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  1. frostwyrm
    If Beane had a $95M payroll he'd win 100 games easily. We had $95M and almost LOST 100.
  2. frostwyrm
    I fully do not understand you people who think a throwing arm is unimportant for a CF. When an opposition runner tags up and scores easily on a shallow fly ball to CF do you not realize that's a serious problem? It's a run! It baffles me that anybody could ever consider a CF with an arm like Pierre's an excellent defender.
  3. frostwyrm
    I'll be absolutely shocked if Baker gets the A's job. Baker and Beane are as philosophically mismatched as any two baseball men who ever lived.
  4. frostwyrm
    Would you take Pie for Crawford? IMO the Rays would be foolish to take anything less than Hill.
  5. frostwyrm
    cuz nobody else can Murton is a solid player who makes $400K. You can use the savings to pay for your 35 homers elsewhere.
  6. frostwyrm
    Well, I do want singles to stay singles and doubles to stay doubles, but I'm a tad uneasy that he seemed to place so much emphasis on it. I'd like to hear his opinion on Pierre. Pierre has defensive speed but his arm rountinely makes singles into doubles and lets runners advance from 1st to 3rd, and then there's all those easy tag-ups on fly balls.
  7. frostwyrm
    Nah, he could let Ramirez walk, sign Nomar (or settle for a guy like Spiezio), resign Pierre, sign Lee or Soriano, moved Murton in a deal for pitching, and he'll think he's built a contender. Eh, maybe, but I don't see Nomar coming back. If he got hurt again Hendry's job would be in immediate jeopardy.
  8. frostwyrm
    If Aramis leaves and we don't get Tejada or ARod then it looks like a rebuilding year. Hendry won't allow that because he'll lose his job. Most likely Hendry will give Aramis whatever he wants.
  9. frostwyrm
    The White Sox limped into the postseason and then crushed everybody. Sometimes teams just get hot at the right time.
  10. frostwyrm
    Z has said his back hurts when his weight is high. He started getting fat again late this season and admitted it because he had gotten lazy. His back also starting hurting again. He's 25 now. What concerns me a little is that guys have an increasingly tougher time keeping weight off once they pass 25. He better not get lazy again. I don't want a fat dude with a bad back.
  11. frostwyrm
    Even if Hendry doesn't want Pierre back he has to make a public show of interest because otherwise he looks like a complete idiot for not trading Pierre at the deadline. Personally I think Hendry really would like Pierre back if the payroll stays put, but if the $115M paroll is for real then Hendry can say the extra money allows for an upgrade(Soriano) and let Pierre walk without any embarrassment, assuming the payroll increase was decided after July 31st.
  12. frostwyrm
    Effective immediately I'm starting a rumor that an unidentified Cubs player was heard to say "If Piniella platoons me I'll rip his nuts off.".
  13. frostwyrm
    4.21 ERA for Eyre. I hope that's wrong, unless he's traded.
  14. frostwyrm
    Given the Cubs' track record in developing position players, I have to believe there are lots of incompetent scouts in this organization. It's time to scout the scouts and get better talent at that position.
  15. frostwyrm
    More likely, the decision wasn't made yet to bump the payroll up 15-20% When you do that, Soriano makes a lot more sense. And you can move him to LF or 2B when Pie is ready. If the decision was just recently made that was pretty dumb on the Trib's part. It would have been a whole lot cooler if it had been done before the trade deadline, while Hendry was still deciding whether to trade Pierre.
  16. frostwyrm
    No one has said it will be kept secret. There's a meaningful difference in perception of actively advertising it versus letting people infer it, or more importantly, letting the player handle it himself. TRYING to sabotage his trade value (whatever it may be now) is just stupid, and would only be done to placate unreasonable fans who think they own the organization or to publicly humiliate and devalue Jacques Jones, which is suicide for the organization. If they let it happen naturally, or on Jacques' terms, they can spin it any way they want- he can say he didn't like them letting Dusty go, for example, or wanted to be re-united with _______, etc. Meaningful difference? I don't see it. If there's a story on the sports page titled "Jim Hendry inquires about Craig Wilson" it won't take a rocket scientist to do the math. At that point Jacque's value wouldn't be signficantly affected by an annoucement of a platoon that everybody already knew about anyway.
