Hairyducked Idiot
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We'll see. That investment portfolio (analogies!) is pretty mixed right now.
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Bud Selig to retire after 2014 season
Hairyducked Idiot replied to captain_kickass's topic in General Baseball Talk
Andy MacPhail, your table is ready. -
Got to be a little frustrating for the Rangers to see both the Rays and Indians on six-game win streaks.
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The other choice is hoping we get a bunch of players performing near the top of their hopes/projections, which I guess we'll be doing regardless. When did trades become illegal? If you think the FAs are getting too much, wait till you find out what it costs to trade for good players and then give them contract extensions.
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Rick Renteria Named New Cubs Manager
Hairyducked Idiot replied to Hawk4Hall's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
It's still a little fun. -
The other choice is hoping we get a bunch of players performing near the top of their hopes/projections, which I guess we'll be doing regardless.
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Rick Renteria Named New Cubs Manager
Hairyducked Idiot replied to Hawk4Hall's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Patterson, Choi and Juan Cruz were. Kelton and Hill had to settle for merely being top-50. I think you're dismissing how talented that wave was. -
Or if you find a buyer who is only slightly more convinced than you are that he will bounce back.
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250/298/344 in September. So apparently it wasn't as easy as just going back to his old approach.
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I guess Ellsbury.
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Wouldn't all SSs the way they are applying it?
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They gave up on 2012 or they weren't good enough. I'm comfortable with either.
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I'm pretty sure I've done at least 15,000 of them, one for every Cubs site I visit.
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I have, and I'm not doing all that work again. Sure, it requires being right about a lot of things. But trying to be right about a lot of things is better than giving up.
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A fact we all used to talk about quite a bit when emphasizing how important it was to make a big splash in 2011. are you talking about the pujols offseason? Not only him, but yes. By the time we decide we're "ready to win," free agency will be pretty dismal. Well, still be pretty dismal.
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A fact we all used to talk about quite a bit when emphasizing how important it was to make a big splash in 2011.
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Well, putting aside the fact that attendance would be higher and we might be more attractive to free agents, it wasn't fated to be 80 wins. Teams projected to win 78-82 games this year (http://www.rlyw.net/index.php/RLYW/comments/the_2013_mlb_projection_blowout) include the Indians, Red Sox and Pirates. You can't just look at a team and say "That looks like 80 wins, why bother?"
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They definitely "tried" this year. Were they putting out a team likely to win the division and kick a ton of ass? Of course not, but given what they had to work with I think they did a good job of putting together a team that on paper should have been hovering around .500 for a good chunk of the season. Obviously it didn't work out that way due to some key players really underperforming, but to talk about this season like they set out there shooting for another disastrous run is pretty disingenuous. I agree, but it might have been enough if they hadn't done such a miserable job the year before.
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Yes, we're still "pretending" that.
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Because they haven't perversely decided that having a great farm system is more important than winning MLB games. so we're just going to pretend like the cubs didn't spend a lot of money last offseason to make the major league team better? Not enough and they didn't spend it wisely enough, and they were still paying for the failures from the year before when they allowed the team to crater. Two of the most important, scarcest assets that a baseball team is given and can never get back once squandered: Seasons.
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Because they haven't perversely decided that having a great farm system is more important than winning MLB games.
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The only thing they've done so far in terms of picking up amateur/minor-league talent that couldn't have been done by almost literally every other professional baseball executive with the same mandate is the 2013 trading deadline, when I thought they did a really nice job reading the market and dealing at the right times.
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Bingo. And Kyle, I thought I just saw you mention that even with the financial restrictions, a contender could have been put out on the field. Sorry, but even you haven't gone that far yet. I've seen plenty of "if we had done this and that, well then maybe" stuff, but it wasn't EVER done with a truly restricted payroll, as we certainly have. So, either clarify, tell me I misread you, or actually come up with something that's reasonable(not literally looking back and getting every single FA that produced cheaply, since there happens to be 29 other teams in MLB) If you can't and go with "well, they're the ones getting paid to do this" I'll know you were just talking out of your ass. Sorry, I've been doing alternative offseasons for literally years now, and I'm done with them. It involves hours and hours of work, only to have the person decide "Well, you used all these parameters I set out, but there's one more I just thought of that you didn't, so it's all invalid."
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When they actually make it work, they'll get some credit. But they haven't yet, so they get exactly the same amount of credit as Da Bum.
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It'd have been hard. I wish we had a front office willing to try hard things. Come on; trying to rebuild largely via drafting and international FA signings and mostly [expletive] trades is hardly "easy." You're talking about like it's some kind of safe path to building a better team. It's the easiest thing in the world to try to do it that way. Put Da Bum in the GM's chair, tell him to try to lose as many games as possible and give an inordinately large percentage of the budget to amateur acquisitions, and he'll give you a top-5 farm system within a few years. It's hard to actually convert that into a good team, but since they haven't actually done that yet, they don't get credit for it yet. We'll see.