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  1. Hairyducked Idiot
    Yes.
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    They did it with Rizzo, who ended up with 700 AAA PAs.
  3. Hairyducked Idiot
    Another well-documented human behavior is a reluctance to lock in losses by selling when you should, hoping for a bouneback to previously established values that may never come.
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    If I'm getting even-money odds, I'll take the under on 250. It's too easy to leave him down for service time and polish on a bad team, even if he could handle it. Service time wouldn't have anything to do with keeping him under 250. 3 months is more than enough to avoid super 2 I'm saying that once you get past the halfway point of the season, it becomes easier to wait until after next year's service-time deadlines. Why bring him up in August when you can wait until September and then hold him down for a month in 2015?
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    If I'm getting even-money odds, I'll take the under on 250. It's too easy to leave him down for service time and polish on a bad team, even if he could handle it.
  6. Hairyducked Idiot
    The "reworked swing" is about to become the new kiss of death in this organization. That they are doing it with Olt doesn't say great things about their opinions on his ability to just heal and be back to normal.
  7. Hairyducked Idiot
    I'll be very surprised if Javy has not used up his rookie eligibility by then. KB is 50/50 for me as well. We'll see in a year. I would call your Javy timeline crazybuckets if not for the fact that it would leave me out of descriptions for your Bryant expectation. I mean, is it theoretically possible? Sure. But to expect it? Edit: Wait, I see the confusion. I meant *at the time of the pick*, not on the next official list.
  8. Hairyducked Idiot
    Shields' last two seasons before trade: 8.4 fWAR. Samardzija: 5.8
  9. Hairyducked Idiot
    Has Cole ever had any sort of health problems? Because yeah, I think I'd take that if not.
  10. Hairyducked Idiot
    The depth here is insane. We're going to make the No. 4 overall pick and then have to legitimately debate if he makes our top 5.
  11. Hairyducked Idiot
    Pretty sure he was, just 40 MLB PA
  12. Hairyducked Idiot
    Sorry, but when we have these discussions, the "MLB-ready starters" being referred to are not fringy guys who may never stick in the majors or 27-year-olds with 1-WAR projections who probably fit better in the bullpen. But regardless of the past, I believe HoopsCubs' rumor combined with other tea-leaf reading that we're going all out to fix the gap in the prospect wall this offseason, which would be CJ Edwards-quality starting prospects or better. Trading Castillo could easily be part of that effort.
  13. Hairyducked Idiot
    Except when we traded Scott Feldman and Matt Garza last year? Arrieta and Grimm are not exactly what's being referred to by "MLB-ready starter" in these discussions. Assuming either of them can actually be starters.
  14. Hairyducked Idiot
    http://www.suntimes.com/sports/baseball/cubs/23666171-573/with-renteria-in-fold-dont-expect-theo-to-gamble-on-free-agents.html I think these are all Theo quotes from the STH meetings, not a fresh interview or anything, but dang: Translation: no Price, no Carlos Gonzalez, no Stanton, unless they just give them away to us Translation: We look forward to making a due-diligence bid with no real chance of landing Tanaka.
  15. Hairyducked Idiot
    http://sports.yahoo.com/news/cardinals-expected-to-discuss-possible-troy-tulowitzki-trade-with-rockies-at-gm-meetings-030657614.html Cardinals and Rockies expected to talk Tulowitzki
  16. Hairyducked Idiot
    I remember two years ago a lot of yapping from Edmonton fans that they were the next Blackhawks.
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    Same. Paying that much for a second-tier QB seems pretty unpalatable until you start thinking about what it's like to have a third- or fourth-tier QB.
  18. Hairyducked Idiot
    dead last in the nhl on the season. but now the pp is good. We'll work out the PK by the end of the season, not too worried.
  19. Hairyducked Idiot
    There's that one soul-crushing mistake from Dubnyk that Oilers fans have been telling me about.
  20. Hairyducked Idiot
    It's the NFL, sustained success means lucking into a mega-elite QB or an absolutely transcendent football mind in charge of your franchise.
  21. Hairyducked Idiot
    Saad/Pirri/Kane is such a fun line.
  22. Hairyducked Idiot
    But signing him to play SS after trading Starlin Castro is classic Theo.
  23. Hairyducked Idiot
    Waivers. Yes, if he doesn't make the team he ends up somewhere else, and that's pretty plausible.
  24. Hairyducked Idiot
    I have a feeling we're going to sell high on Castillo. Late-blooming catcher who was never expected to be a lot has an above-average season influenced by a high BABIP and a pretty crazy defensive number? I mean, they'll have a good scouting read on what they think of him, and maybe they like him and think he can keep it up, but I wouldn't be stunned to see them try to cash it in on a guy who was barely thought of as better than Clevenger two seasons ago.
  25. Hairyducked Idiot
    Enough with the "MLB ready starter" idea for trades. We keep predicting that and it hasn't happened since the Marshall deal. With all the near-ready MLB starters we've gotten in trades the last two years, our rotation must be overflowing. Except at the end of the day, if you want pitching, you have to choose between ceiling and readiness, and we're going to choose ceiling (and rightfully so). You can have a CJ Edwards or you can have a Justin Grimm. Teams with near-ready pitchers with high upside have this weird tendency of actually putting them into the rotation instead of trading them. And the very few with surpluses in that regard want something more than Welington Castillo.
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