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  1. Transmogrified Tiger
    Excuse my ignorance, but is Daric Barton a good player? I took my son to a minor league game here in Tucson and we ended up catching a Home Run Ball that he hit. Okay, maybe catching wasn't the right word, but the ball landed in front of us so I grabed it.... He's a pretty good prospect. In BA's prospect handbook, all their writers put Barton in the top 50 in all of baseball.
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    brutal. that would make the '06 outfield look good. No doubt. But seriously, the way things are going, why not call up Luis to platoon with Jones now? Dump Bynum and send Theriot back down, and then maybe call up Hoffpauir. You'd still have plenty of middle infield help, with Walker and Cedeno backed up by Neifi and Hairston. If they refuse to shake up the coaching staff despite all the losses, and they refuse to make a trade because they think they'd overpay, then why not give a couple hot hitting prospects a chance to do something? And don't just call them up to sit the bench, let them play. Why not just bring up Restovich again? He has a better pedigree and is absolutely pounding the ball at a higher level than Montanez. Also, Montanez is actually hitting better against RHP than LHP thus far.
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    I think you have to question Durazo's ability to even be able to play 1B at this point.
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    His minor league numbers are better than Todd Helton. This guy is a good player. Then he has no place on the Cubs. And for those who are concerned that he'll be blocked when Lee comes back, he should still get significant playing time because Lee won't be 100% right away. It's really a value situation. If Colorado is going to sell lower because of Helton's presence, then we should jump on Shealy. Worst case scenario he's a good bench bat. The guy can flat out hit.
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    I say it's worth a shot for someone who's hit like he has everywhere he's been. He's older because he went to school for 4 years and was 23 when he was drafted.
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    That is a great way to define the luck that is the Chicago White Sox. Buerlie has two first and second with no outs and gets out of both jams. Not to mention his error helped six of the seven runs go unearned, so even his stat line looks good. I think that if a pitcher commits an error, his runs should still be earned. There was a thread about this not too long ago, it was pretty conclusively shown that those runs should be unearned, but I can't remember exactly why offhand.
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    Real good article about Donovan in the newest ESPN the Mag. When asked about leaving Germany, he basically said it wasn't worth it for him to be miserable in Europe even though he could further his game more than staying stateside.
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    The Cubs hate freedom.
  9. Transmogrified Tiger
    Jones and Maddux get dealt for the best offer you can. Pierre you wait til the deadline and weigh the trade return v. draft pick. If Wood pitches well once he returns consider pulling a Sidney Ponson circa 2003 if possible.
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    Young throws his weight around in his swing like a slow pitch softball player.
  11. Transmogrified Tiger
    tricked the umpire by starting his body while his foot was still on.
  12. Transmogrified Tiger
    hooray
  13. Transmogrified Tiger
    Why would someone do that? And why are you baiting them to do so? It seems that for the flak that our other pitchers get for their perceived inadequacies(Z's mental toughness, Wood's stubborness, Prior's pansiness), no one gets upset with Maddux when he decides not to go through the order a 4th time, or that he waited until this year to hire a trainer to get in shape, etc. I wasn't seriously asking someone to do that.
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    Quick, someone call Maddux a pansy or not mentally tough for not having the guts to go through the order again.
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    Not really. You could definitely do worse, my point was not on whether or not to acquire him but to address those who projected his success.
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    Let's wait and see how he pitches first. The loss of velocity is a concern. Slow. Gun. Multiple slow guns? I don't think so. Wood hit 97 in Peoria and Nathan said he was consistently at 92-94.
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    then he is right about average and not slightly above. But the thing i dont understand is that we have 2 other power corners that are doing way below Jones OPS production and they are not getting railed on. And our other power spot is down with an injury. Murton is .286/.768, although he is clutch and i would miss his 2 out rbis. Murton is 10 out of 14 in league OPS rank. ADisaster is .217/.721 and is hitting exactly .007 points higher than the Neifury. He is 10 out of 12 in league OPS rank. Yet no one is yelling about them, ARams 11m dollar waste of salary, or whether Murton will ever have the ability to hit more than 25 HRs at a power spot, which apparently is a no no in the Jones argument. There was plenty of debate about Murton's power this offseason. That doesn't change the fact that he's still getting on base at a good clip and is outproducing Jones when you look at RC, BRAR, VORP, etc. Plus he's younger, cheaper, and isn't making the moranic mistakes defensively and on the basepaths that Jones is. I won't go over the Ramirez stuff again, others have laid it out for you and you're either not reading it or just not acknowledging it.
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    Hairston has 31 AB's against RHP so far this season. In over 1750 PA's prior, he put up a .257/.337/.363/.700 line.
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    Should we be dancing in the streets that our 3 year investment for RF is up to respectability? The point remains all along that Jones is not very good. He is an acceptable option against RHP, but since he is so abominable against LHP, he is a poor option overall, and especially for a long term deal given his age(which is what we gave him). People were so relentless prior because he wasn't even giving the so-so overall production of past years, plus making stupid baserunning errors and playing a poor defensive RF. Add in the fact that people just don't care as much now because of all the losses, and it's not a mystery why Jones isn't continually berated if he hits RHP. We'll be hitting a streak of division games soon plus matchups with teams that have multiple LHP in their rotation(Cleveland, Detroit). Jones is likely going to be thoroughly useless during that stretch. So if you're hankering for some Jones hate to pop up, people will probably be getting mighty sick of him again in a couple weeks.
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    I know most of you won't care about this, but we had an incredibly informative chat with a sabermatrician who works for the Cardinals front office detailing how they evaluate FA's and I believe there is a section in there on Eckstein; specifically how he was undervalued. http://gatewayredbirds.com/viewtopic.php?t=1119&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0 He talked about Eckstein being undervalued because he was an "OBP guy" and not a power hitter, but in '03 and '04 he wasn't much of either. Eckstein would've been a terrible pickup if he hadn't returned to '02 levels.
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    Jones : .311 OBP 5 Walks Giles : .401 OBP 28 Walks Slugging? Slugging > Walk If the OPS's are similar, the guy with the OBP that is 90 points higher is more valuable. OPS correlates lmore closely to runs when OBP is multiplied by 1.5.
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    And may I ask why you think of that? Solid but not spectacular Minor League numbers, where he was slightly old for his leagues. Very low K rates(and corresponding K/BB ratio) at the big league level, and nothing completely great with opposing batting lines. He gets a ton of groundballs, but it seems to me his ceiling is that of a Jon Lieber, which seems to fall short of the hype he was receiving in the thread thus far.
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    I don't see the signs pointing to him being a star.
  24. Transmogrified Tiger
    It was just last inning. I think Minny scored all 5 of their runs. Did he get tossed before, during, or after the runs?
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    What inning was this?
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