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  1. XZero771679666304
    Love Russell. C - Schwarber (yeah, right) 1B - Rizzo 2B - Castro SS - Russell 3B - Baez LF - Bryant CF - Almora RF - Soler Alcantara as super sub extraordinaire. Plenty of room for everybody. Swap Alcantara for Almora (I think Arismendy may end up being more productive, and Almora may end up being traded), and that's about what I see happening.
  2. XZero771679666304
    When did that happen? Since the scoring environment took a plunge.
  3. XZero771679666304
    Atari-NES-Genesis-N64-PS1-XBox-XBox360 Extra points for anyone who had a TurboGrafx 16. Had a friend that had it. I had one. I bought it used when it was on its way out, but I had one. Sega CD and 32X, too. You could pick up those systems with limited libraries for dirt cheap used.
  4. XZero771679666304
    I paid more money for a copy of this than the Gamecube to play it on. It was the first RPG I had played where your party got split up mid-story and had you bounce back and forth between them. FFVI? Anyway, I started out with an NES, then a Sega Genesis (and was ever so briefly a Sega fanboy), then got a SNES a couple years later. I loved them equally, pretty much.
  5. XZero771679666304
    I apologized for bringing up the "lol ned colletti" thing without the requisite number of posts mocking ned colletti (3 or more?). but then everyone else's pavlovian freakout kicked in and all kinds of people starting [expletive] on ned colletti. because he's a very bad GM, even though ownership gives him enough money to spend that it doesn't really matter too much why is it hard to reconcile those two ideas? Because when you are winning, all involved parties are above reproach. Duh.
  6. XZero771679666304
    Congrats to them on being able to have a 90 win team (and a 2 game lead) on a $230M payroll, I guess fortunately for them, playoff berths aren't handed out on a win per $ basis. And earning a playoff berth doesn't make you above ridicule. Ned Coletti is a moron. He's just a moron with a titanic payroll. But apparently as long as the Cubs stink, no one is allowed to say anything that could possibly be construed as derogatory about any team or employee of a team that is winning more games than the Cubs.
  7. XZero771679666304
    I've stupidly wanted every big name FA that's come up since Theo and co. were hired and that's likely never going to change barring all of the prospects coming up and being amazing. This rebuild has broken what little baseball acumen I had and now I am meatballin' hard. I was also very much in favor of signing Pujols. Pujols had me really conflicted. Everything in the the way his numbers were trending said stay the [expletive] away, and iirc, I argued pretty hard against those who wanted him signed at all costs. But on the other hand, I really wanted to feel the pain of Cardinal fans as their franchise cornerstone spurned them for their hated rivals. It would have been a complete disaster; he was already a couple years into his decline phase, and that has continued. And you know the pain of the BFIB would have turned into mocking us about being saddled with that outrageous contract.
  8. XZero771679666304
    No one is saying that. Just that it's not a guy you stay up at night thinking "man, what could have been...". I would have like the Cubs to have signed him, but by this time next year (in a hypothetical world where we signed him) he very well could be blocking someone. Not everyone agrees, but I think Bryant ends up in the OF. Soler is coming, and all signs point to Alcantara being the CF. Of course next season is that last on his contract and he could be moved, and having him the the last few years would have been nice, but I'm less and less bothered by missing out on him every day. Or having Cespedes gives you more freedom to move guys in trades. Or he himself could have been a tradeable asset. The Cubs avoided nothing bad by not signing him. Has anyone said that they did? If so, I missed it.
  9. XZero771679666304
    No one is saying that. Just that it's not a guy you stay up at night thinking "man, what could have been...". I would have like the Cubs to have signed him, but by this time next year (in a hypothetical world where we signed him) he very well could be blocking someone. Not everyone agrees, but I think Bryant ends up in the OF. Soler is coming, and all signs point to Alcantara being the CF. Of course next season is that last on his contract and he could be moved, and having him the the last few years would have been nice, but I'm less and less bothered by missing out on him every day.
  10. XZero771679666304
    I'll gladly trade the ranking for the boost to the big club.
  11. XZero771679666304
    The BBs are great, but it's the drop in Ks that's really exciting. The fact that he's getting promoted soon is what's really coming. Javy is coming. I've been trying to rein in my optimism about that, but it's becoming increasingly difficult.
  12. XZero771679666304
    The BBs are great, but it's the drop in Ks that's really exciting.
