Hairyducked Idiot
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The standard for LF awfulness is Adam Dunn, who both fangraphs and BR have at about -15 runs per year in left. In order to balance that out and be an average player, he needs to have about a .340 wOBA over a full season. If that Fangraphs article is right, he'll clear that with room to spare.
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Between this and the Adam Dunn comp, I'm non-sarcastically sold on LaHair. I think I even kinda want him in left when Rizzo comes up.
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2 out of 3 from two first place teams in a row. :yahoo: Seriously, this team is getting back to .500 by late July.
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This is going to be a great challenge for Dolis. If he gets this, this is not your ordinary save.
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What kind of odds would you want before you'd bet on the Cubs making it to .500 at any point this season? I think I'd take it at 2:1.
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Don't give me that ole crap, Stewart.
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Was he not interested in baseball or just boring as all hell? Not very well-spoken. Waiting for him to answer a question resulted in a lot of dead air.
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Whoever that football player in the booth was, Len and Bob just gave up trying to talk to him.
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Fearing Ian Stewart is just common sense. You are already down one, no need to make it three.
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Bryan LaHair's BABIP was below .500, I think. The universe would not let that stand!
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LaHair tracked that fly ball like a boss. Has anybody thought about maybe moving him to left when Rizzo comes up?
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Hey, did you guys see that ground ball out in this game?
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Line drive down the right field line. OFer dove for it and missed, it went all the way to the wall. Castro was sent home and out pretty easily. With two outs, they were basically gambling on a bad throw and didn't get it.
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I'll almost never criticize for sending a guy to home with two outs, but that was pretty frustrating.
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Garza possibly too.
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I wonder why it took Maholm a few games to get going. He looks so good right now. It wasn't just randomness, he really had problems with his command at first. Trying to watch this and the US Chess championships at the same time. I'm hoping Epstein turns out to be more Kasparov than Fischer. Starlin Castro is clearly Capablanca (Brilliant but flawed, though the flaws can be overlooked because of his age).
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Castro looked good fielding that first ball in the third inning. Deliberately stopped and set himself for a throw that he could have easily botched.
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15 MPH straight in. Probably saved Maholm there, though maybe Campana gets to it anyway.
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Yay for the wind.
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I basically agree. I doubt anyone's going to give you a franchise-changing prospect for Dempster, and we're all full up on borderline guys. If someone offers you something awesome, trade him if he lets you. But if he keeps having a good year, I don't think offering him the minimum deal to get compensation (1 year/$12.5?) sounds all that crazybuckets.
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Over.
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This has been one of my favorite parts of the new regime. I always thought that Soriano was pretty good at coming in on balls and adequate side-to-side. He just really seemed to have trouble going back on balls. So Sveum comes in and just tells him to play deeper. :good:
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In my continuing quest to hold all the opinions and thus guarantee that I'm right in the long run, here's a comp I find very encouraging: (all stats from B-R) Bryan LaHair, age 28 and 29: 338/432/662 28.4% K-rate 14.8% BB-rate 18.5% HR-rate 0.60 GB/FB 20% LD Adam Dunn, age 28-30 255/380/526 27.5% K-rate 16.0% BB-rate 19.0% HR/FB 0.51 GB/FB 20% LD
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Well, if ZIPS said it, it must be true. I actually meant league-average for a 1b. I'm sure he can maintain the league average overall. I'm a lot more willing to accept the possibility that he's an Adam Dunn type than I was going into the season, but it's still all coming from a .500 BABIP and a 37.4% HR/FB ratio.
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Tomorrow I'm going to threadjack to Harry Potter.