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yeah but the word blunder in itself was overkill

or people who don't trust bradley to stay healthy

Ryan Dempster that remains to be seen but it could definitely end up that way. at least he was legitmately good last season, So was Estaban Loaiza with the white sox in 2003. Then the rest of the time he's been legitmately terrible i never said dempster would or would not end up good or bad. just that you can't say yet whether or not that was an awful contract. it looks bad right now, but we don't know. desmpter could regress quite a bit from last season and still make the contract "okay". If he has like a 1.30 WHIP and a 3.90 ERA it wouldn't be that bad and those numbers aren't unrealistic

or just outright wrong Especially when it's only a 2y at 20m deal if he doesn't play 125 plus games. i still haven't seen where that is coming from. the only thing i've seen is that he only has to spend less than 90 days on the DL in 2009 to guarantee the 3rd year.

well closer contracts are always bad, but compared to other closers the k-rod and fuentes ones were normal

Ryan Dempster that remains to be seen but it could definitely end up that way. at least he was legitmately good last season, as opposed to have gotten lucky with a flukey era or something.... like when the astros traded for jason jennings and said he'd be a solid number 2 starter.

Aaron Miles 2/5 i don't see how you can call a 5 million dollar commitment the biggest blunder of the offseason.

this was a weird quote from lou. he must have little confidence in bradey's legs if he feels it's amazing that they still are okay after like a week

that too while we're on that topic, who would that award go to? derek lowe for 4/60? burnett for 5/80? renteria for 2/18? i feel like i'm missing someone

Personally I'm hoping Manny is on the list. that would be nice but manny is pretty much hated already. i want the golden boy to be named so i can watch the media react to it.

I'd give anything for Greg Maddux, David Wells, and Hector Villanueva to be on the list. why?

calling it the biggest "blunder" of the offseason is a little overkill

wow the rangers are a mess

not really the place for that suit, joakim

i don't think anyone's flipping out, but hendry's prized offseason possession, who is notorious for getting hurt, got hurt after his first at bat of ST. it's not exactly a good start to his tenure as a cub. it happened before the game, and i owuldn't call a tight quad "getting hurt". still thohg, you're right. even when he's healthy, he's not really "healthy"

i'd give anything for jeter to be on this list.

unless he puts up his career numbers. then he'll be like the 4th or 5th best hitter on the team. gtyty Read my post again. I never said I didn't expect him to be good, I just don't think it's a foregone conclusion that he'll be a great hitter. He's been a great hitter for about his last full season's worth of at-bats. Before then he wasn't great for a corner outfielder. His career OPS+ is 118, which would have been tied for 6th best on the Cubs last season.... hence my comment about him probably being like the 4th or 5th best hitter on the Cubs if he performed to his career averages. Like I said, I'm not expecting that. I'm expecting him to put up numbers similar to what Aramis put up last year.... rate-wise.

i don't think anybody is really freaking out aout this specific injury. it's just funny that he already is having leg problems

unless he puts up his career numbers. then he'll be like the 4th or 5th best hitter on the team.

but how could this happen..... hendry made sure he was healthy in the offseason

I think he meant "Wood is" but just forgot the apostrophe

This isn't really anything new though. He always has this off and on.

Miles was brought in to take a part of DeRosa and Cedeno. Overall Fontenot/Hoffpauir are taking more of DeRosa would be AB's though. We traded the everyday guy, promoted the bench guy to starter, and brought in another bench guy. But the fact that DeRosa plays so much outfield, our power hitting corner outfield/1b in Hoffpauir is replacing some of what DeRosa did. Remember DeRosa is just one guy. If he's playing outfield, Fontenot or Cedeno had to play 2b. Those guys combined had over 350 AB's at 2b last year. This year Fontenot and Miles will be at 2b, and Hoffpauir will be taking DeRosa would be outfield bats. You can't say just one player is replacing DeRosa, because he played so many postions. This year a combo of players will be replacing him, and you can't judge how big of a loss it will be. Until you know how a combo of those players do. Of course Fontenot/Hoffpauir will be getting most of them, but Miles and Johnson will be taking some AB's to. Saying Miles replaced DeRosa, because they both play 2b, and were switched on the same day. Just doesn't tell the whole story of what will happen next year. If Miles gets over 500 AB's and is playing everyday at 2b or in the outfield, then you can say that. But most likely he will be taking 130 AB's of DeRosa, and getting Cedeno other 210 AB's. I'll just copy and paste my post from above since I guess you didn't see it And yeah dude, you keep saying that we don't know what will happen. I get it. Nobody is claiming that any of this is certain. We're talking about what we think, just like you are.

Also has there been anything mentioned about Hoffpauir ptentially getting spot starts in RF? IIRC, Lou ended the Hoffpauir-in-RF experiment early last season after Hoff got a few starts there. I seem to remember him saying something about it in a postgame after a loss.

You're guilty of the same thing though. You've said the "let's just stop talking about it and see what happens" line probably a dozen times in the past month, but you still talk about it just like us. I'm just saying you keep criticizing people for going on and on about the Miles thing and telling them to shut up about it, but you're doing the exact same thing. You're just aruging the other side of it. They're trying to talk the moves down, you're trying to talk them up. Same thing, different sides. Oh, and again, I never said anything about Miles replacing DeRosa's playing time. He's replacing him on the roster, meaning DeRosa isn't there to play RF when Bradley is hurt. Of course Miles isn't going to get as many at-bats as DeRosa would have. That's not what I'm saying. He took his place on the roster.