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  1. XZero771679666304
    Because they hate third basemen.
  2. XZero771679666304
    When a player is as young and raw as Dunston, you can't rightly call him a flop after one year. To say his performance is disappointing is one thing, but to call him a flop has a much more severe connotation, flop is a term usually reserved for players who fail to develop over the course of years, or never do at all. Dunston struggling for a good while should was a distinct possibility (if not probability), and it does not make him a "flop". His development process was always going to be a bit longer, and I don't think using his signing bonus as a basis for how long it takes him to start producing results is a particularly well thought out way of gauging whether his pick was a good one.
  3. XZero771679666304
    I was just watching highlights of the 1990 ASG on MLB Network and they showed Barry Bonds horsing around with Canseco and McGwire, marveling at their size. After Mac picked Bonds up like a toy, Barry said "These boys are too big for me." Ha.
  4. XZero771679666304
    I'm pretty sure most of the people who will watch it already do.
  5. XZero771679666304
    The press isn't getting anything from the FO. A lot of [expletive] being thrown at the wall.
  6. XZero771679666304
    If he's drunk he's not moving unless it's behind the wheel
  7. XZero771679666304
    No, his numbers haven't been awful, but they haven't been nearly what they could be. I've never been under the impression that he was overmatched or overrated, but that he was getting in his own way. I definitely have felt like his ability to make contact has been a double edged sword. My feeling has long been that if he'd swing at fewer pitcher's pitches at work counts into his favor, the power would follow. We're seeing some of that now (how much of that is him and how much is the PCL remains to be seen, but the correlation is encouraging). I've often been surprised at how many people write him off, given his age.
  8. XZero771679666304
    My impression was that Vitters' hit tool was so good that it allowed him to consistently make contact with bad pitches, which combined with his lack of selectivity, led to relatively poor numbers. Also, iirc, he was rated fairly highly in raw power in HS. Now if he continues to become more selective and swings at more hittable pitches, could he not "develop" more power? I'm not sure that his lack of power production isn't as much a function of his poor approach as anything. As for the topic, it would be a rash decision to bring him up anytime soon. He just beginning to come into his own and you don't want to deal him a setback.
  9. XZero771679666304
    Over his last five seasons (ages 31-35), he's a 2 WAR player per 600 plate appearances. And he'll keep being one for as long as his .390 BABIP holds out. I'm pretty indifferent about Johnson, but he's been a +WAR player for his entire career (though sometimes barely). He's not awful, and he's fine as a spare outfielder (though I'd prefer he was the 5th, not the 4th). His babip is high, but so is his LD%, so he's not just getting insanely lucky. The same was true last year, and was in 2008. His numbers will come down if he continues getting a lot of PT, but that's why he should be a backup. At best he's a decent backup, at worst he's superfluous.
  10. XZero771679666304
    that's what I was thinking. Profar is still in A ball right? I was just dreaming but you never know. Double A.
  11. XZero771679666304
    If we're to believe this last page of the thread, the Rangers should probably hold out for the inevitable Strasburg/Harper package. Would you trade Profar for half a year of Hamels? No, but depending on how you value them I don't think it's outrageous at all for him to be traded for Garza. I don't, either. I would think it might take another prospect to sweeten the deal, but I don't think it would be a preposterous demand. I'd definitely trade Profar for Garza straight up before Hamels, but that extra year of control means a lot to me.
  12. XZero771679666304
    If we're to believe this last page of the thread, the Rangers should probably hold out for the inevitable Strasburg/Harper package. Would you trade Profar for half a year of Hamels?
  13. XZero771679666304
    Not unless they thought he'd sign an extension, imo.
  14. XZero771679666304
    I just want maximum value, but I'd be surprised if the FO isn't looking pitching first, given the state of the system. But if the best offer is a package of offensive players (or centered on a great offensive prospect) you obviously take it.
  15. XZero771679666304
    The injuries mortally wounded that season, and Dusty did his best to compound them with bad decisions (I lay the Hawkins-as-closer fiasco almost solely at Dusty's feet). Easily the best roster of any Cubs team in my lifetime, but it never really got off the ground like it should have.
  16. XZero771679666304
    So he signed late in the process for essentially the maximum the Cubs could pay? Shocking. Good news, though. I'm eager to see his name in some box scores and scouting reports.
  17. XZero771679666304
    2003 was worse for me because the playoffs are a crapshoot and we were never really in the 2008 series. In 2003 a WS appearance was in hand and it slipped out between the fingers at the last second. After game 4 it seemed like it was over and the series berth a formality. Over the course of the 2008 season my expectations were very high (because the team was much better), but the end lacked the lightning quick reversal of fortune brutality that I felt in 2003.
  18. XZero771679666304
    He looks like a young Snidely Whiplash.
  19. XZero771679666304
    I think what he was saying is that if the packages were about equal, he'd rather not deal to the Cards. They'd have to grossly overpay, which is clearly what a package of Martinez, Jenkins, Wong and Rosenthal would be.
  20. XZero771679666304
    I'm not sure I'd want to deal with the Cards if both Miller and Taveras were off the table, given the market. That said, a package of Wong and Jenkins would be fairly nice.
  21. XZero771679666304
    Lame. McCutchen is a great player, but not the type you tune into the Derby to see. Stanton was my prime motivation to watch it, too. :x
  22. XZero771679666304
    Honestly, I don't know why people listen to sports talk radio. It's invariably a meatball-y cesspool filled with idiots and dogmatic blowhards.
  23. XZero771679666304
    Yeah, I was too young for '84 to really eat me up. 2003 was brutal. I had prematurely made myself a victory meal and was just starting to eat it as...that inning started. That meal was never finished, and I didn't watch, listen to or read anything sports related for a while after game seven. The next thing sports related I did was registering here, once the feeling of being physically ill had passed. I'm not the demonstrative type (I don't yell and scream like some people I know), but I was a mess in 2003. I was like catatonic Cameron in Ferris Bueller's Day Off. It drove my wife crazy. In the late stages of the 2008 elimination game I was hunched over on the couch with my head in my shirt and my wife came in and was like "Oh Christ, it's not going to be like 2003, is it?" But of course it wasn't. I do remember how wrecked my father was in 1984, though. He never really could talk about it, even years later.
  24. XZero771679666304
    The biggest thing to me is that he's getting around on the inside fastballs, and he's getting around on them quickly. The long swing seems like it's a thing of the past, and it's a beautiful thing.
  25. XZero771679666304
    EDIT: Update My fear is he's rushing and might have a bad start that will make teams wonder about his health. Of course if he has a great/good start, that'd be great, but I'd have been fine waiting until after the break.
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