvin. Plus, we don't know how Colvin would react to playing everyday. Right now he's being placed into good matchups and getting plenty of rest. If he started everyday, though, we don't know that he could continue his .900+ OPS (very unlikely) pace. For what it's worth, he's had the most plate appearances in June than either other month and he's posted his lowest OPS. Mar/Apr: 53 PA, .965 OPS May: 30 PA, 1.033 OPS June: 57 PA, .871 OPS Again, may not mean anything, but it's interesting to note.
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    Dominique Jones . . . Guess we're focusing on scorers in this draft. I like that.
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    Well then, that still makes me hope we take a high-upside guy like Orton.
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    Thanks snood and illini. I'm liking this pick considering we need to be able to score. What are some of the better PGs left on the board?
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    Yeah, I keep hearing they're not happy with Conley (even rumors that they'd try Mayo at PG). I wouldn't be unhappy with a point guard, though I still think Conley can continue to improve.
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    He's more of a shooting guard than a small forward. I don't see him putting the ball on the floor and attacking the rim much but there's always room for good spot up shooters in the NBA who have size and can guard. Henry will do that. I think he can be a 40%+ 3 point shooter in the NBA. Thanks Sponge. We really need some scoring after last year's draft, so it sounds like Henry was a really good pick. Wouldn't mind a high-upside guy like Orton with the next pick.
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    Snood or somebody who knows better than I, How good of a pick is Xavier Henry? I've been impressed with him in college, but not sure how he'd translate to the pros. Could he potentially replace Rudy Gay?
  8. dew1679666265
    We generally prefer those that actually make some sense. What part of my argument didn't make sense? You can't always look at the monthly splits. It's difficult, especially from the perspective of a fan, to determine how valuable a player is simply by commenting on how he looks or how you perceive him to be handling a certain role. Colvin has been valuable to the Cubs so far this year because he's been very productive, not so much because of his look. On the other hand, you criticized Kosuke for not looking like a baseball player, and yet he's been very productive as well – one of the best players on the team. If a player is being productive and benefiting the team on the field, the stats will tell you that. It's far too subjective to try to determine a player's value by how you perceive he looks.
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    I think it shows more that he's a streaky player. He starts out hot and then gets streaky throughout the rest of the year. Being bad in 1-2 months out of a four-month stretch just doesn't show that a player is bad over that entire four-month period. It shows that he's a very streaky player during that period. And honestly, it's hard to take a lot out of this month for him. He's been bad no doubt, but only in 11 games so far with inconsistent play.
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    Penalty shootout, I think. But I'm just a newb as well and could be wrong. My fifa world cup game had me play two 15 minute overtime periods, then I'm guessing it would have gone to penalty shots. Yeah, that seems to be the consensus. As luck based as penalty shots are, they're still incredibly exciting.
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    Penalty shootout, I think. But I'm just a newb as well and could be wrong.
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    Thanks Kyle and bukie! Losing would have been especially tough after the missed chances.
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    Man, wish I could have watched that. How did we score the winning goal?
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    It's not all that odd for a new GM to go after players he liked in the past, but I do think MacPhail has gone to the extreme a bit here. At the same time, though, unless those guys are taking spots that legitimate prospects could have, it's worth a try. Pie, Montanez, Fox and Hill were all either well thought of or have one or two very good skills that make them worth a shot for a team that isn't going to contend. Give them a shot, see if they can break out, and then drop them when you start getting legit talent on the roster. I have no idea why you're lumping in Pie with all of these other rejects. All former Cub prospects. Pie is the biggest success of the group, that's for sure.
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    http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/ct-spt-0622-around-town--20100621,0,786338.column If we have to eat that much money, Id rather just keep him. Unless we'd be getting 1-2 really, really good prospects there's no reason to trade Fuku and eat most of his money. There really shouldn't be a rush to open a spot for Colvin. He's not out of options and he's still fairly young. If nobody is interested now because of money, keep him until the offseason or the deadline next year and trade him then. Eating a ton of money and getting little in return makes no sense whatsoever at this point.
