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    I think that Cabrera is about the only player that you can name who won't get a 20-page discussion on the pros and cons of a trade. I shouldn't speak so soon because if by some miracle Hendry got Cabrera, the Hendry bashers would be complaining about how much he gave up for him. Maybe so, but I think the "bashing" would be alot less than usual. Because it's CABRERA. Exactly. He would have actually gotten an impact player in or before his prime, rather than another Juan Pierre, who is just pretty good at his best and hasn't been that in three years (and who also cost us three prospects).
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    Man, I would love to have Dierker running the offense. My only question whatsoever with him is his use of pitchers.
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    Hendry simply can't plan on having Cedeno be the starting 2Bman next season. Oh he can. This is the same guy that planned on having Jerome Williams as the #4 starter based on a 3 month anomoly in 2005. Anomaly? I guess when he was even better than that as a rookie three years ago that was an anomaly, too? Williams sucked because he lost velocity, not because his past performance was some illusion.
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    I would agree with the overall sentiment, but Pierre just completed his third consecutive month with an OBP at or above .346. I wouldn't just classify it as simply a "hot streak." That said, he's not worth the money he'll get, is only okay as a base stealer (runs into too many outs), is only okay at best in the field with a terrible arm, and doesn't provide enough offensively to offset the periods where the abundance of ground balls aren't falling into the right gaps. Seems to me that at the beginning of the year Pierre was bunting way too often and hitting the ball on the ground almost every at bat. Recently, it seems that he has been hitting more line drives. I wouldn't mind seeing him in CF next year, if Hendry was able to sign him at a contract similar to what he makes now. Any thing more is a waste. That seems to be very close to the truth. Pierre has set a career high for extra base hits this year with a month still to go. 30 doubles (28 previous high), 12 triples (13 career high), and 2 homers (3 career high) for 44 total. His next best number was 37. At the end of May, at his lowest point, he had...six XBH. So I think it's fair to say that his improvement is significantly tied to being much less of a ground ball hitter. In fact, I just realized that he's broken his previous high in the last three months (and 5 days) alone.
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    I would agree with the overall sentiment, but Pierre just completed his third consecutive month with an OBP at or above .346. I wouldn't just classify it as simply a "hot streak." That said, he's not worth the money he'll get, is only okay as a base stealer (runs into too many outs), is only okay at best in the field with a terrible arm, and doesn't provide enough offensively to offset the periods where the abundance of ground balls aren't falling into the right gaps.
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    Except for Kenny Lofton. And Mark Grudzelaniek. And the 04 version of CPatt. And Todd Walker.
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    I love how Scott Moore's head won't fit in the photo box on Gameday.
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    are if/then statements that difficult to understand?
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    If he can ever get/stay healthy, Ben Sheets is a good candidate for a perfect game.
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    If my calcule are correct, Pie is currently at .280/.339/.449 on the year. Nice trick, raising SLG by 10 points in one game.
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    He took a ball to the balls, more than likely. It happend to me once and was the last time I caught a baseball game. My testies swelled up the size of a 16' softball and turned black. That's a huge softball. How did you walk? Did you just roll them ahead of you? Conveyor belt, maybe?
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    I'm pretty sure you're missing the point completely. No im not missing the point. He said he thought Kendall's Ab was the only good one in the inning. Which is completely false. Not everyting has to be about stats. Stats aren't useless, but stats are so subjective that one must really pay extreme attention to other details of the game that stats don't record. ...And that's exactly what you're doing. Not paying attention to the other details, such as that you needed a hit, not an out, because you only have three outs to get two runs in. That the one run doesn't matter at all if you can't get the second in, and with the out, you just made it a lot more difficult to score that second run. And I really wish people who don't understand what the word "subjective" means would stop throwing it around.
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    And there were people who, as recently as a couple of months ago, were poopooing the Thome trade like they'd be better off having kept him.
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    I hurt just from the sound of that. :cry:
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    Hardly dominating? What would it take for you to consider it dominating? A perfect game? Just because the circumstances were easier than they could have been doesn't make it not a dominating performance.
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    I really don't see any way Gallagher starts below AAA next year. Veal will certainly start at AA at least. after absolutely destroying two A levels this season. I wouldn't be surprised to see him get a really quick promotion if he starts off dominating like before at AA.
