Hairyducked Idiot
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If the only other option was that he had to sit everyday in Chicago, you'd have a point. But that was not the situation. He didn't have to sit in Chicago. The right choice was to play him. The wrong one was to bench him for Reed Johnson. Making another mistake to cover up that mistake is just plain stupid. I keep saying it, and it keeps being true. It's Classic Cub (and Classic Cub Fan) to say that they were forced into a bad decision by the previous bad decision they had already made.
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Maddux will balk all three batters to first on called balls, then pick them off, getting out of the inning with no pitches thrown.
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Lee demonstrates why the Cubs lead the league in Defensive Efficiency.
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No, because Bruce is wrong.
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Say something optimistic about Edmonds on the Cubs
Hairyducked Idiot replied to bukie's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
It's not just this year. He's been mediocre to bad for awhile. If he can put up last season's numbers vs. righties in a strict platoon, he's better than Reed Johnson against righties. Reed Johnson vs. righties is not a particularly high hurdle to leap. -
Manny Ramirez high fives fan, completes DP
Hairyducked Idiot replied to Schwarber Fan's topic in General Baseball Talk
I don't think I've ever been more entertained by a baseball play not involving the Cubs. -
James Anderson rocked as usual, took a couple early wickets, and I'm not too unhappy with 208-6 at this point. Oops, wrong sport.
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Say something optimistic about Edmonds on the Cubs
Hairyducked Idiot replied to bukie's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Unless you believe his numbers this season indicate a complete collapse of hitting skills, Edmonds will likely be better than Reed Johnson vs. right-handed pitchers. -
Down a run, superior lineup, home-field advantage and an extra-half inning? I call this advantage Cubs, but it's close.
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The sad thing is Marquis is pitching worse than his runs allowed would indicate.
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He never drives the ball, he has no power :roll: He hit it all th way to the wall with a 17mph wind blowing out. Watch out, Bonds. He's got more power then any of you give him credit for, whether you guys admit it or not. Versus left-handed pitching, you're right.
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You'd be shocked at how many Cubs fans are convinced Pie can't play in the bigs.
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Nobody is welcoming Edmonds with "open arms", it's the simply inevitable that Hendry will sign Edmonds. 99.999999999999999999999 to inifnity% of the Cubs fans would prefer to keep Pie up and not sign Edmonds. But Hendry/Piniella has a man-crush on Edmonds.... Actually, on the Tribune poll a full 39.6% endorse the move. In not unrelated news, I hate 39.6% of Cubs fans.
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I have every reason to believe it'd be a strict platoon, the Cubs love Reed Johnson, and it'd be the majority portion of the platoon. Reed Johnson 2007: .236 .305 .320 Reed Johnson 2007 vs. righties: .202 .275 .237 Jim Edmonds still has value to a team trotting Reed Johnson out as their CFer vs. righties. Cesar Izturis had value to the team that was trotting Neifi Perez out there every day. Different level of suck.
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I have every reason to believe it'd be a strict platoon, the Cubs love Reed Johnson, and it'd be the majority portion of the platoon. Reed Johnson 2007: .236 .305 .320 Reed Johnson 2007 vs. righties: .202 .275 .237 Jim Edmonds still has value to a team trotting Reed Johnson out as their CFer vs. righties.
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Wouldn't the fact that they've assembled the worst offense in MLB make the Padres' judgment on offensive players suspect? :)
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We can watch the games now? I just wait for my spreadsheets to update. I think he means refreshing fangraphs between pitches.
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That's good for projecting him into the future, but it's meaningless for saying how good he is right now. Sean Gallagher, right now, at the age of 22 is a mediocre major-league pitcher and his minor-league numbers support that conclusion. The fact that he is already a mediocre major-leaguer at 22 is a tremendous accomplishment and bodes well for his future career. But he's still mediocre right now. That's all I'm sayin'.
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Because he's not. He's still a somewhat worthwhile major-leaguer to some teams. He's worthless to the theoretical SmartCubs that start Pie, to be sure. He's in a grey area to the actual Cubs that are starting Reed Johnson vs. righties. I'd argue he's worthwhile to them, but it's close enough that I can respect the opposite opinion. But he's still good enough to be a worthwhile major-leaguer somewhere. The ideas that Edmonds isn't completely washed up and that the Cubs are idiots for not starting Pie aren't mutually exclusive.
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Astros have been pretty lucky with both schedule and timing. BP has them 3.3 wins ahead of their third-order adjusted standings, which accounts for things like schedule and timely hitting. They aren't going to hit .292 with RISP and .299 with men on all season. When they stop, the runs will stop piling up. Their lineup has a few good parts, but it also has some black holes.
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This is just straight up absurd. He's worthless based on his age, health, rapid and steady decline over several years, horrible 2007 and atrocious start to 2008. Don't pretend people are basing this on 100 PA, it makes you look ridiculous. If Edmonds 2007 was horrible, then you guys have a different definition of horrible than me. A CF who puts up a .755 OPS vs. righties is a valuable half of a platoon. No, he's not really. Especially when Felix Pie could conceivably come close to that number if playing everday vs. RHPs and have the added benefit of gettign the growing pains over with instead of going thru the same thing next year or whenever the Cubs determine Pie to be ready. I completely agree that Felix Pie is loads better and the Cubs are idiots for not giving him the CF job. A .755 OPS is on the extreme low end of what I'd expect from him vs. righties on an everyday bassi, and he'd play loads better defense to boot.
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Lou Pinella, What the hell are you doing?
Hairyducked Idiot replied to Keener98's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Seeing Edmonds take the field in Cubbie blue might make me throw up in my mouth. He'd improve team patience :) -
This is just straight up absurd. He's worthless based on his age, health, rapid and steady decline over several years, horrible 2007 and atrocious start to 2008. Don't pretend people are basing this on 100 PA, it makes you look ridiculous. If Edmonds 2007 was horrible, then you guys have a different definition of horrible than me. A CF who puts up a .755 OPS vs. righties is a valuable half of a platoon.
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i do agree with this; however, nobody is going to OPS .900 while taking at least a quarter of the year to adjust (and OPS'ing at .600) unless they all of a sudden click and start hitting like roid-era bonds. Pie would have to OPS something like 1.000 from here on out to wipe out his lousy start. obviously i am in the camp that believes he can be a solid major league player, but his PECOTA projection indicated a minimal adjustment time to big league pitching, and that clearly isn't the case. Fair point. But I think, given regular playing time, he could OPS .900 against righties from this point on.
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Various newspaper and radio sources believe it to be a done deal.