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  1. Hairyducked Idiot
    It's amazing that they can be 17-4-4 and it just feels kind of routine.
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    I'm not sure he could do that at Iowa.
  3. Hairyducked Idiot
    Well, personally, I'm not a big fan of trying to measure $/WAR linearly like that. It really doesn't seem to work for really good or really bad players, no matter what David Cameron says. But if someone offered me Mike Trout on a 1/$50m deal, I'd probably take it.
  4. Hairyducked Idiot
    That sort of inflation used to be normal, back in the late 1980s through the early 2000s.
  5. Hairyducked Idiot
    For the record, my objection has nothing to do with the timeline for winning, I think most everyone here would agree I've been more forgiving/"appreciative" of the front office than the average poster. My point is that even the most MLB ready draft picks are so far away that making contingencies for your MLB roster based on who you might draft 6 months from now is just a waste of time. Especially when we're talking about a pick who is very far from being considered a finished product at the moment, and if he does take a big step forward there's 3 teams who have a shot at him before the Cubs. I'm pretty sure there will be very few moves made with clearing a spot for Kris Bryant in mind in the next 6 months, and he's a far faster riser than Turner will likely be, plus he's already been in the system for half a year. At this point, I'm so punch-drunk on this front office I would believe just about anything. Does making contingency plans about whether to trade your MLB shortstop on whether or not you draft some non-elite college SS sound crazy? Yes. But no crazier than a $95m payroll and an offseason where our primary goal is to add "veteran leadership."
  6. Hairyducked Idiot
    I hear it, I think it sucks, and I think there's a good probability it never leads the results they hope for. :roll: There are more than two ways to build a baseball team. The constant need to compare to Hendry makes me think that some who believe in the front office have a sliver of doubt. We know Hendry sucked. We need to see that the current front office won't suck just as badly but for different reasons.
  7. Hairyducked Idiot
    ACL one no it wasn't. they just showed it was the right knee. They're both ACL knees now
  8. Hairyducked Idiot
    We'll find something in the same tier. We're not gonna get completely shut out of the crappy signings that aren't anywhere near the scale the team needs.
  9. Hairyducked Idiot
    Well, I mean, nobody's expectations are that high right now, right? We've gone from hoping for Ellsbury and Price to hoping for Hughes and Guttierrez. But there's still plenty of time to come through on that lowered expectation. I mean, if we have to settle for Scott Baker as our free-agent pitcher, that's a new level of disappointment, but we aren't there yet.
  10. Hairyducked Idiot
    No one is taking them seriously regardless.
  11. Hairyducked Idiot
    http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-puck-daddy/behold-reading-royals-ugly-christmas-sweater-jerseys-photo-203940685--nhl.html These are just glorious.
  12. Hairyducked Idiot
    JIM BOWDEN ‏@JimBowdenESPNxm 44s David Freese for Peter Bourjos is official
  13. Hairyducked Idiot
    Rosenthal is reporting that the Cardinals have traded for Bourjos, probably for Freese.
  14. Hairyducked Idiot
    He called some of our cheap pitching acquistions last year, iirc. Basically, he doesn't have a direct connection to the Cubs. What he reports are what the rumormill among scouts and others inside baseball are saying.
  15. Hairyducked Idiot
    I'm going to wait and see how long Beane can keep this up. It sometimes feels like "no bad players" is just code for "we got lucky and none of our players had bad seasons."
  16. Hairyducked Idiot
    I'm assuming an "Anibal-type move" just means we get played as leverage for him while he signs with some other team. That's fine in this case.
  17. Hairyducked Idiot
    we're really doing this right now. for Jason Vargas. he, of the 4.63 career xFIP. there are no words. That's a little misleading. He hasn't actually put up an xFIP that high since 2008.
  18. Hairyducked Idiot
    I assume this takes them out of Samardzija conversations.
  19. Hairyducked Idiot
    Well, some of them.
  20. Hairyducked Idiot
    4/$32 for a guy who didn't make Fangraphs' top-47 FAs.
  21. Hairyducked Idiot
    If Ha's CF defense is as good as sometimes reported, I could see him being taken.
  22. Hairyducked Idiot
    I find it plausible, but there's no reason to take it as gospel. I'm still concerned that they thought Ian Stewart was a worthwhile path to go down at all. *ducks*
  23. Hairyducked Idiot
    lolwut?
  24. Hairyducked Idiot
    I like to think our front office has voodoo beyond fangraphs pages.
  25. Hairyducked Idiot
    http://i.imgur.com/C6CC15I.gif I see. Could you make them a spot of tea please, Stephanie?
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