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  1. Bull
    :shock: Poor reads, poor first step, terrible lateral acceleration, no vertical leap... I think it'd be one of the worst defensive shortstop contributions we've seen in quite a long time. :lol: Yeah, but can he pick up a grounder at his feet? [/2003_NLCS_pain...please]
  2. Bull
    While I was drunk from a combination of Zima and O'Douls, I found those WMD that Bush lost. You mean the WMDs the media says weren't there but were found in small quantities?
  3. Bull
    The amount in that article has been changed from what it stated when it was originally posted. It has? Every other article I can find on the Marquis signing has him at 3/21. Sun-Times DailyHerald DailySouthtown What am I missing? Cubs.com originally reported it 3/20. When the Suntimes article came out 3/21, cubs.com changed theirs to 3/21.
  4. Bull
    I think the sox are avoiding big ticket items in this extreme market swing, an cashing in with their overrated cheap pitchers.
  5. Bull
    Salas puttin up good winter numbers...kid has me intrigued.
  6. Bull
    His agent is involved in Riske management.
  7. Bull
    :shock: Two new mouths to feed for ya? :wink: ummm *nervous laugh* ...no
  8. Bull
    I think Hendry included a "no givesy-backsy" clause in that trade. aha nice
  9. Bull
    Any chance Patterson is PTBNL from Baltimore? j/k
  10. Bull
    I'm very against Murton having to share time with Floyd, and I'm not a big Jones fan, but how can you say that the projected 07 outfield would be worse than 06 and especially 05? 05 was probably the peak of crappiness followed closely by 06, but Murton, Jones, Soriano wouldnt be a bad outfield. That's what I was thinking when I saw that 5 year outfield. The big bats of Sosa and Alou weren't replaced immediately, and so the outfield declined all the way till 2005. 2006 was a much better outfield (because 2005's outfield was so miserable rather than the great quality of 2006), and 2007 should be again a better outfield than 2006. Makes you appreciate how great Sosa was. Put Sosa's 2003 numbers into any of those outfields and they all of the sudden become something between respectable and great.
  11. Bull
    Is the consensus that Murton getting less than 450 PAs is bad over is good? If not, what's your number?
  12. Bull
    I'd have to think that if Marquis really underachieved he could put up somewhere in the neighborhood of a 6.02 ERA...but that's just a number I pulled out of the air. No statistical analysis to back it up.
  13. Bull
    Pregnant wife and secretary are due on consecutive days. I survive pregnancy anger at home and at the office...every day!
  14. Bull
    With very little research I see Salas turned 24 in Daytona last year. What is the rest of the story on him? Does he project to be on the fast track? Any future with the big club? These numbers aren't too far off of his performance last year.
  15. Bull
    It might be better to look at rates and averages rather than BB totals as there are more PA in the early innings. Yeah, the 3rd and 6th are statistically his worst innings. 1st is pretty much middle of the road. Even rate stats don't tell the whole story when comparing innings. If he had a bad day he wouldn't be pitching in the seventh inning, so it would skew his first-third inning stats. Add to it that he'd pitch differently knowing he's only counted on for one inning, and first inning starting stats mean very little when seeing how he'd do as a reliever.
  16. Bull
    Then according to Chris Carpenter's "past performances", http://www.baseball-reference.com/c/carpech01.shtml he would had continue to be a talented, but crappy pitchers. "Past performances" is not the best predictor, because doesn't take into account different variables. It's a definition. You cannot predict by things that have not happened yet. I think what you mean is that there are things beyond stats that can be used to predict, but those are most assuredly still past performance. There is quite literally nothing aside from past performance and wholely irrational beliefs that can be used to predict future performance upside? tools? makeup?
  17. Bull
    Bruce: surely a slip. Lilly's a lefty
  18. Bull
    Marquis's main value is durability. He's a 28 year old who has made 30+ starts and 190+ innings in each of the past three seasons, with a career ERA+ of 94. To compare: - 28 year old Gil Meche has a career ERA+ of 96, has never reached 190 innings (he did hit 186 innings twice), and receives 5/55 - 29 year old Adam Eaton has a career ERA+ of 92, has reached 190 innings once, and receives 3/25. - 30 year old Ted Lilly has a career ERA+ of 99, has reached 190 innings once in the past three years, and receives 4/40. Seems in line with the overall market for starters, inflated as it may be. It seems that Hendry had a focus of going after durable starting pitchers this offseason. This has to be a reflection that, aside from Hill, he no longer trusts the farm system to produce quality starting pitching like it did during the late-90s/early-00s. It's hard to disagree with this general track: it's worth ~$20M/year to get two average starting pitchers to contribute ~200 innings each, when the alternative could be repeat performances from Mateo, Marmol, or Ryu. Who cares if they're consistent if they're consistently bad? At least with Lilly there was hope of a good season or two. I don't see that from Marquis. Only one Cubs starter threw over 125 innings last year. redarndiculous.
  19. Bull
    leon?
  20. Bull
    My best guess is Hendry is currently riding the merry-go-round with Daffy and Goofy. I thought the consensus was that Hendry IS daffy and goofy.
  21. Bull
    reading...waiting. of the 19 people in this forum, i'd bet 20 of them are refreshing this thread.
  22. Bull
    I keep hearing about this radke thread...what forum is it in?
  23. Bull
    What CFer is avalable that is left handed and has power assuming Soriano is in RF? If the Cubs use Soriano is CF I'd like to see them go after Dunn if possible. To me it makes much more sense to put Soriano back at 2nd, but that isn't going to happen. The Cubs are put together like a Piccaso painting from his Cubist period. Piccaso was Cuban? . No. Mark Cuban uses Picasa
  24. Bull
    Can you tell me how the Cubs front office made Prior's shoulder "loose"? They hired Dusty, Dusty overpitched Prior in '03, Prior's shoulder has never been the same since Then they never get to the NLCS and you bitch that they didnt put Prior in more games It's not how many games; its how many pitches per.
  25. Bull
    absolutely premature, but knowing how finicky Cubs fans are it might end up making someone a lot of money in about 9 months.
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