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  1. Jehrico
    Adam Eaton. Any GM that would give it to him.
  2. Jehrico
    Larry's going to get a chance to prove himself if we really have signed Marquis.
  3. Jehrico
    The SLPD might generally a reliable paper, but it's a St L paper. I would be skeptical about any Chicago (or NY, or whatever) paper conflicting with a St Louis paper regarding what the Cardinals are doing. It's not that they're unreliable, it's that they're not embedded in Chicago. They're source most likely is someone in St Louis who is not involved in the negotiations. What they probably got is some Cards insider who heard what his agent told another team he may be negotiating with to get a better deal. Local reporters in Chicago with better inroads into Chicago dealings said they were looking at a 1 year deal for a few million. 3/28 defies common sense. 3/28 sounds like something Boras would state his client is looking for just as the market is opening up, ala Beltran for 7/200 a couple of years ago.
  4. Jehrico
    Carlos Lee will make more in his career then junior. Yeah, but Griffey's rookie card will always be worth more! :roll:
  5. Jehrico
    Yes, but apparently, that didn't say when he'd announce his decision.
  6. Jehrico
    Agreed. I don't like Meche, but if you look at Meche's 2005 K/9, k/bb ratio, WHIP, ERA, innings, and homers then adjust down slightly for the NL where applicable, you'll have some stats lines that look an awful lot like Schmidts. Then consider age. I think I'd rather take Meche for 10 than Schmidt for the 16-18 I think it would take us.
  7. Jehrico
    He pounded the ball in the second half, and his .060 IsoD is far from a disaster. Did Pie participate in any of the winter leagues? If so, how did he do? He did, and he has under a .600 OPS in it. in other words, he made ronny cedeno look like a solid hitter Was he working on changing his swing or anything like that over the winter that could account for his production?
  8. Jehrico
    Yes! No! I don't understand how it's not clear as day that Soriano can not play 2nd base. He was absolutely horrible at it before, and now he's going to have the rust that comes with not playing it for a whole year. He'd be likely to commit 30 errors at 2b if you put him there. Since we don't have a SS that can hit worth squat, why not move Barrett to SS? That would be on par with putting Soriano at 2nd (i.e. disregarding someone's ability to play a position because their offensive output far exceeds the value a replacement player at that position would provide). Soriano played a pretty decent outfield last year, his first year after converting from 2nd. He'd played 2nd for years and was atrocious. He's obviously better suited to play the outfield.
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    He's better than any of the 2nd tier FA's and he'll only cost 5.5M. I dont know of anyone better we could get for Jones. The gap between him and Lily or Meche isn't worth giving up Marmol for alone. I'd rather get a quality cheap bat off of the bench for Jones and keep Marmol than trade for Jennings. If Marmol's included, then they have to take Izturis off of our hands so we can sign Lugo.
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    link /recalls hendry talking about sosa in 05' im just sayin... What, when he said "I'm preparing as though Sosa will be out right fielder"? Not even close to the same thing. Agreed. Hendry WANTED to get rid of Sosa in 05. In the Nomar deal, he had the CAJONES to have Boston "throw" Murton into the deal with Nomar. So we KNOW, that Murton---since the day he was acquire---has been a "Hendry guy" and you know Hendry isn't going to trade "one of his guys" unless it was an offer he SIMPLY couldn't refused, and it made the Cubs a better team. So, I agree the Sosa and Murton statement are about as different as night and day. Another big difference between the two statements, is that he said he believes Murtons best days are ahead of him. That obviously wasn't even close the the case with Sammy. Hell, we would have been happy to get half of his best year had we kept him.
  11. Jehrico
    There's nothing that says Cuban can't get a couple of other interested groups to go in up to 49% with him to increase his bid either.
  12. Jehrico
    There are many better uses of a roster spot than Randall Simon. If you're lucky enough to have the top 5 non-starters in all of baseball, yeah. Simon would be a solid bench option. Are there better? Yeah. Will we find 5 better guys to fill our bench with? Highly unlikely.
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    Wasn't Bako the head lemon?
  14. Jehrico
    I'd love Simon off of the bench. How many times did we fail to drive someone in when we had someone on 3rd with less than 2 outs? Simon swung at everything, but he made a ton of contact and didn't hit into too many double plays. He'd be the perfect pinch hitter for those late and close games with men in scoring position and less than two outs.
  15. Jehrico
    Drew's contract w/ LA said they can't offer him arbitration. However, since he prematurely terminated the contract, I wonder if LA is still bound by that clause?
  16. Jehrico
    He already plays a plus major-league CF, and projects to continue to do so for the foreseeable future. Gotcha. I was just under the impression that he wasn't your typical "speed/range/glove" center fielder. So more like Damon than Pierre? He's got an arm, unlike Damon. I think Torii Hunter is a better comparison, especially if he comes somewhat close to his ceiling.
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    No offense Bruce, but... I don't think everyone should be taking his (Bruce) word as gospel on this. He's one of the most reliable reporters in Chicago (if not the most), but that doesn't give him a monopoly on sources and facts. No reporter has it all. He's right more often than he's wrong (and you can't say that for many of his counterparts in the city), but that doesn't mean some things haven't happened that he hasn't heard about. You just have to keep everything in perspective. If he says its so, there's a good chance it is. But some of you on here are taking it too far, as if he's infallible. On the flip side, if he is wrong on this one, it shouldn't affect his credibility, as he's been on more than any other beat reporter in Chicago that I've read.
