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  1. frostwyrm
    Ample money + ample time + losing record = bad GM. It really is that simple.
  2. frostwyrm
    I've actually stopped caring about Murt's future as a Cub and want him traded while he still can fetch good value. The Cubs organization obviously doesn't have any faith in him but no doubt there would be other teams willing to acquire him in order to give him a shot to be an everyday player, which means his value as trade bait almost certainly outweighs his value as a Cubs player. Just get rid of him and be done with it before his marketability can decline any further.
  3. frostwyrm
    Nice winning streak, but we've been playing the Pirates and Nationals. I would hope a $110 mil team could beat that level of opponent.
  4. frostwyrm
    Just saw the lineup. I though we had a surplus of outfielders, but Lou has an infielder in RF today? I don't get it.
  5. frostwyrm
    We need to beat some actual baseball teams, i.e. teams other than the Pirates and Nationals. They suck.
  6. frostwyrm
    You could have a guy pitching 200+ innings with an ERA below 4, or you could have the guy pitch one inning at a time in save situations. EASY choice. The save is the bestest most valuablest stat ever! Only dumb people don't know that.
  7. frostwyrm
    I don't think it was so bad. If you look at his legs when he stoops down there is no unsteadiness or weakness in the muscles. When a guy gets his bell rung hard all the major muscles in the body show at least momentary signs of faltering. I didn't see that here. I think Sammy's most likely physically okay, he just can't let this affect him psychologically, which is what is what happened last time. I'd maybe give him a day off then let him play.
  8. frostwyrm
    There are high school players who could squeeze out two good games against the Pittsburgh Pirates. I wouldn't get too excited just yet.
  9. frostwyrm
    I'm not sure Hendry wanted much for Jones. From what I read my impression was that he mainly just wanted to be rid of the contract but couldn't find a taker, although that could be wrong. If Hendry stuck us with Jones for 2 more years because he wanted more than a C-level prospect then that's just another reason to fire Hendry.
  10. frostwyrm
    Izzy's durability has been a disappointment. I expected he would quickly pull or strain something in the cold Chicago spring weather, but it hasn't happened yet.
  11. frostwyrm
    I personally would NEVER give a 30(at the time when the contract was signed)-soon to be 31 year old a 8 year contract. Never, and that's not including the ridiculous amount of 18mil per. Yeah, it's bad enough that he'll be a huge salary drain for most of a decade, but he'll also be blocking the easiest position to fill (LF) the entire time. That's a mega double whammy. Now for the next 8 years we'll be restricted to backup outfielders who can play RF. No cheap productive LF-only types for us. Thanks, Jim.
  12. frostwyrm
    Murton needs to play regularly to get comfortable, rather than being jerked around with pinch hits and spot starts. and how long do you put a guy in and watch him flail away? How long did we let Izturis start? not very long obviously, since he's been benched already 15 starts in 2007, and 17 after he came over in 2006, so that's 32 total. This year he picked up right where he left off last year, just stinking up the joint on a regular basis, consistent with his whole stinky career. I can't blame Lou for being down on Izzy. He sucks.
  13. frostwyrm
    I always knew Soriano's contract was absolutely awful if he stayed at LF, but now I've become even more negative about it. If I were a GM I would never ever ever consider giving a gigantic multiyear contract to a LF unless I knew I was virually guaranteed to get huge offense from the guy for a long time. Otherwise having the easiest position to fill being blocked for the next decade just creates too many headaches, as we have been seeing lately. I could live with those headaches if the LF in question were a perennial offensive superstar, but Soriano is not even close, and he's not that young either.
  14. frostwyrm
    Then what was with all the "Soriano will play one position all year" talk? I think the plan, once they moved him to CF, was to keep him in CF. They blamed his slow start on the move and used the injury as an excuse to bail on that plan. But I don't think they ever planned on playing Soriano in CF until Pie was ready. You don't give a franchise caliber contract to a guy who you expect to keep a spot warm for a rookie. The Soriano will play one position all year talk mysteriously vanished after Soriano agreed to play CF. The team tried half the winter to not have Soriano play CF, they weren't exactly going to reverse course and have him play CF all year just because he started the year there, and I'm sure that they explained that to him before they accepted his volunteering to play the position. I have to agree with Jersey's view. Nobody gives a player $136M and then asks him to play out of position for half a season for the sake of a prospect who may or may not come up and take the position. I think Hendry really believed that Soriano could be a good longterm CF.
  15. frostwyrm
    Anytime you give franchise superstar money to a guy without knowing what position he'll play, and without any reasonable assurance that he'll produce at an elite level regardless of position, you're doing it wrong. Hendry's whole plan for the 2007 OF seems to have been contructed around the idea that Soriano could be a longterm CF, which was never more than wishful thinking.
  16. frostwyrm
    Soriano's failure in CF is what really mucked things up. With Soriano as a longterm CF Pie would've been very easy to trade and would've brought a nice return. Instead we have Sori at LF creating a horrible logjam at both corners and preventing us from cashing in on Pie's high trade value. I have to blame Hendry for this because we came into the season not knowing if Soriano could hack it in CF, so his failure can't be regarded as a surprise.
  17. frostwyrm
    Fonz just raised his OPS above .700. Maybe I was wrong about him not being worth the money.
  18. frostwyrm
    When do we next face a left-handed starter? Until Floyd gets hurt I expect Murt's back will serendipitously unstiffen whenever the Cubs are due to face a LHP, then just as quickly restiffen when a RHP is next.
  19. frostwyrm
    Hendry tried and failed all offseason to dump Jock for a bag of balls, and that was after a very good season by Jock's standards. Now he's off to a terrible start, but he's supposed to net us something good in trade? Makes no sense to me.
  20. frostwyrm
    Other than Jock and Aram all our regulars hit well in that game. Looks to me like the Brewers' pitching staff had a bad day.
  21. frostwyrm
    Yeah, if Jones was unmarketable in the offseason it's hard to see why he would be marketable now. The Cubs could easily showcase him for the rest of the season and still get no takers. That would suck. It would be a lot simpler and quicker to trade Murton. Maybe we could get a LH reliever to replace Eyre.
  22. frostwyrm
    I hate to bug out in April, but I'm inclined to agree. With the glut in the outfield, it's starting to look like a case where no matter what Lou wants, the facts outweigh it and Murton's just not going to find the starting lineup most days. Murton: play him or get something for him. Either way, it needs to happen sooner rather than later because we're dropping like wet noodle. His trade value is just going to wither away if he keeps sitting and if kept he's not going to contribute much as a 3rd stringer. I think he has to be put on the trading block now so as to get some decent value out of him while we still can.
  23. frostwyrm
    Which is nice. Not as nice as total consciousness though.
  24. frostwyrm
    If Pie sticks with the big team then Murton is the clearest example I've ever seen of the opportunity cost of not making a trade outweighing what the player could contribute if kept. If made available Murton would be considered a viable everyday player for a lot of teams and his trade value would reflect that, so we could get a decent return for him. There's not a chance in hell he could contribute enough as a 3rd string RF to make it worthwhile not to cash in on his trade value.
  25. frostwyrm
    Is he ahead of Jones on the LF depth chart, or is he #4 there? Maybe 3.5?
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