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  1. XZero771679666304
    Rich Hill and Seam Marshall are two more we developed. We just then chose to not use them in that role. But, both of those guys were good starters that we turned out. Rich Hill was good for five minutes and fell apart. Marshall was decent as a starter, but there was always a question over his ability to deal with the workload of a full season. He's much better in his current role. This organization hasn't produced a SP the caliber of Matt Garza in almost a decade.
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    I really don't care about the Pujols walk offs all that much. Leaving pitchers in too long and not playing our better young guys when they get called up (Castillo, most notably) has really gotten under my skin. This season would be a crap storm regardless of Quade, but he has been more of the same, worse in some regards. He's been disappointingly different from the guy I thought we had in ST.
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    I understand it's you opinion, but I'm sorry, the bold part is a terrible reason to not dramatically improve your team, especially not for the sake of holding on to the prospects who like will have nothing close to the impact a player like Garza does. Avoiding being bad for prolonged periods of time hinges on having more players like Garza. I just am all for doing this for good hitters, we have sucked at developing them. Had we done that deal for David Wright, cool. But we have developed a lot of nice pitchers of later. I hate trading away prospects for them. Who is the front of the rotation starter we've developed? Z? Archer's ceiling is probably Garza, but with his control problems it's no guarantee he'll even approach that. Trading Hak-Ju Lee irked me a bit, but he was an A ball player. The rest of the players were filler. Dempster is getting older and Z may not be around much longer. I think the Garza trade was a pretty astute move, actually. Z, Prior, Wood Yeah, that's what I was driving at. It's been quite a while since we developed a really good starter. And Prior is a stretch since he was practically a can't miss player who spent little time in the minors.
  4. XZero771679666304
    Yeah, this place had had it's ups and downs, but I really can't imagine going anywhere else.
  5. XZero771679666304
    This season isn't Quade's fault, but he's been nothing short of awful.
  6. XZero771679666304
    I understand it's you opinion, but I'm sorry, the bold part is a terrible reason to not dramatically improve your team, especially not for the sake of holding on to the prospects who like will have nothing close to the impact a player like Garza does. Avoiding being bad for prolonged periods of time hinges on having more players like Garza. I just am all for doing this for good hitters, we have sucked at developing them. Had we done that deal for David Wright, cool. But we have developed a lot of nice pitchers of later. I hate trading away prospects for them. Who is the front of the rotation starter we've developed? Z? Archer's ceiling is probably Garza, but with his control problems it's no guarantee he'll even approach that. Trading Hak-Ju Lee irked me a bit, but he was an A ball player. The rest of the players were filler. Dempster is getting older and Z may not be around much longer. I think the Garza trade was a pretty astute move, actually.
  7. XZero771679666304
    Yeah, it's probably irrelevant whether or not Wood has a NTC since I can't imagine Hendry (or really most any GM) trading him after the mega discount he gave us in the offseason. I'm pretty sure he's here to stay and that's not really that bad a thing - a veteran reliever probably doesn't net us all that much anyway. Stunned is too tame a word for the surprise I'd feel if Wood was traded. It seems pretty implicit that he came back to finish his career and that a future trade isn't even a consideration And even if Wood degrades into a mop up guy I wouldn't mind having him around.
  8. XZero771679666304
    Just thinking from we were are at we need to be hoarding prospects and we gave away two pretty good ones. The Cubs don't need to be hoarding prospects; most prospects do not pan out. They need to continue improving the farm system so that you can both develop players internally and have the resources to make trades for valuable players like Garza when they're available. We traded away two good prospects who may or may not pan out for an in-his-prime front of the rotation pitcher under team control for 3 more years. I don't see a problem here. We probably won't be good for those three years. I'd rather keep the two younger kids, but that's just my personal prefenrence. I don't think Jim should be fired over that trade or anything. If things go reasonably well this offseason, this team has a good chance to compete in 2012 and a great chance in 2013 and 2014. A lot of money coming off the books, good FA hitting the market and a couple good looking kids nearing the big team. Fortunes could change in a hurry.
  9. XZero771679666304
    Just thinking from we were are at we need to be hoarding prospects and we gave away two pretty good ones. The Cubs don't need to be hoarding prospects; most prospects do not pan out. They need to continue improving the farm system so that you can both develop players internally and have the resources to make trades for valuable players like Garza when they're available. We traded away two good prospects who may or may not pan out for an in-his-prime front of the rotation pitcher under team control for 3 more years. I don't see a problem here.
  10. XZero771679666304
    He had an .885 OPS after the ASB last year and hasn't been terrible after April this year, just slightly below average. And he's OPSing .929 so far in June and carrying an OBP over .400 and playing great defense. Try again.
  11. XZero771679666304
    At this point it might be best if it does continue this way. That little burp at the end of last season preserved the status quo for another year, but if this continues change will almost have to be made.
  12. XZero771679666304
    The offense isn't the problem. They're right below league average in runs scored and just above average in OPS. Yeah, they could be better, but they're not the reason this team is one of the worst in the league. The pitching staff, meanwhile, has allowed the most runs per game in the majors, has the worst ERA and the worst WHIP, which includes the second worst H/9 and worst BB/9. They're also in the bottom three in each of BA/OBP/SLG/OPS. Coleman/Russell/Davis/Lopez getting 18 starts this year is exactly the reason why this team is now 11 games under .500. That's the largest part, but the teams has batted anomalously poorly with risp as well.
  13. XZero771679666304
    At this point I'm in let's see how bad this can get mode.
  14. XZero771679666304
    What are you talking about? They guy has a .400+ OBP and plays great defense. He's among the least of the Cubs' problems.
  15. XZero771679666304
    Erm, Wittenmeyer was contending that the Cubs were on Selig's [expletive] list and he would put spending restrictions on them in favor of a steep debt paydown (or something like that). He just said that they aren't and he won't. Yeah, who to believe about where the Cubs stand with the commisioner of baseball...Gordon Wittenmeyer or the commissioner of baseball. Hmmmmm. This is a tough one.
  16. XZero771679666304
    Fixed. I vaguely remember a time when there was some reason to read JeffH's posts, but I could be wrong. Now he's so ludicrous I think it must be a running (unfunny) joke to him.
  17. XZero771679666304
    Like Bud Selig?
  18. XZero771679666304
    I was thinking more like 1996-97 vintage. I would have said 1999-2000, but at least there was Sammy Sosa to watch then.
  19. XZero771679666304
    A run! Huzzah!
  20. XZero771679666304
    Geo's pitch recognition has been awful since he came back.
  21. XZero771679666304
    Well, the picture reflects the outlook, that's for sure.
  22. XZero771679666304
    I just lost WGN. Now I'll have to find another feed to experience the Jaime Garcia PG.
  23. XZero771679666304
    Because playing baseball is too expensive for most families to afford these days. Too much pricey equipment and travel. Baseball is trending down over the past 25 years, but it still ranks second only to the NFL in percentage of fans who consider it their favorite sport, according the Harris Poll. It's actually held steady over the past decade.
  24. XZero771679666304
    You're a real trooper, Fred. It's hard enough for me to watch this disaster, much less calmly document it.
  25. XZero771679666304
    WHHEEEE
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