treebird

who would you rather have starting in RF this year, Eduardo or jack jones? take contracts into account too.

steve stone

i thought it was pretty great.

TREE ANGRY

Until MSU plays Wisconsin-Green Bay? It'll be more of a contest than Illinois-Mizzou. NO JINXING JINXER Sarah Silverman is hot. yall cant deny it

Until MSU plays Wisconsin-Green Bay? It'll be more of a contest than Illinois-Mizzou. NO JINXING JINXER

if i saw roy oswalt on the street, i would punch his bulldozer.

Don't worry, you'll find out when the Chase Connection rips through the Fighting Zooks next fall. :wink: football is for dorks

I recall plenty of people calling it idiotic during the fact. Yes, I recall a few. Nice predictions by them. It was practically everyone. I think I may go through the game threads from those days. This is a nice example of a time when the average member of NSBB was clearly smarter than the Cubs.

For that alone Hendry, Baker, and Rothschild should be fired. Agreed. Bunch of fools. They have no clue. If no one brings this up at the Q&A at the convention, I will be convinced the questions are pre screened to the point of uselessness. If one of the NSBB'rs bring this up at the Q&A, and bring it up in a way that frames the question in such a way as to leave them no wiggle room out of explaining their idiocy, I will send them $50. what if i do it at the cubs caravan stop in peoria? im being serious

Thanks for printing my letter, Carrie! Jim Hendry read it and was so impressed by my knowledge of the situation that he immediately hired me to work as his assistant! --Edward K., Indianapolis, Ind.

Kerry Wood's first relief appearance was August 5. The Cubs were 54-55, five games back in the wild card chase, and behind six teams. Kerry Wood's last relief appearance was August 29. The Cubs were 62-69, ten games back in the wild card chase, and behind six teams. im going to go kill myself

good point, the cubs better trade pie, harvey and hill for aubrey huff since we cant get anything better You missed the point. When did I say that the Cubs have depth in the outfield? the cubs have so much depth the glendon rusch is in the starting rotation. also, when you account for the fact that something like 80% of these guys are going to get hurt, i dont know why you go out of your way to make sure you don't have too many good young pitchers.

same, and points to sig

good point, the cubs better trade pie, harvey and hill for aubrey huff since we cant get anything better

I'm sorry... I just think your assessment that Molina is a "huge" downgrade offensively is in accurate. Fine, you want to suggest that OPS (essentially) is the most important stat for a player in the 7 or 8 hole? Okay. Let's look at the past two seasons and see how each player did, respectively in that spot... Molina: 2005: 1.136 OPS in the 7 hole, .867 in the 8 hole 2004: .723 OPS in the 7 hole, .782 in the 8 hole. Barrett: 2005: .498 in the 7 hole, .727 in the 8 hole. 2004: .916 in the 7 hole, .802 in the 8 hole. How is Barrett a significant upgrade? He isn't, in my opinion. Now, let's consider situational OPS. We'll take Molina's last 3 years and average them, and we'll only take Barrett's last two, since 3 seasons ago he was in Montreal. You suggested that Barrett is a better offensive player now than then, so we'll take Montreal out of the equation. Let's look at OPS W/RISP and OPS W/RISP & 2 outs... or "clutch" situations... Molina: .875 OPS W/RISP .936 OPS W/RISP & 2 outs Barrett: .843 OPS W/RISP .743 OPS W/RISP & 2 outs In those situations, Molina IS significantly better than Barrett. Now, I realize that I have taken a somewhat subjective look at those numbers, and that Molina looks much better than Barrett. I don't believe that he is. I just don't believe that Barrett is "significantly" better offensively than Molina. ANd, once again, when you throw in the defensive side of the postion (which is more important a measure for a catcher, imo) I'd take Molina. I like Barrett, but I'd take Molina, Lowe and Drew over Barrett, Williams, and Jacque Jones. is there a reason why we decided it was a good idea to use horrible stats here?

what will you do if that season actually comes to pass?

what will you do if the cubs make the wrong decision here? anything exciting?

thnx rex

Wow. If they follow through with this, it could be an incredibly useful research tool. Thanks for the link. I didn't have any issues with it being slow.

i wonder what it feels like to feel that way about your team.

There's more to a contract than just average yearly value. I don't understand why people refuse to acknowledge this fact.

this is my new favorite post of all time

oh boy i think i might hate jacque even more than neifi

Uhm, then you must not like logic. Looper has a GB:FB ratio of 2.00 over his career. Clearly, a groundball pitcher is going to be more reliant on his defense than is a strikeout/flyball pitcher. Clearly, a better defense will result in more success. That's common sense. How is it a bad argument? And to address the second part of your question... obviously the "average joe" pitcher doesn't have severe GB:FB ratios. the earlier post did not reference gb/fb ratio in any way whatsoever. it just said that he didn't strike anybody out, so there'd be lot's of balls in play, so he'd be better. heck, ill just repost it to make it obvious.