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Eric Erickson - Miami 2008 Player ERA W-L APP GS CG SHO/CBO SV IP H R ER BB SO 2B 3B HR AB B/Avg WP HBP BK SFA SHA 17 Eric Erickson.... 4.15 9-1 14 13 0 0/1 0 78.0 84 43 36 18 68 19 1 9 306 .275 1 4 1 1 7

Let's see some numbers up in here. Brett Jackson - Cal Player AVG GP-GS AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI TB SLG% BB HBP SO GDP OB% SF SH SB-ATT PO A E FLD% Jackson, Brett...... .321 53-53 218 42 70 17 6 8 41 123 .564 29 4 61 1 .407 2 0 11-16 142 5 3 .980 DJ LeMahieu - LSU Player AVG GP-GS AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI TB SLG% BB HBP SO GDP OB% SF SH SB-ATT PO A E FLD% 17 DJ LeMahieu...... .340 66-66 247 48 84 12 3 4 39 114 .462 27 5 38 2 .408 5 2 10-13 90 148 9 .964 Chris Rusin - Kentucky Player ERA W-L APP GS CG SHO/CBO SV IP H R ER BB SO 2B 3B HR AB B/Avg WP HBP BK SFA SHA 10 Chris Rusin...... 4.20 7-4 13 13 4 0/1 0 94.1 95 50 44 27 108 9 0 5 368 .258 5 7 2 1 7 Brooks Raley - Texas A&M Player ERA W-L APP GS CG SHO/CBO SV IP H R ER BB SO 2B 3B HR AB B/Avg WP HBP BK SFA SHA 30 Raley, Brooks.... 3.76 7-3 15 15 1 0/1 0 93.1 80 44 39 26 95 23 2 8 338 .237 2 8 1 0 14 Robert Whitenack - SUNY Old Westbury Player ERA W-L APP GS CG SHO/CBO SV IP H R ER BB SO 2B 3B HR AB B/Avg WP HBP BK SFA SHA Whitenack, Robert... 2.81 5-2 11 9 2 1/0 0 67.1 46 27 21 25 79 5 5 1 242 .190 3 8 0 1 3 Richard Jones - The Citadel Player avg gp-gs ab r h 2b 3b hr rbi tb slg% bb hbp so gdp ob% sf sh sb-att po a e fld% Richard Jones .378 59-59 251 54 95 19 2 17 69 169 .673 27 6 52 5 .449 1 0 2-4 360 26 4 .990 Danny Keefe - University of Tampa Player ERA W-L APP GS CG SHO/CBO SV IP H R ER BB SO 2B 3B HR AB B/Avg WP HBP BK SFA SHA 25 Danny Keefe...... 4.13 4-5 20 5 0 0/0 2 65.1 69 36 30 19 70 7 1 5 261 .264 10 7 2 1 3 Barrett "BJ" Dail - Mt. Olive College Player ERA W-L APP GS CG SHO/CBO SV IP H R ER BB SO 2B 3B HR AB B/Avg WP HBP BK SFA SHA BJ Dail............. 2.97 7-0 11 9 3 0/0 0 63.2 43 23 21 18 64 5 1 3 229 .188 6 5 0 2 1 Matt Williams - Duke 223 ABs, .345/.421/.475, 12 2B, 5 HR, 24/20 BB/K

Mike Weurtz begs to differ. Wuertz had 4.5 years of big league experience to make such a judgment that he was a decent reliever. Jake Fox has 6 weeks of AAA performance and 12 AB's with the MLB team.

Greg Maddux had awesome stuff for the vast majority of his career.

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I would've preferred Scales go down since he'll lose most of his ABs to Miles.

I'm thinking about backing out, my interest in the NFL is pretty much nil at this point. I'll let you know within a week.

Which Tejada are you referring to? Certainly not the one that's leading the NL in batting average right now. Yea, it's some sort of an inside joke. Theriot's never been better than Tejada. They both posted a 3.1 WAR last year, and even with Tejada's insane start this year, Theriot's 1.6 WAR edges Tejada's 1.4 thus far. Theriot's also 5.5 years younger, doesn't have declining skills, and actually plays a MLB SS right now.

wasn't the report on jackson and lemahieu that neither would likely stick at cf/ss respectively? There seem to be some conflicting reports on LeMahieu, most of them with doubts about him SS I think there was a mention of Jackson not staying on CF, but the greater consensus seems to be he'll be serviceable to very good in CF.

I'm really annoyed that they passed on Wheeler to take Jackson. However, he was well thought of and if he's truly a plus CF than the offensive bar isn't as high for him to be an asset. Really not a fan of taking guys who have 25% K rates in college though, especially without a good walk rate to indicate good strike zone judgment. LeMahieu is kinda disappointing as a Top 100 pick. Like Jackson, if his defense is enough to be decent at SS this looks better, but a .122 IsoP with an aluminum bat is disheartening. Kirk seems like a good choice. Hopefully with instruction he can stay closer to the 95 than 88 consistently with his fastball, and I like that he has 3 pitches. It'd be nice if he had decent control as well, there wasn't much mention of that in the reports so far.

Please, anyone but Jackson, with "anyone" = pleasepleaseplease let Gibson fall.

I would think it would be near the opposite.

FWIW, Theriot is currently 6th of 23 qualified SS in UZR, on pace to be nearly a win above average.

Theriot is better than Tejada.

My thought was chewing tobacco.

Personally, it'd be really weird for the Cubs to take Oliver, and even though he rated really high before the year, his performance this year and the fact that he doesn't have a breaking pitch make me leery. If Gibson makes it to 31 and we don't take him, I'm going to have to break something.

Branyan is a career -7 defender at 3B who hasn't played there this year(he's been playing 1B at a -1.5 pace). Plus he's left handed, which is less of a bench priority with Hoffpauir on the bench.

I'll take Heckathorn at 31.

But why give them up for a moderate upgrade that will last about 4-6 weeks until Ramirez is back? And like was mentioned, the difference at 3B for that time span isn't going to make or break the Cubs season, the performance from the rest of the underperforming offense will.

I think it could be his elbow.

From before this season: 2007: ~180 PA's, .282/.354/.410, 3 HR, 17/31 BB/K, 9% BB%, 17% K% 2008: ~320 PA's, .374/.461/.626, 15 HR, 46/40 BB/K 14% BB%, 12% K% And then this season: ~285 PA's, .376/.468/.764, 25 HR, 42/39 BB/K, 14% BB%, 13% K%

He's got 14 errors already on the season though, he had 21 last year when he posted a great TotalZone.

He went 19 to the Cardinals. Well that would make it difficult to pick him then.

What about Chad Jenkins? He seems to have come on strong.

That is maybe the greatest advertisement in history. I guess I should be thankful I'm watching the Cincy feed. I'm not kidding, it's awesome, I could watch that scene a hundred times.