Bobson Dugnutt
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You have no idea how they determine the probabilities and yet you're certain they mean absolutely nothing? Ben Wallace was an above average, never elite, player for about 5 years. He is not going to get Hall of Fame consideration. If you run a comparison through the first seven years of Noah and Wallace's careers, Noah comes out looking a little bit better overall. It's not an easy comparison because they're entirely different players, but I for one much prefer Noah's skillset to Wallace's.
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How is Ben Wallace a HoFer? He's not. He's so assuredly not that Basketball-Reference doesn't even bother to put him on their Hall of Fame Probably list, which extends far enough down to include such greats as Mookie Blaylock and Byron Scott. http://www.basketball-reference.com/leaders/hof_prob.html
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There's absolutely no way Ben Wallace ever gets into the Hall of Fame. He was a black hole on offense his entire career and his peak was about 5 years long. Outside of those years, he was very ordinary.
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Wow, Gatewood and Turner have fallen.
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Keith Law (from yesterday): ETA:
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Didn't Emery say yesterday (after he signed Mundy and Jennings) that they would still be looking at free agent safeties?
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Rodan. http://proxy.espn.go.com/mlb/columns/story?id=1748038&src=mobile
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So how hilariously wrong was this? I mean, if we want to really give him the benefit of the doubt, that did come before Baez played his full senior season, so maybe his opinion would have changed. But it's a good reminder of how much can change with draft reports, especially for high schoolers. Maybe a learning experience to trust McLeod? Makes me maybe kinda ok with a Jackson pick if we do eventually end up with him. McLeod didn't select Baez.
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Random Cubs Musings: Minor League Edition
Bobson Dugnutt replied to Little Slide Rooter's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
I completely forgot Trey McNutt is still in the organization. -
i was listening to a podcast or maybe just the radio? a little while ago and they were basically saying MSU's messed up their next few seasons fooling around with Chicago (J Parker, C Alexander), saying area kids just want to get paid, either directly (UK) or indirectly (KU, Duke?) and UM has been better served abandoning that avenue altogether since dabbling with Patrick Beverley forever ago lol, that's such sour grapes. Every fan base does it when they don't get the kids they want. Oddly enough, no one ever can produce any actual evidence. And the idea that any school is "directly" paying anyone is lunacy. I don't deny that there's all sorts of dirty stuff happening everywhere, in every program. But no program is dumb enough to "directly" pay a player. UK has to pay kids least of all. Nothing's cooler than going to Kentucky. And ever since LeBron and co banded together in Miami, forming dream teams is pretty popular too. Yet, Self is right with UK on the recruiting trail since Jerrance and his uncle Wes got into the fold. This after everyone in the KC area was starting to wonder about Self's recruiting a few years back. I think it's clear that if you are in good with WWW you are going to recruit like gang busters. Whole lot of good that did Illinois.
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Yes, if you're willing to write off a bunch of young, talented players that either haven't played a full professional season or haven't been drafted yet, and also if you think they are going to do absolutely nothing with all that salary cap room, I can definitely see how you'd think they are destined to be terrible.
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In the East, they definitely wouldn't.
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Wait, why are they picking Smart and Exum? Are we just assuming they have no interest in Wiggins, Embiid, Randle or Parker? His hypothetical has them picking Parker and one of Smart or Exum.
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This is not even close to being true.
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I remember reading some Santo autobiography when I was around 13 or 14 and he had me absolutely convinced that if Hubbs hadn't died, the Cubs would have won World Series after World Series. Also, this post led me to pull up the 1969 Cubs Fangraphs page and holy [expletive] their top three starters had WARs of 9.1, 7.5 & 5.9.
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Cubs sign Hammel
Bobson Dugnutt replied to davell's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
How? is he batting third also? In case anybody had any doubt left. hahahaha -
Was just about to come back and post the next 4 after actually reading his overview. So, he really values ceiling, huh?
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Uhh, Law has Corey Black at #9 in the Cubs system.
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Jon Bois is the [expletive] best.
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how do you feel about Mark Trumbo?
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I know the position player depth in the system isn't any kind of news, but it's pretty nice to see that the eighth ranked position player has a "realistic role" of major league regular. I poked around at a few other top tens and didn't see anything quite like that.
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I hope Renteria still has the receipt for his Rosetta Stone.
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I asked him and he said he only put it that way because KB has a position to come up to, while Javy doesn't. He doesn't know if Olt will be back to normal or not, so he kept him off the list. And just to head things off at the pass, Chris is extremely hard to get an 80 grade out of. I think Hamilton's speed may be the only one currently for him. I'm more curious how KB has a higher present than future grade. With the glove? Guess he figures he's as good as he'll get at 3B currently? My assumption is that he'll get bigger and lose agility/etc. Some of those ETA dates seemed aggressive to me - anyone else think that? Candelario in 2016 Eloy Jimenez in 2017 (just three years - where does he start in this scenario, Kane County?) Frazier in 2016 (wasn't he a HS pick) Frazier is 22 (drafted out of Pepperdine), so that one's not aggressive at all. If Candelario comes up in mid-2016, that gives him 2.5 years to progress through 3 more minor league levels and arrive in the big leagues shortly before turning 23. I don't see anything wrong with either of those projections. The Jiminez one might be a bit aggressive, but I guess it makes sense given how optimistic Crawford is about him in general.
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Offseason Rumors
Bobson Dugnutt replied to Clem Fandango's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
Is Ty known for anything other than Cubs rumors? 31,000+ twitter followers seems like a ton. -
:( Well, Theo needs to call their bluff and make them pay a ridiclous price. Keep in mind they get hit by the luxury tax as well at this point. http://www.csnchicago.com/cubs/next-moves-cubs-after-jumping-tanaka-sweepstakes Is there a more desperate team than the Cubs?