Hairyducked Idiot
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HAHAHAHAHAA! YES!!!! This is the time when I love MLB.TV for giving me the Milwaukee broadcast.
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He wasn't going to get him anyway, but that was epic clown shoes.
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How was he going to GIDP with first base open? You're on a roll tonight. I coulda sworn I saw Reed Johnson standing on first base. Umm, I'm drunk? That's a thing people do on Friday nights, right?
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Baker got two straight fastballs thrown by him by Randy Wolf. Time to rethink your life, Jeff. Thanks for not GIDPing, though. Castrobomb incoming.
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I stand by it. So help me Jeff Baker just strike out if you are going to GIDP here.
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Matt Garza/Reed Johnson might be the worst possible back-to-back batters you could put together with the current roster.
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Brewers batter walks on a pitch that was both right down the middle and swung at.
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Braun gets a terrible break and practically trips on a ball that should have been an easy catch, then makes it look like some kind of highlight reel play with a dive.
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and replaced by who? Someone useful. My first choice would be Dave Sappelt. But I really don't care.
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I want Reed Johnson off this roster so, so badly.
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Correct. I think that's pretty plausible at this point. Does the contract offer to Dempster have to be multiyear or could they offer him 1/13 and still get compensation? If a 1 yr offer would do get compensation it seems like a no-lose situation for Cubs A one-year deal is sufficient.
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Correct. I think that's pretty plausible at this point.
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This is a great example of a long at-bat that isn't really all that great. He's fouling off bad pitches and good pitches. He ended up hitting the ball hard though, so I guess that shuts me up.
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Wolf is leaving balls up. I want 2 or 3 HRs tonight.
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Defensive positioning really paid off there. Two very hard hit balls right at guys. Seems like he started to get it together toward the end of the Ramirez at-bat, though.
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I've mentioned this before, but I thought the last few years he's been decent going side-to-side and pretty solid at coming in on balls. He's just been pretty awful at anything hit over his head. So one of the first things the Cubs' new regime did is have him play deeper. /obvious It's stuff like that that reassures me when I worry that the competitive advantages of smart management are getting too small to be meaningful.
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For LF he is. There's a lot of ugly stiffs out there around the majors.
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Minor League Discussion & Boxes 5-10-12
Hairyducked Idiot replied to Outshined_One's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
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I stand corrected again. Never let it be said I won't admit my mistakes.
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I thought it was pretty clear from context, but if it was ambiguous, I apologize. I meant he'd be more valuable in left field than Soriano or anyone other organizational LF option.
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Doesn't really matter if he hits well enough. That's a big if, though. It does if they want to improve defensively. Even then to ask a guy who's basically 30 and not very athletic to do that you're increasing his chances of getting hurt. Nothing about this says good idea. Except if he can hit, he's probably providing more value than our current left fielder or anyone else in the organization.
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The Adam Dunn comp was mostly what sold me, actually. I'm a huge nerd for comps. I didn't think there were any examples of hitters succeeding with LaHair's peripherals, mostly because I hadn't bothered to look that hard for them.
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Yes. I am completely and utterly flip-flopping. Opinions are like investment portfolios. You need to stay diversified to maximize your long-term correctness.
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No Shark on the thrilling side? I'm really thinking he's the single biggest story we've got right now. If he's truly learned to keep the same motion consistently, I have no clue what his true ceiling is. He's probably the most athletic pitcher in baseball and if he's gotten his throwing motion down, he could be unreal for us. I knew I was missing something obvious. Samardzija's emergence could be so awesome I'm almost scared to get excited about it. There's hoping for good things and then there's just pure greed.
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Disappointing: Travis Wood, Sappelt Thrilling: Defensive shifts, Baserunning!, LaHair, Stewart, Soriano's defense Watching: Soto, Darwin Barney's defense (it's been really, *really* good this year), Volstad