Transmogrified Tiger

The Cubs are a half game out of having a protected draft pick next year.

I don't really have any interest in whether Hendry is thin-skinned or not. In fact, I'd rather him err on the side of not putting up with any crap when it comes to the media, because their convictions and opinions are typically awful, and most definitely worse than Hendry's. Hendry should be able to explain his rationale, but if he'd rather be trite or not around when the media wants to try to convict him on his decisions, that's fine with me.

Since he was DFA'd on Tuesday, a trade. Probably PTBNL or cash.

Diamond was a top prospect before Tommy John, they called the trio of Danks, Volquez, and Diamond "DVD". He always had terrible control, and it's been especially heinous since coming back from TJS. The K's came back though, so hopefully that means his stuff is still good and maybe a different organization and different coaches can help him with his control. Smart move to pick him up.

"We'll have to check, but this might be a record. Two 2 point plays in the first half of a game." bahahahaha

Wow, really sketchy Inteference call goes against Oregon.

As in "left fielder", sure. Yes, and his advantage as a top of the line defensive LF compared to Fox's comically bad everywhere defensive LF mitigates the difference between them offensively.

Sam Fuld is a better option for LF than Jake Fox.

well, i guess i just disagree with this. and i'm not a huge derosa fan by any means. hope i'm wrong. Oh I know you've said that for a while, I'm just saying that going in to the season you were pretty alone in that sentiment, as there was both popular opinions and projections that said otherwise.

I saw these 4 games brought up as close calls to pick. What do you guys think? Alabama v. Virginia Tech in Atlanta Oregon at Boise State Mizzou v. Illinois in St. Louis Georgia at Oklahoma State I'd go VTech, Oregon, Mizzou, and OSU.

You thought he would hit .226/.299/.382 in a platoon situation?

He's not getting nearly enough. He put this crap show together. And the media is focused on Bradley's personality. When you have a bunch of 30+ year olds with injury histories you can't blame a season on flukey injuries. They've had 2 guys underperform reasonable expectations. You have to assume some guys are going to struggle. What you can't do is pay superstar money to non-superstars and expect to cruise. He's spent a ton of money on this team and it's been a big waste. Fontenot, Miles, Gregg, Marmol, Soriano, Soto, Bradley, and that's without touching injuries. Soriano and Soto have performed below reasonable expectations, but you can't go into a season assuming you can avoid such things. And you can't touch the injuries because guys who gets injured a lot and are old got injured. Ramirez may have missed more time than expected, but Bradley played more than you could expect. If you insist on building the team as inefficiently as Hendry has done, you have to live with the consequences. You can't just say "well when these guys are all on the team is great". Gregg has done what he's usually done. Bradley has done what any reasonable person would hav expected. Marmol has been ridiculously wild and hard to hit, same as always. Miles sucks ass and never should have been signed. Soriano was a disaster waiting to happen, it just happened earlier than expected. If you talk in generalities it's easier to make it sound that way, but Hendry built a better team than this. The problem going in was that it wasn't going to be able to withstand injuries/underperformance as much as past teams, but still should've earned a playoff spot. Then this year happened and they got hammered with both injuries and underperformance on a large scale. Hendry didn't have a very good offseason, but with the way 2009 played out the Cubs simply weren't going to be great, and the only move going much further back than that is Soriano, so it's difficult to claim this is a situation of Hendry's moves catching up to himself.

He's not getting nearly enough. He put this crap show together. And the media is focused on Bradley's personality. When you have a bunch of 30+ year olds with injury histories you can't blame a season on flukey injuries. They've had 2 guys underperform reasonable expectations. You have to assume some guys are going to struggle. What you can't do is pay superstar money to non-superstars and expect to cruise. He's spent a ton of money on this team and it's been a big waste. Fontenot, Miles, Gregg, Marmol, Soriano, Soto, Bradley, and that's without touching injuries.

Is Oswaldo Sanchez his idol or something? What a tool, I'm glad the Sounders won after that and all the pregame grandstanding from the two teams.

He walked on the 22nd. He's 1 for 25 with a .231 OPS since coming off the DL.

Fukudome took a pretty big step forward. And Dempster wasn't nearly as bad as he could have been. Dempster's ERA Plus is worse than Z's. I am so tired of him getting a pass from people. Fangraphs has him with a 4.13 FIP before today, worth 10.6 million by WAR.

Kosuke

OU is going to beat BYU by roughly 150 points. Gresham being hurt maybe drops it down to 145.

I see them covering the spread, but I'd be a lot more inclined to pick an upset if the game weren't in South Bend. Still, Nevada can score points, I really hope they pull it off.

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/geovany-sotos-sophomore-jinx/ In summary: Soto's batted balls aren't much different, he's actually been better with plate discipline, but he's been about 70 points of BABIP unlucky.

Gameday scored it a 2B and FC for what it's worth.

I swear Nagel starts for Boise like every other game. Coleman had a very nice outing for Tennessee, good to see him get 5 K's in 6 IP.

Because Fontenot and Miles both tanked hard. If Fontenot had OPSed .750-.800 against RHP and Miles .600-.650 against LHP they would've been the same or better as DeRosa this year when you include defense. That's far from an unrealistic expectation in December. And the bullpen prospects that you're trying to talk down in value stand a good chance of making up 1/3 of the pen next year, and will provide a lot of value for cheap. And Archer isn't a reliever, he's more of a right handed Rich Hill in the low minors at this point.

That's not even close to true. It's absolutely the truth and it still cracks me up that people deny this fact. Or they were trying to save money since there was speculation throughout that stretch that they were able to add Peavy if they could afford him. With the ownership situation what it was, every little bit counts. And beyond that, the idea that because Hendry misidentified DeRosa's replacement has any bearing on how good an idea it was to trade DeRosa is silly. Hendry got quite a good return for DeRosa, especially with the benefit of seeing how they've all performed this year.

That's not even close to true.