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  1. Hairyducked Idiot
    Yeah, I don't get this attitude at all. You know it's a bad move if Lillibridge gets the job. They've hinted that Lillibridge has a very good shot at getting the job. It'd be a pretty much carbon copy decision of the Mather mistake they made last year. What's the threshold for when we can care about a mistake? 0.5 WAR? 1.5 WAR? 5.0 WAR?
  2. Hairyducked Idiot
    I'm open to alternative measures of value that aren't "well, I kinda remember this guy not being very good so I'll assume it's the same thing."
  3. Hairyducked Idiot
    Because they are telegraphing the move pretty hard. He's Sveum's buddy, he's pretty much the only guy in camp who vaguely resembles a utility man besides Valbuena, and they aren't going to use prospects in that role.
  4. Hairyducked Idiot
    I knew he was a bad choice to make the roster, and was making it for bad reasons. That's enough for me. Lillibridge is practically just a remake of the same movie at this point. They weren't my list, and they've all been noticeably and consistently better than Lillibridge.
  5. Hairyducked Idiot
    Yeah, I'm getting pretty tired of the "Well, we'll just trust the front office" argument when there's a pile of evidence that says sometimes they make moves that make the team lose more baseball games.
  6. Hairyducked Idiot
    I may be imagining things, but I could have sworn this came out awhile ago.
  7. Hairyducked Idiot
    A few tenths of a WAR here, a few tenths there, pretty soon you're talking about real baseball.
  8. Hairyducked Idiot
    Some of those players haven't been playing every year since 2008, but otherwise, yes. There's no good reason to be fielding a player who projects as sub-replacement. In this case, the reason seems to fall somewhere in a continuum from "He's Sveum's buddy" to "We just don't care enough to bother."
  9. Hairyducked Idiot
    The Reds had Miguel Cairo. The Cardinals had Daniel Descalo. The Yankees had Jayson Nix. Heck, the A's started Jemille Weeks. Every team has their own Lillibridge. I'm impressed by your ability to be upset by it, though. I'm impressed by your ability to try to just generically lump all those players together, despite them all being much better than Lillibridge. fWAR since 2008: Cairo: 2.2 Weeks: 1.9 Nix: 1.5 Descalso: 1.4 Lillibidrige: -0.9 You listed a bunch of examples of legitimate sixth infielders. Lillibridge isn't that.
  10. Hairyducked Idiot
    I'm already several days past bored with ST.
  11. Hairyducked Idiot
    I don't get this, other than in the generic "we don't need any players at all because we're rebuilding." If he has a small amount of value, then I don't see why a bad team wouldn't benefit from his stolen bases even more because of their lack of SLG. So, you'd keep him on our 25 man roster over Sappelt? You've got Jackson in AAA too, waiting to be called up. Campana has one very nice tool and was squeezed out here. Plenty of value received for a 25th guy that wasn't even a fit to be our 25th guy. No. He has little value to the Cubs on the 25-man roster because we have at least five, and maybe six, better outfielders. That has nothing to do with us being a "rebuilding" team.
  12. Hairyducked Idiot
    I don't get this, other than in the generic "we don't need any players at all because we're rebuilding." If he has a small amount of value, then I don't see why a bad team wouldn't benefit from his stolen bases even more because of their lack of SLG.
  13. Hairyducked Idiot
    Yes.
  14. Hairyducked Idiot
    Heard that one before.
  15. Hairyducked Idiot
    It may be that they ARE unsustainable if you're also spending money on the other things the Cubs are currently investing in. Maybe, but I'm just leaning toward a meaningless buzzword that Ricketts is using to try to spin things the way he wants them spun.
  16. Hairyducked Idiot
    I'm not getting worked up over a 25th man. Hell, Lillibridge was solid himself in 2011. I can get worked up enough for all of us. He was completely awful all his other years.
  17. Hairyducked Idiot
    I really can't believe we're going to Mather the sixth infielder role to Lillibridge and just throw away a win or so. Just silly.
  18. Hairyducked Idiot
    Let's do this.
  19. Hairyducked Idiot
    Yeah, but I'm focusing on the "fun to fantasize" part. A legit starting outfielder in pre-arb would make a huge difference in the franchise's medium-term prognosis.
  20. Hairyducked Idiot
    By boring everyone else into submission. No reason for you to give away your strategies. That reminds me of an incident at a chess tournament a few years ago. Would you like to hear about it?
  21. Hairyducked Idiot
    By boring everyone else into submission.
  22. Hairyducked Idiot
    Which begs the question, if you have to pick one for virtually the same contract, who would you choose to sign? Jackson. As badly as the Cubs needed an OFer, they needed starting pitching more.
  23. Hairyducked Idiot
    Bleachernation listed some of the highlights. PECOTA apparently doesn't like Samardzija at all.
  24. Hairyducked Idiot
    There's more than just the cable deals putting inflationary pressure on salaries. The new CBA also funneled a lot of money into the majors that used to go to amateur players.
  25. Hairyducked Idiot
    It seems like his athleticism is sometimes described on a curve. As in, for a guy who looks like he is the worst athlete in the minors, he's actually only really really bad. I've read his range at first described as "fall down," as in he can only reach balls that he could fall down to grab.
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