Hairyducked Idiot
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Not trying to rag on you because you take a different but valid approach, but I don't see the Fuld comp. Fuld was a .285 .372 .405 .777 hitter in the minors, and was pretty much that exact hitter every step of the way. Sappelt has been a .309 .362 .459 .821 hitter in the minors, and those are actually dragged down a bit by his low minors struggles. He's been an .875 or so OPS hitter in AA and AAA. Fuld was a guy whose ceiling was an okay reserve outfielder. Sappelt looks to me like that's his floor with an upside of an adequate/mediocre starter.
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Assuming this really is the official Twitter of the Reds, we have formal confirmation: https://twitter.com/#!/Reds #Reds acquire LHP Sean Marshall from Cubs for LHP Travis Wood, OF Dave Sappelt and minor league IF Ronald Torreyes.
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It just occurred to me that the only person reporting this is Keith Law. If he's just trolling us and it goes back to Coddington or whatever, I'm declaring Jihad on him.
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Wait, Sappelt played *CF* in the minors??? I assumed he was a corner outfielder. This just keeps getting better.
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So One year of a really great relief pitcher for A 25-year-old starting pitcher with one year of service time, a career 92 FIP- and no health concerns A 24-year-old outfielder who is right on the borderline between being a starter and a good fourth outfielder An 18-year-old prospects who projects to stay at 2b with plus defense who just hit .356 .398 .457 in the Midwest League. If this is what rebuilding looks like, sign me up.
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Sappelt has to be breaking camp with the team, imo. He and Reed Johnson make up the reserve outfielders.
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And here we go. Thanks, Redszone.com
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Yeah, those are definitely not roster fill. This is officially a traderape. Nice job, Jed.
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Johnson's signing is so miniscule and inconsequential in the grand scheme of the upcoming rebuild. It's the attitude behind it. This FO has been billed as the guys who work harder than anyone else to find every little edge they can. It's hard to square that with shrugging their shoulders, giving up on 2012 and just signing the 4th OFer who has been hanging around the longest, even though there were almost certainly better options for the spot at the same price.
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If we're going to suck next year, don't start the service time clock on guys who can still benefit from time in the minors.
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Soriano/Byrd/DeJesus (Sappelt, Johnson) Stewart/Castro/Barney/LaHair (Baker, Dewitt) Soto (Castillo) Garza/Dempster/Zambrano/Wood/Wells Marmol/Wood?/Samardzija/Cashner/Russell/Castillo/Corpas Okay, that offense is a gaping hole of suck, but the pitching has some real upside and could be a strength. We have two doubled names right now. I wonder what the record for that is.
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The Cubs were trying to win now so hard they made really bad draft picks for a long time.
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Dempster/Zambrano/Wood/Wells/Samardzija It's funny seeing Wood in there and not have it mean Kerry.
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If we needed some upper-level middle infield prospect, I heard a couple of them went in the Rule V.
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Meh. I don't hate it.
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Gio to Nationals
Hairyducked Idiot replied to Cubs Fan Dan's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
Yep. Theo is a bad, bad man Nailed it. More Travis Wood, less Reed Johnson plz. -
My first reaction was "Oh, hey, there's the Theo I wanted."
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The latest Darvish rumors (i.e. made-up stuff from reporters) is that the Cubs' $20-millionish bid was more in line with everyone but Texas's.
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Basically, Wood is Randy Wells if Wells were six years younger, earlier in his service time clock, left-handed, threw a little harder, struck out more batters and didn't have a horrible 2011 on his resume.
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Joe Saunders: 4.78 FIP 2011, 4.65 career Travis Wood: 4.01 FIP in 2011, 3.75 career I was looking at standard ERA, the same way an arbiter would. If Joe Saunders had the ability to maintain his 2011 ERA, then he wouldn't have been non-tendered and he'd be *way* better than Paul Maholm or Jason Marquis.
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Joe Saunders: 4.78 FIP 2011, 4.65 career Travis Wood: 4.01 FIP in 2011, 3.75 career
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:-k Doesn't "market" pretty much mean "the same as a similar guy who's available as an FA"? Anyway, he won't. He'll be paid less than a similar guy available as an FA.
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You missed the part where one of the players is Travis Wood and one of them is Matt Garza. The last two years won't be as cheap as getting a $10 million starting pitcher for $500k or less, but they'll still be cheap.
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Just for fun, without looking, try to rank the current five Cubs starting pitching in order of career FIP. Go. Answers:
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And going up. Wood isn't going to be making anything close to that in his final two arbitration years. Unless he sucks he will. The common assumption for Matt Garza in this, his next-to-last arbitration year, is about $8 million.