Hairyducked Idiot
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I explained it in an edit as you were replying. Me: Epstein always wanted to do a scorched-earth rebuild like this. It's his dream. Dav: You're crazy! If he had money he would spend it! Me: Didn't he have money he didn't spend this offseason? Dav: *crickets* You: So you wanted him to spend money for spending it's sake?
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So now you're bitching that he didn't spend just to spend? Meatballier by the day Kyle. That's an out-of-context, bad interpretation of what I said. I said it was Epstein's dream to rebuild like this and that's why we're doing it. One of the dav's started yelling about how it was only because Ricketts hasn't given him any money to spend and if he had money he wouldn't have done it.
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I could definitely see any or all of Rondon, Grimm and Strop succumbing to toomanywalksitis.
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So you're going to ignore the part where you insisted Epstein would spend money if he had it, but he had money this offseason and didn't spend it? You can disagree if you want to put forward a coherent disagreement, but you should probably at least address it. Ricketts botching the finances and Epstein living out his fantasy rebuild are not mutually exclusive propositions. The generic aggression and "dumbest thing you've ever said!!!!!" is just stuff people turn to when I'm hitting a nerve.
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Here's a subject on which you *should* stop listening to me: Our bullpen's net WPA is 27th in the league right now. There's going to be a point next offseason where I start to convince myself that we'll have a good bullpen. I will be wrong and do not listen to me or anyone else who says it.
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I dunno, but that's the same thing that's been reported for months now, so I tend to believe it.
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I wonder who sent the franchise down this path. Was it the guy who said this: Or the guy who said this: Ricketts has surely fumbled just about everything there has been to fumble, but don't for a second fool yourself into thinking he's holding Epstein back and forcing him into this. Epstein is loving every moment of this, living out his dream.
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Because it's scary that I might be right.
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Because I'm insightful. Or inciteful. Homonyms are hard...
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We were eliminated on Sept. 28, 2011, when Epstein decided he was tired of all that pressure to win every year and wanted to go to a franchise that would let him play Farm System Hero. Stop that [expletive] [expletive]. If Ricketts had money to spend, they certainly would be spending it. But he doesn't and they can't. And you [expletive] know it. Hmm. So they *didn't* sit on a huge wad of cash this offseason that could have been used to help the team, and instead pinned everything on the hope that they could lowball Tanaka?
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We were eliminated on Sept. 28, 2011, when Epstein decided he was tired of all that pressure to win every year and wanted to go to a franchise that would let him play Farm System Hero.
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They suck. Must be why we beat them at baseball almost 1/3rd of the time.
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I really don't think that's something he can do consistently long-term. Something's going to have to give. At this point, its worth finding out if he can. *shrug* I guess so. It was worth finding out what Bryan LaHair could do, too, but I know what the answer will probably be. Fake rally in progress: 2.5 stars/5. Nobody is buying it.
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I really don't think that's something he can do consistently long-term. Something's going to have to give.
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Bonifacio .500. Last year Castillo led all qualifiers with a .347 BABIP. The Cubs as a team were dead last in BABIP in 2013 Don't you think a lot of that was because we had some really bad hitters. They were probably towards the btm in LD% too. They were 29th. But the 28th place team in LD% was 22nd in BABIP, and the 30th place team in LD% was 18th in BABIP. The connection isn't really that strong.
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Sunk cost. But at the moment, we don't have five people I'd like to see starting more. If at some point we still have Samardzija, Wood, Hammel and Arrieta, and Hendricks is ready to move up to MLB, then I could see eating the whole contract if we had to.
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I hope he's not in the team in 2015. I hope he's not on the team tomorrow.
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Rizzo was notorious last year for having an unusually low BABIP and lots of arguments resulted in whether he was unlucky or it was something about the way he hit. Lake has had an obscenely high BABIP since he hit the majors.
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His velocity is also down this year. He's just a 31-year-old pitcher who didn't have a lot of room for error and his stuff is now attriting.
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They don't. He's been legitimately bad.
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6.05 xFIP for Edwin after that hit.
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Jackson missed his spot badly and Castillo had to reach all the way across his body to catch it. That doesn't excuse the ump from not calling it a strike, but it certainly wasn't Castillo's fault like Kyle might want you to believe. It's always Castillo's fault.
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RizzOMG!
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Minor League Discussion & Boxes 4-12-14
Hairyducked Idiot replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
Vitters' problem is going to be that at some point, the MLB roster is going to need to configure itself in such a way that it needs a backup or super-fringey starter who hits RH and only plays 1b and LF, and that doesn't happen a whole lot and he'll be one of a bunch of guys available who can do that. -
Definitely zero were from non-inherited. I don't know what that meant. But as of this moment, those five pitchers have allowed 31 of our 49 runs against.