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bite your lip you woman, we need 4

hossa seems invisible out there

terrible pp

gotta score here and they will

this is ridiculous

i'd only be worried if they weren't getting chances.

yup, you can see how this game is going to go. we'll get ridiculous pressure on them the rest of the way, get robbed like 10 times in the 3rd, and then with like 2 minutes left, the rangers will score to put it away.

your whole pov here is just ridiculous

oh yeah, brad penny got 7.5 but rich harden isn't worth that? right

i miss cyno

we better not lose this [expletive]

ugh i know

you wouldn't think so......

tank tank tank

what the hell did brouwer do?

how about you stop icing the puck

so what exactly is your argument? that he's not really as good as his career numbers show and he just got lucky? because if that's not your argument, then you don't have one. tim didn't post anything about his health. he just posted numbers to show how good he is when he IS healthy. sample size has nothing to do with this current argument.

ahahahaha

you're STILL not understanding the second part of the argument. let's say grabow comes into the game with runners at 1st and 2nd with one out. the first 2 guys he faces get rbi singles, followed by a double play to get out of the inning. guess what grabow's ERA is for that inning? 0 ok let's say grabow starts an inning and gets himself into a bases loaded, one out jam. they then bring in a new reliever who gets a double play ball to get out of the inning. guess what grabow's ERA is for that inning? 0 it's not an "i don't agree with it" thing. it's an "i dont understand" thing. 140 innings of harden pitching even close to his career numbers for 7.5 million dollars is a [expletive] steal. harden wasn't even that good last season and fangraphs still had his value at over 8 million last season. at what cost? do you like the situation we're in right now, with basically no money to spend? well we're in that position because he sacrificed the future to build those teams you're so impressed with. soriano was a huge part of making the playoffs in 07 and 08, and we're already starting to pay for it. it's not just about what players you. it's about what you get them for. the red sox spend a ton, but they spend wisely. hendry does not spend wisely. he just spends. annnnnd i think we're about done here

Those are beauiful small sample size stats. those are CAREER STATS jesus

so the vast majority of the teams the cubs are ahead of in that time span are teams with lower (and most significantly lower) payrolls than the cubs. awesome.

Those are beauiful small sample size stats. But when looking at those stats you also need to look at these. 09-26 starts- 141 innings 08-25 starts- 148 innings 07-4 starts(7 games)-25.2 innings 06-9 starts-46.2 innings 05-19 starts(22 games)-128 innings 04-31 starts-189 innings So when you start talking about paying a guy 7.5m -10m for one season when at best your most likely going to get 140 something innings probably isn't worth the risk. Especially considering nobody factors in you need to have better pieces around Harden. Otherwise it's gonna take away alot of the good he does when he does pitch. Plus that 6th starter or better relievers could often be used as resources in other trades. But you would have to keep them around just to help Harden out. the reason the price is so low is because of the innings. it seems like you think 15 mil a year for 210 innings is better value than 140 inning for 7.5 million the injury risk is taken into account in the salary.

you're not understanding this. even if he DOES maintain the low ERA, that doesn't necessarily mean he's been good. ERA is nearly useless for a reliever (especially for a lefty) and you seem to be under the impression that if his ERA was good, he was productive. that's not true, and it's been explained to you multiple times. you just ignore it. so not only does ERA not tell you how effective a pitcher was (which is the argument that you at least refernece), but it also doesn't even tell you how much he helped the team.

each day that goes by without bradley being traded is just making it more and more likely that it's going to be a worse deal than even the ones rumored. by all accounts, hendry is desperate to get rid of bradley as quickly as possible, and can't go on with other business until that's taken care of. so if he's that desperate to move him and still hasn't found a deal that is "satisfactory" by now, we must be looking at some pretty awful offers

why am i not shocked that a person who uses ERA to determine how good a reliever is would also use playoff appearances to measure how good a gm has been? Look at my post a few down from here......I'm of the same thinking as you on Hendry, for the most part, but do you agree with this assessment of his overall tenure? kind of, but you seem to only be looking at the present and not the future. a lot of the contracts he gave to help us make the playoffs then are starting to hurt us now, and it's only going to get worse. anybody can spend. it's a different thing to spend wisely. it's not as simple as "he brought in these good players". you have to look at HOW he brought them in, and at what cost to the future. we're really starting to pay for those division titles now and will continue to. i mean, how many times did we hear that the cubs were in "all out win mode"? they might as well have said "[expletive] the future, we're going to try to win one in these next couple years and then deal with the mess it created when the time comes."