17 Seconds

http://www.baseballmusings.com/archives/030070.php http://www.baseballmusings.com/archives/023929.php Perfect example of why defensive metrics are worthless. I knew somebody was going to post something like that. You can make pretty much anybody look good if you dig hard enough through that stuff. So you think Theriot is average defensively? Come on. I'm trying to avoid the dreaded "don't you watch the games?" line, but it's almost necessary. No way you could have watched him plau for more than 15 games and say that he is anything but below average defesnively. "Hey, there's a ball hit 2 feet to my right. I think I'm going to unneccessarily drop to my knees and field it because I have plenty of time with my rocket arm. Wait, he was safe? How is that possible?" Ok, so let me get this straight - I can either trust hard, empirical evidence or dextermorgan's clearly unbiased memory? Hum.... Defensive metrics are far from "hard, empirical evidence". They are extremely unreliable and jump all over the place from year to year. There are simply too many variables to accurately put defense into numbers. So you're saying you think Theriot is average defenisvely? And why do you imply that I'm biased? I have nothing against Theriot.

http://www.baseballmusings.com/archives/030070.php http://www.baseballmusings.com/archives/023929.php Perfect example of why defensive metrics are worthless. I knew somebody was going to post something like that. You can make pretty much anybody look good if you dig hard enough through that stuff. So you think Theriot is average defensively? Come on. I'm trying to avoid the dreaded "don't you watch the games?" line, but it's almost necessary. No way you could have watched him plau for more than 15 games and say that he is anything but below average defesnively. "Hey, there's a ball hit 2 feet to my right. I think I'm going to unneccessarily drop to my knees and field it because I have plenty of time with my rocket arm. Wait, he was safe? How is that possible?" Yes, I'm sure if you searched you'd find me talking about how limited Theriot's range appears to be, or how weak his arm is. However, PMR is nothing to scoff at, and I'm definitely willing to reconsider that Theriot isn't as bad a defender as he appears(just like Adam Dunn isn't as bad a hitter as he appears when he looks really bad swinging and missing). Using stats to get a realistic gauge of a player? There is a concept. What is it about Theriot that makes so many people blindly hate on him? He is not a superstar, but he is very serviceable SS. So because I point out Theriot's obvious flaws that means I hate him?

Anybody know of a place to watch the games free online?

Sounds legendary

http://www.baseballmusings.com/archives/030070.php http://www.baseballmusings.com/archives/023929.php Perfect example of why defensive metrics are worthless. I knew somebody was going to post something like that. You can make pretty much anybody look good if you dig hard enough through that stuff. So you think Theriot is average defensively? Come on. I'm trying to avoid the dreaded "don't you watch the games?" line, but it's almost necessary. No way you could have watched him plau for more than 15 games and say that he is anything but below average defesnively. "Hey, there's a ball hit 2 feet to my right. I think I'm going to unneccessarily drop to my knees and field it because I have plenty of time with my rocket arm. Wait, he was safe? How is that possible?" Yes, I'm sure if you searched you'd find me talking about how limited Theriot's range appears to be, or how weak his arm is. However, PMR is nothing to scoff at, and I'm definitely willing to reconsider that Theriot isn't as bad a defender as he appears(just like Adam Dunn isn't as bad a hitter as he appears when he looks really bad swinging and missing). Okay, maybe the "not even close to being average" was a bit much. I think he's definitely below average though.

http://www.baseballmusings.com/archives/030070.php http://www.baseballmusings.com/archives/023929.php Perfect example of why defensive metrics are worthless. I knew somebody was going to post something like that. You can make pretty much anybody look good if you dig hard enough through that stuff. So you think Theriot is average defensively? Come on. I'm trying to avoid the dreaded "don't you watch the games?" line, but it's almost necessary. No way you could have watched him plau for more than 15 games and say that he is anything but below average defesnively. "Hey, there's a ball hit 2 feet to my right. I think I'm going to unneccessarily drop to my knees and field it because I have plenty of time with my rocket arm. Wait, he was safe? How is that possible?"

