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  1. champaignchris
    Sam Dyson or Alex Claudio, please.
  2. champaignchris
    Random musings... I figured that Detroit would decline Cameron Maybin's option and that he'd be a possible depth candidate. He seems like a Theo-y kind of player. But the Tigers traded him to the Angels and the Angels excercised the option. I think the problem with re-signing Dex will be the years, not the dollars. Someone will give him a four year contract. The Cubs will pick up Hammel's option. He's a bargain for the price, even if he is the Cubs fifth or even sixth starter. But I could see them trade him. The free agent pool of starting pitchers is so thin right now, a team that thinks it's a number three starter away from competing might be interested in a cheap, short term option. The Rangers seem like an obvious candidate. Who on the Rangers would be a possible trade target? Dyson too far-fetched? If the Royals think they have one more go around in them, they'd be another possible trade partner. Soler is going to be traded, right?
  3. champaignchris
    I am just so happy right now. Nothing else to say.
  4. champaignchris
    More lurker than poster the last couple years. Still check the site every day.
  5. champaignchris
    I had to de-lurk to say that Lackey moved to the "like" side of my ledger with his "Not here for a haircut; I came for jewelry" post-game interview.
  6. champaignchris
    My problem has never been with people who didn't like or understand the plan. My problem has been with people who wanted Jim Hendry gone and then got mad when Theo Epstein didn't run the team just like Jim Hendry.
  7. champaignchris
    Maybe this, maybe that... Maybe he just turned 25 last month and started to mature a bit. I'd have hated having a troop of reporters following me around from ages 20-24 criticizing my every misstep. I can guarantee you I made a lot more questionable life-choice decisions than Starlin did. We're talking about a guy who played a grand total of 57 games above the A-ball level before being called up. He had to learn some of the basic lessons on professionalism, that other players get a couple years of AA and AAA experience to hash out, while being the face of a franchise and making three All Star teams. All the attention on Bryant, Lester, Maddon, etc. have to feel like a huge burden off of his back.
  8. champaignchris
    It's pretty early for statistical measures on defense, but on the eye test, he's looked pretty decent. Of course anyone is going to look pretty good next to the complete butcher we've had fielding Left most of this year.
  9. champaignchris
    If you consider that their other 2013 FA pitcher signing (Feldman) played quite well and was then flipped for Jake Arrieta and Pedro Strop, I'm not sure you can say that. In the four seasons before signing with the Cubs - ages 25-28 - Jackson was a very solid pitcher, 812 IP, 3.98 ERA, 3.89 FIP, 11.1 WAR. Saying they should have signed someone else is 20/20 hindsight. If Jackson had worked out the way he was supposed to, the Cubs may have spent that Tanaka money on a position player and been quite a bit more competitive last year.
  10. champaignchris
    Was that Ron Cey?
  11. champaignchris
    Unless it's a package for Giancarlo Stanton or some other young, power-hitting corner outfielder, I'm not interested.
  12. champaignchris
    OK fourth outfielder. Was never healthy.
  13. champaignchris
    Mike Olt
  14. champaignchris
    ...because they get no offensive production from 2B and two of the three OF slots.
  15. champaignchris
    ...the Cubs lead the Majors in homers as 8 different guys each hit double digit home runs.
  16. champaignchris
    200 IP, 3.80 ERA, BB/9 under 2.
  17. champaignchris
    The problem with Juan Pierre was that the Cubs traded three pitching prospects for him, all of whom made the Big Leagues, and one of whom, Ricky Nolasco, ended up having a pretty decent career. Trading all that for one year of Juan Pierre was the height of stupidity. Pierre came in and did exactly what Juan Pierre does for his one year and then walked in free agency. It was the 2nd most emblematic transaction in the Hendry era. #1 was the sequence of transactions leading up to the 2009 season that essentially exchanged Felix Pie, Ronny Cedeno, and Michael Wuertz for Joey Gaithwright, Aaron Miles, and Aaron Heilman. Basically replacing some young, cheap players with older, more expensive, worse players with fewer years of team control.
  18. champaignchris
    The recent analyses of pitch-framing by catchers adds an interesting spin on the idea of robo-umps calling balls and strikes... If the skill of the catcher is a significant factor in whether pitches are called balls or strikes and whether the batter subsequently swings at borderline pitches, is that something we want to take away?
  19. champaignchris
    Are the Phils going to be trading prospects? Even mid level ones? Shouldn't they be trying to shed payroll?
  20. champaignchris
    "For what it’s worth, Meghan is Edmonds’ third wife and they’ve been married less than six months." Beard.
  21. champaignchris
    What about the Rogers Centre? http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/90/Rogers_Centre_Blue_Jays.jpg i'd point out that's a completely conventional defensive alignment, and yet would be illegal under the two infielders on either side of 2B rule, since the secondbaseman looks to have both feet in the outfield.
  22. champaignchris
    So, middle infielders can't be in the grass and you can't bring in a fifth infielder.
  23. champaignchris
    So the shortstop could be at second base, but couldn't be two feet to his left? I don't see what problem a rule like that would solve.
  24. champaignchris
    I'm in agreement here. Let the managers put the players wherever. Let them figure out what works. How hardcore would it be codified? Could the SS not line up in the outfield grass? In late inning games with runners on, when you need a DP, could you not bring one of the outfielders in? Who gets to decide what's a standard array of fielders and what's a "radical shift?"
  25. champaignchris
    He was DC with Del Rio in Jax.
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