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  1. Hairyducked Idiot
    5% of our respective credibilities
  2. Hairyducked Idiot
    Long story short: We fielded a lot of players who had no business being in the major leagues last year, and they cost us at least a dozen games. And we were a bit unlucky in terms of run differential vs. record.
  3. Hairyducked Idiot
    Is it his half a win in almost 150 games last year that intrigues you? I'm guessing it's the 25 HRs and history of playing 3b. And despite that he was, like, really bad. Even if that's true, that still would make him a major upgrade over what we have now at 3b. I'm not saying we must have him, but I think there's a little more to it than glancing as his fWAR and calling it a day.
  4. Hairyducked Idiot
    Is it his half a win in almost 150 games last year that intrigues you? I'm guessing it's the 25 HRs and history of playing 3b.
  5. Hairyducked Idiot
    The roster situation is starting to get a little crowded. We're at 41, we still need an MLB backup middle infielder at the bare minimum. We probably should be looking at another RP and a right-handed-hitting reserve OFer as well. And I think there's still hope for maybe another SP and RP. The cuts are starting to get a little harder to make. I'm assuming Concepcion isn't getting DFA'd anytime soon, so the first three off would be Campana, Rusin and Raley. Maybe a reliever like Dolis or Beliveau?
  6. Hairyducked Idiot
    All of them. I'm not projecting injuries. I will gladly wager that Ian Stewart will have more than 0 WAR in 162 games. Hell, make it 150. Wager accepted. If he does it, it'd be his first positive rate in three years.
  7. Hairyducked Idiot
    All of them. I'm not projecting injuries.
  8. Hairyducked Idiot
    But the simple difference remains: Everything about Rizzo's minor league performance said "Major league hitter," then he had a small-sample blip in the opposite direction. Something very prevalent in Jackson's minor league performance screamed "this guy can't hit advanced pitching," then he had a small-sample showing the same thing in the extreme. Maybe Jackson can make an adjustment, but the Rizzo comparison doesn't seem to fly.
  9. Hairyducked Idiot
    Valbuena had better peripherals last season, is better defensively, has two good wrists, is cheaper, and is under more team control.
  10. Hairyducked Idiot
    Updated for most recent events. We pretty much have a 25-man roster if we want it at this point: Soriano(2.5)/DeJesus(1.0)/Schierholtz(1.0) (Sappelt/Campana) (1.0) Stewart(0.0)/Castro (4.0)/Barney(2.0)/Rizzo(4.0) (Valbuena/Clevenger)(0.5) Castillo(1.0) (Navarro)(0.0) Garza(2.0)/Samardzija(2.5)/Baker(1.5)/Feldman(1.0)/Wood(1.0) Marmol/Fujikawa/Camp/Russell/Dolis/Belivaeu/Rondon (3.0) Projection: 79.5 wins
  11. Hairyducked Idiot
    So you knew the answer.
  12. Hairyducked Idiot
    I've responded to two, I think. The rest are responses to responses. It's called a "conversation."
  13. Hairyducked Idiot
    Only if we cut him in camp, which we won't, especially considering Wittenmeyer said we don't plan on bringing in anything more than a RH backup.
  14. Hairyducked Idiot
    That always seems to be a moving target that conveniently is set at whenever he stops hitting. If we're going that route, I want to remind everyone that he reported his wrist wasn't bothering him until late July of 2011, but he was hitting awful for all of 2011, so there's still that fly in the ointment. He's not bad because he's hurt. He's bad *and* hurt.
  15. Hairyducked Idiot
    That stopped being true before the wrist injury, though I understand why many people checked out by then and don't remember it that way.
  16. Hairyducked Idiot
    Down to 79 now.
  17. Hairyducked Idiot
    Your passion is comforting, Jo. It's also useless.
  18. Hairyducked Idiot
    Yeah, because when we had this *exact* argument last year, Ian Stewart went on to a 20 HR, 2.5 WAR season at 3b with a perfectly healthy wrist. I'm so wrong all the time. I'm sure they did find something different this time. So where does that leave us? With a guy who hasn't hit in years rehabbing a wrist with recent nerve damage and surgery. That's a *great* bet. And Wittenmeyer says the Cubs confirm he will be the starter going into the year. No competition. :banghead:
  19. Hairyducked Idiot
    Because hitting a professionally pitched baseball is just that easy. Anyone can do it once they make an adjustment.
  20. Hairyducked Idiot
    Well of course that's what they say now. When an oft-injured athlete finds some foolish team to give him yet another chance, they always find some reason to believe "This time, it will be different!"
  21. Hairyducked Idiot
    The situations are not really comparable. How are they not? When Rizzo was in AAA, he was mashing the living hell out of everything. When Jackson was in AAA, he had a flashing red light warning indication that he was having trouble with advanced pitching.
  22. Hairyducked Idiot
    No wait, he had wrist surgery in 2010.
  23. Hairyducked Idiot
    I'd rather dig up Ron Santo's corpse, put a tape recorder around his neck playing Dave Kaplan shouting racial slurs at Starlin Castro playing on a loop, and plant his good foot in the ground five feet away from 3b, than give Ian Stewart $2 million guaranteed. A little less.
  24. Hairyducked Idiot
    I'm happy. He plays above average D and if he finally healthy, he can hit. Good patience too. The wrist that has been derailing his career since 2005 is *definitely* healed this time, unlike all the other times he thought it was healed. At least the surgery offers some hope. Had he gone that route before? I think he might have had surgery on the original injury in 2005, but that's it iirc. Of course, the fact that it's a rehabbing from surgery wrist doesn't really make me feel any better about it.
  25. Hairyducked Idiot
    It's not even a minor league deal? I need to go to the ... other thread.
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