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    If they got A. Jones, what do we do with our own Jock Jones? Leave him in right. We could use his power and not suffer for his lack of OBP if we have Durham/Murton/Lee/Ramirez/Jones/Barrett batting at the top of the order easily. Heck, Jones would be a fantastic #7 hitter if you could pull that off. Actually, I'd love to see the Cubs trade for Andruw Jones and trade for Carlos Lee. Not going to happen, and not really worth what you pay for, probably, but I just keep giggling at the idea of a Lee/Jones/Lee/Jones middle of the lineup.
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    Completely off topic, does anybody besides me pronounce PTBNL as "putt-bunnel?"
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    I wanted Diaz for LF or RF. :( He could have been a huge steal.
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    I like Durham, and would definitely advocate getting him as a stopgap. Keeps the Cubs from rushing Patterson, who is close but not there yet (although he has been tearing up AAA ball in very limited time, so he may be closer than suspected), but doesn't block him long-term. I'd offer a one year deal for decent money, and hopefully nobody's dumb enough to offer him a long-term deal. He'd eliminate the "need" to sign a stereotypical leadoff guy (pierre, roberts) for CF, giving the Cubs better options. I would then move Jones to CF and shoot for a big bat to play LF or RF, keeping Murton at the other position (RF seems more feasible, naturally). Alternately, making a play for either Giles or A. Jones from ATL, since both seem to be available in the right deal. And it is imperative to keep Ramirez.
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    why eyre and howery haven't done bad, admittedly we over-paid but it is the cast of characters around them that have made the pen look bad That is correct. We overpaid. We spent 13 million per on relievers this offseason. How many more games did that win for the Cubs? The bullpen has gone from weakness to strength (or it would be a strength if Dusty would quit pitching certain guys once a week and other guys every day until the former are rusty and the latter are worn out), and the Cubs are still much, much worse overall because they squandered money that could have otherwise been spent on a more pressing need, such as pitching depth or more, stronger bats. And that doesn't account for the fact that relief pitchers are almost always very volatile in their performance (Remember when Guillermo Mota was a stud less than two years ago?), so we don't know how that Howry or Eyre will be anything special over the next two years, but we do know they'll be getting 3-4 million per year. Same thing happened with Remlinger. Meanwhile, guys like Wuertz have been outstanding and cheap and don't get enough innings, and there are others with strong potential there as well. So yeah, I wouldn't spend any money on relievers.
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    Looks like Patterson's hit streak is going to end. His last time up (unless the I-Cubs blow the lead or this inning is HUGE) in the bottom of the 8th, and he...walks.
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    That was short. Man, Dan Wilkinson has been a beast in two preseason games. The Dolphins' defense looked much stronger last night--the new DBs seem to fit the system pretty well, and are adjusting quickly (with the exception of the ol' holdout Jason Allen, who looks behind quite a bit). If Brown had had a better night running the ball and the red zone offense had been more effective, I'd be very pleased with last night's performance. Still more work to do.
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    IN DAYTONA: VEAL: 69 IP, 36 BB GALL: 78 IP, 21 BB At an equal level this year, Gallagher had better control. Veal's walks could spike at West Tenn too...we just don't know. (BTW, their Peoria walk totals: VEAL: 73 IP, 40 BB; GALL: 146 IP, 55 BB) Yes, I know this, and it wasn't the point. Any way you slice it, a WHIP approaching 1.5 is not good. That's what Gallagher's doing in WT. He's got dominant overall numbers, but he's mostly doing passably at AA (which is no small feat, don't get me wrong) after dominating at high A. Veal has been dominating consistently all season long. Opponents hit .180 against Veal; they hit .248 againt Gallagher. With the walk rates being near identical, I'll take the guy who gets more people out, especially when the other guy is going the wrong way on walk rate. Yes, Veal's walks could spike at WT. There is a concern for that. What does that have to do with who wins the 2006 minor league player of the year award?
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    I haven't gotten to watch a lot of games, but has there been a lot of booing of Ronny Cedeno? But there is some comparison. It's not a parallel comparison, but you can determine some things. If there was absolutely NO comparison, there'd be no point in having minor leagues.
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