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  1. Hairyducked Idiot
    Dempster starts tonight, goes 7 shutout, Cubs win. He's traded tomorrow for the package the Dodgers have had on the table for weeks. Cubs miss out on Cubs finish in three-way tie for No. 1 draft pick, lose tiebreakers, draft third.
  2. Hairyducked Idiot
    If anything, I think we're running a misinformation campaign. It looks to me like the Cubs are trying to pressure a team or two into overpaying. All of a sudden a bunch of other teams are interested, we're flying in emergency starters, etc.
  3. Hairyducked Idiot
    But you can't, so it's silly that his name keeps coming up. We're like Boston fans with the compensation issue.
  4. Hairyducked Idiot
    I feel like Epstein and Hoyer borrowed a trick from Boston's compensation negotiation tactics, and they've just spent the last four days spamming the Dodgers' fax machine with pictures of Lee and Eovaldi.
  5. Hairyducked Idiot
    Pitching is different.
  6. Hairyducked Idiot
    I'm not convinced that sort of time can just be caught up at a later date. We'll see.
  7. Hairyducked Idiot
    He was also a college football player as recently as 18-months ago. I keep saying this, but missing key formative athletic years not playing baseball is not a point in his favor. It is a mark against him, and it shows in his awful swing.
  8. Hairyducked Idiot
    Might get his SLG all the way up to those lofty .400 heights.
  9. Hairyducked Idiot
    Someone is going to take a screenshot on you. Better be careful.
  10. Hairyducked Idiot
    Szczur turns 23 tomorrow, is in A+ and has a .395 SLG.
  11. Hairyducked Idiot
    This may be the first time in board history that a small move actually was a prelude to the next, larger move.
  12. Hairyducked Idiot
    Brett over at Bleacher Report Nation says he has a good source that says a deal is "very close" and speculates that the Cubs are weighing between two offers. I'll bet 8 billion imaginary internet dollars that this gets done tonight.
  13. Hairyducked Idiot
    He's been the biggest reason I've come to accept the futility of projecting MLB stats just from minor league slash lines. Certain types of players and mixes of tools play up better than others. He's basically been the same hitter every step since Peoria.
  14. Hairyducked Idiot
    Pressure to win made Theo do dumb things in Boston and he wants a break.
  15. Hairyducked Idiot
    That's hardly the only thing Jim Callis was wrong about in that paragraph. But if you want to hitch your horse to his wagon, then yee-haw.
  16. Hairyducked Idiot
    Reasoning? He's really good at baseball.
  17. Hairyducked Idiot
    Levine Talked like it was other teams' indecision over who they want that was holding it up. Exactly. If the Cubs want the best possible price, they have to be willing to wait until other teams have to pull the trigger. Right now, teams have nothing to lose by medium-balling the Cubs and waiting for one of the other pitchers on the market.
  18. Hairyducked Idiot
    Does that forfeited pick go into the "teams that didn't exceed their pool" draft?
  19. Hairyducked Idiot
    When a 20 year old in year 3 of DSL guy is doing as well as he has this year, you have to figure if he's going to ever be relevant, he might need to be pushed a bit more agressively. He'd certainly be age appropriate for Peoria. While the power's down since his initial surge, the rest of the numbers are still there. When he's a 20 year old in year 3 of DSL, your best bet is to just assume he's never going to be relevant.
  20. Hairyducked Idiot
    http://www.baseball-reference.com/games/standings.cgi?date=1978-07-19
  21. Hairyducked Idiot
    I think it says they are intent on building a BB-heavy, work-the-count offense, and that Vitters isn't going to fit that despite his improvements in that area.
  22. Hairyducked Idiot
    Oh yay, another pitcher in our system with a terrible K-rate...
  23. Hairyducked Idiot
    I'm going to go ahead and mark Randy Wells down as a non-tender.
  24. Hairyducked Idiot
    Our pitching depresses me a little every single day, it seems. At least Concepcion has been shelved awhile. Vitters with an E already, poor throw in the first pulled 1b off the bag.
  25. Hairyducked Idiot
    There is a slight protection factor. The expectation would be that his BBs would go slightly up and his SLG would go slightly down with no good hitters behind him, but not enough to make a significant difference. I'm not going to say there's no way that Epstein and Co. consider it an important part of his development to be pitched a certain way, but I'm guessing it doesn't make a big difference.
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