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  1. Hairyducked Idiot
    The Cubs need less oops and more OPS. Yes, Barry, you can use that.
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    Eric Yelding (just thinking back to my 1993 or 1994 Sega Genesis baseball game)
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    Paul Assenmacher
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    Jose Cardenal's Slit.
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    It's only being focused on because it's the only part that's being disputed. Boston's homegrown player pipeline has been outstanding in his tenure. He's been able to parlay that into both promotions and trades that have served the major-league team extremely well. We all agree on that so it doesn't get discussed. I think it's worth questioning how well that success will be able to translate to the Cubs. 1) Scouting and development relies on the entire organization more than any other part of a GM's job. And he's not bringing the entire Boston organization with him. Being GM while a ton of great prospects are produced is like being a slugger with a ton of RBIs. It probably means you are doing something right, but it's hard to nail it down more than that without more information 2) He's presumably going to be asked to help the Cubs aim for a quick turnaround via free agency. The farm system looks like it's still a few years away from being able to produce the type of talent that it took for him to make those trades in Boston.
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    Millar, Mueller, Damon, Arroyo, David Wells, Beckett, Scutaro, and a few more relievers like Timlin and Delcarmen. He's also much more active in the trade market than the average GM. Beckett was a trade. Mueller was amazing. Wells was a good pickup. I don't know if I'd consider Scutaro a positive move. Damon was signed the year before Epstein took over. Arroyo was a waiver pickup, but yeah that should probably count as an awesome steal. Millar gave them 2.5 fWAR across three seasons. I'm far too lazy to ever do it, but I'd like to see some sort of sum total of FA dollars spent to value under his tenure. Would it come out better than Hendry's?
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    He's been wrong as much as he's been right so just another journalist speculating. What does the bold part mean That the Cubs see them both staying put or Heyman does? The Cubs see them both seeing put. According to him.
  8. Hairyducked Idiot
    There were the same whispers about Hendry and Soriano, oddly enough.
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    The scouting and development portion of the organization is a bit bigger than the "help the GM sign FAs" department.
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    David Ortiz, Adrian Beltre, J.D. Drew, that Japanese reliever. Any other pitchers? I'm having trouble thinking of their mid-2000s pitching staffs. ETA: They paid through the nose for Curt Schilling, but they got solid value out of him except for one season.
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    How would you characterize the sum total of free agent signings on the 2011 Red Sox? I'm saying that Epstein's FA record is troubling. And unlike the farm system, that's the only part we know for sure was directly his doing. We've had terrible FA signings and a mediocre farm system. We're talking about trying to fix both of those by bringing in a guy who has been terrible at FA signings and keeping the people in charge of the farm system.
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    Of course, he's probably the biggest reason it is one of the best run franchises in sports. Boston is panicking right now, and if the Cubs can take advantage of it, all the better. That Adrian Gonzalez signing really bit him in the ass, didn't it? That was a trade. The question is whether he can repeat Boston's amazing farm system success here. Maybe he can, but I don't know why we're certain he can. The man paid $67 million dollars to the 11 MLB free agents on the 2011 Red Sox, and got Carlos Pena's production in total. That has to be a concern.
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    So one of the best-run franchises in sports decides that maybe they don't want him anymore. His recent FA track record has been abysmal. Full speed ahead!
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    Larger article on the impact of homegrown players on the playoff teams, but a long section comparing the Red Sox and Yankees. The Red Sox have done very well in the draft, but they are getting crushed in free agency. http://www.baseballamerica.com/today/prospects/prospect-pulse/2011/2612417.html
  15. Hairyducked Idiot
    Would they really do a one-game playoff for the second WC spot? That'd be kind of cool, but I wonder if they would go through with it.
  16. Hairyducked Idiot
    Does he hate his kid or something? Moving to Missouri meant my kid never has to deal with this garbage. Unless it starts to look like the Cubs will turn good for awhile.
  17. Hairyducked Idiot
    tl;dr
  18. Hairyducked Idiot
    refresh my memory, what was his pursuit of Crawford like? Excessively enthusiastic considering the prize.
  19. Hairyducked Idiot
    We can pursue Epstein the same way he pursued Crawford.
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    Fangraphs and Baseball-Reference each have him giving back a huge chunk of his offense with poor defense and baserunning (FG has him at -14.3 runs in the field and on the bases). All in all, he was a 3.6 WAR player this year on both sites, and that was his best season in three years. Looks to me like $15 million or so is basically neutral value for him. I could take it or leave it and not be unhappy either way. Replacing him might at least be out best chance to improve our defense and give our poor pitchers a break.
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    I see a lot of little lines on a flattened 2D representation of a 3D situation, and I'm still not sure how the little lines are supposed to mean anything more than just looking at the picture did. It's inconclusive.
  22. Hairyducked Idiot
    Nemesis? It's more like a lover's spat. Where one of the lovers is awesome and the other is a creepy stalker.
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    The reasons go much deeper.
  24. Hairyducked Idiot
    I flipped a coin today. There was a 50% chance it would land heads. There was also a 50% chance it would not land tails. Multiply those together, and it was an amazing 1 in 4 shot that I would flip a heads, but I did! Except what he did wasn't that. It was: a 50% chance you flipped tails and then a 50% chance you flipped tails on the second flip. Also there was a 50% chance I flipped a separate coin heads, and then a 50% chance I'd flip heads again, and a 50% chance I flipped heads again. I only flipped once.
  25. Hairyducked Idiot
    I flipped a coin today. There was a 50% chance it would land heads. There was also a 50% chance it would not land tails. Multiply those together, and it was an amazing 1 in 4 shot that I would flip a heads, but I did!
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