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Re: On Windows

romashko — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:55:53 -0000

I wasn't advocating the Cubs sign me to play center field, just saying they could probably replace Reed fairly easily. Let's hope they can, because they'll need to for the next month.

Re: On Windows

romashko — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:22:53 -0000

A couple of points in response:

1) I don't put a ton of stock in RBIs. A "run producer" is anyone who can get on base or drive runs in. Bradley is one of baseball's better players at getting on base.

2) Soriano already got caught lying about his age once. I can't imagine they're not sure of his real age at this point, so I'm not really worried about that. And a lot of that seems to be questioning his work ethic, which goes against everything I've ever heard about him - supposedly he's one of the hardest workers on this or any team.

3) I would imagine Soto is not as good as he was last year, but I don't think he's as bad as he has been so far this year, either. That really holds true for all three players - I'm not saying Soriano or Bradley will return to career norms next year, but I strongly expect that they will both be above-average at the plate. I'm pretty sure players rarely just fall off and stop being productive at all in their early 30s - decline at that point is usually a curve, not a collapse.

Re: White Flag Time?

romashko — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 10:15:10 -0000

It was always remotely possible, but it wasn't very likely. Here we are, though.

I don't really think the Cubs should look to sell, though. They're probably more likely to make a run than they are to get anything worthwhile in the trade market this year. But those are the guys you might offload if you were going to sell.