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Minor League Discussion & Boxes 8-3-2009
Transmogrified Tiger replied to Outshined_One's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
My big concern for Cashner is how they transition his workload in the next year plus. If he's going to dominate people for 6 innings at a time, he's obviously got more value as a starter. But with so few innings this year, I don't want him with a starter's workload quite yet. Hopefully there will be sufficient depth in the rotation next year and Cashner can spend a full season shouldering the load of a SP before he gets thrust onto a major league team that can't afford to go easy with him if he's doing well. -
Minor League Discussion & Boxes 8-3-2009
Transmogrified Tiger replied to Outshined_One's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
Fun fact: For his career, Blake Parker is giving up a home run every 47+ innings. -
Fox's bat isn't that good.
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hahaha, of course he walks the guy after the intentional walk the schadenfreude is just delicious
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Oh, this is awesome news. I was getting resigned to the fact that Raley would go the way of Alex Wilson.
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Can we send Marmol to the minors?
Transmogrified Tiger replied to Old Style's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
I want to trade Marmol this offseason pretty badly. -
That article is from January, and the Cubs system has taken a big step forward this year.
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Kenny Williams has 6 guys getting paid 8 figures as part of a long term deal, and 4 of them have no-trade protection. And most of them are not very good.
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Minor League Discussion & Boxes 7-31-2009
Transmogrified Tiger replied to Outshined_One's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
Jackson is 1 for 2 with a SB, and LeMahieu is 2 for 2 with a SB thus far. Searle had nice K/BB and GO-FO numbers, but got hit pretty hard in 4 IP. Carpenter's 1st: K, 3-1 GO, PO-6 -
2009 Chicago Bears offseason
Transmogrified Tiger replied to jersey cubs fan's topic in Other Sports
Richmond McGee is just an awesome name. I'd hire a Richmond McGee without an interview. -
Okay, okay, I'll shoot Jersey and Keener.
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Where would you have played him? Probably wouldn't be worth what it would take to get him to make him just a PH. I don't know anything about Thompson, but it doesn't seem like much especially considering the Nats are paying his salary. Johnson would likely be much better than Hoffpauir for the rest of the season, and we'd have the inside track on bringing him back in free agency if we wanted.
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Man, I really would've liked Nick Johnson.
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Yeah something tells me Chuck Wasserstom isn't the one with the biggest input into Cubs decision making. Okay? Just to review: Most anyone looking at Gorzelanny statistically would agree he's a pretty good buy low option. Someone with the knowledge of UK suggesting Gorzelanny's stuff is as good as it was in '07(his best MLB year), as well as saying that Gorzelanny and Rothschild are a good fit. Littlefield, who has a worthy reputation as a talent evaluator, drafted Gorzelanny, and recommended him after seeing him pitch recently. All of those mesh together. If you're afraid because of Littlefield's evaluation then you have to question all of those evaluations, and that's irrational.
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You play him like 50 games each at C/1B/DH, giving days off for the legit guys at those spots, and also spelling Lowell by moving Youkilis to 3B when they're both on the infield. Not sure if that's worth Buchholz, but it's how you'd maximize his value at this point.
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Yes. He has a body of work showing he's not some "good baseball man" who got by on reputation. And again, Littlefield's recommendation isn't going counter to any statistical evidence, or other scouting information available.
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Like I said, a label you can acquire and hold on to for life. The Peter Principle doesn't say that once you get promoted above your level of expertise and fail, you can then go back to the previous level and be a master. Hendry played a big part in building the Cubs farm system from nothing. But I wouldn't trust him in a million years to go back to that job. I think that's irrational or an attempt to be negative minded on your part. "He might not be good at it anymore" is a flimsy reason to be afraid of Littlefield's involvement, especially when we've got statistical indicators that Gorzelanny is a good pickup, plus someone like UK reporting that he has the same stuff he had in '07.
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The Peter principle. Littlefield wasn't good at balancing the information available to him to make decisions, and he wasn't the one watching the players. As a scout, he's the one evaluating the player in person, something he's much better at doing.
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Littlefield's involvement, which was obvious and unavoidable considering his history and current position, is probably the scariest part. Littlefield is a very good scout. Seems like a label you can just acquire and then hang onto the rest of your life as long as you stay in the business. He helped build the Expos of the early to mid-90s, and I believe the Marlins of the late 90s. He's shown he's not good at making the decisions, but he's good at helping those in charge with those decisions.
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Littlefield's involvement, which was obvious and unavoidable considering his history and current position, is probably the scariest part. Littlefield is a very good scout.
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I don't think the Cubs get anything for Grabow unless he gets signed before the arbitration deadline. He'd get like 3 million in arbitration, and that's too big a risk for the Cubs to take, or at least I hope they think so too.
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No, those 3 are actually not very different in what you can expect going forward.
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Jack Z is awesome.
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Alderson's only 20, and he's doing very well at AA already(no walks, no HR, not a ton of hits). If he can raise his K rate as he matures he'll be a very attractive player.
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Minor League Discussion & Boxes 7-29-2009
Transmogrified Tiger replied to Outshined_One's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
Just think, not a single one of those guys was playing full season ball in May of last year. Now, 2 are at AA, 2 are at A+, and another should be at AA.
