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  1. Bull
    You could be very well right. As a Trib shareholder, I was going more conservative. lol. so it's YOUR fault.
  2. Bull
    Yeah. lets back up that Guzman train. But insert Rusch for Wood. Oooh two lefties!
  3. Bull
    Is that an official "hoops radar reading"?
  4. Bull
    Sure, Marshall contributed to Will Carroll's book "Saving the Pitcher". I've been meaning to read that. Is Will Carroll "blackballed" as much as Marshall is claimed to be? Not having either one hired, at the very least, as a consultant to a ML ballclub just seems shortsighted and somewhat arrogant. You'd think that trying to be proactive with a ballclubs players would actually cost a team less in the long-run due to medical expenses. As strong and revolutionary as their opinions are, I doubt they would work well as a "consultant" unless they were the types of consultants that have the power to come in and change everything top to bottom. Not gonna happen.
  5. Bull
    Oh boy here we go again... I wish this would just end.
  6. Bull
    yeah, and I got to say bequeathed
  7. Bull
    No news there. THat's simply a functin of the higher WHIP. (1.03 before, 1.31 after - that's an extra 1/3 of a batter an inning) You give up more hits and walks you're going to use more pitches. Add to it the higher K rate and you've easily accounted for your extra 2.4 pitches per inning.
  8. Bull
    Baseball prospectus has an interesting report out. It weighs who benefited most from having the runners he left on when he left the game (bequeathed) stranded by the teammate who relieved him. It sort of turns the concept of inherited runners scored backward and shows an adjusted run average. According to prospectus, Eyre had good teammates who helped keep his (bequeathed) runners from scoring, but he was flat out awesome at holding inherited runners. His ERA was 2.77, but should have been 1.01!! Ohman was bad and had help. Weurtz was good to his teammates and his teammates were good to him. Releivers expected runs
  9. Bull
    Yea...can you believe we are breaking up the dynasty that has been the Chicago Cubs? Cant seem to recollect our record last year for the life of me. You make a valid point. But this is Prior. He is part of the solution not the problem. He's young, he's cheap, he's good, and he has significant potential to be the best pitcher in baseball. You keep him.
  10. Bull
    Jones, Encarnacion, Rondell White or Reggie Sanders? Sanders>White>Jones>Encarnacion Where do you put Burnitz and P Wilson in that continuum?
  11. Bull
    best. news. evar.
  12. Bull
    And harder still to believe that no one bit.
  13. Bull
    I think Bedard could be a competent 2/3 starter if he manages to keep himself healthy. Markakis seems like he'll be a pretty good OF and Loewen looks like the ground ball version of Rich Hill. Along with Tejada, I'd happily have any of those guys in this organization. But, that kind of move just signals desperation and idiocy on Jim Hendry's part, in my opinion. I'm still concerned about Prior because some one must have thrown a black cat at him, but the fact remains that he has the potential to be the best starting pitcher in baseball and that he'll be under the Cubs' control until 2008. He is the kind of guy I do NOT want to find myself looking back on after watching him win a bunch of Cy Youngs and saying to myself, "I remember when he used to be a Cub...he was pretty good..." while drowning my sorrows in a pint of beer. He's on the same level as Zambrano, in my mind. The multiteam aspect of this deal has me curious, though. I'd like to know who the third and (potentially) fourth teams are and what players are rumored to be moved. Maybe he'll be shipping Derrek Lee off to Boston in exchange for Matt Clement! The 3rd team? My guess would be the Angels. Rotoworld says the third team is the Red Sox and Manny...surprise! Boston gets: Prior Baltimore gets: Manny CHN gets: Tejada and Bedard obviously others would have to be involved to complete the deal. I say skip Tejada. Prior for Manny straight up.
  14. Bull
    They were #2 and #3 in ERA in an absolutely loaded league(Both made BA's top 20 for the Southern League as well, IIRC). Pinto and Nolasco are good prospects. You may think that they are worth Pierre, but let's not devalue them by calling them 'mediocre at best' or 'middle relievers'. Feel free to call them whatever you want. I wish to call them middle relief prospects. Why? because they were. The better one was the fifth best pitching prospect in the system. Assuming Wood Prior and Zambrano are staples, that puts 4 prospects ahead of Nolasco for the last two spots in the 2009? rotation. In this system Nolasco and Pinto were destined for trade or middle relief.
  15. Bull
    Thanks for all the help guys. Torres and Dibble have already been added, and other whose cards I'm looking for.
  16. Bull
    Why Finley? Was he the bane of the '84 playoffs?
  17. Bull
    Was that an intentional double entendre? ????Range factor or Radio frequency????
  18. Bull
    Merker??? also is Torres the one who hit Sammy effectively ending his career? Great list by the way.
  19. Bull
    I am working on a list of players most hated by Cubs fans. I am using their cards for one of the walls in my billiards room. Most of my cards are 1985-1992, but I'd be willing to go out and buy say a Roy Ozwalt card, simply because he belongs. So far I've got: Keith Hernandez (I've just always hated him) Eric Show (Knocked Dawson out) Dwight Gooden (killed the Cubs) Willie McGee (Cub killer) Joakin Andujar (jerk) legitimate reasons to put guys on the bad guys list include: Big hit against the Cubs, hitting a Cub batter, general jerk. Please help me with the list.
  20. Bull
    None at all. He's better than that. I guess he's in the back-up-for-a-contender-or-start-for-the-Royals category.
  21. Bull
    Have 2, their small. They also have an infielder by that name. I've always heard it as "take two; they're cheap" either way, :lol:
  22. Bull
    replace the atlanta.braves with stlouis.cardinals, and you get the same page. I think you could substitute any mlb team and get the same page. How he got the Atlanta link I don't know. I'm guessing it was accessed from a link at the bottom of the Braves mlb page.
  23. Bull
    If we do land Bradley, what other vialble alternatives do the Yanks have to fill their CF vacancy? I say we hold Pierre over their heads and fleece them, put Bradley in CF, use Wang or whoever we can get from them in a trade for a RFer. You know they have to be desperate to fill that hole. Anyone know if there was compensation given to the Cubs for the signing of Little?
  24. Bull
    Yeah, but that's the part of the equation we had right already. I think Pierre scores 100 with Lee and ARam 3&4, but I'm not sure its enough to make the offense great. As usual, this year depends on Wood and Prior. If Zambrano is the best starter, the season will not be a success. Um... Zambrano is probably the best pitcher even if they are all 3 healthy and pitching the best baseball of their lives. EDIT: I take that back. I thought about it and decided that, in game 7 of the World Series, I definitely want Prior on the mound over Z. Your first statement is right, but Wood and Prior have higher ceilings. Maybe I overstated it, but the point is that if Prior and Wood don't step up and fulfill their potential, this team goes nowhere. If they do step up, the difference between Abreu and J. Jones, or the difference between Pierre and Patterson won't keep the Cubs out of the playoffs. Its all about pitching.
  25. Bull
    Not only that, but the O's will want quality not quantity. You try fitting 4 extra players on their 40 man.
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