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  1. Hairyducked Idiot
    Awesome. Now I just really miss Sosa. lol@2001 when he was worth 78.8 offensive runs above average and +9.9 fWAR Also, back when fan-level statheads thought Sosa was overrated because of his low OBP in like 95-96, he was actually kinda underrated thanks to his defense.
  2. Hairyducked Idiot
    When bringing a guy up two weeks later means you control him for a whole extra year later, you'd be stupid not to consider it.
  3. Hairyducked Idiot
    Vitters, Ramirez, Rivero edit: Crap, forgot Rivero was still being horribly underrated and isn't on the list yet.
  4. Hairyducked Idiot
    The former is true, the latter in not. You cannot write a contract that circumvents the CBA. What would be circumventing? Older IFAs usually have a clause that says they get released automatically when their contract is up, that's why you can have a Fukudome four-year deal. And certainly you can have a contract that goes past the six-year line.
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    lol wut lol want
  6. Hairyducked Idiot
    Pick a side so someone can yell at you, you wuss.
  7. Hairyducked Idiot
    People get weird about factual statements when they don't like the conclusion those statements support. It's not my job to frame statements in a way that supports your argument. Some situations don't require nuance. How likely is it that Soler, last seen in the regular season at A+, shoots up to the majors by September? Not impossible, but really darn unlikely.
  8. Hairyducked Idiot
    It seems likely but not completely certain.
  9. Hairyducked Idiot
    It's on the way to expectation. You're outraged by the suggestion that it's 5% or less. A few more weeks and maybe a ST HR or two and we can get it up to 50%, I'm sure.
  10. Hairyducked Idiot
    Yeah, you are, if you think that if this season played out 100 times, Soler would get a Sept call up 5 or fewer times. Correct. Less than 5 or fewer times out of 100 will a guy with 55 games of A+ experience shoot up the ladder and make his MLB debut that year. I'd place roughly equal odds of that happening to the odds of him starting the season at A+, getting hurt, having a disciplinary incident, struggling at the plate and barely making AA by August. It's that time of year again where "What is the most absurdly optimistic scenario we could possibly come up with for a Cubs prospect" slowly morphs into the expectation.
  11. Hairyducked Idiot
    Yeah. *I'm* the one being unrealistic here... :roll:
  12. Hairyducked Idiot
    You're asking for three promotions in five months of baseball. 5% or less Meh... Sept callups aren't exactly your typical promotion. And you're counting his starting in AA as one of those promotions? Really? lol Has he played in AA before? Of course that counts. Especially considering he didn't play a full season at A+ either. Put it this way: Javier Baez's zomg season, in the top 5 by a Cubs prospect in my lifetime, got him one promotion from a level he had experience at going into the season.
  13. Hairyducked Idiot
    You're asking for three promotions in five months of baseball. 5% or less
  14. Hairyducked Idiot
    He's a surprisingly not-bad candidate for the 6th infielder spot, although I like him better as one of a bunch of guys fighting for that job and not just winning it by default.
  15. Hairyducked Idiot
    It is apparently a split deal. If he makes the team, he gets $2.5m with another $45k in incentives.
  16. Hairyducked Idiot
    The 60-day DL should have opened with pitchers and catchers reporting. The Dodgers have already used theirs. Given that he's reported to be graduating to mound-throwing "soon," I wonder if maybe Fujikawa might not go on the 60-day at all?
  17. Hairyducked Idiot
    Arb awards aren't. I honestly didn't know that. Is that the case in all of them? For some reason I thought the only way to non-guarantee them was set around a certain spring training date that if they make it that far, it becomes guaranteed? But not all have that clause in them..... I think all arbitration awards have that clause, and if you sign a guy who would have been arbitration eligible, it acts the same way.
  18. Hairyducked Idiot
    On the flip side, I see Epstein talk about how it felt when Aaron Boone hit his game 7 walk-off and how they immediately knew they had to get better, and I have trouble imagining him feel that same way about a Cubs team.
  19. Hairyducked Idiot
    Heyman just said he turned down major league deals for a minor league deal with us. I think that pretty much says he's making the team. Yeah, that's got to be a verbal agreement, sort of like giving Schierholtz playing time. Edit: or it could just be his agent saying agent-y things.
  20. Hairyducked Idiot
    As I said elsewhere, he fights for a job with Roberts and Watkins as the 6th infielder. Watkins is already on the 40-man, but I like Bonifacio a bit better, so who knows.
  21. Hairyducked Idiot
    I like it. He gets to fight with Roberts and Watkins for a job, and I think I like him best out of the three.
  22. Hairyducked Idiot
    It made me go back and rewatch Four Days In October on Netflix. It cannot be overstated how awesome it would be for the Cubs to be good and relevant and maybe actually win in the postseason once.
  23. Hairyducked Idiot
    I know people hate Yankees-Red Sox ESPN slobbering, but honestly I love it, at least when it covers the time when they deserved it. ESPN 30 for 30 shorts on the A-Rod trade: http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=10410371 Someday, that Epstein will show up ... *wistful sigh*
  24. Hairyducked Idiot
    I guess we know for sure now that if Sanchez had been signed, we were going to have to trim payroll elsewhere.
  25. Hairyducked Idiot
    Luke Weaver's first start of the season for Florida State is on ESPN3
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