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  1. frostwyrm
    Gallagher/Marshall/Cedeno is too steep a price. If you take away Roberts' .902 OPS in 2005 his career looks unimpressive. He's been a good basestealer for the past 2 years but that's not nearly enough to make me trade away all our starting pitching depth. Better to let DeRosa play 2B and keep Gallagher and Marshall for insurance in case Dempster and Marquis tank, which is very likely.
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    Alou has an okay arm for LF. Unfortunately he also has very poor range and agility, doesn't play fly balls well, and is not very surehanded. His arm is the only part of his defense that doesn't suck.
  3. frostwyrm
    Soriano has the best LF arm because the Cubs assbackwardsly put their most athletic corner outfielder in LF instead of RF. What other team would play Cliff Floyd and Daryle Ward in RF and Alfonso Soriano in LF?
  4. frostwyrm
    Still bugs me that Pie(the centerfielder of the future) spent a significant chunk of 2007 sitting on the bench watching Pagan(the 5th outfielder of the future).
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    Hawaii had no business being in a BCS game. I'd bet there are at least 15 teams that could have crushed Hawaii.
  7. frostwyrm
    Gotta agree with Rotoworld -- Erstad is a waste of a roster spot. That's why he should be a coach and not a player. A coach can tell old football stories in the locker room just as well as a player.
  8. frostwyrm
    Why is Erstad still getting offers to play? He's been terrible for 7 years now. If he's such a gritty leader then offer him a coaching job.
  9. frostwyrm
    Even before opening day I hated the 2006 team so much that I posted on NSBB saying I wanted a quick fall from contention. If I had a false hope it was that Hendry would be smart enough to get some good returns on a mid-season firesale. He wasn't and he didn't.
  10. frostwyrm
    2004 is tops. I think we were all fooled by that one. It was the only season that engendered false hope of Cubs greatness in me. The 2005-7 teams were all pretty much exactly what I expected them to be, though the 2007 team won a few more games because I underestimated the stinkiness of the NL Central.
  11. frostwyrm
    His dreams are his ticket out.
  12. frostwyrm
    Lou won't move Soriano to RF, but he will move him to 2B? It ain't gonna happen.
  13. frostwyrm
    I remember when the prevailing opinion was that Pie would be ready to contribute in the 2nd half of 2006. Obviously that was way optimistic. I think he has to do something in the 2nd half of 2008 to show he can be a MLB everyday player in 2009. Otherwise we need to look elsewhere for a CF. The cycle of stopgaps has to stop.
  14. frostwyrm
    The thread topic seems silly to me. You could look at any of the projected contenders and say they'd be possibly be the best NL team if they added a #2 starting pitcher. Saying it about the Cubs doesn't exactly constitute bold hard-hitting sports journalism.
  15. frostwyrm
    To be fair, Floyd was only willing to go to one of the Florida teams this year, just as he was only willing to go to the Cubs last year and passed up several other offers to do so. With the way he limited his market, his agent did good to get that much. Also, Floyd was not an everyday player even when he was healthy last year. I really doubt he would have gotten much more elsewhere. If any team had come forward with a significantly bigger offer he would have taken it or used it as leverage to get more money from the Florida teams.
  16. frostwyrm
    Matt Murton deserved a hell of a lot better than being a backup to somebody who couldn't land a better gig than playing for the freaking Devil Rays for a $2.75M base. Lou should be a little embarrassed that the market assigned such a low value to one of his cherished pets.
  17. frostwyrm
    I actually agree with Hendry on this one. Without a 2009 option I would have let Prior go, and really I think Prior just wanted to leave. Otherwise he would have agreed to the option.
  18. frostwyrm
    The Cards might be best off blowing it up and rebuilding. If they traded Pujols now they could get somebody's whole farm system for him.
  19. frostwyrm
    I'd love to have an SS we could use at leadoff. I'm sick of Soriano hitting homers and doubles with nobody on base.
  20. frostwyrm
    And again how would you know that? Eating enough protein, taking in enough bcaa's, and lifting just enough to maintain, a player could reasonably maintain all but roughly 5 pounds of lean muscle over 162 days. If you saw Sammy naked before the season and again after you probably would be able to tell but it'd be impossible to detect when you're seeing him every day with a full baseball uniform on. The idea that really huge guys can easily do "just enough to maintain" is a myth. Once you get really big you can't just scale your workouts way back without losing most of your gains. Your body quickly adjusts and your muscles shrink.
  21. frostwyrm
    When you get really bulky you have to work out very very hard just to maintain your gains. I know this from experience. Baseball season is 7 months long yet we rountinely used to see baseball players maintain every pound of their enormous muscle mass from March to October. There's no way that could be done without help.
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    Baloney. I work 10-11 hours a day at my desk with an additional 1 hour commute each day. I find time to go to the gym 3 times a week. It means I don't get home until after 9:30 PM those days, but I still do it. Oooh, 3 times a week. I guess that means you have recovery days between workouts. Funny thing about baseball is you play 6 games a week and have to be able to catch up to a 90+ mph fastball on each and every day. I used to lift like crazy and got quite big and there's no way in hell I could've swung a bat or thrown a ball at full speed on noon of the next day. I find it absolutely impossible to believe that a baseball player could do enough lifting to maintain the physique of an NFL middle linebacker without recovery days and without chemical help. Anyone who tried it would have a horrible season due to chronic post-workout stiffness/weakness.
  23. frostwyrm
    The Fukudome signing is swell, but let's not forget Hendry badly wanted Kaz Matsui just because Kaz can run fast and swing a bat left-handed. Hendry is still the same stone-age thinker he's always been.
  24. frostwyrm
    I have no problem with letting Prior go. I would have liked to have kept him if a team option for 2009 could have been worked out, but that was not case.
  25. frostwyrm
    As I said in the Fukudome thread, I would have preferred to shift Soriano to RF and give LF to Murton, then spend Fuku's money on a SS upgrade. The comparison is Soriano/Murton/Tejada vs. Soriano/Fuku/Theriot. I think we're better with Soriano/Murton/Tejada. Obviously the big roadblock was Lou Piniella's absolute refusal to see Murton as more than a bench player.
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