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  1. Hairyducked Idiot
    Already been confirmed (Hoyer, I think?) That the Cubs' returning PTBNL is not as good as Kurcz.
  2. Hairyducked Idiot
    Apparently, the PTBNL is Aaron Kurcz. That's not exactly roster-fill, but nothing to be upset about either.
  3. Hairyducked Idiot
    Six prospects cut today and sent to minor league camp. Three of them were relief pitchers with varying degrees of involvement in the "who will be in the bullpen" speculation: Believeau, Gaub, Cabrera.
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    I don't blame Baker for Wood's injuries later. I do blame Baker for Wood having nothing at all in the tank midway through the playoffs.
  6. Hairyducked Idiot
    If Samardzija does make the rotation, how many innings can we expect from him? At what sort of projection? Usually, people lose a bit of stuff in the transition from reliever to starter, but Samardzija has always been difficult to project reliably.
  7. Hairyducked Idiot
    No, it isn't. The point of this entire thread is that the Chicago Cubs have some interesting questions facing them regarding their rotation. Trading Dempster is my preferred solution. There are many other possibilities, including putting some guys in a holding pattern in AAA and seeing what happens. He's acknowledging all the possibilities. If you just hold on to everyone assuming you'll need a sixth and seventh starter later, then you've wasted at least some important MLB development time for some important young pitchers. If you trade someone, you leave yourself thin enough that you are two rotation injuries away from Casey Coleman or Rodrigo Lopez in your rotation.
  8. Hairyducked Idiot
    But it's not binary, "MLB-ready or not MLB-ready" with nothing else mattering. Guys like Volstad, Wood and probably Samardzija have nothing to gain from the minors, but they still have some development to do. Putting them in the major-league rotation maximizes the chance that they realize all that upside. Wasting a chunk of development time asking them to repeat a level they don't need to repeat may not be a tragedy, but it's a waste, especially when the opportunity cost is hoping a 35-year-old Dempster pitches well enough to convince some team to give you a C prospect or two for him.
  9. Hairyducked Idiot
    "Whenever the other team scores a lot of runs, you want to and you can get something to cut the number of runs, it helps momentum purposes." It's spring training for the announcers, too.
  10. Hairyducked Idiot
    Ian Stewart almost homered. But he didn't.
  11. Hairyducked Idiot
    He faced eight batters. Struck out one, walked two, hit one, and allowed four balls in play (three hits and an outfield error by Reed Johnson). If there's any sort of a ST competition going on, Wood has pitched himself out of a spot. I hope that's not the case.
  12. Hairyducked Idiot
    Him? He's going to Bellhorn his way out of the league pretty quickly, so who cares.
  13. Hairyducked Idiot
    Nah. That whole progression of leagues where we move people along levels of ever-increasing difficulty in order to facilitate their development as players? That's pretty much just for show. They all develop the same no matter where we put them. What's *really* important is trying to showcase a 35-year-old pitcher with a $13 million contract to see if we can convince someone to give us a C+ prospect instead of a C prospect at the deadline for him.
  14. Hairyducked Idiot
    Chris Volstad and Travis Wood are not anywhere near the same place on the development curve as Jackson or Szczur. The only reasonable comparison is Sappelt. And yes, I'd like to see a veteran moved to get Sappelt everyday playing time.
  15. Hairyducked Idiot
    High A? How will he build asset value in Daytona? Let's just send him down to Boise. I mean, it's all the same thing, he can work on his approach to hitting and his swing no matter where he plays.
  16. Hairyducked Idiot
    Five spots, almost certainly. I really doubt we only carry 11 pitchers. Catchers Castillo Clevenger Infielders Dewitt Baker Cardenas Outfielders Campana Johnson Sappelt Mather Who I think it will be: Castillo/Dewitt/Baker/Campana/Johnson Who I want it to be: Castillo/Baker/Cardenas/Sappelt/Campana
  17. Hairyducked Idiot
    Maybe we could put Dempster back in the closer's spot if Marmol disappoints.
  18. Hairyducked Idiot
    It's not so much urgency as it just seems a little wasteful. All three of those guys, and maybe even four with Wells, have long-term potential that can be maximized by doing what's best for their development (putting them in the appropriate level of competition). Garza definitely has more potential trade value than Dempster, and I'd say Maholm has a lot more potential trade value as well. Dempster just looks like the obvious odd man out to me. He's a one-year placeholder without a ton of upside at his age.
  19. Hairyducked Idiot
    This isn't fretting. Fretting is my concern that Scott McClain Joe Mather is going to get a roster spot over Sappelt.
  20. Hairyducked Idiot
    I am. Extremely happy. But this isn't worked up. This is posting about baseball on a lame snark baseball forum. We used to do that around here, but I'm still hopeful it could come back. It is three and a half weeks until Opening Day, and the Cubs have seven legitimate starters for five spots. It's pretty sad if NSBB can't muster up a decent thread about that.
  21. Hairyducked Idiot
    It wouldn't be progress either. The chance for all three of those guys to improve by pitching in the majors >>>> anything we get out of Dempster in the rotation. Harly >>>>, maybe >. But the chance for Dempster to improve his trade value during the season would be > all of the above. Disagree. Dempster's trade value is never going to be significant, and he's got just as much of a chance of tanking it as he does of improving it. I'll settle for >>, but I'm not going any lower than that.
  22. Hairyducked Idiot
    It wouldn't be progress either. The chance for all three of those guys to improve by pitching in the majors >>>> anything we get out of Dempster in the rotation.
  23. Hairyducked Idiot
    Respectfully disagree. The quality of hitters definitely matters in terms of how the pitcher develops. If it didn't matter, we could just hole up all our pitchers in extended spring training rather than waste all that time with far-flung farm teams. Completely disrespectfully disagree, with all possible offense intended.
  24. Hairyducked Idiot
    And they don't improve as pitchers. Why can't they improve pitching every 5th day in AAA? You could always go with a 6th man rotation, letting your top 3 stay on normal schedule and tooling around with the other three. Because they are all of an age and ability where they have nothing left to learn from challenging themselves against AAA hitters.
  25. Hairyducked Idiot
    Prediction, discussion, debate, insults, whatever. It just seems odd to me how quiet this place is despite there being somewhat legitimate baseball news going on. We have at least seven potential starters for five slots. David DeJesus is our leadoff hitter. Somehow DeWitt may be playing his way back onto the team. Casey Weathers was released. Heck, I'd settle for some stupid "Hey, let's pretend like spring training stats mean something and hand out roster spots based on them" arguments.
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