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I would guess the Cubs are seriously looking at making a respectable bid for his services. I'm remember Gary Hughes being interviewed during the season and he stated that he was headed to Japan for two weeks to scout. Looking at the small list of the players that are being posted, you would have to think he has to be the player the Cubs were interested in.
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Still not happy that Baker was let go.
CUBZ99 replied to Sweet Swinging Billy's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Wastra, I respect your opinion and I used to love reading your posts even back in the ESPN message board days, but better check your numbers again. Considering the real stats, It is ridiculous to say that average major league pitchers would have a .330 OBP over the course of 700 at bats. It just isn't realistic. Pierre is not a great CF, but he has still put up a respectable career OBP of .350, he still has decent speed and he can still steal bases. The problem with your argument is that you are only acknowledging the negatives and spinning them by making his numbers worse than they actually are. I'm pretty sure that sabrmeterics do not MEAN that. :wink: What I find funny is that the same people that will take Murton's second half numbers and use them to make the case that he is better/equal to Carlos Lee, will completely discount Pierre's numbers since June. Especially considering Pierre's career OBP was much higher than he was playing earlier in the season. If Pierre could revert back to his career OBP or sustain his sucess that he had from June through October, he would have some value to some team. Heck, he would even be a viable leadoff candidate. -
I don't know why in the world you would ever think that. :^o
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Baker is a moron. He did nothing good in 2003, they won just 89 games, and it was all on the arms of the great young pitchers. He ran those arms into the ground and he brought all this on himself. He wanted speedy players, he wanted aggressive players. When you want to play that way, and don't have a HOF player like Bonds getting on base 50% of the time, you are guaranteeing a low OBP, low Runs scored team. And when you run your young arms into the ground with the most abuse in the league, you are going to have troubles. Baker was the wrong manager for this team from day 1. Just because Hendry is also a bad GM doesn't excuse Dusty from his failures. They go hand in hand. There is no manager that could have made a difference for the Cubs this year. The good year the Cubs had under Baker were a direct relation to the team that Hendry assembled. Baker had the Cubs within one game of the World Series for the first time since 1984. None of his decisions kept the Cubs from reaching the World Series in 2003.
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Jim Essian won 4 less games than he lost. Baker was 66-96 with a 95m payroll. The Joey Amalfitano managed team of 1981 is arguably one of the worst Chicago Cubs teams ever assembled. Dusty's 2006 team was most certainly not one of the worst teams ever assembled. Joey wasn't winning many ball games. But, it was pretty much to be expected. Dusty wasn't winning many ball games. With Dusty and the team he was given, he WAS expected to win. Lee Elia took over a team in 1982 that featured a pitching staff that most wouldn't have even heard of outside of a 39 year old Fergie Jenkins. Dusty had Wood, Prior, Zambrano and Maddux. I was not a fan of Elia, but he most certainly did more with less when you compare him and how Dusty did less with more. There isn't a manager in the game that could have managed the Cubs to a winning season this year. You guys are giving far too much credit to the manager's position. With the amount of young pitchers and utter lack of depth on the bench, the only chance the Cubs had this year to be respectible was to have every regular player on their roster to stay healthy. I'm quite sure that Baker didn't want Jim Hendry to rely on Wood and Prior to be healthy all season. I'm also quite sure that Baker would have rather had a better option at SS than Neifi, and Neifi-lite. Dusty had a great year in 2003, when the GM provided him with a team. The Cubs were respectable, but underperformed in 2004. Could it be due to having Kerry Wood and Mark Prior for about half the year? After 2004, Hendry once again relies on having Wood and Prior in the starting rotation, while letting Clement go. Same in in 2006. Hendry is the person responsible for putting the garbage on the field that we've been seeing since 2005.
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He told Loria to quiet down and let him handle the umpires. Good for him. If you could point to one signle shred of evidence to support he is a control freak you'd have a much stronger argument in that regard. Again, it won't upset me at all if he isn't hired, but he is a viable option. Of course he's viable. I just don't think he's the best as I've seen espoused at every turn. I certainly don't think that the Cubs will be making a monumental mistake not hiring him. In fact, there are likely lesser known guys like Mills and Washington which would be equally good, if not better hires. I definitely don't think this hire is a "match in heaven." Well, I have introduced evidence that he's a control freak, you just choose not to trust the word of Beinfest. The last thing the Cubs need is to hire a manager that has no track record. Not to say that Mills or Washington may not turn out to be fine managers, but with the Cubs payroll and ability to get a proven manager, it would be ignorant for them to take a chance on an unknown.
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That really sounds like a guy that is reckless with young arms. Don't let the facts get in the way. The fact is he let a guy pitch after an hour and change rain delay. To me what is even more damaging is that he's seen this happen before when he was a player. He was catching Leiber when Baylor sent him out after the rain delay. Learning from past mistakes is a good thing. Repeating them is a bad thing. Starting pitchers come back all the time after rain delays with no ill effects. A lot of things go into that decision. It's not some general rule. People aren't numbers. No they don't generally come back after an 82 minute rain delay. When a manger does that sort of thing it's just plain foolish. You're taking one incident and extrapolating it to Girardi's entire philosophy. Especially considering both starting pitchers came back to pitch after the rain delay.
