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  1. GaryWoods
    you can't make trades post deadline, but lucroy was acquired after DFA. Not a trade. You have to be on the roster by September 1 to be playoff eligible. Unless I missed something You didn't miss anything, August 31 remains the playoff roster deadline, the only thing that changed is that the August 31 deadline for waiver trades is gone and July 31 is now a hard deadline for major league trades. So assuming Lucroy is on the roster at Midnight on August 31 he's eligible for the playoff roster.
  2. GaryWoods
    Murton would’ve been a really good player had he been around a smarter organization and/or was coming up now in the launch angle/juiced ball era. He was basically KB like at the plate from 05-07. It’s also hilarious we got him because Hendry just spoke up on the conference call finalizing the Nomar trade and said we’d take him at the 11th hour when there was confusion which of the teams he was going too and they didn’t have time to sort it through. I'm going to assume you meant "KB light/lite" there, because otherwise...no. He was definitely got a raw deal, but he wasn't some savior by any means. I thought he meant like Kris Bryant from 05-07 when he was in Pony League.
  3. GaryWoods
    Didn't he retire like five years ago? Sorry Thom. I get them mixed up I worked for a radio station that carried Cub games when Thom worked for them. There was always one inning late in the game where Santo would be by himself in the booth for the first few minutes, and Ronnie was no play-by-play man so his absence was definitely noticeable. I don't know where he was during that time, but I never really liked the guy so I always assumed he was taking a crap.
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  5. GaryWoods
    Fair point. I guess that since I posted his ML career ERA folks would take for granted I was talking about the Chicago Cubs. You know, I don't think I'd ever looked at his stats at Iowa before. I vaguely remember him giving them a "call me up or turn me loose" ultimatum, but looking at the numbers and knowing what the pitching staff was like that year it's a bit surprising that they didn't give him a shot. 17 IP, 12 walks, 3 WP really stood out to me as the AAA statline of a guy who would crush at the MLB level. I didn't say he'd "crush at the MLB level". I suggested that he probably wasn't any worse that the pitchers the Cubs were starting at the MLB level that year.
  6. GaryWoods
    Hideo Nomo career ERA: 4.24 Hideo Nomo ERA with the Cubs: 0.00 I guess you have a point. You didn't specify which Cubs... https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/team.cgi?id=01882b48 Fair point. I guess that since I posted his ML career ERA folks would take for granted I was talking about the Chicago Cubs. You know, I don't think I'd ever looked at his stats at Iowa before. I vaguely remember him giving them a "call me up or turn me loose" ultimatum, but looking at the numbers and knowing what the pitching staff was like that year it's a bit surprising that they didn't give him a shot.
  7. GaryWoods
    Fixed it.
  8. GaryWoods
    Hideo Nomo career ERA: 4.24 Hideo Nomo ERA with the Cubs: 0.00 I guess you have a point.
  9. GaryWoods
    Holy horsefeathers that is dumb. Murton would’ve been a really good player had he been around a smarter organization and/or was coming up now in the launch angle/juiced ball era. He was basically KB like at the plate from 05-07. It’s also hilarious we got him because Hendry just spoke up on the conference call finalizing the Nomar trade and said we’d take him at the 11th hour when there was confusion which of the teams he was going too and they didn’t have time to sort it through. I'd forgotten about Murton (along with pretty much everyone else from 2005-2014) so I looked up his stats. Am I the only one who didn't know he spent a season at Iowa when he came back from Japan?
  10. GaryWoods
    He's also joining a team that's in a pennant race. Therefore I expect him to hit four grand slams and pick off every runner that reaches base.
