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  1. Hairyducked Idiot
    I didn't. That's why I asked.
  2. Hairyducked Idiot
    What's meant by "write him off"? Cut him? Trade him for little value? Stop penciling him from 2014 lineups? Put him in an imaginary "no chance" category? His chances of being an MLB contributor have plummeted. He'll get a chance to turn that around.
  3. Hairyducked Idiot
    Mike Olt is 0-for-2 with 2 Ks. It's kind of mean to leave him in AAA at this point.
  4. Hairyducked Idiot
    I want him to be a superstar so freaking bad. I'm so jealous of Angel fans getting to have Trout. Just let Baez be half as good and a complete [expletive] bad ass and I'll be happy. If he's going to be a superstar, this is what it would look like. Getting promoted to AA and just doing whatever the @#$% he wants. I keep coming back to Giancarlo Stanton. In his first stint at AA, 10 months younger than Baez, Stanton put up: .231/311/455 with a 29% K rate and a 9.1% BB rate He got sent back to AA the next season, put up an unholy OPS of nearly 1.200, got promoted straight to the majors and hit 22 HRs in 100 games there. I'm probably fooling myself focusing on a comp like that, but hot dang, what Baez is doing is something else.
  5. Hairyducked Idiot
    More fun Baez facts: 146 players have had at least 100 PAs in the Southern League this season. Baez is 2nd in OPS (behind Yasiel Puig) and 146th in age.
  6. Hairyducked Idiot
    I want him in the lineup for the majority of next year. Plus the playoffs.
  7. Hairyducked Idiot
    This one wasn't on me. It was two pages deep before I got here.
  8. Hairyducked Idiot
    He can be amazing. But sometimes it's like pulling teeth to get people to admit that he's ever made any sort of mistake or miscalculation.
  9. Hairyducked Idiot
    I think all-in-all, they've done an above-average job with the resources they've been given. I don't think they are the golden gods of baseball that they get painted as sometimes, but I'm not unhappy with their end at the moment.
  10. Hairyducked Idiot
    There never was one.
  11. Hairyducked Idiot
    "It was a miss and misses happen" is a lot more reasonable than "how could they have been expected to think differently than the consensus?"
  12. Hairyducked Idiot
    If the front office can't be expected to be right every time, I don't know why I should be held to a higher standard.
  13. Hairyducked Idiot
    So Law talked to the other teams ("We didn't even want him that much!") and some other reporters talked to the agent ("He had offers even bigger than this one!").
  14. Hairyducked Idiot
    Nobody's expecting them to be right every time. But when they aren't, it gets thrown into the pile of data points. I don't expect anyone to OBP .500, but when they make an out, it still goes onto their record.
  15. Hairyducked Idiot
    The way I understood it, the two highlights are: 1) Cubs cannot pay anything more than interest on the debt for 10 year 2) They cannot run at a cash-flow loss in any given business year, including the interest payments on the debt The combination of the two somehow saves the Tribune a bunch in capital gains taxes.
  16. Hairyducked Idiot
    Is it not our front office's job to be more right about the future of baseball players than their 29 competitors? But I do agree, it's mostly useless. I wish people would stop asking for it.
  17. Hairyducked Idiot
    I tried to warn you.
  18. Hairyducked Idiot
    That was reported once somewhere, but I don't know if it's actually true or not.
  19. Hairyducked Idiot
    29 other teams thought less of Soler than we did. Do you regret that?
  20. Hairyducked Idiot
    The Dodgers I don't think you can infer that from the simple fact that the Dodgers signed him. And this treatment of the Puig situation (by some) as being one where the Cubs goofed by missing on some clear cut stud is bordering on the ridiculous. The Dodgers paid a crapton more money for Puig than they presumably bid for Soler. I think it's pretty easy to infer. It doesn't matter whether it was 'clear-cut' or not. It's their job to find these things.
  21. Hairyducked Idiot
    Correct. Now go compare the rate to football... Why?
  22. Hairyducked Idiot
    The Dodgers
  23. Hairyducked Idiot
    You're right in general, but Darvish didn't pick Texas.
  24. Hairyducked Idiot
    Correct.
  25. Hairyducked Idiot
    ^ called it
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