Transmogrified Tiger

Welcome to the Forum! I don't know if they got the stunt from that show or not, but that milk-chugging contest has been around for quite a while I believe.

So would Guz get moved up to say Daytona or West Tenn with another positive performance tonight? Does he have any chance of pitching with the big club after Sept. 1? I'd say Guzman has about a -32% chance of getting called up. IIRC he may get a start or two at Peoria or Daytona before their seasons are done, and before he goes to the AFL.

This cracked me up too. It's almost as if he wants them to not play well. And if his logic is correct, wouldn't it make sense to capitalize on a player not having the "book" out on them? Apparently not according to Dusty.

Edmonds I wouldn't consider underachieving, he's playing above his career averages at age 35. Marquis is almost exactly at his career averages, with a slightly higher ERA. Novoa is pitching basically as well as he did with the Tigers last year. Those numbers are similar to his minor league numbers too. I'd say he's been as expected. Otherwise I don't have any big disagreements with that list.

I don't expect Lee to put up the same type of numbers next year, but he will still be one of the top 1B in the game. I'm interested to know what five 1B you feel will "probably" be better than Lee. Off the top of my head: Delgado Pujols Helton Sexson Teixeira N. Johnson All have a decent shot at being as good or better than Lee going forward.

With the 75th pick, Cut for Cap Space selects Jeremy Shockey, Tight End, New York Giants

Cut for Cap Space QB Donovan McNabb QB Byron Leftwich RB Julius Jones RB Fred Taylor RB Warrick Dunn RB Travis Henry WR Terrell Owens WR Darrell Jackson WR Lee Evans WR Donte Stallworth TE Jeremy Shockey TE Bubba Franks K David Akers K Jeff Wilkins DEF Tampa Bay

Victor Diaz of the .264/.360/.497/.857 line in nearly 200 PA's this year? Good thing they got the word out on him.

Who backs up first base in this situation? Well who do you consider our backup firstbaseman now? Macias? You cant surely be advocating keeping Macias. Walker will do just fine starting a couple of games and if Lee were to go down I'd rather bring up Sing as he surely could do as well as a 25th man. I have no idea who our backup is this year, it's one of several things I'd like to see remedied. With a backup that at least has played significant time there in the past, Baker might be more likely to give Lee the rest he needs.

The other guy has more RBIs, and we all konw how much people love that stat. Plus it was noted that he plays on the team that apparently is running away with the regular season title. Patterson has been the best player in this league the year, but the other guy won the MVP... that kind of thing happens a lot in the big leagues too. Serena's comment about Home/Away splits with Gonzalez lead me to believe that he may play in a pretty heavy pitcher's park, which would close the gap that Patterson has. Gonzalez is also several years younger than Patterson.

They've done that on several occasions. I normally just skim over it, knowing that I'll never like Ryno the writer/analyst.

A MAXIMUM of 4 years(Ideally 3 + team option), with a maximum of 12 million in any of those years.

Who backs up first base in this situation?

Great work as always BK. Kudos.

You really think Hairston will be back? The current braintrust doesn't seem to like him too much. I'd guess he's gone, regardless of what I'd do. Outside of that, I agree with everything you said and hope the Cubs management does as well. He's under contract for 2006, so unless we deal him, he's ours. Hairston was a super-two, so I believe he's a free agent. I'm not positive how that works though.

That's friggin' weird. Wasn't one of the "Killer B's" that way? Great for night games and fair to poor on day games... You know the moment the playoff schedule comes out LaRussa will shift the pitching rotation so that Mulder has night starts. Shouldn't be too much of a problem, there's probably a maximum of 2 day games in a series. Neither Biggio or Bagwell have pronounced Day/Night splits, I can't find them for Derek Bell. Not this season; maybe a year or two ago. I dunno, I could be smoking crack too. Oh, I was looking at their career numbers.

That's excellent, especially the comment that one guy had about the blog entry and the article. Awesome.

