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  1. frostwyrm
    Best #3 RF Cubs have ever had. So we got that going for us.
  2. frostwyrm
    Yeah he needs to go. The org just doesn't seem to have any faith in him. He's currently 3rd in the RF depth chart and has no other position to play. Hard to explain how a team that values a young player would treat him this way.
  3. frostwyrm
    If Soriano is really an adequate CF then by all means Pie should be traded while his value is high. LF is an easy position to fill and Soriano's offense is far more valuable coming from CF. People who say positions are unimportant don't understand the economics involved. How valuable would Pujols be if he played CF? Certainly more valuable than at 1B or LF. So trading away a cheap internal solution for CF is the best way to manage payroll? Soriano is already on the team. We're going to have to pay him. Trading away Pie, puting Soriano at CF, and finding an outside option for the coner outfield isn't going to save the Cubs any money. "Cheap internal solution for CF" is what other teams would see in him too, which is exactly why he would fetch a lot in trade. Bear in mind there's an opportunity cost attached to every trade you DON'T make. If you have Soriano doing a good job at CF then the opportunity cost of not trading Pie outweighs what he could contribute from a corner OF position. You would have to work the phones and at least investigate what you could get for Pie.
  4. frostwyrm
    I would hope just being above average is not the yardstick we measure a $136M player by, especially not one on the wrong side of 30.
  5. frostwyrm
    If Soriano is really an adequate CF then by all means Pie should be traded while his value is high. LF is an easy position to fill and Soriano's offense is far more valuable coming from CF. People who say positions are unimportant don't understand the economics involved. How valuable would Pujols be if he played CF? Certainly more valuable than at 1B or LF.
  6. frostwyrm
    Well that sucks. A terrible contract just got worse.
  7. frostwyrm
    where is it being argued that murton is a superstar? we're arguing that he's better than floyd (who has average to below average speed and certainly below average defense now, as well). So this is the official Northsidebaseball boogeyman of the 2007 season? A .820 OPS messageboard hero is getting a 60/40 split of at bats with a .800 OPS board persona non grata. Floyd has a .634 OPS. Not what you want from an old defensively-challenged corner OF on the downside of his career.
  8. frostwyrm
    What, do you mean Lou said Fonz is staying in LF even after his hammy is healed? I haven't heard that. I thought LF was still officially a method of aiding Fonz's healing process and not a permanent assignment.
  9. frostwyrm
    Most expensive bullpen, not best. Hendry thinks a big price tag equals quality.
  10. frostwyrm
    I think rotoworld is premature to say Fonz will likely stay away from CF for the next 8 years, but I think the odds are definitely better than 50-50 that Lou won't rename him the primary CF in 2007, especially if he gets on a hot streak soon. Lou will assume it's partly due to the position change to LF. Obiviously if Pie sticks in the majors the Fonz is done in CF, but I'm not convinced Pie is ready.
  11. frostwyrm
    Eyre has about $7M left on his contract. The org will not just eat that without trying to salvage something from it, and rightly so. I say let him pitch some unclose games and hopes he get back to form, then maybe he could be traded. Lefties are always overvalued and can always be moved. Unfortunately dorks like Hendry are the reason for that, so Eyre will probably stay in Chicago if he starts pitching better.
  12. frostwyrm
    He wouldn't be good at that either. I don't think he would be either, but he could be the sacrificial innings eater for blowout games. I'd rather get the rookies some action in blowouts. Miller is also not a guy I'd want relieving in a winnable game either. If he can't pitch well enough to stay in the rotation I'd just clear his roster spot. Put him in Iowa and make him show he can still play.
  13. frostwyrm
    Oh man, I can actually see the e-steam coming out of your virtual ears. What do you say we actually get back on the point? DLee had better hit a home run soon, he's not going to keep hitting at this level unless his power comes back. No steam coming out of my ears; I'm as strong willed as you... Back on point, I'm not worried about DLee's power because he's hitting for average and getting on base at a high rate. It's like having Mark Grace back. I don't think we can afford that. The Cubs offense counts heavily on 3 guys(DLee, Fonz, Aram) hitting homers in large numbers. Also Fonz is being paid way too much to just be a doubles hitter. We need more homers now.
