Hairyducked Idiot
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Well now I'm rooting for him to accept the trade so you have to be annoyed by our celebration.
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I'm pretty mad at Dempster, but if the Cubs were getting a lousy trade from Atlanta, I'd be urging him to use his completely reasonable 10-5 rights.
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Enhancement ideas for NSBB
Hairyducked Idiot replied to Tim's topic in North Side Baseball Issues & Suggestions
Proposed board rule: Random twitter posts are not newsworthy. -
http://forums.prosportsdaily.com/showthread.php?p=23070391#post23070391 Total random prediction: Maybe this is where we move Brett Jackson to help get a young pitcher, as we were rumored to want to do last winter.
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Re: Jeff Samardzija is (or was) pretty awesome
Hairyducked Idiot replied to Theo's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Sure, he seemed awesome tonight, but his xFIP for the start was only 4.02. /stupiduseofDIPS -
Stop that. Just no.
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Well that would certainly suck. Would also make the "balancing out the money" side of things more interesting. Maybe we're taking on something a lot bigger?
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Shut up and go to Atlanta, Ryan. Quit being a buzzkill.
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I'm trying to slow down my celebrating until this is confirmed. Just seems like so much of an overpay by the Braves.
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Okay, checklist time. [ ] I wanted Dempster to pick up his option [ ] I expected anything better than a league-average season out of Dempster, at best [ ] I thought in a million years we'd get a top-100 prospect for Ryan Dempster Theo 1, Me 0.
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Occasional complaints aside, it's fun to watch a front office work who knows what they are doing. Delgado is exactly the sort of thing we need, and seeing as how I had no expectations for Dempster going into the year, this is like found money.
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How on earth did we end up five games ahead of the Astros? We should have started the fire sale sooner :(
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Wait, so what you spend in FA is tied to your draft budget now? No. He's saying that they'd lose their first-round pick and the draft pool that goes with it.
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Whoever signs him would forfeit a first-rounder or top-10 second rounder. Would you forfeit a high pick to sign a late-30s Ryan Dempster to a multi-year deal? I think if we offer him arbitration, there's a very good chance he accepts. Edit: Davell beat me to it and said it better.
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That doesn't sound like something I would do.
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I consider "interesting reclamation project" to be a step up from "placeholder," and I don't believe he warrants the former. If they were going to use a placeholder, I really wish they'd put a little more effort and/or resources into it and gotten one who actually was interesting and had some hope. You pointed out his May, his June was shorter and bad. But it doesn't matter because his numbers weren't skewed by anything. They were what they were, all the months counted. Iowa's starting third baseman should be a minor acquisition, Chicago's should not. The fact that we considered our starting third baseman to be of such minor consequence that we wasted MLB playing time on a guy who had virtually no shot at being anything is upsetting.
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Valbuena is also really bad, in case that needed to be said.
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If I say a guy has a 99% chance that he'll suck, and you say 80%, and he sucks, then I'm not going to call scoreboard, obviously. But I think you are incredibly overselling the chance that he'd be serviceable outside of any random 82-PA stretches here and there. It's hard for a hitter to overcome huge contact issues, and it's hard for a hitter to overcome a major wrist injury. Both at the same time? It's pretty close to hopeless. If I could strike one concept from the baseball fans' collective mind these days, it'd be "buy low." I'm so sick of hearing about buy low, as if the secret to finding good ballplayers is to look for people who have sucked recently. Ian Stewart was given a job because he came at practically no cost and the front office, as you said, wanted a placeholder. They took the concept of organizational roster fill and applied it to the majors. That's both an indictment of his abilities and their priorities.
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Can't agree. I wouldn't have cared if they released Tyler Colvin or not, but an MLB starting spot and playing time are more valuable than to waste them on a hopeless retread who has to overcome both severe hitting issues and a wrist injury.
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Minor League Discussion & Boxes 7-21-12
Hairyducked Idiot replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
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It may be a bit optimistic, but it's at least not blind optimism with Theo doing the negotiating for us. And at this point, Dempster is probably far and away the best SP on the market (assuming Garza is out too long to be traded, Hamels really is extended, and teams have shied away from Greinke due to injury). That means if a GM like Ned Colletti gets desperate, the desperation move is made for Dempster. Epstein is a really good talent evaluator, but he is not some kind of magical jedi knight talks other teams into giving up assets they don't want to give up. Epstein's track record gives me faith that whatever prospects he picks out have a better chance than normal of succeeding.
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I can think of worse things than to be stuck with Matt Garza. And if he is out for any period of time, I'm even more glad Theo held out for Zach Lee, because there's a good chance we get him or someone of that quality (i.e. Teheran from Atlanta) for Dempster. I guess nobody knows what the GMs involved are actually thinking, but that seems awfully optimistic.
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Are they still going to do an MRI? If not, I'm satisfied. If they are, then I'd be worried that it's one of those placeholder diagnoses that gets worse as the week goes on.
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Which, as your quotes imply, makes it serious.
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I bet if you got 10 Ian Stewarts they'd all be bad hitters with wrist problems who never should have been given starting jobs on a big-market team.