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I'd probably give up Vitters... hasn't his value diminished a whole lot? -
From Bruce Levine's post on Matt Garza http://espn.go.com/blog/chicago/cubs/
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Aren't Garza's numbers pretty damn good given the lineups he was regularly facing? I have a really hard time thinking Gorz could do that.
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I don't get why we do this... it's an entire season and months are just arbitrary intervals of time. I think you could do less arbitrary intervals and have the point stand. Pena wasn't a crappy hitter all year, or even most of the year. It was two extreme slumps that pulled down his numbers, which is consistent with his BABIP for believing that 2010 was more fluke than decline. True enough, but I still don't understand what finding periods of time that dragged his overall numbers down tells us about anything. Especially when the periods of time are separate... if it was a bad first two months or something like that, I might get that a little more (that would likely lead me to speculate that the improvement less to do with bad luck and more to do with turning a corner performance-wise). But picking out two slumps that basically made his numbers crappy... I'm not really sure what to make of that other than I'd guess that most hitters who have bad years similarly have periods of both good and bad, with the bad outweighing the good. Granted, in Pena's case the differences between said periods are pretty extreme.
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If Fukudome is dumped or benched for Colvin, I'm not sure who leads off, but it sure is going to suck when everyone realizes how not-good Colvin really is.
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I don't get why we do this... it's an entire season and months are just arbitrary intervals of time.
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I wonder how much better he'd be in the NL Central, too.
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Just heard. Wonder what it would cost. Edit - Matt Garza from TB. Edit - http://espn.go.com/blog/chicago/cubs/
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Other than the apparent insistence on having Colvin replace Fukudome as early and as often as possible. Also, I doubt Soto is going to bat third all that often. I would guess Ramirez/Pena/Byrd in the 3/4/5 slots. I doubt Soto will get that honor, too, but I sure would like to see it. And yea, Fukudome is wishful thinking...
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As of right now... RF - Fuk, SS - Castro, C - Soto, 3B - ARam, 1B - Pena, LF - Sori, CF - Byrd, 2B - DeWitt That look about right?
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I wouldn't think so...don't we have a decent amount of salary coming off the books? Not sure how much of it gets eaten up by escalating contracts.
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I don't get this unless you want to have an opening to offer Pujols half the ticket sales in '11. How much payroll do we have locked up for 2011?
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I'm pleasantly surprised... They probably purposely leaked the laroche rumors so we'd all be happy with this. Anyway, were teams shifting on Pena any more this year than they had in the past? That might be an (bad for us) explanation for the BABIP drop. If not, it's reason to be optimistic. Just don't know where I could get that data, if anywhere.
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Saying they've gone up to $60 is quite a bit different from saying they've gone up $60... wtf
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Nationals going hard at Cliff Lee?
David replied to David's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
Washington Post has sources shooting it down http://dc.sbnation.com/washington-nationals/2010/12/7/1861326/cliff-lee-rumor-nationals-free-agent-mlb-winter-meetings-2010 -
It's not that I think the Bulls are getting any less of a fair shake (although the Rose thing is ridiculously frustrating) than most teams... it's that I want the Bulls to start getting the treatment that the really good teams get.
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It's not like this defense is radically different from that one... the main difference is that guys are older and our elite player on the line is now on the edges instead of at the 3 technique. But it's built pretty much the same. I do agree that stuff that happened five years ago (against a completely different opponent - no less) isn't all that relevant today, though. Anyway, my point is that yea, the way our defense and overall team is built and reliant on speed, it might struggle in the poorest of field/weather conditions, but it has nothing to do with Bettis knocking Urlacher on his ass five years ago.
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The Pats never lose 2 in a row. I'd much rather face them coming off a big win than a loss in a hugely important nationally televised game.
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So are we running a Patriots/Broncos like YAC heavy offense?
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You got your clutch shot.
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Can someone summarize wth Webb's health situation is/was?
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Personally, I'm in the don't waste money and years on Dunn while we're still trying to get out of this contract mess camp... I'd rather take a shot at next year's guys and go with a serviceable stopgap for this year. Especially given Dunn's age and bad and likely to decline defense. I've definitely come around in terms of thinking that defense at least kinda matters (granted, it's 1B). e.g. i'm in dew's camp.
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Calling Bradley a role player (does that even exist in baseball outside of like relief pitching and lefty pinch hitters?) after the years he had just prior to our signing him was pretty weird.