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    It's not all that odd for a new GM to go after players he liked in the past, but I do think MacPhail has gone to the extreme a bit here. At the same time, though, unless those guys are taking spots that legitimate prospects could have, it's worth a try. Pie, Montanez, Fox and Hill were all either well thought of or have one or two very good skills that make them worth a shot for a team that isn't going to contend. Give them a shot, see if they can break out, and then drop them when you start getting legit talent on the roster.
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    It's certainly possible that Hendry simply overrated Pierre enough to get fleeced by Florida, but given his very good history in not overpaying in trades - even for players he wants badly - makes me think he didn't see much value in Nolasco, Pinto and Mitre. And given their careers to this point, any feeling he had in that regard appears to be justified.
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    The "could have gotten so much more" is how I interpreted your posts. I took your terming of Juan Pierre being "useless" as thinking they could get somebody of use – i.e. a better player – for those three or some combination of them. If you just mean a different, yet not better, player then that's a different subject.
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    I don't have a problem talking about trades, but you're speaking in certainties when none of us know the certainty. Saying we shouldn't have traded for Juan Pierre because he sucks or because he doesn't have the right approach at the plate is quantifiable and we know that's the case. However, arguing that trading those three players for Juan Pierre was stupid because we could have gotten so much more for some combination of those players may or may not be accurate. I'm not a fan of the Pierre trade at all, but not because of the perceived value of those three players. It's simply because I don't value Pierre all that highly as a player.
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    My question again, though, is how useful were they? If the three of them combined legitimately could only net Juan Pierre, then I can't imagine any of them individually were all that valuable. There's just no point in asking that question. Jim Hendry wasn't shopping around those three players and seeing what he could get. Jim Hendry was going after Juan Pierre. I think there is a point in asking the question, though, if someone is stating that he certainly could have gotten more value than he did for those three players. I'm wondering how you know for sure he could have. For Hendry's struggles as a GM, he's been pretty close to excellent at getting good value for players he trades away. I'll agree that he does value "leadoff type" hitters more than he should, but did he value Pierre so much that he would give away very valuable trade chips to acquire him and, thus, vastly overpay – something he very rarely does in trades? Or were those players really just not that valuable, he knew that, and got the max value he could (even if the player wasn't the best to target)? If you're going to unequivocally state that those players were more valuable than Juan Pierre, then I think you have to know the answer to those questions.
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    My question again, though, is how useful were they? If the three of them combined legitimately could only net Juan Pierre, then I can't imagine any of them individually were all that valuable. However, if Hendry could have gotten more for them, but his perceived value for Pierre was higher than it should have been, then their individual value was likely higher than the trade indicated. My question is, how much value did they actually have individually at the time? You keep saying they (or a combination of some of them and others) could have netted someone more valuable than Pierre. I wonder how you know that for sure. I'm thinking their individual value simply wasn't all that high since Hendry is generally very good at getting value for minor leaguers.
  22. dew1679666265
    Outside of simply making his presence be known (show up in the bleachers every once in a while?), what specifically can Ricketts do in Chicago that he can't do on a boat in Africa? I'm sure he's keeping very much up to date with the goings on in the standings and with attendance. Why do you think it's important that he be here? Please tell me this isn't the meme going around on talk radio? I don't live in Chicago so I don't know if it's a talk radio subject or not. I just saw it in an article recently.
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    Outside of simply making his presence be known (show up in the bleachers every once in a while?), what specifically can Ricketts do in Chicago that he can't do on a boat in Africa? I'm sure he's keeping very much up to date with the goings on in the standings and with attendance. Why do you think it's important that he be here?
  24. dew1679666265
    Ricketts said he informed Hendry and the front office members of the direction he wanted them to take while he was gone (i.e. either start selling or stay the course and see if these players can improve). I don't know what else he could do in Chicago at this moment. If it was in his plans to fire Hendry within this weeks long window that he's in Africa, I'd figure he'd have done it before he left.
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    But again, it's not that he gave up future hall of famers. He gave up valuable trade pieces for a useless player. CCP made the point better than I did. I'm not advocating trading those players specifically for Juan Pierre, but I wonder how much better of a player they actually could have brought. I'd like to think much better, but I'm not sure Hendry's ever been fleeced in a trade and it seems odd that he'd give up way more than he should have there.
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