Hairyducked Idiot
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David DeJesus was kinda cool. I like him.
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He seems to have a lot more faith in his own eyes than just saying "he listens to his scouts." He sees himself as a scout, imo.
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Wait, he gets a 40-man roster spot? Okay, now I'm a little annoyed. (Note: Not furious, not vitriolic, not hysterical. Just a tiny, tiny bit annoyed).
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Maybe I'm alone on this, but I pictured that as "stathead who doesn't mind listening to scouts on low-minors prospects" and such. It's turned out to be more like "scout who applies scientific rigor to scouting and also respects the results of sabermetrics."
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Wow, that is a HUGE logical leap. You based that conclusion on one quote? That came from guys who haven't been direct with the media since they got here? I added some bold to the original post to help clarify this for you. This isn't some isolated pulled quote. This is how they *always* talk about players. Epstein came here with a reputation for being a stathead. The reality is a lot more interesting than that, and I don't mean interesting in a bad way.
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As long as he's not being installed as the starting 1b, we're good.
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My non-baseball response spoilered because nobody should really care about this stuff: Here are some of the quotes from Hoyer about Stewart: http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20111208&content_id=26134136&vkey=news_chc&c_id=chc&partnerId=rss_chc The longer Epstein and Co. have been here, the more intriguing this sort of thing becomes. This isn't the (heavily exaggerated by Michael Lewis) mythical Moneyball Billy Beane. This is a much smarter version of Andy MacPhail and Jim Hendry. Presumably, the extra intelligence will make all the difference. But their emphasis on scouting at the MLB level appears to be a lot bigger than (at least I) assumed.
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Yeah, because those are out there all the time. Teams aren't willing to trade players they don't want to pay bigger arbitration dollars to? We've seen mentions of Shields, Upton, Nolasco, Danks, Floyd, Gio Gonzalez, even Joey Votto possibly being on the trade market. Based on the rumored asking price of Danks and the reported offers for Gio, I don't think we have enough to get any of those players, except for Nolasco. Keep in mind we'll have a lot more after we dump Garza himself. We'll have to make a Garza trade in order to make another Garza trade.
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The Cubs are installing a starting 3b coming off a .450 OPS season who couldn't stick on the Colorado Rockies MLB roster. Of course it's going to be ridiculous. (assuming you meant in baseball terms and not all the stupid, non-baseball threadjacks people are attempting).
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How happy were you when the Cubs got Dusty Baker?
Hairyducked Idiot replied to Banedon's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
I was very concerned with his veteran-loving attitude, and I hated the argument that he was a "winner" because he was getting winner credit for a lot of teams that choked. -
Going from the end of the World Series to p&c reporting is 108 days. We are on day 42, so the offseason is 39% gone. The midpoint will be Dec. 21.
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Seriously. It feels like everyone in the league got rich all of a sudden and now our $135 million payroll makes us mid-market. I'd go up to 6/150 for Fielder, and I don't understand why that makes me a cheapskate, but apparently it does.
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A big market team that is in on talks for big market moves but only makes small market moves is operating in small market mode until they actually make a big market move. Okay, I'm going to get torched for this, but so be it. I think the Cubs are still serious about Fielder. I'm less convinced about their seriousness about Darvish, though I want him quite a bit. That posting fee is just a problem. But okay, devil's advocate. For a year or so now, we've been dealing with reports and speculation from stupid people in the medai that said that the Cubs would/should punt on 2012 and maybe even 2013, lower payroll and "rebuild." In some bizzaro universe where that was actually what was happening, what would that look like? Signing a poor man's Fukudome for RF? Take a lottery ticket to start at 3b? Actively shop Garza for prospects? Make offers to big-name free agents that we know they won't take? Talk a lot to Cubs fans about patience?
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If we fill out the rest of the roster right now with scrubs, I think that gets us to like $110 million (assuming the Pena deferral counts against this year, as reported). We'd probably spend another $8 million in one-year deals for some pointless vets. So I'd say $118 million.
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The current plan is for Stewart to be the starting 3b. That's my big problem. If he's a backup/platoon guy, I don't love him, but it's close enough that I don't care. The LH 3B options are DeWitt and Flaherty, so Stewart is an upgrade there. So your worry is that if Stewart is awful against LHP that we'll continue to send him out there instead of Baker? I'm not convinced Stewart is an upgrade over Dewitt vs. righties. .254 .318 .373 .692 With Dodger Stadium as the home park for half of that. .240 .324 .435 .759 With Coors Field as the home park. Throw in that UZR like's Dewitt's defense a bit better, and it's close. And that's if we ignore the very real possibility that Stewart's power won't be coming back after the wrist injury. Seeing as how DeWitt is about $2 million cheaper, I think I prefer him to Stewart for the platoon that isn't happening.
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He throws really hard. If he ever learns even a smidge of command, he could be a great reliever. Basically, he's a scouting-based reclamation project. The Cubs think they can fix his mechanics or something.
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I'm not against going cheap at 3b to save money elsewhere. I'm highly for it. I just think Ian Stewart is a really bad way to do that.
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The current plan is for Stewart to be the starting 3b. That's my big problem. If he's a backup/platoon guy, I don't love him, but it's close enough that I don't care.
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It is not only not a guarantee, I don't think it is even likely. Than Flaherty? He has all the problems you have with Stewart, except he had them at AAA. He's also 1 year younger than Stewart. Than the general idea of a platoon based around Baker and internal options.
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Two reasons: 1) Guys with his K percentages are known to have career-ending collapses after a few brief years of adequacy. See Bellhorn, Mark. 2) Significant wrist injuries are known to have lingering effects on batters the next year. And since I wasn't all that impressed with his 2008-2010, I don't see the upside.
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Because people keep disagreeing, and I like talking about baseball on a site where people talk about baseball.
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Out of curiosity, what's the story on Casey Blake? Is he hurt or something? Because a casual glance at his fangraphs page makes him look pretty appealing.
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It is not only not a guarantee, I don't think it is even likely.
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What are you talking about? Castro is awesome. I'm expecting a big leap forward in 2012 from him.
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The funny part of this post is that you tried to make the worst-case batting line absurdly low, and it's still higher than his actual OPS from 2011. The media douches right now are focused on the trade itself, the relative value of the various players. Eventually, it's going to set in that the 2012 starting 3b for the Chicago Cubs is a guy who couldn't even hold a roster spot on the 73-89 2011 Rockies.