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  1. Hairyducked Idiot
    Rundblad seems pretty decent. Basically a prospect. Could be setting up something else?
  2. Hairyducked Idiot
    Is it "Al-contra," because I think that's how I've heard it a few times now, when it looks like it should be "Al-con-tar-uh"
  3. Hairyducked Idiot
    He was blind but now he sees.
  4. Hairyducked Idiot
    Not paying Wieters $2m more than Vitters looks bad now, but it's not like they were averse to paying overslot as a rule in the Tribune-Hendry years. They overslotted a lot.
  5. Hairyducked Idiot
    Pre-draft, some scouts didn't see a lot of power. The Cubs projected that he would hit plenty of HR's. That expectations seems to be becoming more the norm and less the exception these days. I love how Almora, Johnson and even Bryant are all ahead of their draft-day status.
  6. Hairyducked Idiot
    Maybe Philly is the middleman in the blind 3-way
  7. Hairyducked Idiot
    Nothing really new that I heard, but it was still worth the listen. Reiterated that Baez isn't "knocking down the door" yet and won't be until he's dominating AAA.
  8. Hairyducked Idiot
    Does Vitters count? Because apparently Wilken wanted Wieters. Plus there's Colvin and Simpson. Vitters definitely does not count. $3.2m for the top HS bat at the No. 3 overall pick was easily market price at the time. Colvin counts, but seeing as how we used part of the savings to give Jeff Samadrzija one of the 10 biggest contracts in draft history, I don't think we can call them cheap that year. Simpson didn't come under the Tribune, it came under Ricketts.
  9. Hairyducked Idiot
    I can think of like two cheap first-rounders under Hendry/Tribune.
  10. Hairyducked Idiot
    No, no, no, no, no. I know it's probably too late, but I do not want this to become a thing like "Greg Maddux threw 88 MPH" and "The league screwed the Cubs out of a home game in the 1984 NLCS."
  11. Hairyducked Idiot
    Most of that was fun because of the content but overwritten as well. But this stood out:
  12. Hairyducked Idiot
    Given his history, there's like a 0.1% chance that the guy pitching last year wasn't really him. So there's that.
  13. Hairyducked Idiot
    All that stuff about not swinging at the first pitch was just a mind-game to get pitchers to throw him a couple of first-pitch fastballs today.
  14. Hairyducked Idiot
    I honestly don't know.
  15. Hairyducked Idiot
    Some guys think he can hit. I've seen plus attached to his hit tool. And he's got good plate discipline. I think there's a sort of fast-guy bias at work. If he's super-fast, he must be a slap-hitting leadoff hitter, right?
  16. Hairyducked Idiot
    Parks is who I would have ended up being if I were better at life but with the same personality.
  17. Hairyducked Idiot
    I imagine there's some game theory going on. You should probably be swingning at the first pitch just often enough to force the pitcher not to take it for granted you won't swing at the first pitch.
  18. Hairyducked Idiot
    They were also four wins *below* their pythagorean wins last year. So they should get some bounceback from that. They hit .269 overall last year and .330 in 1355 at-bats w/RISP. So a .061 differential with a lazy assumption of one run per hit is 83 runs, or about nine wins. They get four back on Pyth, so that leaves five. They'll make that up on Tavares and a couple of pitchers easily.
  19. Hairyducked Idiot
    They've balancing that out this year by graduating a metric crap-ton of talent to the majors and to full-time duty.
  20. Hairyducked Idiot
    BP's 25-and-under talent rankings have my majestic doom boner raging: http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=22944 NL Central 1. St. Louis 4. Pitttsburgh 10. Cubs 23. Reds 29. Brewers Reds got boned by having three of their best guys turn 26.
  21. Hairyducked Idiot
    My first reaction to this was "Didn't they talk about on the podcast a year or two ago how his wife left him?"
  22. Hairyducked Idiot
    I think it's odd that you think they aren't. I hear them discussed pretty regularly.
  23. Hairyducked Idiot
    But then Baez and Bryant will promote and then drop off the prospect lists and thus be worthless to us.
  24. Hairyducked Idiot
    Vitters still playing 1b and not the OF. I don't know what that means, but it feels like it means something.
  25. Hairyducked Idiot
    Rivero doing Rivero-y things: 1 IP, 0 H, 1 BB, 2 K
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