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  1. Hairyducked Idiot
    Not sure I buy that when the TV contract money is virtually guaranteed to be coming in and we're not spending a dime of it. Yeah, I'll believe it when I see it. Ricketts is way past getting the benefit of the doubt with me on stuff like that.
  2. Hairyducked Idiot
    IIRC, the report was that the custom steel pieces they would need would have a long lag time and need to be ordered more than six months in advance. Like, the actual supports that would hold up the stadium after they re-gut the underneaths.
  3. Hairyducked Idiot
    OK, you've got the land for free. Where's the money for the actual building of the stadium going to come from? That's a $500m-$1b outlay.
  4. Hairyducked Idiot
    There is no plausible combination of events that would cause the Cubs to leave Wrigley Field. You'd need an alternative location that wasn't a total backwater that was also willing to foot the entire cost of a new stadium. No matter how frustrated Ricketts gets, it'd still be better for the bottom-line long term to bite the bullet and pay for the new clubhouse and other renovations out of pocket (just slash another $40m off of payroll or something) without the new signage and other revenue generators.
  5. Hairyducked Idiot
    There was a fun article in one of the SABR journals a few years back about the reverse of that. For some period in the 19th century, the rule was that a ball was fair if it landed fair, without having to pass either base. So some hitters mastered "fair-foul hitting," where they'd try to chop down on the ball and have it hit the ground in front of the plate with backspin, going straight back behind the catcher.
  6. Hairyducked Idiot
    It might as well be a blank card. He can play it if he wants, but it doesn't mean anything because it's as empty a threat as there could possibly be.
  7. Hairyducked Idiot
    So we're 5th in MLB in HRs, we're getting some production from C and 3b, our relief pitching fWAR is 17th. So we basically managed to fix everything from last year and find a whole new set of holes.
  8. Hairyducked Idiot
    *Two* starting pitchers in one day with more than 1 K/inning. I feel spoiled.
  9. Hairyducked Idiot
    i havent looked surely they can't be that ba :shock: Ryan Harvey at 21 in A+ 24.7% K, 5.1% BB Javier Baez at 20 in A+ this year 27.7% , 3.6% The power is insane, the age is great for the leagues he's played in, but everything else has been horrorshow.
  10. Hairyducked Idiot
    Because the first part is meaningless and the second part is OK because his fastball is really good.
  11. Hairyducked Idiot
    Edwin Jackson can start having his ERA move toward his peripherals any day now. It'd be cool with me.
  12. Hairyducked Idiot
    I kind of see how people are superficially seeing a fit between the Cubs and Rays for Price, but I just think the cons outweigh the pros in terms of likelihood of it happening. We're going to pay a huge haul of prospects *and* a massive contract extension for a pitcher who turns 30 during our first "ready to compete" year? Tampa Bay's going to find what it wants in a system that has very little in terms of impact prospects above A-ball (though some of them might have had a small taste of AA by the end of the year)? All for a pitcher who is a 2-win improvement over a guy on Garza's level? Not that two-win improvements aren't important, but it seems like this front office would want to pick up a bunch of the cheaper, less commital improvement options we have available to us. The only way it makes sense for us is if we're trying to turn on the switch and be a 90+ win team in 2014, and I don't see how we're likely to get there even with a Price trade. The only way it makes sense for Tampa Bay is if they *really* like Baez or Soler even more than most people.
  13. Hairyducked Idiot
    Despite the implications of the question, I don't recall ever being outraged by the Kevin Gregg signing. Mostly because at the time he was picked up, I assumed he was just AAA organizational fodder. When he got called up, it was more amusing than anything. He's always had good strikeout stuff. Somehow I'm guessing he didn't suddenly learn command at 35 and will probably go back to being the same old replacement level pitcher he's been for awhile. But it'd be cool if he actually were good.
  14. Hairyducked Idiot
    He's been proving from day one that MWL pitching is no problem for him, the homers were always going to come. It's amazing to actually have some power in the organization all of a sudden. Baez's is attached to some major concerns, Soler's is sort of slow to show up this spring, and Vogelbach's comes with a terrible defensive projection, but power is the rarest commodity in the game these days and it wasn't long ago that we had none of it.
  15. Hairyducked Idiot
    Ransom is still awful, though I'm not complaining that we're getting some small bit out of him for the moment. Gregg would be a fascinating find if he can keep it up. Maybe our FO is finally finding its mojo on cheap pickups.
  16. Hairyducked Idiot
    Torreyes had six more PAs without a K today. I'm fascinated by him.
  17. Hairyducked Idiot
    B&
  18. Hairyducked Idiot
    The Padres are really awful and would be last in almost everything if not for the Marlins. I'm looking forward to another series where we prove that we may not be good, but we don't belong with this bunch. Anything less than 3/4 would be quite disappointing, especially at home with the rotation lined up well.
  19. Hairyducked Idiot
    You shouldn't. Some fans, it seems, have very weird ideas about what sample size means, and they severely underestimate how quickly you can start to find interesting things in the types of data we have available to us these days. "Interesting" meaning some non-zero chance that we're seeing real information and not noise in the statistics.
  20. Hairyducked Idiot
    I mean technically nothing is a bad depth move if all it costs you is an Iowa roster spot, but Chris Nelson is super awful and I want no chance of him appearing on an MLB roster for us at any point.
  21. Hairyducked Idiot
    *applauds*
  22. Hairyducked Idiot
    3rd grade PE pickleball
  23. Hairyducked Idiot
    And another error, is he making an alarming amount? Or is his the typical lower minors amount? Both? It's typical of young SS's, and also typical of young SS's to not make it as SS's.
  24. Hairyducked Idiot
    Baez has a homer already, too.
  25. Hairyducked Idiot
    What does 14-12 project to? Less.
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