Hairyducked Idiot
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It's different to take a guy you are happy with, put him in the pen for a year with the full intention of putting him back next year, versus taking a guy who got moved to reliever because he wasn't cutting it. Neil Ramirez got moved to the pen because he couldn't stay healthy and walked too many. Moving him back is just an invitation to revisit those problems. I only put Grimm back up there because we needed a fifth and I don't care as much about him as I do about the others. I'd like to enter 2015 with 7-8 guys we can be happy with starting games for us. I'd rather none of them be guys who are already in our pen, so that means we'd probably need to add 3-4 guys in trades and free agency.
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I wouldn't. "Depth" doesn't replace a guy who has been super awesome. Having that one guy who can be a shutdown setup man is more important than having three guys who might be OK. But then, I'm super skeptical of guys reconverting in general.
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$500k guaranteed buyout at the end of this year. And then? In addition to Parker, there's Hatley and Rosscup in Iowa. And then have fun spending the $10m we paid you to rehab? I dunno, I have no interest in bringing him back.
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$500k guaranteed buyout at the end of this year.
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Playing the standing pat game, here's a roster I put together minus Samardzija, who is all but gone: Lake (PA), Alcantara (PA), Bryant* (PA) [Sweeney ($1.5), Ruggiano($2.5#)] Valbuena ($3#), Castro ($6), Baez* (PA), Rizzo ($5) [Barney ($3.5#), Watkins (PA)] Castillo ($2#) [Lopez (PA)] Wood ($6#), Arrieta ($1.5#), Jackson ($11), Hendricks (PA), Grimm (PA) Rondon(PA), Ramirez (PA), Strop ($2#), Vizcaino (PA), Rivero (PA), Russell ($3#), Wright ($2#) Total cost: $56m, if you assume the pre-arb guys get $500k each. * - Coming up in late April after the service-time deadline # - Arbitration WAG PA = Pre-arbitration It's ... interesting, yeah, but there's some clear problems. Starting pitching being the biggest. I expect them to handle it, but we need to add probably three starting pitchers in the next nine months. At least one outfielder, an entire bench. We're *probably* OK on relief depth (Rosscup, Schlitter didn't even make the cut, although I'm sure we'd non-tender Russell) but one more wouldn't be the worst idea.
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I think I already will be but that would take it to another stratosphere. Just for fun, standing pat: 1. Valbuena 3B 2. Rizzo 1B 3. Castro SS 4. Bryant RF 5. Baez 2B 6. Alcantara CF 7. Castillo C 8. Ruggiano, Sweeney, whoever LF If we assume that our prospects don't completely poop the bed, then I don't hate our lineup next year. It's the rotation that worries me.
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I don't know. I don't actually watch movies because it's unfrugal. I read about them on themoviespoiler.com is there a picture of him with a big watch on this website? Yes. http://indiefashiondaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/watches2b.jpg
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I don't know. I don't actually watch movies because it's unfrugal. I read about them on themoviespoiler.com
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That was the read most had on the Brewers this year: If you get past the "LOL, they're the Brewers" and looked at their roster, it wasn't bad as long as the pitching miraculously stayed healthy, and it has.
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It's based on a movie about a superhero called the Watch Man, who locks himself inside prisons to watch criminals he catches, unlike that idiot Batman who keeps letting them break out again.
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Minor League Discussion & Boxes 6-20-14
Hairyducked Idiot replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
I wouldn't mind calling up Alcantara now. -
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Minor League Discussion & Boxes 6-20-14
Hairyducked Idiot replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
Baez 3-for-3 is nice. -
Well for about 8 years in the 1990s that was true for the Braves.
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Minor League Discussion & Boxes 6-20-14
Hairyducked Idiot replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
College hitters forever. -
Dare to say: I'm coming around on the 8-man pen.
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lolololol
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We're once again the same number of games under .500 as the 2007 Cubs' low point.
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Swag, pitching and swaggy pitching
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As far as I know, Parks and Epstein are the only ones to comment, and Epstein isn't exactly motivated to tell the truth.
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This place is too smart (barely) to fall into the "maybe he's not top 50 anymore"="sky is falling" idiocy.
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:yahoo:
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@#$#@$ Jackson.
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We could have traded them both for prospects. Oh come on. At least it makes things heading into this offseason. I'm intrigued by 2015, but I don't think things are going to be that different in this coming offseason. I think our relative inactivity last year was more due to "most free agents aren't worth it" than "we're too awful to bother."
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We could have traded them both for prospects.