Hairyducked Idiot
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Agreed. I'll be glad to get angsty over premium talents. But this guy's deal is that he might be an okay lefthanded starter and he might not be. Not exactly someone I'm going to bash them for not getting. Until I feel like bashing them later.
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So we didn't really mean the whole "control the strike zone" mantra.
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That seems like way, way too much. It's not good strategy to be paying so much that it's only OK if he hits his best case scenario.
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Multiple sources confirming Cubs did bid.
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2013 Mock Offseason Thread
Hairyducked Idiot replied to davell's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
Maicer Izturis signs with the Blue Jays for 3/$9 plus a club option year at the end. I'd seen his name come up as a possibility for the Cubs in a few speculations. -
BA, BP, etc. Cubs Top Prospects List
Hairyducked Idiot replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
BP and Fangraphs both had Panigua and Maples switched from where I expected to see each. -
Assuming we're terrible in 2013 and are dealing pieecs, that's what I'm thinking. If he gets off 50 good innings where the ERA matches the peripherals, that's got to be the definition of a sell-high opportunity.
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BA, BP, etc. Cubs Top Prospects List
Hairyducked Idiot replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
More awesome stuff. Baez: Lunatic with a weapon. Holy ish yes. That was the first thing I noticed, too. -
2013 Mock Offseason Thread
Hairyducked Idiot replied to davell's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
I would love to have Hellickson, but that not having enough chips is just a stupid comment. It's Tampa Bay. They'll ask for the world. -
if an OF robs a HR, did the pitcher do a good job against that hitter? Depends. Was it a 330 foot fly ball down the line or a 401 footer to dead center? If the pitcher hangs a slider right down the middle, and the batter misses it for strike three, did the pitcher do a good job?
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Before the polio vaccine, cases of polio popped up every year. Since the polio vaccine, cases of polio pop up every year. See what I did there? I do. I'm not sure why you did it or what sort of point you felt like you were making, but I see it.
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So before he fixed his mechanics, he had arm problems every year. After he fixed his mechanics, he had arm problems every year.
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Harden's 12 starts for the Cubs in '08 generated more bWAR than McCarthy's entire '11 lol at bWAR It's much better than fWAR at describing what happened.
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And 2011. And 2010. And 2009. And 2008. And 2007. And like Harden, iirc, most of the problems are in the shoulder.
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Fun to think about in your rotation, but completely incapable of making it through a season without an arm problem.
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Agreed. McCarthy is a funny guy on twitter and stuff, but on the mound he's just a worse version of Rich Harden.
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It will be in August when Wood is the only healthy/non-traded one. So the Cubs are trading Shark now? Or hurt. One of the two by August.
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It will be in August when Wood is the only healthy/non-traded one.
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I keep clicking on it hoping to find something worth looking at, but none of it is seaworthy.
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We can't have a $120 million payroll because we might misspend it and have it act like an effective $80 million payroll for a few years. To avoid that fate, we're going to have an $80 million payroll for a few years.
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2013 Mock Offseason Thread
Hairyducked Idiot replied to davell's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
We don't want any long-term pieces. We want to float along until the front office's Golden Generation is ready. -
He's already an FA. The Angels declined to pick up his option. He had a $15.5 million team option for this coming year, and a $3.5 million buyout if the declined it. The idea was that if anyone wanted Haren on 1/$12, the Angels would send the $3.5 million they'd have to pay in the buyout anyway, and get some sort of trade value in return instead of nothing. Since the deal fell apart and nobody else made a trade for him, we can probably assume that Haren gets a worse deal than 1/$12.
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Obviously no one knows for sure, but the reports seem to be coalescing around there being a deal in place but the Cubs pulled out before it was finalized, probably because they didn't like something in Haren's medical records. But can't you see his medical records before a deal if seriously discussed? It's not like he got a physical between the twitter rumors and the actual collapse. I have no idea. I always imagined that the teams just talk about player health until the deal is pretty close, then at the last minute begin to exchange formal medical histories. The alternative explanation some have floated is that the Angels at the last minute tried to extract an extra player out of the Cubs, possibly Brett Jackson, and the Cubs were so annoyed they flipped the bird and nixed the whole deal.
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Obviously no one knows for sure, but the reports seem to be coalescing around there being a deal in place but the Cubs pulled out before it was finalized, probably because they didn't like something in Haren's medical records.
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This kind of stuff happens to other teams all the time, too, we just don't pay as much attention to them. The fact that the Angels were unable to find a single team to take Haren at effectively 1/12 is pretty telling that the Cubs did nothing wrong here.