frostwyrm
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He's been slumping. Less than two weeks ago he was pushing a 900 OPS. He has hit only 1 homer this month but he tends to hit them in bunches, as we've seen. I wouldn't get your panties in a bunch about a slump. I doubt you thought you were wrong about him when he was raking in June. He has a history of being able to put up monster months like we saw in June. Unfortunately he puts up terrible months too. None of what he's done so far should have surprised anyone.
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Season: .293 .334 .507 .841 Career: .281 .326 .510 .836 He's back to his career norms now. Just sayin'.
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Least Favorite Cub Player in Recent Memory
frostwyrm replied to Schwarber Fan's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Ron Coomer always bugged me. Besides sucking, he didn't bother staying in shape, which I hate to see in a professional athlete. The worst thing was that cocky smirk. If you suck and you're plainly out of shape then you shouldn't smirk on the field. -
I'm guessing Floyd is hurt, so that's why they're bringing up Murton. Cedeno is the backup at this point unless Theriot starts to slump. I have no idea why Soto isn't up. He should be the starting catcher. Maybe Floyd is hurt, but if Murt starts slowly it'll be Pagan and Derosa in RF again. I'd rather just cash out my Murton chip and get some value for him now.
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So you guys think Lou will let Cedeno, Murton, and Soto play through slumps? I haven't seen any evidence to suggest that Lou will do that, and I generally think teams should trade the prospects that they're not prepared to show some faith in.
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I still think Murton is way more valuable to the Cubs as trade bait than as a player. If he has a bad week he's back in Lou's doghouse and we will have lost our chance to get value for him before the deadline. I guess we better hope he starts hot and stays hot.
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I'm all for getting value for Murton, but just dumping him for the sake of dumping him? He has to be moved now. He doesn't belong in the minors and he's not in the Cubs' plans for the future as a starter. He's more valuable as trade bait than as a bench player who mostly just faces lefties, which is about all he can hope for with the Cubs.
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I'm all for dumping Murton. There's no way the Cubs view him as a longterm RF and LF is locked up for the next 8 years. In light of how little faith management has in him he should have been traded in the offseason. Soto should be shopped too since he's doing well in AAA and the Cubs seem determined to start any warm body at C instead of him.
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Yes, yes it is. Particularly when your pen is already strong. Totally agree. It's dumber than the Pierre trade for the Cubs. At least Pierre filled a need and we got him for a full season. The Brewers gave away one of their best trading chips for 2.5 months of a relief pitcher they didn't even particularly need. Need for what, a leadoff hitter who doesn't get on base enough? I'm one of the biggest Pierre bashers alive, so obviously I don't think he helped us. But we did need an everyday CF for a season, so on paper he did fill a need, unlike Linebrink for the Brewers. Trading top prospects for Pierre was a bad way to fill a need, but trading top prospects for Linebrink was a bad way to fill a non-need.
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Yes, yes it is. Particularly when your pen is already strong. Totally agree. It's dumber than the Pierre trade for the Cubs. At least Pierre filled a need and we got him for a full season. The Brewers gave away one of their best trading chips for 2.5 months of a relief pitcher they didn't even particularly need.
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That's what I'm thinking, and it's why I think Kendall resigning is a real possibility. I agree. Kendall just needs one good hot streak to be considered. Hendry is a sucker for lightning in a bottle.
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I can't believe the Cubs have any faith in Soto. If they did then he would have had a shot immediately after Barrett's departure. Instead the Cubs used Hill/Bowen, then got Kendall. Soto is in a simliar situation to Murton.
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What bugs me most about Murton's shoddy treatment is that given regular playing time I don't think he'd be doing much worse than Soriano's .846 OPS. Murt would have fewer home runs and would probably be a bit over .800 in OPS. Soriano's $136M is a history-makingly bad investment for such a small and temporary improvement over a cheap player we already had.
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he didn't give him anything to hit, it was an intentionally unintentional walk Ok, makes sense now. Walk Jock and pitch to crappy Kendall.
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Why did Wells pitch to Jacque? Doesn't make sense unless no lefties are available.
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Cards should put a LHP in here.
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If this is accurate then Z is gone. He'd be crazy to wait til the end of the year just to give one team a chance to bid. I know I wouldn't do it.
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He must mean it's a bench upgrade. No GM will diss a player half a season after committing $20M to him.
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Atlanta's got Wickman and Andruw Jones this year, Tim Hudson and John Thomson last year. Oakland's got Eric Chavez, Jason Kendall, and Mark Kotsay. You can spend even larger amounts of money on high paid dreck too. The White Sox won a world series with a team full of middling salary guys and no superstars. The Cardinals did it the other way with a few studs, and the rest dreck. The Red Sox had a couple superstars, and then a bunch of role players. Don't overspend on bad players. Shocking revelation. Braves are also on the hook for the entirity of Mike Hampton's 14.5 this year. They also paid Craig Wilson 2 million, which makes Floyd at $3 million look like the bargain of the Century. The Braves compensate for bad contracts by having a farm system that produces everyday players. The Cubs compensate by spending more money than everybody else in their division.
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Yep. This is the type of stuff I point to whenever someone tells me a big payroll isn't important. It gives a GM the luxury of making a lot of mistakes that small-market teams can't afford. $31.46M in bad contracts would sink a lot of teams. Hendry also has the luxury of ownership that is extremely tolerant of backloaded contracts, which makes it even easier to cover for mistakes in the short term. Of course backloading bites you in the ass eventually.
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The Neifi trade was much better. He had $3M left on his contract and the Tigers took on the whole contract, as well as sending us their 3rd round pick from 2005.
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You're right. This is all on Hendry for starting this mess in the first place. We should have never traded for Izturcrap in the first place. If I calculate correctly the total financial damage incurred by the Cub's involvement with Izturis is roughly $7.25M. Hendry sucks, he's just fortunate enough to have the payroll to outspend his mistakes.
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We had to send the Dodgers $2M cash to get Izturis, now we're eating the remaining 2/3 of his contract to get rid of him, and he's already been paid for playing about a full season's worth of games. This has been an expensive fiasco and a good example of how money does matter. Teams with smaller payrolls can't easily afford these types of mistakes.
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The Pirates aren't contending this year, so I can't imagine why they would want Izturis unless they're considering picking up his option. What a stupid organization.
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One of the most annoying things about the Pierre trade is that he was riding an impressive hot streak going into late July, so Hendry had a good chance to recoup lost value by shopping him. Instead Pierre started every game in a lost season and then walked. This made a bad trade even worse.