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  1. Hairyducked Idiot
    No doubt. When I look at the Cubs' list, I just can't help but think how bad our organization must have been at development. Then I look at the difference in attitude between Epstein (working hard for every possible little edge) vs. Hendry/MacPhail (just sort of doing whatever they've always done), and it's not hard to see why. I'm really curious what we're going to get out of the guys that Hendry drafted but Epstein and Co. get a chance to develop. That said, the Theo-Era Red Sox only had three top 50 guys one time: 2008. 4. Clay Buchholz 13. Jacoby Ellsbury 40. Lars Anderson 64. Justin Masterson 73. Jed Lowrie 94. Micheal Bowden 96. Ryan Kalish
  2. Hairyducked Idiot
    Having fun perusing this link, Baseball America top-100s since 1990: http://www.baseballamerica.com/today/prospects/rankings/top-100-prospects/all-time.html With all the talk about Soler/Almora/Baez being top-50 next year, here's the other times the Cubs have had (at least) three top-50 guy: 1990 14. Mike Harkey 22. Ty Griffin 44. Earl Cunningham 70. Rick Wilkins 72. Derrick May 2001 2. Corey Patterson 17. Juan Cruz 22. Hee Seop Choi 37. Ben Christiansen 68. Carlos Zambrano 73. Luis Montanez 2002 2. Mark Prior 6. Juan Cruz 40. Hee Seop Choi 45. David Kelton 48. Bobby Hill 68. Nic Jackson 80. Carlos Zambrano
  3. Hairyducked Idiot
    Hmm....why not? Probably because those losses all but take them out of contention, even if they add a SP. Not every team folds up and gives up on entire seasons because it looks like it might be hard. That's just a Cubs thing.
  4. Hairyducked Idiot
    More like Brett Hackson, amirite?
  5. Hairyducked Idiot
    Opposing pitcher has 7 Ks against Iowa, and they are all of Rizzo (2), Jackson (2) or Vitters (3).
  6. Hairyducked Idiot
    Boise replaces Iowa on my audio feed. Dunston, Jr. dishonors his father's memory by leading off with a walk, but gets thrown out at 2b trying to steal.
  7. Hairyducked Idiot
    No one's assuming anything, but the quotes from Epstein today are definitely at least vaguely pointing in that direction. I don't see Adrian Gonzalez on his dream Red Sox lineup.
  8. Hairyducked Idiot
    Red Sox announcers have spent the last three innings whining about the size of the visiting clubhouse.
  9. Hairyducked Idiot
    I mainly hope he has a solid outing today so the Red Sox, Yankees, and Jays will possibly overpay for him. I'm pretty sure you are both saying the exact same thing. Also, how the heck does Demp get a 3B, did one of the outfielders get shot on a blooper or something? Blooper down the line, Gonzalez ran a long way, dove and missed. He's lucky it hit where the wall as some angle and didn't just roll deeper toward the corner or it would have been a HR.
  10. Hairyducked Idiot
    Valbuena with a great example of how sometimes fouling off a bunch of pitches just means you are missing hittable ones.
  11. Hairyducked Idiot
    Castro looked at a beautiful hanging breaking ball for strike 2, then whiffed at one he couldn't come close to reaching for strike 3. Ugly. OBP Watch: .307. Two more bad games from dropping below .300.
  12. Hairyducked Idiot
    i think it's still below average. but i'd like to see him win the starting job out of spring training next year, that would be nice. I'd say it's less than 50/50 he's still in the Cubs organization by next spring. He just screams "extra thrown in to make other team feel better about giving up their best prospects."
  13. Hairyducked Idiot
    1.5 clear of San Diego going into today. Still more like 100 games to go. This season is about to get loooooong.
  14. Hairyducked Idiot
    The reason I want the top pick, or a very high one, at the very least, is so we have extra money to throw at the draft. Instead of getting ONE bigtime player, you could get 3, if you do what Houston did this year. Adding a top 5 guy and 2 more 1st round talents to your system increases your chances dramatically of getting something right in a business where your job is to be less wrong than the next guy. The reason I want the top pick is because in the next year, there's a good chance someone establishes himself as the best amateur prospect available and we get to take him. About half of No. 1 overall picks turn into super-awesome studs, and almost all become MLB contributors if they aren't sore-armed pitchers. The chance to do the MLB equivalent of "trading down" and doing what Houston did is merely a consolation prize if nobody establishes themselves between now and then.
  15. Hairyducked Idiot
    No. 1 picks never bust in the NFL? No. 1 picks in MLB are really, really good bets.
  16. Hairyducked Idiot
    I'm sure somebody already beat me to this on Twitter, but "We'll tweet whatever the [expletive] we want!"
  17. Hairyducked Idiot
    The chances for a top 2 pick are looking better and better each day. Trade deadline will help. I don't see the Padres having too much to sell outside of Headley. Cubs have some epic downside.
  18. Hairyducked Idiot
    Don't feed the morons, reality.
  19. Hairyducked Idiot
    Starlin Castro .736 OPS Darwin Barney .738 OPS
  20. Hairyducked Idiot
    All the various beat reporters are now reporting that "sources" say that Dempster and Epstein talked trade scenarios yesterday, presumably in the grandstand meeting. Wouldn't that be Hoyer's job? I know it's all one big front office conglomeration of brain power, but I still feel kinda bad for him.
  21. Hairyducked Idiot
    He's making up for it defensively.
  22. Hairyducked Idiot
    If the front office is to be believed, they *really* want everyone to get a full year at each level. I doubt there will be too many mid-season promotions.
  23. Hairyducked Idiot
    Hahaha. I love new Darwin Barney. He *just* missed taking Verlander deep.
  24. Hairyducked Idiot
    That wasn't hit any harder than DeJesus's ball. Baseball is stupid. That said, I wonder what's so different between Travis Wood now and two years ago when he was really good.
  25. Hairyducked Idiot
    I'm really sick of the wind this year. It feels like we've lost way more home runs to it than our opponents.
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