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  1. champaignchris
    I didn't suggest 3b, because I'm assuming at this point Vitters is projected to be the eventual replacement for Ram.
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    Bradley's not a free agent until after 2011. You're right. Don't know how I fudged that up. But 2010 is Lee's walk year, right?
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    He's obviously a major league hitter. The question is what position he plays and where he fits in to the Cubs. Lee and Bradley are both free agents after 2010. Shouldn't he gradually be phased into Right or 1B? I don't want to see the guy Murton'ed, especially since I think he's a much better hitter than Murton ever was or will be.
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    This team has gone on some awful streaks all year... 2-7 from Apr 22 to Apr 30. Scored ten runs in the 7 losses, 21 runs in the 2 wins. 4-11 from May 17 to June 2. Only scored 47 runs. Only 10 runs scored in the first 7 games of this stretch. 1-5 from June 10 to June 17. 10 runs scored. 2-7 from June 21 to June 30. 27 runs scored. During all of June, the Cubs scored 89 runs in 25 game (15th of 16), posted a .233 BA (14th), .303 OBP (15th), .364 SLG (13th). During the same time, they had the top ERA in the NL, 3.18. 4-11 since getting shutout by Lehr in Cincy Aug 5th. Take away the 17 runs against Pittsburgh on Aug 14th, and the Cubs have only 44 runs in the 14 other games. Only 27 runs in the 11 losses.
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    Yeah. I'm not too sure about pulling Gorzo at that point. But, I'm not going to argue about it too much. However, if that's where you think you can do some damage, you've got to come with something better than Miles. Fox, Fuld and Soto were all available. Hell, pinch hit Z before Miles... there's at very least a chance he'll knock it out if he gets a hold of one. Rich freakin' Harden has a better OPS and would have at least been fast enough to make the play at first a little interesting.
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    If Tom Gorzelanny wants to continue to do a Tom Glavine impersonation, I'm perfectly fine with that.
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    If they knew they were going to release him, they should have just left him in there to give the bullpen a rest. Can you imagine the box score? CG, 21 ER, 273 pitches...
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    Putting the likelihood of Wells also contracting Rick Ankiel disease aside... Hill 2006: 26 years old, 99.1 IP, 4.17 ERA, 1.22 WHIP, 90 K, 39 BB Hill 2007: 27 years old, 195 IP, 3.92 ERA, 1.20 WHIP, 183 K, 63 BB Wells 2009: 26 years old, 95 IP, 2.84 ERA, 1.15 WHIP, 60 K, 21 BB At the same point in their careers, Hill never pitched as well for as extended a period of time. Are you kidding me? O.K. In which 15 start stretch did Hill post a 2.84 ERA? I suppose if you sandwich his last 6 or 7 starts in '06 with his first 5 or 6 starts in '07, ignore the playoff start and the six months in between, you could argue Hill outperformed Wells over a similar number of starts. Um, which playoff start? The Cubs didn't even sniff the playoffs in 2006, and 2007 isn't in the time frame you're talking about.How embarrassing. I'm glad I'm not the guy that said that. Oh wait.... :oops:
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    Putting the likelihood of Wells also contracting Rick Ankiel disease aside... Hill 2006: 26 years old, 99.1 IP, 4.17 ERA, 1.22 WHIP, 90 K, 39 BB Hill 2007: 27 years old, 195 IP, 3.92 ERA, 1.20 WHIP, 183 K, 63 BB Wells 2009: 26 years old, 95 IP, 2.84 ERA, 1.15 WHIP, 60 K, 21 BB At the same point in their careers, Hill never pitched as well for as extended a period of time. Are you kidding me? O.K. In which 15 start stretch did Hill post a 2.84 ERA? I suppose if you sandwich his last 6 or 7 starts in '06 with his first 5 or 6 starts in '07, ignore the playoff start and the six months in between, you could argue Hill outperformed Wells over a similar number of starts.
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    Putting the likelihood of Wells also contracting Rick Ankiel disease aside... Hill 2006: 26 years old, 99.1 IP, 4.17 ERA, 1.22 WHIP, 90 K, 39 BB Hill 2007: 27 years old, 195 IP, 3.92 ERA, 1.20 WHIP, 183 K, 63 BB Wells 2009: 26 years old, 95 IP, 2.84 ERA, 1.15 WHIP, 60 K, 21 BB At the same point in their careers, Hill never pitched as well for as extended a period of time.
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    Even next yr, Wells will still be at best a 4th starter (behind Z/Lilly and Dempster) so unless you get a good offer for Wells in the offseason, I keep Wells cause he would be a very solud #4. Yep, with the guys we have under contract, we'd be relying on Wells to be no more than a #4 starter.
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    The Indians were a team expected to contend each of these last two years, and failed miserably. So, I understand the desire to blow things up. I just don't see how trading away a top-line pitcher, signed at an under-market salary, which goes through next season, really helps things. Unless the Indians are conceding next year as a re-building season, that is. In which case, If I were an Indians fan, I wouldn't be too happy about this, regardless of the quality of the prospects.
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    My vote is for Pablo Sandoval... OPS .933 - top among qualified 3Bs, 15 HR, 58 RBI, only 22 years old, about $400,000 salary, and no one seems to be talking about him.
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    I think you can write off his performance against lefties last year as an aberration due to small sample size (.333 BA in 21 AB) The mystery is what's happened to him against right handers... 2009 229 AB .231/.311/.384 2008 222 AB .302/.393/.518 2007 182 AB .297/.358/.423 He's fallen off a cliff. A leftie with a .695 OPS against right handers is beyond useless.
