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  1. Hairyducked Idiot
    I'm not gonna put too much effort into this but I would bet that Ruggiano has had a much higher percentage of his PA against same-handed pitching to get to that number. Well, yeah, he's right-handed and so are most pitchers. He'll be facing a lot of righties this year, too. Career R/L PA percentage: Ruggiano: 59/41 Bogusevic: 13/87 League average: 71/29
  2. Hairyducked Idiot
    I like platoons. They are the reason our offense will be bad next year and not like historically awful.
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    You keep bringing this up, but don't balance it out with the pitiful scrap heap performances from others. If you add Lillibridge's 1-24 and Clevenger's 1-9 to Donnie Murphy and Cody Ransom, our scrap heap 3B don't look nearly as lucky. If you balance Borbon + Sappelt + Hairston + Gillespie with McDonald and Bogusevic, our scrap heap OF don't look nearly so lucky. On average, we got pretty much average bench performance from those combinations. In the outfield, it more or less balanced out. In the infield, we got 3.2 wins from Valbuena/Murphy/Ransom/Clevenger/Lillibridge.
  4. Hairyducked Idiot
    Career fWAR/400 PAs Ruggiano: 1.6 Bogusevic: 1.6
  5. Hairyducked Idiot
    Is he? Why? He's had one year of 1+ WAR in his career, and that required a .401 BABIP. He fits our roster nicely because of his handedness, but I see no reason to think he's better than those guys. I was using "fourth outfielder" to describe his ability more than his role. We have four fourth outfielders and no starters, and that's being generous to Lake.
  6. Hairyducked Idiot
    Ruggiano We had his equivalent last year. Sort of like swapping Navarro for Kottaras. Who was his equivalent? DeJesus? If so and that's the way you're doing that, why mention dropping him? Bogusevic/McDonald/Borbon/Gillespie/Sappelt. Take your pick. Fourth outfielders are pretty interchangeable.
  7. Hairyducked Idiot
    *shrug* It was like 12 times as much as we've spent this offseason.
  8. Hairyducked Idiot
    Committed like $90m to free agents.
  9. Hairyducked Idiot
    How are you differentiating between "acting like they regretted last year's spending spree" and "have been in limbo waiting to offer most of their available money to Tanaka?" Getting nowhere with serious trade talks, allocating the money they have spent in weird ways.
  10. Hairyducked Idiot
    Ruggiano We had his equivalent last year. Sort of like swapping Navarro for Kottaras.
  11. Hairyducked Idiot
    I'm not ignoring it. It just sort of ... is. We've dropped Soriano, DeJesus, Garza and Feldman. We've added a bullpen arm, maybe two. There will be some regression to the mean in both directions. Yes, Castro should be better. But we got some crazy-lucky performances from scrapheap guys last year, not to mention Junior Lake. If we add Tanaka, I'd put us at about even with what we had last year on paper. Without him? Easily worse. There were leaks early in the offseason suggesting that the Cubs had given up on at least 2014 and regretted last year's spending spree, and that's exactly how they are acting.
  12. Hairyducked Idiot
    Remember early in the offseason when it was talked about how we were determined to add some young pitching via trade? Feels like teams just went "lol no" at all our demands.
  13. Hairyducked Idiot
    There is no perfectly fair system, and especially no perfectly fair system that also makes for exciting finishes to seasons and encourages rivalries. Constantly calling for changes each year to address whatever little peculiarity that pops up is a bit odd to me.
  14. Hairyducked Idiot
    If Javy Baez takes as big a step forward this year as he did last year, he'd basically be in Harper territory.
  15. Hairyducked Idiot
    I like it the way it is. I like rewarding division winners.
  16. Hairyducked Idiot
    Well, it just makes sense. There are three teams with better MLB rosters right now that are failry young and in good shape. Two of those three teams have comparable farm systems and the third has a decent one. Unless and until the Cubs show an interest in being truly aggressive, they're not going to come close to closing the gap.
  17. Hairyducked Idiot
    "small jumbotron" is accurate, but it kind of bugs me.
  18. Hairyducked Idiot
    If they get lucky/hot at the right time, they are looking at 3 in 5. Which is as many as the Jordan Bulls ever got in five. Just sayin'
  19. Hairyducked Idiot
    What's gotten into Sharp? Not that I'm complaining.
  20. Hairyducked Idiot
    http://www.minorleagueball.com/2014/1/2/5265060/chicago-cubs-preliminary-prospect-list Sickels lists the preliminary Cubs top 40, not in order. Most interesting is the exclusion of Paniagua, which he confirms in the comments as not a mistake.
  21. Hairyducked Idiot
    Bleacher Nation discusses a blurb that suggests WGN may be playing hardball with the Cubs or may not be interested at all: http://www.bleachernation.com/2014/01/02/is-the-cubs-wgn-relationship-at-a-close-and-other-bullets/
  22. Hairyducked Idiot
    Assuming the one here is Vizcaino? Johnson and Edwards will both start 2014 in AA. The one is Jeff Samardzija. I wasn't including where pitchers are expected to pitch, but it doesn't matter. It could have been phrased "one pitcher who has pitched above A+."
  23. Hairyducked Idiot
    there is a God and he hates the Bears, Cubs, and Bulls We got 6 titles in 8 years. And look how we're paying for it. You'd have to live three lifetimes for it to even out.
  24. Hairyducked Idiot
    Better offense early in the game would have won it as surely as better defense would have.
  25. Hairyducked Idiot
    Season over
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