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Anthony Rizzo
treebird replied to TheDude's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
lahair, age 21: .795 ops at A- and A rizzo, age 21: 1.056 ops at AAA lahair didn't put up a season at aaa as good as rizzo's until he got to his SIXTH SEASON there. rizzo may not be a star, but lahair is organizational fodder. -
Anthony Rizzo
treebird replied to TheDude's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
they'll have no choice but to move him when they hear that davearm is willing to give up barney to get him and a slightly bad contract that ends after this season. -
i don't love this. i also feel like we need more of an adjustment for who the baserunners are than i am seeing. all that said,the suggestion that the hit and run isn't a disaster now that we've cut it down to only to most ideal situations isn't a shocking one. i still don't want to see my team using it.
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my penn state friend who mentioned the stoops thing emailed me today to tell me the new rumor is that penn state is going to give nick saban 60% more than any other college coach and pry him away from alabama. he thinks this one is pretty unlikely though.
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I wonder if SD would do this deal: Rizzo + Hudson for Marmol + Barney + $2million (2012) + $4million (2013). Obviously SD would flip Marmol asap for prospects while getting younger and cheaper at 2B. Cubs would have a $5.5 million committment to Hudson in 2012 and a $2 million buyout in 2013. Or just leave Marmol and the cash out of it. SD's price for replacing an old, expensive 2B with a younger, cheaper one is Rizzo. this has to be a typo or something, you really didn't just say rizzo and hudson for barney
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in fairness it's going to be really hard to get the payroll under 20 million until we trade him to a big market like kc
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in fairness to hendry, it's hard to suggest he ever got a chance like epstein has here. who knows what he would have done if he'd been told he had five years to build a team from nothing (eat donuts and draft poorly, I suppose, but we're talking about offseason acquisitions). it's true that hendry was constantly trying to patch together a winner, but it also seems like those were the working orders (and, given the status of the team, the right move in a lot of those years).
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works for me GO BENGALS
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my penn state friend is convinced they are about to get bob stoops this isn't going to happen, right? i want to make fun of him, but i also don't want to look stupid if it ends up happening
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awwwwwwwwesome
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HOW COULD THAT BE THE SHOT
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maybe the cubs are waiting until the rest of the team is set so they can give him whatever money is needed to get the payroll to $140M to make up for going cheap on him last year
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THIS BETTER BE TRUE pretty psyched if it is. all the more if it could somehow come out that all the reed johnson stuff was a joke.
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that article doesn't even say they used era+ in the hearing
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I've been hearing ceiling as well as current ability. He is what he is, would be a good descriptive term to describe him. And I think you may be overestimating one because the Cubs had such issues with that last year and the back end of the rotation cost the Cubs so many games. It's important to have rotation depth, but the 2011 level of awfulness isn't likely to repeat itself because of the injury issues we had. 92 FIP-. Randy Wells is rotation depth. Wood has a spot on almost any rotation. it's great that you think that, but almost everything i've read suggests that wood is just a guy. it's cool if he wants to pitch at the back of the rotation while he doesn't cost anything, but he doesn't seem like a guy we'll really want to see all the way through to free agency.
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i intentionally started my shopping early (yesterday!) so i could have the day open for football.
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Cubs Buy McDonald's Parcel Across From Wrigley
treebird replied to apete6's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Boy, you showed him Mr Mod! well, moderator. we just say moderator. -
a lot of people like to compare wood and wells, and that might have been a good comparison, if not for last year. wells' velocity last year is pretty scary. FUN CHART FORM http://www.fangraphs.com/fgraphs/4535_P_FA_20110925.png
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Tigers sign Prince - 9/214 - Heyman
treebird replied to ctcf's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
i like how he makes a point to not mention ramirez as if "oh yeah, i guess they lost him, but he was so bad, it's not even worth mentioning." it's especially egregious in light of the fact that the reason you have to call pena "one of" the cubs' top power bats instead of just the top power bat is because of aramis. -
What is it that makes you think Johnson will be a better player in 2012 than Campana? Ideally, I'd like for our bench to be full of specialists so that we can fully maximize their value. Campana could be around as the pinch runner/defender but we do need guys around who can pinch hit too. That said, I'd have preferred it if we'd have just protected Ryan Flaherty and used him on the bench. He'd have added a power hitting lefty and his defensive versatility would have allowed us to use Jeff Baker as an OF who can mash lefties. But we couldn't protect Flaherty because we needed to hold those spots for guys we were going to bring in the offseason. "Those guys" were not supposed to include Reed [expletive] Johnson yeah, the fact that we left so many spots on the 40 open was one of the real reasons for optimism that we were going to do something interesting this offseason that we had left. this is pretty discouraging.
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a couple weeks ago, i saw a commercial for a local sports bar place in iowa city and it had a hayden fry impersonator. it was incredible. he ate a lot of chicken wings and watched the many flat screen tvs showing ALL the games.
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reed johnson as a platoon rf is a baaaaad idea
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He makes near league minumum, but that's still a lot of money so I'm assuming that a lot of it's pretty cool. oh man i like this post a LOT. wsr out of nowhere. 8.8
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this is pretty disheartening. all of this would be so much easier to swallow if you knew we were about to go drop a bunch of cash on the draft and ifa signings. as it stands, everything that's happened so far has just fed the fires of that little voice in your head that said "it's nice that he knows what vorp is, but theo was handed a really good team in boston and given all the money in the world to spend and these last couple offseasons didn't look great unless you assume lucchino was forcing him to do things." oh well.
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lifetime 3.38 era at wrigley
