Hairyducked Idiot
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Holy balls a million times yes. He's due $9.8 million next year.
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Is Marmol good again? That would be nice.
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Minor League Discussion & Boxes 6-26-12
Hairyducked Idiot replied to Outshined_One's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
I agree that DeVoss just doesn't look like much. He reminds me of a worse Bobby Hill: a kid ready to rack up obscene walk rates on bad pitchers but no ability to hit good ones. -
This is what I guess I want at this point: Guys like Rizzo to thrive but the team still loses and gets that sweet No. 1 pick/IFA bonus spot. Randy Wells is getting non-tendered so I don't care if he gives up a ton of runs as usual.
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Because Tom Ricketts is one of those fans who thinks that expensive free agents are why the Cubs are bad, and Epstein is enjoying his time off from the pressure-packed Boston market.
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I don't want to continue some stupid drama where we both accuse each other of pretty much the same things, and I doubt you particularly enjoy it either, so I'll just delete the seven-paragraph reply I had typed out. Everyone else, you're welcome. Anyway, regardless of whether Cespedes counts as "impact" or "notable" or whatever, I fully and completely agree, without reservation, that if a similar player is available in that price range this offseason, the Cubs front office is very likely to be heavily involved and may sign said player. Are there any major international players expected available next offseason? A quick google search doesn't come up with any interesting Japanese guys likely to be posted.
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Stop baiting. The original list was the first five players. I made it my sig as a joke, and began crossing them off because every time the Cubs would fail to sign a free agent, people would say "that's okay, we'll still get the next one." When we struck out this offseason, people began to do the same thing with next year's. It was a rhetorical device.
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He's at the bottom. It's in descending order. By the time you get to the bottom, you aren't in the impact players anymore.
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In the search for what qualifies as an "impact player," let "being offered $6 million/year as a free agent" be a sign that you should look elsewhere. Cespedes was an attempt to bargain hunt, like DeJesus. I can totally see them doing something like that again this offseason. Looking back at that thread, it's interesting that this is his ZIPS projection for 2012: .270 .331 .435 Which looks pretty reasonably close to his actual line so far of: .265 .327 .471
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I'm almost positive I didn't use the phrase "notable FA." I said "impact player." And we all already agreed that Cespedes wasn't an impact player this year. I did say that I thought they'd sign players they thought could be undervalued, and Cespedes falls into that.
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Some people are going to be slightly annoyed when they get off work tonight, log into NSBB and get briefly excited by the possibility of news on this front when they see a 7-page jump in this thread.
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IIRC from the reports, which were actually fairly specific, the Cubs were pretty sure that 6/$36 would get him and were surprised when he took 4/36 without giving them a chance to match or counter.
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This is now Kyle's new thing. It's hysterical how he has, like, 8 different conflicting viewpoints in thread alone. It improves my chances of being able to claim that I was right later. I told you guys Ian Stewart's wrist would cause him to suck, you know.
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I have this crazy notion of judging a front office by what they accomplish and not what they may or may not have tried to do. The "we failed, but we put in a competitive offer" defense? It really is MacPhail 2.0.
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Rizzo called up
Hairyducked Idiot replied to mred's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
I hope you stub your toe really, really hard in the next few hours. -
Cespedes was bargain-hunting for a tradeable asset. He was being offered roughly the same money per year that the Cubs are giving DeJesus. The "competitive offer" on Darvish is a phantom. There were some very vague, unsourced reports, and people have clung to them as if they were gospel.
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I was looking to see if we had a Choi thread I could dig up, but NSBB came into existence just a little too late. We had an epic Choi thread, but lost a portion of the database many moons ago. I wonder if the Tribune website boards have archives anywhere. Buildicans, we must crush the Nowacrats!
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I was looking to see if we had a Choi thread I could dig up, but NSBB came into existence just a little too late.
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No, I was just lazy and came in mid-argument. I saw the usual "We could trade for King Felix and sign Upton!" lines and assumed that's what I was arguing against. I didn't realize someone had posted a fully homegrown lineup.
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The question isn't if they will still suck or not. But rather if they will fill the roster with nothing but homegrown players. I already agreed that of course they won't do that. They didn't fill this year's roster with homegrown players either. I'm arguing they'll do it a lot like they did last offseason: Prospect-for-prospect spots to fill organizational needs, veteran for young, undervalued players when they can, and roster fill with the tiniest scrap of upside to fill whatever spots are left.
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Rizzo called up
Hairyducked Idiot replied to mred's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
That article and the comments are a little depressing. The implication is that some scouts are worried he can't hit advanced velocity. It seems to me like that's exactly the kind of hole AAA, full of marginal MLB veteran arms, would suck at exploiting. -
I didn't realize how much Delmon Young sucks until I looked.
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The burden of proof should probably be on people submitting that the Cubs front office will do something that is different from both what they've said they intend to do and what we've already seen them do. Well, the burden of proof is on reality, and we'll find out in about six months.
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Minor League Discussion & Boxes 6-26-12
Hairyducked Idiot replied to Outshined_One's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
BJ hat trick!