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  1. Hairyducked Idiot
    I'm right about a lot more stuff than Dale Sveum's Media Quotes.
  2. Hairyducked Idiot
    You'll have the shot to draft a guy inside the top 30 though, due to signability. Maybe. That stuff gets overhyped. There's enough pre-draft lists that like 50-60 guys are probably on somebody's top 30 list. The difference between the 25th best player and the 50th best player is pretty tiny.
  3. Hairyducked Idiot
    Yes yes yes. Sweep these guys and turn the season around.
  4. Hairyducked Idiot
    I was getting to him when Molina interrupted the thought.
  5. Hairyducked Idiot
    I want to say no, but then I start mentally going through the list. Gregg sucks despite his brief hot streak this season. Dolis we *******know******* sucks. Camp is worthless this year. Rondon isn't any better. Interrupt that thought, LOL Molina.
  6. Hairyducked Idiot
    For Wood, it'll be when he stops stranding 80% of his runners and doesn't have a 7.4% HR/FB ratio. He's been acceptable, but he hasn't fundamentally changed what kind of pitcher he is or anything.
  7. Hairyducked Idiot
    I think 21% is *really* high for a No. 40 pick or whatever it is we have this time around.
  8. Hairyducked Idiot
    Tennessee is losing 16-0 in the 5th.
  9. Hairyducked Idiot
    Javybomb
  10. Hairyducked Idiot
    Thats only if you see him as clearly a much, much better option than Gray. Personally, I'll take either and then overslot as much as possible later on. Same old argument. If I like Appel even a tiny bit more, I do whatever it takes to get him. Don't care about the Pierce Johnsons of the world when getting the No. 2 overall pick right is at stake.
  11. Hairyducked Idiot
    I haven't really thought through the logistics of the value of doing it, but blowing the No. 41 pick and telling Appel he'll get $8 million if he convinces the Astros he won't sign and drops to us would be a pretty baller move.
  12. Hairyducked Idiot
    I really want to believe in Cabrera, but he's still walking too darn many.
  13. Hairyducked Idiot
    It wasn't meant to be taken so literally. He had the rights to leave on a technicality of the CBA, but the management at both the AAA and MLB levels seemed to not agree with his decision.
  14. Hairyducked Idiot
    He was with the team Friday night but the game got snowed out. He was not with the team on Saturday and Sunday (which included a double-header, so he missed three games). He was with the team Monday but did not play.
  15. Hairyducked Idiot
    Because he does suck. He may not suck at some point in the future (although he probably will), but we have a ton of data right now that says he sucks right now.
  16. Hairyducked Idiot
    That's a shame. It would be nice if guys like Cates emerged to be bullpen fodder at the every least. The bullpen prospects as a whole have been extremely disappointing this season. Almost no one interesting is having a good year.
  17. Hairyducked Idiot
    Cubs have to include some pretty good secondary pieces. Other way around. You're crazy, and your WAR/$ chart is preemptively crazy.
  18. Hairyducked Idiot
    Cubs have to include some pretty good secondary pieces.
  19. Hairyducked Idiot
    He doesn't have high K tendencies, though. That's a big part of the problem. His control problems don't just involve walking people, they involve leaving his sinker in really hittable places. He walked a ton of people as a starter, way too many to have any hope of being effective, up through 2010. In 2011, he was converted to a reliever, where he proceeded to put up 5.9 K/9 and 4.33 BB/9. In 2012, he pitched 60 IP across four levels. In those four levels, for 6.7 K/9 and 4.8 BB/9. In 2013 so far, he's pitched 9.1 innings with 7 Ks and 3 BBs. Those are all the numbers of a pitcher who sucks. Maybe someday he'll put it all together and suddenly not suck, but probably not. And until then, we ****know**** he sucks.
  20. Hairyducked Idiot
    That sounds ominous-ish, regarding Stewart's three-day weekend: http://espn.go.com/blog/chicago/cubs/post/_/id/16712/stewart-takes-surprise-break-from-i-cubs
  21. Hairyducked Idiot
    ****awesome****
  22. Hairyducked Idiot
    OK. So if we ignore everything that happened since he became a full-time reliever in 2011, and we don't use any sort of non-statistical analysis or observation, then I guess we don't really know that Dolis has massive control problems. But I'm not inclined to throw away any of that data, so I'm sticking with it. I'm might even upgrade it to double asterisks on each side of the word.
  23. Hairyducked Idiot
    He pitched in the minor leagues, too, and someone was kind enough to keep a scorebook every night.
  24. Hairyducked Idiot
    I was a junior, and I had computer lab in 7th period, so I checked ESPN Sports Zone and they had him at 15 Ks through 7 or whatever it was. I sprinted home and caught the 9th inning.
  25. Hairyducked Idiot
    It's just frustrating that Dolis is giving up rockets (Andrus and Soto) in a 9-0 game. It feels like outside of Russell there's no end in sight for the crap bullpen. It'd be great to get a 9-0 lead every night and not worry about it, but obviously that's not going to happen. Hopefully Feldman is fine... and I suppose as bad as our pen is, we aren't trotting out Derek Lowe. Wow. Dolis sucks. We *know* this about him. He's got great stuff that he can't keep down in the zone, when he gets it in the zone. There's no point in being annoyed by it, because that's who he is.
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