  17. frostwyrm
    What puzzles me is that the Cubs project Soriano as the top target for leadoff/CF, yet they didn't trade Pierre at the deadline. Even without Soriano in the picture it was silly to keep Pierre, with Soriano the logic becomes even murkier.
  18. frostwyrm
    We'll have to see if he means that, or if he's just saying it to say it. Even if Lou does use numbers it won't help unless he understands what the numbers mean. If you asked Dusty I'm sure he also would have said he used numbers to keep percentages on his side, but unfortunately Dusty's grasp of stats was so poor he may actually have been better off going with his gut fulltime. We have to hope Lou is smarter.
  19. frostwyrm
    Once Hendry starts working the phones and shopping Jones or looking for a platoon partner for him I don't think it will even be necessary to make a public announcement of a platoon. This idea that if you keep a platoon quiet no one will be the wiser is IMO quite naive. Anybody with half a brain will be able to figure out what's up.
  20. frostwyrm
    There a good chance Jones would prefer to be traded rather than platooned. If we wait til March before announcing a platoon he probably won't have any chance of finding a starting job on another team. How happy would he be about that? And really that would be a shabby and weasely way of treating a player. I'm sure he would prefer an honest statement of his future role with the Cubs so he can determine whether he wants to stay on the team.
  21. frostwyrm
    A) I don't see how waiting til March and springing a nasty surprise on Jones regarding a platoon would be less unpleasant than just being frank with him now. B) How dumb do you people think Jones is? If we acquire a 4th OF good enough to start against all LHP don't you think Jones will figure out the implications for himself?
  22. frostwyrm
    So Hendry should be left wondering until March whether he should acquire a platoon partner for Jones? You sound like a guy who does his Christmas shopping on December 24th. To help you better read what I wrote. You want to spend money to acquire a corner OF good enough to start against all LHP before you even decide if he'll be needed? We're not talking about some crummy 25th/utility man, we're talking about a player who'll likely cost significant money.
  23. frostwyrm
    I don't see the justification for putting such a strong constraint in place. If a $20 million bullpen is good enough for the Mets, it's good enough for the Cubs. How is it $20m anyway? You have $12.5 decicated to the three current guys, give $500,000 or less to the remaining three, and that puts you at $14m. I doubt Wood is getting a $6m guarantee next year. I'm guessing more like $3m with incentives. I've been lumping Glendon's $3.25M into the total, although I admit I'm not sure about his status.
  24. frostwyrm
    Why not make a decision now? Jones has had 8 years as an everyday player in the big leagues and has shown precisely zero improvement in his ability to hit LHP. Do we need another 8 years to evaluate his learning curve? Getting him a platoon partner is a no-brainer if ever there was one.
  25. frostwyrm
    I've been saying for some time now that someone above Hendry should forbid him from signing any more multimillion dollar relievers. Not only would signing another expensive reliever be a misallocation of funds, but Hendry has a truly hideous track record with big-money relief contracts. And how many closing candidates does one team need? We have Dempster/Howry/Eyre/Wuertz, and people still want to spend a few mil more on Kerry Wood. Enough already. I want to trade one of the current relievers and sign Wood. And part of the reason I want to sign Wood is he's quite possibly going to be the best of that batch, it won't be a longterm deal, and there's still hope for him starting in the future. Holdings fast on a specific bullpen allocation is not wise, not when there are other factors to consider. Okay, depending on Kerry's salary I could agree to re-signing him ONLY if one of the other expensive relief contracts is completely removed from the payroll. That would be difficult in Dempster's case.
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