(by wins over replacement) Mike Fontenot 2005 0.1 2007 0.6 2008 3.0 – also, totally awesome 2009 0.4 2010 0.1 ——– 4.2 Jerry Hairston Jr. 2005 1.0 2006 -0.6 ——— 0.4 Sammy Sosa 2005 -1.1 Cubs 4.6 (+ single A player) O’s -1.1 I hope the outright player dumps to come this off season work [...]
Should’ve written this post a month ago, but this team needs as few words as possible CA – OK 1B – need new starter 2B – need new starter SS – OK 3B – stuck with current starter LF – stuck with current starter/borderline OK CF – OK RF – offseason salary dump? SP1 (Dempster) [...]
01 SS Theriot 02 RF Fukudome 09 ?F X Nady 03 1B Lee 04 3B A Ram 10 3B C Tracy 05 LF Soriano 11 OF T Colvin 06 RF Byrd 07 CA Soto 12 CA K Hill 08 2B Fontenot 13 2B J Baker 14 SP Z! 19 RP S Marshall 15 SP Dempster [...]
So, it’s much later than I wanted to do this. If I wait much longer, I’ll forget the 5% I still remember I wanted to say. Phoenix was nice. I don’t know if it even got to 70 degrees during the weekend I was there, but it felt like 90 from where I was coming [...]
I need to write about the trip, still, but this is quicker and those photos are someplace else. Locks That We Knew Going Into Camp and I Really Can Stop Mentioning, 01 SS Theriot 02 RF The Fuk 03 1B D Lee 04 3B A Ram 05 CF Byrd 06 LF Soriano 07 CA Soto [...]
I know it’s been too long between blog entries when there’s 150 spam messages waiting for me. Let me tell you, the post I only write in my head are super. Cubs trade IF Aaron Miles & DH Jake Fox (and $1 million) to the A’s for RP Jeff Gray, ?P Ronny Morla, ?? Matt [...]
better example of the state of local baseball coverage – 7 days and running dedicated to commentary on Sammy Sosa’s face without, I dunno, having someone find him and take another picture. – Phil Rogers writing a column about how little budget room the Cubs have, then writing about how the Cubs must pick up [...]
Tom Ricketts did the best possible job introducing himself and his family as new owners for the Cubs. Everyone liked him, so much so hat no one made much of a fuss when he mentioned tickets were going up next season. He did a good job of positioning himself as an owner who’d be focused [...]
Because the only thing I love more than being a cynic is being a contrarian. In no order. No one got seriously hurt. Low bar, but still. Yes, they lost Ramirez for half the season, but I mean more of injuries that will carry over to 2010. No one’s elbow or shoulder was irrevocably damaged. [...]
How many times did Len bring up the “tough roster decision they’ll have to make on Monday?” Five times? Fifteen? Fifty? It’s really not that hard… Fuld—–>Johnson Hart—–>Guzman Hoffpauir—->A Ram First two are really obvious. Everything Sam Fuld is doing is what Reed Johnson normally does, so you don’t need both. Kevin Hart has barely [...]