For a SS last year Theriot was 2nd in ALL of the Majors at OBP. There are things that Theriot is not good at, but getting on base is not one of them. Also, how is Theriot overrated? He's a SS that gets on base and plays average defense. I don't see anybody bragging about how good he is or saying that he is one of the elite players in the game. I find it funny though that you complain about Hendry's lack of ability to scout talent, when you are so eager to replace a guy that gets on base with a guy that hasn't shown anything other than flashes of good play. In regard to Fontenot, Fontenot had a great year last year mostly because he was strictly platooned. If you look at his career splits, he has never had a problem hitting RHP. LHP has given him fits. Gotta give Lou credit for making the most out of his ability and to Fontenot for taking advantage of the opportunity. Theriot is not even close to being average defensively

In game 3 Harden pitched pretty much the way he had been pitching during the end of the regular season. He clearly wasn't completely healthy

guys...go look at peavy's postseason stats...they are not good...neither are harden's how many of you are really that ok with derosa being our everyday right fielder? i think it is much wiser to try and get someone to bat leadoff and fill the RF spot Not that it's the only thing wrong with that post, but you should probably know you lose some credibility when you talk about needing a leadoff hitter.... especially when the team in question just scored the most runs in the league. leadoff still isn't a position

Based on everything we know, it seems like the RF situation well decide how hard Hendry ends up going after Peavy. I bet his first choice would be to spend the remaining money he has to spend on a RF and then bow out of the Peavy race, with Peavy being a second option if there aren't any RF that are a big enough upgrade to warrant spending money/players on. I'm kind of hoping we don't get a big upgrade in right, because I think he'd then go hard after Peavy. I'd be fine with Font at second full time and DeRosa in right if it meant a rotation of Peavy/Harden/Zambrano/Dempster. If Harden can give us like 20 starts and Dempster can at least be decent to good, that rotation would be insane... especially if we were able to keep Marshall.

A deal hasn't taken place because we don't have what the Padres want. That's not totally true...I don't think we have a great offer on the table, but we could put a deal together that the Padres would want. no, they've already established that it will take a 3rd or 4th team because the cubs don't have enough of what they want. that came from towers himself on several occasions.

Hmm. Lou sounded awfully confident that Hendry was done with the rotation.

Interesting. I just realized I have no idea what his arm strength is like, but I can't imagine it being worse than Theriot's. Hopefully this time Lou doesn't panic and pull Fontenot the first time he makes an error.

Chris Bosh plz Bosh, Amare or Boozer in that order are the guys I would love to see paired with Rose. Well, assuming Lebron is unrealistic

Chris Bosh plz

After they go to San Antonio they have a pretty nice run of mediocre/crappy teams on the schedule @ Philadelphia Philadelphia @ Milwaukee Washington New York @ Memphis New Jersey @Charlotte LAC Hopefully they can go on a nice little rune there

that's what i was thinking. i was all hyped up for rose banging down the winner at the buzzer and then when he missed and hughes drained it i was like "umm... oh yeah... we won. sweet"

lololol larry hughes and i can't get over how good rose is already. i never thought he'd be this good this fast.

If Wood, Prior and (half the time) Zambrano hadn't pitched some of the best baseball of their careers simultaneously, it would have been true. But at the time they got Ramirez/Lofton they had already established that the top of their rotation was dominant.

i was reading this just as utah was getting another wide open dunk

They really need this game. No Deron, no Booer, etc.

These Utah announcers are annoying as hell I don't need to hear "BANG!!! HE DRILLED IT!!!!@!%$^%$%#" everytime somebody makes a shot in the 4th quarter

who here wrote off obp? nobody. p.s. leadoff is still not a position. obp is equally important throughout the lineup. highest scoring offense in the league or not, god knows that the main thing we were missing last year was more guys in front of dlee, right?

For 2/18, assuming the guy on WFAN knows what he's talking about http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/

Lilly, DeRosa, Ramirez, Dempster, Reed, Edmonds. You really shouldn't be counting Dempster in there yet He's been a Cub for 5 years. I think he's referring to the coptract he just signed. either way, it still has yet to be determined if he handled dempster well. he's had one good season as a reliever and one good season as a starter. if that one good season as a starter leads to a 4 year contract and he bombs during those 4 years, then he willed have handled it poorly.