Minnesota has Johan. :D Seriously though, Minnesota needs a 2B, maybe we could take advantage of their overcrowded OF and pen.

That's friggin' weird. Wasn't one of the "Killer B's" that way? Great for night games and fair to poor on day games... You know the moment the playoff schedule comes out LaRussa will shift the pitching rotation so that Mulder has night starts. Shouldn't be too much of a problem, there's probably a maximum of 2 day games in a series. Neither Biggio or Bagwell have pronounced Day/Night splits, I can't find them for Derek Bell.

It appears that the Cubs are trying to work him back into having enough stamina to pitch as a starter. Why else would he be pitching multiple innings right now? So he can get as much work in as he is able to. Many players pegged to be relievers pitch as starters so they can get innings. I'm not saying that this is the case in Guzman's situation, but it wouldn't be unusual if they decided to put him in the pen.

I brought up Lee because one or two posters were criticized earlier in the month for suggesting trading Lee in the offseason due to his unlikliness to hit the way he did the first half of the season based on his career numbers. I could've sworn a couple of people who criticized the proposed trade are the ones talking about Perez's career numbers. Perez's offensive numbers stink, as we knew they would based on his career numbers. But the same must then be said of Lee, too; triple crown threat or not. As I said, you can't pick and choose. Lee's post ASB average is closer to his career norms than his numbers for the first three months. So, to me, anyone wanting to deal Lee while his value this high has a very good case. I can only speak for myself, but I was on board with the idea of capitalizing on Lee's value. I don't remember any more specifics, so I don't know about how anyone else's position would have shifted.

Perez isn't really having a career season. His OPS is only a shade higher than his career totals, and his OBP is a tick lower.

His .281 OBP outside of April is tied for 40th out of 44 SS with 100 PA's. He's bad compared to everyone. Why do you keep dropping April off? Wasn't it part of this season? 23 games to be exact of which Neifi played in 21. So far his numbers for August are matching his April numbers. Maybe he should start months that start in "A"? Notice how it's generally a pick and choose around here? There have only been a few people on here mention that Lee is hitting around .280 since the middle of June. But because of his great first half, we should just ignore that his career numbers don't suggest that that's the real Lee. Yet, we rely on career numbers for Perez. I don't know what ticks me off more, me sounding as if I'm defending a scrub like Perez or the bias shown by some of certain Cub players. Call it picking and choosing if you like, but the fact is that Neifi's April was a fluke, and showing what he's done outside that month(which is closer to his career norms away from Coors) is probably a better indication of what he will do in the future, since we're talking about next year. Not many people have mentioned Lee dropping off. I don't see what the point is. I haven't seen any threads discussing Lee's future production with the team, it's not like people are analyzing his numbers often and conveniently leaving it out. August so far: http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/teams/batting?team=chc&cat=OPS&season=2005&split=44&seasonType=2&type=reg With half the at bats as previous months, and a 5-12, 2 BB, 2 2B, 1 HR trip to Coors.

His .281 OBP outside of April is tied for 40th out of 44 SS with 100 PA's. He's bad compared to everyone. Why do you keep dropping April off? Wasn't it part of this season? 23 games to be exact of which Neifi played in 21. So far his numbers for August are matching his April numbers. Maybe he should start months that start in "A"? Notice how it's generally a pick and choose around here? There have only been a few people on here mention that Lee is hitting around .280 since the middle of June. But because of his great first half, we should just ignore that his career numbers don't suggest that that's the real Lee. Yet, we rely on career numbers for Perez. I don't know what ticks me off more, me sounding as if I'm defending a scrub like Perez or the bias shown by some of certain Cub players. Call it picking and choosing if you like, but the fact is that Neifi's April was a fluke, and showing what he's done outside that month(which is closer to his career norms away from Coors) is probably a better indication of what he will do in the future, since we're talking about next year. Not many people have mentioned Lee dropping off. I don't see what the point is. I haven't seen any threads discussing Lee's future production with the team, it's not like people are analyzing his numbers often and conveniently leaving it out.