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    I think I want Rose in. I think the ban extending to the Hall of Fame is a bit silly. Especially since there's really no evidence that Rose's betting had any effect on games. (Unlike Joe Jackson, who may have thrown a World Series.) I still wouldn't want him to have anything to do with a team. I wouldn't even want him as a minor league hitting coach. But I also really sympathize with MojoPin's view. If Rose gets in for committing baseball's "original sin," I don't know how you could possibly justify keeping a guy like McGuire (and Clemons, Sosa, etc., basically any of the known users from prior to the new rule going into effect) out when you could make a straight faced argument that he never actually broke any baseball rules. I wonder if this might be a message to the baseball writers. If Selig reinstates Rose and the veterans (after basically not voting anyone in for a decade) then vote him in, doesn't that tell the writers how they need to be treating McGuire, Bonds, etc.? Also, when will Selig investigate overturning Santo's lifetime Hall of Fame ban? I think it's about time he got a reprieve, too.
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    Is there a team in the majors that doesn't have a problem when you get to the 6th guy out of the pen? The pen's ERA is 3.88. Good for 7th in the league... slightly above the league average of 4.02. Converted only 20 of 33 save opportunities, which isn't really good. But this may have as much to do as anything else with an offense that sometimes seems incapable of doing anything at all after the 6th inning - last in the NL with only 96 runs and a .657 OPS.
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    Some of Bradley's splits are just bizarre... He's hitting .170 in 94 AB in the 4th or 5th slot. Everywhere else in the lineup (mostly 3rd) and pinch-hitting, he's hitting .302 in 116 AB. Somehow, despite taking all but nine of his AB in the 3rd through 6th spot in the order, he only has 21 RBI through 84 games (71 played) of the season. $7 million right fielder, and he's on pace to hit 43 RBI? You have to go all the way back to 2007 to find a year where he hit so few. Too bad there weren't any other corner outfielders on the free agent market for Hendry to consider. (For the record, defensive liability and all, I wanted Adam Dunn.)
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    Inability to draft position players is hardly an issue confined to Jim Hendry: Here's a complete list of Cubs draft picks who've played 800 games in the big leagues (about 5 complete seasons) since 1988 (the first post-Dallas Green draft): D. Glanville E. Hinske C. Patterson To give some credit, Khalil Green (2001, didn't sign) is probably going to get to 800, and Ryan Theriot (2001) has a decent shot. Both were MacPhail picks. Given the standard length of time it takes a draft pick to get to the bigs, it's probably not fair to expect anyone drafted after 2001 to have played 800 games. However, no one drafted after 2001 has even played 100 games yet. Compare to Dallas Green's draft picks (1982-1987) Shawon Dunston (1982) Jeff King (1983, didn't sign) Rafael Palmeiro (1985) Mark Grace (1985) Joe Girardi (1986) Jeff Cirillo (1987, didn't sign)
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    And for what it's worth Kerry Wood: 9 saves, 4 blown saves, 5.68 ERA in 25 1/3 IP.
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    I've seen a number of comments in the press about "all" of Gregg's blown saves... Here's a pretty typical one: http://espn.go.com/chicago/columns/blog?post=4282635&name=friedell The problem is, he's only blown three saves in fourteen chances... Last night, June 2, and April 10. He's posted a 4.18 ERA, which isn't very good for a short reliever. But he had a 5.59 ERA in April, a 3.86 ERA in May, and has had a 3.27 ERA so far in June. The other options are: Guzman... hurt Marmol... three saves, three blown saves, 33 BB in 33 2/3 IP. uhhhhhhh... Ascaino? Marshall? Point is, Gregg's not very good. But he's good enough. If the Cubs hadn't just gone a whole month averaging less than three runs a game, the Cubs would be in first place about a game and a half up on the Cardinals, and no one would be blowing a gasket about this.
  21. champaignchris
    NO BARKING WAY!!!
  22. champaignchris
    Prediction time... Z goes 7 without giving up a run. Reliever, let's say... Ascaino, comes in, in the eighth gives up walk, sacrifice bunt, bloop hit for a run. Cubs can't scratch across a score. Cubs lose 1-0.
  23. champaignchris
    Griffey Thome Thomas McGriff Delgado Bagwell Piazza C. Jones Galarraga Guerrero The steroid era guys with the most home runs yet to have been linked to steroids. All top 50 all-time HR hitters, all between HoF locks and someone who will at least get some HoF consideration. Is there any reason to believe that they weren't on roids? 104 guys tested positive. That's, on average, three or four on each team, and that's only the ones that got caught. Is there any reason not to believe that the actual number wasn't significantly higher. Is there any way for a HoF voter to justify not voting for Sosa or McGwire and then voting for, say, Pudge Rodriguez or Jim Thome?
  24. champaignchris
    Through 6/16: Derosa vs. L: 54 AB 352/417/704 vs. R: 197 AB 259/330/416 Fontenot vs. L: 30 AB 133/176/233 vs. R: 152 AB 257/352/428 Bradley vs. L: 38 AB 289/372/447 vs. R: 103 AB 204/322/359 Miles v. L: 93 AB 183/224/215 v. R: 22 AB 273/304/409 So, thus far this year, DeRosa is performing decently against right handers and absolutely murdering lefties. Fontenot is performing about the same against righties, but can't hit lefties to save his life. Bradley is performing decent against lefties, but not as well as DeRosa, while looking completely lost against righties. Miles isn't horrible against righties, but is just as useless against lefties as Fontenot is, begging the question as to why he continues to get any at bats at all. The really weird thing in all this is that if the Cubs don't sign Miles and stand pat with DeRosa, it only costs them about $2.5 million, which might seem huge to you or me, or even to a small payroll team like the Pirates or Marlins, but to the Cubs and their ~$120 million roster is pocket change.
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    So, who now tops the list of "Most likely to have been on roids, but we don't have any actual proof yet?" Bagwell? Piazza?
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