  13. XZero771679666304
    No, there are people saying that while he does have a smaller than normal UCL, according to people who are experts (Dr. James Andrews specifically), there's nothing indicating that it makes him a higher risk for blowing out his elbow and he'll still get a very large signing bonus. Maybe I'm being presumptuous, but while I don't think the Astros fabricated anything, I think they tried to overplay the abnormality as leverage to get more savings to use on overslot guys. Obviously they didn't think it was dire, or they wouldn't have offered him the reduced amount, either. If you believe enough in the guy to give him 5MM, giving him 6.5MM should not have been a dealbreaker. They got greedy, and it blew up spectacularly in their faces.
  14. XZero771679666304
    Any time he make an out and doesn't K is a win. ftfy
  15. XZero771679666304
    Well, that's certainly odd.
  16. XZero771679666304
    I was talking to a woman on a dating site who was on the low end of my 1/2age+7 rule and she wasn't even born when Seinfeld season 2 was running. That's when I noped out of dating sites. You aren't 36 yet, are you? I'm 32. People born the after the second season of Seinfeld finished would be no older than 23. You're looking to get laid, not find a life partner. I'd never want to go through what you are having to go through because of your whore ex wife. But if I was, I'd be looking to bang as many 20 year olds as my dick could handle. http://i531.photobucket.com/albums/dd358/Cloudstrife219/disgusted_zps4ab646a0.gif
  17. XZero771679666304
    That's the thing though, people aren't expecting him to have much success right away because of pitch recognition issues and it will most likely take him a bit to adapt. I wouldn't be surprised if he spent most or all of next year in AA unless the pitch recognition switch suddenly and magically flips on for him. I realize that. I do not think it's going to take him 1.3 seasons or whatever to show extended success at AA. Baez had some of the same issues, has had only 1/3 of a season of success this year, and now people are thinking he's going to get a promotion soon (and they may well be right). So I would tend to agree with you. Even if Almora struggles the rest of this year and the beginning of next year, it's totally conceivable that he adjusts, puts together a couple good months and gets a promotion midseason.
  18. XZero771679666304
    I think that depends on how quickly (if at all) he adjusts. If he has smart as has been suggested, wouldn't assume it will take 1 1/2 full seasons. Time will tell, but I don't think a mid-2015 promotion to AAA would be a completely unreasonable expectation.
  19. XZero771679666304
    wrong He's currently on pace for a very similar season as he had his rookie year. Very similar in terms of net WAR, but his rates were all much better in 2012. He's a very solid but (statistically) unspectacular player. Moving from CF to LF has reduced his value a bit, too.
  20. XZero771679666304
    At this point, I think a reasonable positive outcome for Almora would be a CF version of Castro, but with slightly better defensive production.
  21. XZero771679666304
    Cespedes and Puig? Those guys have come up and had success pretty early on (Cespedes has since been pretty meh at best) Oh, come on. What? I know you love Cespedes, but he's been nothing special. Good, better than any of our OF, but not so much as to have been a difference maker. Of the recent wave of noteworthy Cubans, he's been the least productive. Relative to expectations, probably a little meh. That's not to say I don't wish the Cubs had signed him; I absolutely do. But I think there's a very good chance that Soler will be better. Perhaps a lot better.
  22. XZero771679666304
    Good thing Theo didn't make that big splash in his first year. Things would be a lot different. And that doesn't even include Rizzo's pretty good 2012 and does include his disappointing 2013. Of course it doesn't include Pujols's good 2012 and Fielder's great one. No, but if you do, he's produced more fWAR than either of them individually (barely, but still).
  23. XZero771679666304
    Good thing Theo didn't make that big splash in his first year. Things would be a lot different. As much as I would have loved the reaction of Cards fans, I had a pretty good idea that signing Pujols would have been a grievous error. At least to the contract it was going to take to get him. I didn't think the wheels would come off for Fielder this quickly, though. Rizzo's not ever going to be 2000's Pujols, but he's almost certainly going to produce more than either of those guys will over the next five years, barring disaster.
  24. XZero771679666304
    I'm sure they're not going to go into world series or bust mode, but I think they may actually shoot for contention in 2015.
  25. XZero771679666304
    Baez is so coming up once they get rod of Bonifacio I'm not sure Emilio will surrender it so easily
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