  11. GaryWoods
    I don’t see that being the case. He’s likely more valuable to us than what he returns. Even if he only costs like $29 mil the next two years total on options. 1B aren’t valued that highly and then we’d have to replace him with some clod like Matt Adams or Mitch Moreland. I’d be surprised if Rizzo returned much more than a Cishek level RP, a top 100 but not top 75 prospect and a lotto ticket A ball prospect. Just give him 4/60-80 with 1-2 option years (either team, mutual or vesting based on performance benchmarks). I'd move a more long term valuable internal candidate like Contreras to 1B if Rizzo was traded, or someone like Schwarber, who would hopefully benefit by playing a less defensively challenging position. Have you seen some of the throws to first lately, though? It's like we have three Shawon Dunstons on the infield. Replacing the 6'3" Rizzo with a shorter player at this point in time would concern me. Castellanos is 6'4", though.
  12. GaryWoods
    Did Bill Murray start this thread? I could have sworn it was just 8/7 yesterday. I'll second that.
  13. GaryWoods
    OPS better than KB's .621 in St Louis, and at least JL gets on base there hitting .295 with a .337 OBP for that OPS. They both have the same amount of hits in St Louis this year, but KB has 17 more AB Wow, thanks for pointing that out. Hopefully they DFA Bryant when Lucroy joins the team.
  14. GaryWoods
    I am intrigued by the "for long" part, because it implies he didn't suck the entire time. he was good for like 4 or 5 days Yeah, he made the great catch and hit a home run in the first few days. Plus he probably led the team in walks for the time he was here.
  15. GaryWoods
    I’m sorry are you implying that the Cubs are going to use Schwarber at catcher? I think he’s implying that moving Contreras to the outfield means Schwarber is odd man out Exactly. Although I was really just thinking in terms of the current roster, I guess it's just as likely that they let Castellanos walk after the season and go with Contreras, Heyward, and Schwarber in the outfield.
  16. GaryWoods
    Schwarber's outfield defense might be irrelevant at this point. With Contreras dealing with his second strained hammy in two years plus the strained foot earlier this year, they have to be considering a permanent move to the outfield for him. Which would mean deciding whether to keep Schwarber as a platoon catcher/backup OF or shopping him for a starting catcher.
  17. GaryWoods
    Happ catches it without question. Almora is the only OF we have that even has a shot at it. Hack Wilson's moldering corpse would have caught it. Ron Santo would have caught it without his artificial legs. Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles, and Ronnie Milsap would all have caught that ball. Rudy Law could have caught it from Comisky Park.
  18. GaryWoods
    Hell, I think Schwarber catches that ball.
  19. GaryWoods
    Trade him for Keone Kela. 2 headcases that might benefit from a change of scenery. I'd be okay with releasing him and bringing back Bobby Hill.
  20. GaryWoods
    Well, you can't really expect a guy to learn all those pesky signs in just five years, after all.
  21. GaryWoods
    Almora is pretty much Corey Patterson except without the upside potential. That is being exceedingly harsh to Corey Patterson, who put up a 2.5 WAR in half a season followed by a 5 WAR season, and then another 3.8 WAR season for the Orioles. The odds of Almora ever reaching Patterson's 10.9 career WAR is like 100 to 1. I think that's being exceedingly harsh to Almora, given that his WAR through his first three seasons was a little higher than Patterson's at the same point. There's probably a reasonably good chance that his career WAR will be higher if he sticks around awhile, not by having a few big years but by consistently posting WARS in the .7-1 range for a dozen years or so. But that's all really beside the point. I wasn't comparing the talent of the players - please note the "without the upside potential" part of my comment - but rather comparing the situations. We spent six years waiting for Patterson to develop into a consistently valuable player, and now we're doing the same with Almora.
  22. GaryWoods
    Almora is pretty much Corey Patterson except without the upside potential.
  23. GaryWoods
    I think it's on a note Dusty Baker left tacked to the wall in the manager's office.
  24. GaryWoods
    I don't think Greg Gross is playing anymore. Great pinch hitter, though. Hit .322 for the Cubs in '77 with five homers. He only hit two more homers in the other 16 years he played.
  25. GaryWoods
    I was so fed up with Dusty Baker after the 2004 meltdown that I pretty much ignored them altogether from then until about 2015, so I'm always hearing names associated with the Cubs from that era that I've either never heard of or forgotten that they played for them.
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