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    igawa's japanese team has until friday to decide whether or not to accept the bid. we're not waiting for them to determine who made the largest offer - that's already known by the commissioner's office and igawa's team. So they posted him without giving any previous thought as to what would be an acceptable bid? I would find it hard to believe that they didn't have a minimum in mind that they would accept in exchange for giving up their rights to him. You would think that they've already thrown some crap at the wall on that one. I think they have already determined what would be acceptable. But there is still a lot of due diligence that goes into decisions involving this much money. First and foremost, I would think they would want to be absolutely certain that the winning bidder would end up signing the guy, so they wouldn't have to give the money back. That doesn't make any sense. They don't get paid anyways until the guy is signed. They already made the decision to post him for money, and they should already have had an idea how much they were looking for at a minimum. There's no risk in accepting the bid and having the team end up not signing him. Then they're back where they started, with nothing lost that wasn't already sunk in the decision to post him. No, it does make sense. They wouldn't want to accept a bid from a team that didn't end up signing the guy. If they suspected the winning bidder was just bluffing other teams, I'm sure they'd go to MLB to try and get some assurances that the winning bidder was legit. If that happens, the commissioner can get involved and assess measures to take against a team, then the Tigers could simply repost him.
  19. Jehrico
    igawa's japanese team has until friday to decide whether or not to accept the bid. we're not waiting for them to determine who made the largest offer - that's already known by the commissioner's office and igawa's team. So they posted him without giving any previous thought as to what would be an acceptable bid? I would find it hard to believe that they didn't have a minimum in mind that they would accept in exchange for giving up their rights to him. You would think that they've already thrown some crap at the wall on that one. I think they have already determined what would be acceptable. But there is still a lot of due diligence that goes into decisions involving this much money. First and foremost, I would think they would want to be absolutely certain that the winning bidder would end up signing the guy, so they wouldn't have to give the money back. That doesn't make any sense. They don't get paid anyways until the guy is signed. They already made the decision to post him for money, and they should already have had an idea how much they were looking for at a minimum. There's no risk in accepting the bid and having the team end up not signing him. Then they're back where they started, with nothing lost that wasn't already sunk in the decision to post him.
  20. Jehrico
    I think in any trade for an established pitcher, we are going to have send a top prospect back. And if they take Dempster, I think they are doing us a favor. So I would say Veal or Gallagher for sure, and then a project like Guzman or Marshall. Remember, Hendry really isn't on our side anymore. He has a one-year time horizon. There's no way we'd give up star potential along with our closer and a young pitcher with decent production and decent potential for an average starter. Maybe not. But "average pitcher" is becoming more and more valuable in GM's minds. Especially GM's who need to win some games right away. If average pitchers are going to be getting well over $10m per season, then average pitchers are going to cost star potential in trades. With average pitchers costing so much nowadays, wouldn't that in turn raise the demand for decent major league ready prospects and guys like Marshall who can reasonbly be expected to put up a 4.50 ERA? Marshall's value (and the value of other similar prospects) should go up as well when crappy veteran pitchers get more and more overpriced. How can Marshall be reasonably expected to put up a 4.50 ERA next year? The same way that the same can be expected from Meche for $10 million more. Marshall was around the high 4s when he went down at the end of July. He missed all of August, and had a rough September when he came back. Plus, he's younger (24), and still has the learning curve in front of him (i.e. should be expected to improve). Meche is going on 29 and is at his peak. Also, Marshall had never thrown over 74 innings a year in the minors, so there was probably some late season fatigue going on there too.
  21. Jehrico
    igawa's japanese team has until friday to decide whether or not to accept the bid. we're not waiting for them to determine who made the largest offer - that's already known by the commissioner's office and igawa's team. So they posted him without giving any previous thought as to what would be an acceptable bid? I would find it hard to believe that they didn't have a minimum in mind that they would accept in exchange for giving up their rights to him. You would think that they've already thrown some crap at the wall on that one.
  22. Jehrico
    His numbers will probably improve coming to the NL. His cost to aquire is a lot more palatable than paying Gil Meche or Greg Maddux. Yea, coming to the NL will help, but you never know - I don't think that's a variable you can count on to come true. Secondly, I would actually rather pay/overpay to acquire Meche. In the playoffs, Westbrook's stuff wont win you a game, neither will Maddux' - at least with Meche you have a chance. I don't see how Meche would give us any more of a chance than Marmol, Mateo, or Marshall. He's no better than any of those three are now. I think too many people put too much stock into him because of that nice little early season fluke-of-a-winning streak he had a couple of years ago.
  23. Jehrico
    I think in any trade for an established pitcher, we are going to have send a top prospect back. And if they take Dempster, I think they are doing us a favor. So I would say Veal or Gallagher for sure, and then a project like Guzman or Marshall. Remember, Hendry really isn't on our side anymore. He has a one-year time horizon. There's no way we'd give up star potential along with our closer and a young pitcher with decent production and decent potential for an average starter. Maybe not. But "average pitcher" is becoming more and more valuable in GM's minds. Especially GM's who need to win some games right away. If average pitchers are going to be getting well over $10m per season, then average pitchers are going to cost star potential in trades. With average pitchers costing so much nowadays, wouldn't that in turn raise the demand for decent major league ready prospects and guys like Marshall who can reasonbly be expected to put up a 4.50 ERA? Marshall's value (and the value of other similar prospects) should go up as well when crappy veteran pitchers get more and more overpriced.
  24. Jehrico
    I don't understand why they're waiting until Friday to make a decision. Just sort the bids in reverse numerical order, and whoever's on top, gets the rights to negotiate with him. It's not rocket science. I don't know what the hold up is.
  25. Jehrico
    Don't forget Cotts is hoping for a chance to earn a spot in the rotation too...
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