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  1. Hairyducked Idiot
    They were also given empty payroll space larger than most teams in the division's entire payroll to try to fix these problems. They get credit for the improvements in the minor leagues. They get the blame for the abysmal state of the MLB roster.
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    So we're back to the point where Theo and Jed mind-controlled the Padres into giving us Rizzo for a completely worthless asset?
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    The statement was silly and absurd in itself. It didn't me to change anything about it. The only things Theo inherited were people who played for the Cubs in 2012, and their 2012 WAR is what they will do in 2013.
  4. Hairyducked Idiot
    You're doing a helluva job, Theo-ie. yes, he's either Randy Smith, or Branch Rickey; that you're framing these two opinions as the only possible conclusions speaks volumes about your inability to reason and use nuance What does the fact that you think playoff teams cost $200 million say about you?
  5. Hairyducked Idiot
    You need a lot of coaches. Think of them like faculty in a college.
  6. Hairyducked Idiot
    So you're a quarter of the way there with 16% of your roster and 3% of your payroll. You're welcome for that start, Jed. I would have settled for 15, so we didn't need the whole 30 again this offseason.
  7. Hairyducked Idiot
    You're doing a helluva job, Theo-ie.
  8. Hairyducked Idiot
    And I think people are grossly and willfully overstating how bad it is in order to justify the new regime's choices. It bottomed out after the Garza trade, but it was on the upswing before Epstein came along. When you've got a lot of roster spots to fill, it's not nearly as hard as you make it sound. 20 WAR for 3 spots? Hard. 20 for 10? Not that.
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    They did a completely, unacceptably terrible job of it last year. We'll see how they do this year. Maholm and DeJesus both provided significant surplus value. Maholm did. I'd say that's pretty debatable on DeJesus. Getting 1.7 WAR out of 150 games of starting outfield is not something desirable, no matter what Fangraphs $/WAR says. Paying $4.5 million for that privilege isn't what I would call "excess value." Their choice of backup OFers, backup infielders, starting 3b, catchers, 5th starter and bullpen pitchers negated all that value and then some.
  10. Hairyducked Idiot
    Sure they do. Not primarily with big-name free agents, sure, but this is where the whole $/WAR analysis has gotten way out of control. It wouldn't have cost $35 million to put out a league average bullpen last year, but our bullpen cost us 7 wins against the average bullpen. It wouldn't have cost us $20 million to find a decent 3b last season, but our 3b was four wins below average. Only if you are really bad at your job. Draft well, develop well. That's all the attention the farm should need. Smart teams don't need to take the course Theo and Jed have to get the farm system into the shape it needs to be.
  11. Hairyducked Idiot
    They did a completely, unacceptably terrible job of it last year. We'll see how they do this year.
  12. Hairyducked Idiot
    go ahead and take a quick gander at our 2010 draft http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/events/draft/y2010/drafttracker.jsp?p=0&s=30&sc=pick_number&so=ascending&st=number&ft=TM&fv=chc yeah, why aren't we steamrolling the NL? So if the 2010 draft had been awesome, then it wouldn't be okay for Epstein and Hoyer to put out terrible teams? Interesting.
  13. Hairyducked Idiot
    Well a big reason there is teams being able to draft and develop impact guys who compile high WAR for low initial costs. The Cubs don't have a whole lot of those, but are trying to get them. Guys like Starlin Castro, Darwin Barney, Jeff Samardzija, Welington Castillo? And that's not the only reason. Smart teams can find marginal wins at much below market race elsewhere, too.
  14. Hairyducked Idiot
    That is literally some of the worst, laziest analysis that I've ever seen on this board. But it fits right into the apologist for the front office mindset. "The only way to find wins is to pay for them on free agent market through marquee signings. Nobody could *ever* find cheap wins on the rest of the roster. That's why it's not their fault that the bullpen was terrible last season or that Joe Mather ended up on the team."
  15. Hairyducked Idiot
    The entire exercise is absurd. If teams really had to pay $5 million for every WAR, then playoff teams should cost $200 million or more. But they don't. Because good front offices can build teams with less than that. If ours can't, then they aren't good.
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    Now take out the players who had no business being on the roster to begin with and all their negative WAR. That's 4 wins, and considering that even the Cardinals had 2 wins worth of negative WAR, I'm not sure that 0 is a reasonable expectation. I didn't mean every negative WAR player. Just the ones they should have known better.
  17. Hairyducked Idiot
    Now take out the players who had no business being on the roster to begin with and all their negative WAR.
  18. Hairyducked Idiot
    **too lazy to look it up question coming** 8th in baseball or 8th in the NL? All of MLB. Fifth in NL behind Phillies, Cardinals, Nats and Brewers.
  19. Hairyducked Idiot
    How about signing a guy like McCarthy and pushing Wood to the pen until one of or both Baker and Feldman are traded? That would seem to be the most efficacious plan. Works for me.
  20. Hairyducked Idiot
    I still wouldn't mind seeing us add one more starting pitcher. Much as I hate to say it, Travis Wood didn't earn himself anything more than trade bait/sixth starter status last year.
  21. Hairyducked Idiot
    Half means partial. Variance includes any outcome whatsoever. This is the world Kyle creates. Mariner's Revenge thinks I am some sort of God who creates worlds.
  22. Hairyducked Idiot
    The irony burns.
  23. Hairyducked Idiot
    Anyway, back to Scott Feldman. In an imaginary world where Garza/Samardzija/Baker/Feldman/Wood each take 1/5th of the starting load, and perform to their 2012 xFIPs (or 2011 in Baker's case), we'd have a 3.81 rotation xFIP, which would have been good for 8th last year. I hate to even say it, but if we're taking the Cameron route, we might need to think about trading Wood and signing one more guy like McCarthy.
  24. Hairyducked Idiot
    It's one offseason plus a partial offseason where we've already made three free agent signings. In this case, "half" is meant in the colloquial sense of "partial."
  25. Hairyducked Idiot
    The organization was, sure. But when the goal is to win the World Series, the state of the MLB roster means more than the rest of the organization combined.
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