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Apples and Oranges in terms of the type of player. Crawford may not have as high as slugging% as Carbera, but is Carbera gonna swipe 50+ bases and play gold glove defense. I'd still take Cabera first, but Crawford isn't that far off. I'll take the .998 OPS OF rather than the .840 OF who steals bases by a huge margin - and to think Crawford isn't that far off, you must not be able to pass a urine test. Disgruntled Cubs Fan = Dusty Baker stan - "love that speed dude" The Cubs had two OF's this year that put up similar OPS numbers to Crawford. I don't understand why everyone is so impressed with him. Sure his numbers are decent and he is young, but he is not even in Cabrera's league.
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Yes, you wouldn't want to give the new manager a WS-ready team. That would be unthinkable. :lol:
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And Dusty Baker was on deck when Aaron hit 715... Horrible analogy. How does that in any way compare to having a manager that won the world series?
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:lol: at the tone of this thread. It's not like any of the current (reported) candidates for the Cubs job are that great. At least Piniella has had some success as a manager and knows what it is like to win a World Series.
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Yep. I heard that too. He said the Cubs have not contacted him yet... Maybe the Cubs contacted his agent. He did seem pretty believable last night when he said he hadn't talked to the Cubs yet.
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You have some pretty high standards.
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Jones' OPS over the last three years at the Metrodome was .746. You and others totally dismiss the fact that it was possible his OPS was low due (at least in part) to playing in the Metrodome.
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How would you rank the players as far as production for the money this year out of 13 I have listed above? You'd have to wait until those contracts were fulfilled, and evaluate based on the life of the contract. How was this year Jones' career year? Seems to me that when he was 27 he had a better OPS, OBP, BA etc. Just because you say it is a fact does not make it so. Further, this year was not that far from Jones' career averages. There is no reason he can't repeat those numbers for two more years. Signing Jacque turned out to be one of the better moves that Hendry made last offseason.
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Possibility? Brenly manager, Stone in the booth, Baker ESPN?
CUBZ99 replied to Banedon's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
I would love to see Steve Stone back in the booth next year. :D -
Carl Crawford
CUBZ99 replied to jmajew's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
Why does everyone think Crawford would make a difference on the Cubs? This year he is having a career year, and he wouldn't even be an improvement over the Cubs current OF's. Crawford .303 BA/.345 OBP /835 OPS Jones .287 BA/ .335 OBP/ .839 OPS Murton .298 BA/ .365 OBP/ .811 OPS It seems like the Cubs already have 2 similar players in the OF. You conveniently left out the outfielder he would be replacing: Pierre: .291/.330/.390/.720 Crawford is only 25 so there is the potential for him to improve even more and his OPS has improved every year. :oops: I saw him listed as a LF on his stat page. Even considering there is a spot for him to fit in the OF, would you trade Rich Hill for Jacque Jones? Considering how much everyone complains about how bad Jones is and how big of a waste of money he was, it is interesting to see everyone clamouring for a guy that actually puts up worse numbers(outside of SBs). -
Carl Crawford
CUBZ99 replied to jmajew's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
Why does everyone think Crawford would make a difference on the Cubs? This year he is having a career year, and he wouldn't even be an improvement over the Cubs current OF's. Crawford .303 BA/.345 OBP /835 OPS Jones .287 BA/ .335 OBP/ .839 OPS Murton .298 BA/ .365 OBP/ .811 OPS It seems like the Cubs already have 2 similar players in the OF. -
Carl Crawford
CUBZ99 replied to jmajew's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
The Cubs will have the money go 50 million on Schmidt. Chicago is a desirable place to play. If you can't land Schmidt, then you use Pie as trade bait for a young pitcher to replace Hill. The fact of the matter is this: the Cubs have one primary tradable commidity - young pitchers. If you want to improve the offense through trade, you have to deal some young pitching. If you can land a cheap 25 year old highly productive player then you have to do it. Not really, the Cubs young pitching has been an incredible flop this year. Granted they are young and this year will arguably be useful for their development, but there is no way you trade your second best pitcher for a position player. Hendry should be looking at adding to the rotation not subtracting from it. -
Bruce Miles dissects the MacPhail era
CUBZ99 replied to goonys evil twin's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
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I wouldn't mind if Hendry didn't resign ARAM and used the money to sign two front of the rotation starters. I'm impressed with Moore's consistency in the minors over the last couple of seasons. In High A, and AA his season stats are nearly identical. He has shown no drop in power or patience as he has progressed through the Cubs system.
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I agree, for once the Cubs organization seems to have done something right with a prospect.
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http://mlbkid.mlblogs.com/photos/michaels_favorites/neifi_perez.jpg I hope you are refering to Macias , because Neifi looks great compared to Cedeno. At least he can catch and more importantly throw the ball.
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I would agree with the overall sentiment, but Pierre just completed his third consecutive month with an OBP at or above .346. I wouldn't just classify it as simply a "hot streak." That said, he's not worth the money he'll get, is only okay as a base stealer (runs into too many outs), is only okay at best in the field with a terrible arm, and doesn't provide enough offensively to offset the periods where the abundance of ground balls aren't falling into the right gaps. Seems to me that at the beginning of the year Pierre was bunting way too often and hitting the ball on the ground almost every at bat. Recently, it seems that he has been hitting more line drives. I wouldn't mind seeing him in CF next year, if Hendry was able to sign him at a contract similar to what he makes now. Any thing more is a waste.
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Didn't see the interview but, Len is really taking some flack on other message boards for this interview. Some are saying that he was throwing Hendry softballs and failed to ask any tough questions. Don't know what else they would expect on the leadoff man. Its not like it has been known in the past for its tough journalism.