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I missed this article on ESPN . I also didn’t read much about Ricketts said other than what was posted here by MO and others. I just don’t care. I happened to open this link and couldn’t help but notice how nuts Ricketts is.
“The Ricketts family is ...
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Chicago Cubs
The cap to one helluva busy day, MLB transaction-wise is, at least for Cub fans, the kickoff of the Cubs offseason, as Reed Johnson and Rich Harden filed for free agency :
The Cubs’ Reed Johnson and Rich Harden didn’t waste any time.
Johnson and Harden were among the 79 Major ...
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Chicago Cubs
Reed Johnson
Rich Harden
Derrick Goold expects the Cubs will offer Mark DeRosa a free agent contract.
DeRosa, coming off wrist surgery, figures to field an offer from the Chicago Cubs, at the least. He and Chone Figgins are two of the best utility players in the game, and both are free agents.
This ...
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Mark DeRosa
Chone Figgins
We’ve all heard a million times about how Alex Rodriguez was no good during the playoffs. Intelligent people just assumed it was a sample size issue while the ignorant paraded around as if they knew something about A-Rod’s personality that others did not. Well, A-Rod has ...
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Alex Rodriguez
Chicago Cubs
Ted Lilly underwent successful surgery on his left shoulder yesterday. He won’t begin throwing until early March, which means he won’t be ready to go when the season begins. The Cubs are hopeful he’ll be ready to pitch sometime in April, but considering it was ...
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Chicago Cubs
Ted Lilly
Carlos Zambrano
RAUL IBANEZ
He’s obviously not why the Phillies lost, but you know damn well that we’d hear all about Raul Ibanez and a world championship all winter if the Phillies won it. So I’m going to play their game and blame Ibanez for the Phillies not winning it this ...
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Philadelphia Phillies
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Raul Ibanez
Joe Girardi
Dusty Baker
This is an old-school matchup: Pedro v Pettite. These two have never faced each other in the postseason, though their respective teams at the times (Yankees, Red Sox) faced each other in the ALCS in 99 and 2003 in some of the most dramatic postseason series in history. Let’s take a look ...
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Chicago Cubs
Pedro Martinez
Boston Red Sox
See what I did there?
Anyway, WV23, who does yeoman’s work much higher up the Cubs Blog Food Chain, needs some help, because he’s taken on a Herculean task : cataloging all the hand-wringing Milton Bradley rumor mongering by Sullivan, Rogers et. al.
This should be an ...
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Chicago Cubs
Milton Bradley
Akinori Iwamura
The 2010 projections are starting to come out so we can begin to get a better idea of how this team may do and what they need to this offseason to be a contender. Below are James’ projections for the hitters.
Hitter
AB
H
2B
...
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Bill James
James Brown
You fuckers probably get sick of hearing my opinion on prospects, so I’m going to give you a dose of your own medicine.
Nearly 100 of you who read every word weighed in on the Chicago Cunts’ top prospects. And here’s what you said (total points in parentheses)…
Top 10
1. Josh Vitters ...
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Chris Carpenter
Here are the 2009 Cubs starting position players BABIP and xBABIP (I used this handy tool ):
Player BABIP xBABIP
Soto 0.251 0.314
Lee 0.333 0.308
Fontenot 0.281 0.317
Theriot 0.327 0.335
Ramirez 0.331 0.306
Soriano 0.280 0.305
Fukudome 0.314 0.332
Bradley ...
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Geovany Soto
I still have no idea why Cliff Lee is not starting this game. Let’s take another look at the pitching numbers from my WS preview:
Name IP FIP
Lee 79.2 3.11
Hamels 193.2 3.72
Martinez 44.2 4.28
Happ 166.0 4.33
Blanton 195.1 4.45
Moyer 162.0 5.08
Lee is light-years ...
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Charlie Manuel
Cliff Lee
Cole Hamels
For those of you who have not yet read The Book, mgl paraphrases the chapter on hot and cold streaks. Good stuff.
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Chicago Cubs
MLBTR has a couple of posts up this morning about Milton Bradley. One of them says the Cubs may be talking with the Blue Jays about Vernon Wells. This would be an awful idea. Wells is owed something like $7.6 trillion and in 2 of the last 3 seasons his wOBA has been well below ...
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Chicago Cubs
Milton Bradley
Vernon Wells
From here
The St. Louis Cardinals’ new hire of former home run king/admitted steroid abuser Mark McGwire as hitting coach sends a message to all baseball and young people of “CHEAT, DO DRUGS, COVER UP WHEN CONGRESS INVESTIGATES,” former White House drug policy spokesman ...
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Mark McGwire
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St. Louis Cardinals
Despite Ricketts’ platitiudes and expertly spun PR in today’s press conference (see here for fans bought hook line and sinker ), he means business. On two blog posts by one of the two beat writers who does his job in this town, Bruce Levine, Ricketts revealed his plans for the ...
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Wrigley Field
Real sports blogs live blog exciting things, like, you know, sporting events. But fuck that noise. I’ll be here liveblogging mental midgets (Sullivan, Wittenmeyer, Kaplan, et al.) asking Tom Ricketts personnel questions. Because this is how real losers spend their days ...
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ESPN
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Milton Bradley
We needed a new thread, but I don’t have time right now to add some links. I may not. You can use yesterday’s links and just search if you want. The Yankees should win, but they were the better team yesterday too.
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Philadelphia Phillies
New York Yankees
Make sure you read Berselius’ excellent preview if you haven’t already.
Cliff Lee posted a 3.25 FIP in the AL while with the Indians this season and CC Sabathia posted a FIP of 3.39 this year. This should be a great pitching match-up. Lee’s xFIP was 4.15 ...
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C.C. Sabathia
Chicago Cubs
Cliff Lee
Philadelphia Phillies
New York Yankees
Rally’s bottom 10 in TotalZone:
1. Michael Cuddyer, RF, -26
2. Bobby Abreu, RF, -25
3. Vernon Wells, CF, -19
4. Gary Matthews Jr., CF, -17
5. Alberto Callaspo, 2B, -16
6. Orlando Cabrera, SS, -16
7. Lastings Milledge, LF, -16
8. David Wright, 3B, -15
9. Carlos Lee, LF, -14
10. ...
