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  1. 17 Seconds
    This thread is [expletive].
  2. 17 Seconds
    Yeah you're right. The heading to that article was kind of deceiving ("Johnson, Fukudome hit 1-2 in potential lineup vs. lefties").
  3. 17 Seconds
    Can someone explain to me the point of switching Fukudome and Soriano against left handed pitching? I mean, I guess I like that better than the other, but I don't see his motivation for doing it only against lefties. Why not just do it all the time?
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    Or at least it's a tentative plan. Not sure if this was posted yet. http://chicago.cubs.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20080329&content_id=2465512&vkey=news_chc&fext=.jsp&c_id=chc
  5. 17 Seconds
    Haha that field looks so ridiculous. Has anybody gone yard yet?
  6. 17 Seconds
    Did anybody say it did? The original post said nothing about what effect clutch hitters have on a team. What? For a lot of players, it certainly is. Multiple players have been mentioned already in this thread who repeat their trend year after year. Again, he didn't say it was. People are derailing this thread by talking about building teams around clutch players when that wasn't the point of this thread at all.
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    Then why did you post here in the first place? Either discuss it or don't post at all. Don't make statements and then say "I'm not gonna post" when someone engages you in an argument. Like badnews said, I don't understand why people have to pretend that id doesn't exist. No, not really. If it was something like a guy sucking in 6th inning a-bats then that would be flukey. I don't think guys likethat exist, and if they do, there aren't many. Guys that either suck or excel in clutch stats are all over the league. That's a lot of "flukes". Hell, there are guys from both ends of the spectrum on our team alone. There's a reason why Ramirez hits better with guys on base, and there's a reason why Soriano doesn't. Now, I'm not saying it's smart to build teams around clutch guys, but pretending they don't exist just sounds ignorant and stubborn to me.
  8. 17 Seconds
    Whoa whoa whoa. 10 at-bats? Francoeur had 182 at-bats with RISP last season, 172 the year before, and 112 (out of 257 total) in 2005. Let's look at the situations for Casey Blake: 2007 Bases empty: .308 .382 .517 Runners on: .227 .289 .344 RISP: .190 .271 .294 2006: Bases empty: .315 .380 .562 Runners on: .242 .329 .379 RISP: .261 .360 .450 2005 Bases empty: .278 .351 .535 Runners on: .192 .250 .308 RISP: .171 .243 .248 2004 Bases empty: .280 .364 .544 Runners on: .261 .343 .426 RISP: .254 .359 .364 2003 Bases empty: .269 .327 .416 Runners on: .239 .291 .404 RISP: .233 .291 .426 Career Bases Empty: .286 .357 .504 Runners on: .234 .303 .372 RISP: .219 .303 .348 RISP w/2 outs: .195 .290 .302 That's not a coincidence guys, and it's not due to small numbers of at-bats. Those are large sample sizes and a definitive trend. How can you look at those numbers and say he's not more or likely to suck in clutch stats than a guy like Franceour? Now, you can't look at every player in baseball and determine whether he's clutch or not, but for guys like Casey Blake, you absolutely can.
  9. 17 Seconds
    I'd keep Hamilton.
  10. 17 Seconds
    Not to mention the writer doesn't even know what he's talking about. Ball through Agon's legs? Apparently he was watching a different game 6.
  11. 17 Seconds
    Abe Frohman, are you seriously trying to say that a 5 year age difference isn't a big deal? I'm not a huge Ronny fan, but the age difference is huge. Your logic is extremely flawed when you say that it doesn't matter what age a player is once he's on the team. You realize that players usually improve as they get older, right? Statistically, players peak at around Theriot's age or close to it. Players do not peak at age 23, not even close.
  12. 17 Seconds
    Theriot has very poor range.
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    http://chicago.cubs.mlb.com/news/wrap.jsp?ymd=20070405&content_id=1880974&vkey=wrapup2005&fext=.jsp&team=away&c_id=chc Click "top play" and then "Ramirez's RBI double." Now tell me Fontenot isn't faster than that.
  14. 17 Seconds
    That doesn't mean he's faster. Pie is faster than Brian Roberts but Roberts is a much better base stealer.
  15. 17 Seconds
    I can't believe someone has actually pick Murton already.
  16. 17 Seconds
    I'd say the reason he gets infield hits is due more to the fact that he hits a lot of ground balls, not because of his speed.
  17. 17 Seconds
    Fontenot and I don't think it's even close. I often hear people say Murton is fairly fast and I just don't get where that's coming from.
  18. 17 Seconds
    This may just be semantics, but the new title of this thread is kind of inaccurate. MacPhail never said anything is dead. All he said was that a trade is unlikely before opening day.
  19. 17 Seconds
    I suspect that Belkast doesn't grasp the meaning of the word "brilliant".
  20. 17 Seconds
    I didn't even read this thread, but I'd say it's you're in trouble at a position when people are asking "Can Theriot actually be adequate?" That's like saying "Does anybody think that maybe one day possibly George Bush could potentially be not completely retared but only pretty [expletive]?"
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    As soon as I noticed they had Cinci winning 87 games I stopped reading that page.
  22. 17 Seconds
    Do the Rangers think they're competing this year or something?
  23. 17 Seconds
    Yeah, that's why I said PGA & Co. I think both of them are involved in this. I got an interesting e-mail from Jason Churchill earlier though, he said the people that the Cubs are fed up with right now are the O's financial attorney and Mike Flanagan, not MacPhail.
  24. 17 Seconds
    That's weeks (months maybe) old.
  25. 17 Seconds
    I just got this e-mail from Churchill: I think that there was never a realistic chance of this ever happening and the media blew it up way too much. We should have known that PGA & Co. wouldn't trade their golden boy.
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