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  1. Magnetic Curses
    aaron miles sported a very neifi-like IsoD last season. a terrible fit for the cards. this is a terrible move. bigbie isn't as terrible as miles, but the cards should have asked for hawpe.
  2. Magnetic Curses
    i would hardly compare three players with career OPS's of around .820 to corey patterson, nor would i call them "marginal talent". marginal talent is jacque jones.
  3. Magnetic Curses
    i'd give up cedeno and pie for tejada, and then whatever else the orioles want (ie hill, williams, patterson, or dopirak--or any combination of them) it's going to take a lot, think richie sexson.
  4. Magnetic Curses
    your numbers suck is why.
  5. Magnetic Curses
    Wilkerson takes a ton of walks, and he hits for a good deal of power. He plays a serviceable center field. He's no Milton Bradley defensively, but he's better than Pierre. What don't you like about him? AVG? K's? I saw Wilkerson play last year in the nationals games I attended in DC and he had little power (11 HRs in 565 ABs), played poor defensively (the Nats prefered he play corner or first), and he would K a lot in contact situations. While I think he may turn it around a be a solid ball player. He would not have satisfied our need for a leadoff hitter and barely looked better than Christian guzman in many of the games. yeah, and he didn't bunt enough or steal enough, and forget about sac flies! he's worthless! i bet he had a "bad attitude" too. better than christian guzman? what freaking joke.
  6. Magnetic Curses
    Better bat, attitude, and no injuries! what exactly do you mean, attitude? Hairston mopes about playing time. Cairo is always smiling. so was bobby bonilla, i don't know how cairo's attitude imroves the team. can we stop beating the chemistry horse now? i'm just wondering because it seems like we had a bunch of happy losers on this team last year, and they weren't likeable anyway. why do you care if players are smiling?
  7. Magnetic Curses
    Better bat, attitude, and no injuries! what exactly do you mean, attitude?
  8. Magnetic Curses
    as long as he's getting under 200 PAs, I'm all for it.
  9. Magnetic Curses
    he also said that they're targeting milwood. offman knows nothing about baseball, and he's right there.
  10. Magnetic Curses
    i'd even absorb his contract.
  11. Magnetic Curses
    Yes, he hit 30 home runs once. Do the numbers suggest he'll do it again? No. True enough, but what we need more is someone to back up Lee and Aram, else the second one gets walked and the bat taken out of his hands. Sure then Wilk comes up with men on base, but he doesn't have the SLG to get the job done. 1. what are you talking about? "do the numbers suggest he'll do it again?"? he's 1 year removed from hitting 32 homers and he's 28 years old. his career SLG is .452, i think he's capable. anyways, i think it's established that he has 30 home run power, which is what vance indicated he has. 2. .452, yes. and last year seems to be otherwise an aberration from his career numbers.
  12. Magnetic Curses
    Player I also has injury concerns and a hefty contract. ah yes! brain fart.
  13. Magnetic Curses
    Name? I can't find anyone with that line. a 30 year old player with a .900+ career OPS? i can tell you right now that he's not available. it looks like he's already had a couple monster years to me.
  14. Magnetic Curses
    seconded.
  15. Magnetic Curses
    he said "30 home run power", which is absolutely true. let's dispell the myth that OBP is only important at the top of the lineup. OBP is important EVERYWHERE in the lineup. we don't need simply OBP at the top, we need it everywhere.
  16. Magnetic Curses
    Did anybody catch it? it was like steven hawking trying to explain unified field theory to austrolopithicus. anyway, much respect to the score for having a guy like goldman on, and he finally said some things to average chicago baseball fans that they needed to hear (ie dispelling certain myths about the game). although, to make another anology, i get the feeling that it's like a bunch of dittoheads listening to al franken. think townspeople with pitchforks and torches. "you stole my soul."
  17. Magnetic Curses
    offman just said that the cubs could be interested in milwood. yeah, right.
  18. Magnetic Curses
    are you forgetting his poor baserunning ability and inability to hit for extra bases? there are plenty of knocks on pierre.
  19. Magnetic Curses
    i think it's a little high as well. hendry bid against himself for 2 relief pitchers and ended up overpaying, while ignoring giles (please don't give me that "his agent told hendry to take a hike"-bs), lost out on furcal (which isn't really his fault per se, but a result of having tunnel vision for a player that we didn't REALLY NEED, at a position that we didn't need to fill.). we now have a grand total of 3 outfielders, 2 of which SHOULD not be opening day starters and the best of which is a 2nd-year player. so....he's made inquiries into abreu and dunn, which are probably his best decisions thus far--but we don't have enough talent to trade for either of those guys and still have leftovers to fill the other spots. giles was our best chance at setting up the offseason, and hendry didn't even sniff his butt--according to what miles has written. this is what we had last year, however, and hendry "came through" for us by spending 6 mil on burnitz at the last minute. so don't say hendry isn't into patterns. the best alternative right now is to somehow convince the dodgers to give us bradley for junk, and then sell the farm for dunn--while starting walker at second and cedeno at ss . i don't see that happening. i wonder what nomar is doing right now.
  20. Magnetic Curses
    and it doesn't take a rocket scientist to understand that there are plenty of players with higher VORPs than macias out there. hendry could have just taken his pick.
  21. Magnetic Curses
    no, you didn't. you said that macias has brought more value to the cubs than chavez ever will. we're saying that chavez, in the minors, never seeing the light of day in the majors, is more valuable than macias at the major league level, because chavez in the minors does not have a negative impact on the big league team. while macias DOES have a negative impact, a very real one.
  22. Magnetic Curses
    i would argue that macias has had a negative impact, a very negative impact. instead of spending a roster spot on a capable backup, we get macias, who, due to dusty being manager, has been routinely misused (and by that i mean used at all) throughout his cubs career, probably costing us a few ballgames. if you put me on the 25-man and let me bat 150 times you could probably say, in way, i've contributed more to the team than chavez as well. the other side of that is that chavez on the 40-man, at triple-a, is infinitely more valuable than me on the 25-man getting starts at 3rd base and CF.
  23. Magnetic Curses
    the point is that it's not wrong to make an educated guess based on the facts that you DO know. 1. hendry hardly mentioned giles' name when talking about possible FA targets, despite Giles being EXACTLY what this team needs. We've seen this before from him(ie: Drew and Beltran). 2. Agents do NOT tell possible bidding competitors to "buzz off". It's an incredibly stupid thing to do, if you believe they do, you're trying too hard to defend hendry. being sold on eyre and paying him nearly 4 mil per year are two different things. I have no problem with the acquisition of a left handed set-up guy, i have all the problem in the world with hendry fixing a perceived problem by throwing too much money at something relatively insignificant--compared to our OF issues. well, a main part of his job is evaluating FA talent so he must not be that good at being a GM.
  24. Magnetic Curses
    i love drew but i'll finally have to admit that he's an injury risk. if the dodgers absorbed a portion of his deal i would want him.
  25. Magnetic Curses
    i think it's an ironic thought, personally. as for so long nobody knew that there was more to the game than "conventional wisdom". i think there are many who mourn the passing of certain mythologies, and i can understand the anger. i wasn't happy when i discovered that there was no santa claus, for instance. in the world of scientific understanding, and baseball is as much a science as it is a sport, you must have clear, measurable variables and results. there may be more to the game than statistics, but looking at subjective variables is what muddles the water and causes expensive teams to go 79-83.
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