  14. frostwyrm
    I believe he can't be traded until June 1. Floyd is currently sporting a .647 OPS. He's also slow, a below average defender, has serious health questions, and is coming off a bad season. If he can get a hot streak going he might be marketable, but I don't think we could get anything for him now. Hendry was able to get him at a cheap price precisely because he lacked marketability.
  15. frostwyrm
    Big chance for Fonz to get the fans on his side.
  16. frostwyrm
    Murton's playing time has been way too sporadic to make a judgment. He got about 15 plate appearances before being kicked to the curb for Floyd, now he's understandably pressing. In his career thus far Murt has done fine when he's had steady PT and no reason to be paranoid about being benched at the first sign of a slump. Lou has pretty much set up Murt to fail.
  17. frostwyrm
    ARod is a pipe dream at this point. It makes me sick to think how good the Cubs could have been in 2008 if they had written off 2007, had a big firesale mid-2006 and traded Z, Aram, Barrett and others for people who could have helped in 2008(including ARod), and postponed the big spending spree for one year. We would have been the favorites to win the WS. Instead we sacrificed it all for a half-assed run in 2007. It's too late now for a lot of things, and a Z-for-ARod trade is one them. The Yanks won't do it now. We also can't erase that crappy Soriano contract, among others.
  18. frostwyrm
    It makes sense if you think about it. On a walk the runner on 1st should be able to advance to 2nd at his leisure because he is entitled to advance one base. He is NOT entitled to advance 2 bases though, so if he goes beyond 2nd logically he should be fair game to be tagged out.
  19. frostwyrm
    Everybody is a guest on everybody's record now. It's like those bloated 1970's disaster and car-chase movies with the huge "all-star" cast. The idea was to cram as many familiar names into the credits as possible to prolong the life of a played-out formula. there are like 2 songs on "Late Registration" that don't have guest rappers: Adam Levine Lupe Fiasco Jamie Foxx Paul Wall & GLC Common Game Brandy Jay-Z Nas Really Doe Consequence Cam'ron Guest rapping sucks. Hip hop listeners can't maintain their interest for a whole album anymore without the added bling of the guests. I knew hip hop was headed for a decline in popularity when getting a big list of stars in a record's credits became more important than the music. It's pretty bad when even the people who make the records have accepted that the music alone is not enough to make the audience give a crap anymore.
  20. frostwyrm
    Everybody is a guest on everybody's record now. It's like those bloated 1970's disaster and car-chase movies with the huge "all-star" cast. The idea was to cram as many familiar names into the credits as possible to prolong the life of a played-out formula.
  21. frostwyrm
    Offseason was OK, but he was at max value last July. Yanks could have had him for the 2006 stretch run plus all of 2007. Arod was in the NY doghouse then too, so I'm sure a Z for Arod swap could have happened.
  22. frostwyrm
    Show it. It's not like this guy was the vanguard of a dangerous movement. He was just some isolated weirdo expressing his own self-absorbed weird ideas.
  23. frostwyrm
    I know a bad rapper when I hear one but generally the competent ones sound pretty similar to me in terms of "quality". I hear people say one rap is good and another one is great. 9 times out of 10 it's just a better jam and not necessarily a better rap.
  24. frostwyrm
    Bullpen wouldn't have been short if Hendry had exercised the good sense to bring up a guy like Marmol after Soriano went down and we had a 14 inning game yesterday. Bench was short too, as evidenced by Marquis pinch hitting down 2 runs in the 9th. The whole team is short.
  25. frostwyrm
    I actually wanted Z traded last July, since I thought 2007 should've been a rebuilding year. Arod was the guy I wanted, and I'm pretty sure we could have gotten him.
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