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  1. Hairyducked Idiot
    The fact that Jackson and Vitters are having similar seasons is why people are excited about Vitters' improvement and disappointed by Jackson's failures. The two were not remotely comparable coming into the season. As soon as someone shows me a player who struck out this often in the high minors and turned out okay, I'll feel better about Vitters. Michael Saunders is exactly what I'm worried about. He put up decent looking numbers in the minors, but he's got a .282 career OBP in the majors. Jackson is heading down that path, except he's striking out a lot more than Saunders did in the high minors.
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    Jackson with a hit, a walk, and two brettjacksons tonight.
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    Caray was really good when he was younger. I remember when I was a kid and they showed the 1984 division clincher during a rain delay. I couldn't believe the funny old man sounded like a "real announcer" back then.
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    Five pitch at-bat. Fouls off the first four. Love it. OPS: .804
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    Rodrigo Lopez throws to first with the runner already standing on the bag. Rizzo wasn't ready and it gets away. Rizzo charged with the error.
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    Jackson with a 2-strike, opposite-field line drive single, scores from first on a double. I really, really want him to just have it figured it out in the second half and go back to being awesome.
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    It's just hard to imagine a team that needs a cost-controlled starting-quality 2b more than we do, while at the same time having something spare that we need. There's not really any good fit for trades. He's not good enough to warrant a top prospect, and he's too good to send off for B-grade ones.
  8. Hairyducked Idiot
    tranny said we should trade barney for a set-up man GET IT DONE TRADER THEO Then he stays on the Cubs for a few years as a reliever, becoming a dominant setup man. In 2014, the Cubs break through and become competitive. Kerry Wood unretires yet again and the duo avenge 2003 together, with Prior getting the last five outs of the NLCS.
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    You don't think our trading partners would be apprehensive about whether it was a breakout year for Garza or an outlier? They probably would be, but the chance that it was just an outlier is higher now.
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    Not saying it was or wasn't a good decision to wait, and we'll never know what was offered when other than an eventual trade that is accepted, but I kinda wish we'd traded Garza in the spring when he was coming off his best year and had 2 years of team control left. 2 years of team control and a pitcher coming off a 2.95 FIP season would probably net a bit more than 1.5 years of team control and a pitcher in the middle of a 4.04 FIP season.
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    I really wish we'd traded Garza in the spring.
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    Matt Garza would dominate if he could stop giving up home runs.
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    So his new team misses out on two of his starts, and the Cubs get an extra roster spot to use for a few days that they wouldn't have had otherwise. What's in it for his new team? You think the Cubs safeguarding themselves by putting Demp on the DL is going to cause the Dodgers to void the deal? I really doubt him missing one extra start and pushing the his first back a couple days is going to be a huge deal. I mean if you figure the secondary things take a day or two to figure out, then you have all the physicals he's really only going to be on the DL for like 7 or 8 days after he's traded. The secondary things are what PTBNLs are for. If a deal was done all but the secondary things, why don't they just pull the trigger immediately? Why not wait a few days, skip his next start but don't put him on the DL, and then make the trade? How does his new team benefit from this maneuver rather than just making the trade now?
  15. Hairyducked Idiot
    So his new team misses out on two of his starts, and the Cubs get an extra roster spot to use for a few days that they wouldn't have had otherwise. What's in it for his new team?
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    I'm with Kaplan, I think this deal is almost done and they're just discussing how much money the Cubs will have to cover to get the second prospect they want. So if the deal is almost done, and he's fine, why would the Dodgers want him to be DLed, and unavailable to him until July 1?
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    Pretty much kills the chance of the trade happening in the next week or two, though.
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    Thanks for the reports, and it was all good stuff. But those two sentences do not go together :)
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    I think it's going to go on a bit longer. Unless Dempster is going to the Red Sox or something, the meticulous nature of the new regime means it's going to take some time for them to decide what package they like. As fans, we look at the other team's top prospects, pick out the guys who are at positions we need and don't seem like too much to ask for, and call it a trade. I'm imagining the new front office treating this trade deadline like a second draft. Weeks of scouting, video breakdowns, discussion, and asking anyone and everyone who knows these kids about their character and work ethic.
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    I will never wrap my head around how this was ever possible. (ETA - and I'm not getting hung up on the face-value math either) .362/.609/.812
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    I still don't consider that all that great. I guess it depends on which set of scouting reports to believe on Correa. But most years, getting the 5th and 15th best prospects, or however you want to rank those two, is less desirable to me than getting the best one. I'd have rather just had Buxton.
  22. Hairyducked Idiot
    I've used this stat before, but Drew Stubbs struck out 22% of the time at AAA and never more than 25% in the minor leagues. Jackson was at 33% coming into today, though he improved a bit with 4 K-less PAs. Jackson is on pace to be a strikeout-heavier version of Drew Stubbs, which is saying something.
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    Would have been ball four anyway. :) Really seems like he has the ability to not swing at bad pitches. I'm not saying it'll translate into great discipline at higher levels, but it's not something that worries me about him either.
  24. Hairyducked Idiot
    Rizzo's homer was solidly crushed, to a very deep part of the park. Pitched missed up and in, and you just cannot miss there to him right now. Josh Vitters HBP. On base 7 of his last 8 plate appearances. He cannot be stopped.
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    Rizzobomb
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