SB Nation User Blog: KyCubsFan

Its not the Veteran's Committe thats stupid

KyCubsFan — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 19:20:56 -0000

Its not the Veteran's Committe thats stupid

Hardball Times has an article up showing how its not the VC that continually mucks up the voting process its the structure of the voting that needs to be improved.

Lou on the radio

KyCubsFan — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:24:26 -0000

Did anyone hear Lou on the radio this morning? I was at work and didn't hear a lot of the comments. Two that I did catch paraphrasing:

"The team is too similar 1-8 right handed, slow"

On Fukodme: talked to a lot of people involved with Japanese baseball and they think the combination of not playing a full season in Japan in 07 due to surgery combined with the move to MLB hurt him. Lou talked of adjusting the training schedule to be more Americanized and being familiar with the league as reasons to be postive going forward.

Lou did make comments on Gregg and how to improve being too right handed and slow but missed them.

UPDATED WIth Link to podcast

Lou on Waddle and Silvy

Neat Free Agent Tracker

KyCubsFan — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 05:22:28 -0000

Neat Free Agent Tracker

some of you have seen this if you venture over to MLBTR.

Salomon Torres Retires

KyCubsFan — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:59:03 -0000

Salomon Torres Retires

Brewers now definitely in need of a new closer. Maybe they make Sheets their new closer after resigning him.

Dempster not coming back soon

KyCubsFan — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 02:22:19 -0000

Dempster not coming back soon

Article from Ken Davidoff of Newsday. Didn't see this on here yet though some have probably read it from MLBTR.

Harball Times Article

KyCubsFan — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 23:04:25 -0000

Harball Times Article

Scrappy

KyCubsFan — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 20:14:40 -0000

Scrappy

Scrappiness is everywhere!

NL All Star Ballot

KyCubsFan — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 03:25:46 -0000

In my never ending quest to right all the world's wrongs, I submit to you the current NL/AL all star ballot leaders. As baseball fans, and since we don't have a damn guy that deserves our votes, I encourage you guys to go out and vote for the best players and not let the Yankee/Red Sox/Cards fans elect all their guys... So here's the links and GO VOTE!!!

6/5 NL vote leaders
6/6 AL vote leaders

I'll try and update the ballots as they are updated.

Look for VOTE

Tired of hearing about how bad Jacque Jones is.

KyCubsFan — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 00:38:53 -0000

Let's state our displeasures correctly. I'm mad Jim Hendry didn't sign someone who could hit as many homeruns as Sammy Sosa without the steroiods question.

I looked at RF stats and posted some below and Jones fairs well against the other RFs in our Division. His OPS is a underneath of others when you look at the raw numbers but his PA numbers are inline with most of the others. His OBP is right inline with the others as well both raw and PA. Any interest in someone elses stats let me know.

Please also note Jones' salary for this year is listed as 4.03mil so it appears it was back loaded ostensibly so if he's moved it will be on someone else to pay the larger portion.
Data is from Baseball Reference except 06 Salaries USA Today.

I guess my point here is this who else would you rather be playing RF now and what would we have had to give up to get them. The only RF in our division that I would rather have are Kearns or Lane and they were homegrown. We have to stop looking outside for answers or pay someone to be average in the meantime. I looked at every RF for the NL (not stats or I would have posted them) listed for votes, as an All Star candidate and ZERO are Earth Shattering options. We all want something that is precious and few and far between in the game today. Sorry Jacques isn't it but he would be just fine as a 6th place hitter (or 7th) in a lineup with Derek Lee (4th) and ARam (5th) with Barrett 6th or 7th.

I don't blame Hendry for this one as much as I blame US (including me) for wanting something that just isn't available right now.

Encarcion PA Outs BA *lgBA OBP *lgOBP SLG lgSLG OPS *lgOPS
9 Seasons 4190 3018 .268 .267| .316 .339| .440 .429| .757 .767

05 salary 4.4 Mil 06 salary 3.5 Mil

Jones
7 Seasons 3783 2671 .279 .272| .327 .340| .455 .436| .782 776|

05 salary 5 Mil 06 salary 4.03 MIL

Burnitz
13 Seasons 6237 4220 .255 .271| .348 .343| .485 .434| .832 .778

05 salary 4.5 mil 06 salary 6.0 mil

Drew
8 Seasons 3180 1998 .287 .268| .393 .341| .514 .432| .907 773

05 salary 9.4 mil 06 salary 11.4 mil

Kearns
4 Seasons 1467 979 .266 .271| .360 .344| .461 .434| .821 777

05 salary 930k 06 salary 1.85 mil

Jenkins
8 Seasons 3913 2648 .281 .269| .349 .341| .508 .433| .857 774

05 salary 7.33 mil 060 salary 7.83 mil

Lane
4 Seasons 824 570 .271 .267| .327 .338| .507 .427| .834 766

05 salary 345k 06 salary 450k

On ESPN NEWS

KyCubsFan — Tue, 23 May 2006 01:25:20 -0000

Peter Gammons just called the Cubs most dissapointing team in the NL no surprise there. However he also called out Hendry (in a way) by saying the Cubs just don't get it. Their OBP is .301. The Cubs need to realize that you have to get someone on base to have a rally they just don't seem to get it(paraphrased). Also he said things would turn around some for the Cubs they should get Lee back around June 20th and they've been missing their third and fourth starters all year which hasn't helped.
However he didn't come close to saying that they would compete he went on to mention the Cardinals playing well DESPITE INJURIES due to their quality starting pitching and the ability of Tony LaRussa to "manage the 25th man on the bench". Dusty probably can't even remember who his 25th man on the bench is due to the fact he's had what 8 different guys in that spot this year.