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SPEEDY MCCREADY · July 2015

Last-12-Exit said:
Castro's errors are down, are they not?

17 errors in 95 games.
15 errors last year in 133 games.

I cant believe Castro is hitting .236

I supported Castro the last few years when everyone was talking about trading him. His 1st 2 years he looked to be a superstar in the making. But now I am leaning towards he is a blithering idiot, a headcase, that maybe needs to be traded. I want to see how he hits the next 6 weeks. Last year he was on FIRE before he got injured.

Last-12-Exit · July 2015

Papelbon just got sent to the nationals. Rumors of hamels being traded for puig. The god damn cubs better be ready to get shields or Chapman!

Wobbie · July 2015

Last-12-Exit said:
Papelbon just got sent to the nationals. Rumors of hamels being traded for puig. The god damn cubs better be ready to get shields or Chapman!

sometimes, it's the small additions.....huff, burrell, ross, morse, scutaro = 3 rings. just sayin'

Last-12-Exit · July 2015

imalive said:

Last-12-Exit said:
Papelbon just got sent to the nationals. Rumors of hamels being traded for puig. The god damn cubs better be ready to get shields or Chapman!
sometimes, it's the small additions.....huff, burrell, ross, morse, scutaro = 3 rings. just sayin'

Don't need scutaro or moss. Ross would be a nice addition.

Wobbie · July 2015

Last-12-Exit said:

imalive said:

Last-12-Exit said:
Papelbon just got sent to the nationals. Rumors of hamels being traded for puig. The god damn cubs better be ready to get shields or Chapman!
sometimes, it's the small additions.....huff, burrell, ross, morse, scutaro = 3 rings. just sayin'
Don't need scutaro or moss. Ross would be a nice addition.

scutaro retired.

morse, not moss. rhymes with "force"

Last-12-Exit · July 2015

Yea yea, Morse moss. It's all the same trash the cubs don't need.

Amongst the Ani · July 2015

Last-12-Exit said:
Yea yea, Morse moss. It's all the same trash the cubs don't need.

Yeah, because the Cubs know what they are doing. Did they have to build a new part of Wrigley to house all that hardware they keep winning.

Last-12-Exit · July 2015

Amongst the Ani said:

Last-12-Exit said:
Yea yea, Morse moss. It's all the same trash the cubs don't need.
Yeah, because the Cubs know what they are doing. Did they have to build a new part of Wrigley to house all that hardware they keep winning.

If you build it, he will come.

Wobbie · July 2015

"he" who?

look....you have a good young nucleus....DEVELOP some players.

world champ (x3) SF? homegrown infield.

HesCalledDyer · July 2015

imalive said:
"he" who?

look....you have a good young nucleus....DEVELOP some players.

world champ (x3) SF? homegrown infield.

The Giants are hard to dislike. I even liked them as a kid despite losing the 89 NLCS to 'em. This group they have now, though, great bunch of characters. Obviously I'm a huge Buster fan, he being an FSU prodigy.

Last-12-Exit · July 2015

And I'm not saying trade them away for a couple big names. But this team has definite holes and why not get shields or Chapman? We'd still have a young nucleus and top farm system players.

SPEEDY MCCREADY · July 2015

Congrats to Mr. Lester, for finally starting to look like a $155 million pitcher.
14K's today? DAMN!

Last-12-Exit · July 2015

SPEEDY MCCREADY said:
Congrats to Mr. Lester, for finally starting to look like a $155 million pitcher.
14K's today? DAMN!

Even better, only 5 hits allowed. That's certainly what they paid for.

SPEEDY MCCREADY · July 2015

Last-12-Exit said:

SPEEDY MCCREADY said:
Congrats to Mr. Lester, for finally starting to look like a $155 million pitcher.
14K's today? DAMN!
Even better, only 5 hits allowed. That's certainly what they paid for.

But will he get to 12 wins?
Should be interesting.

Last-12-Exit · July 2015

SPEEDY MCCREADY said:

Last-12-Exit said:

SPEEDY MCCREADY said:
Congrats to Mr. Lester, for finally starting to look like a $155 million pitcher.
14K's today? DAMN!
Even better, only 5 hits allowed. That's certainly what they paid for.
But will he get to 12 wins?
Should be interesting.

Lol, did we bet? Sounds like we did. It will be close.

Amongst the Ani · July 2015

imalive said:
"he" who?

look....you have a good young nucleus....DEVELOP some players.

world champ (x3) SF? homegrown infield.

The Giants have a big payroll but they save it to mostly pay for their own players. You develop and reward your own guys. Why pay a crapload for Shields when eventually you might need that cash for one of your young guys when he hits FA. That Shields deal is massively backloaded and the Padres will not be picking up any of that tab. Don't be a farm system for other teams. The Cubs got a good thing started. Stay the course and don't let one year ruin it when you will probably lose to either Greinke or Bumgarner in the play in game anyways.

Last-12-Exit · July 2015

Amongst the Ani said:

imalive said:
"he" who?

look....you have a good young nucleus....DEVELOP some players.

world champ (x3) SF? homegrown infield.
The Giants have a big payroll but they save it to mostly pay for their own players. You develop and reward your own guys. Why pay a crapload for Shields when eventually you might need that cash for one of your young guys when he hits FA. That Shields deal is massively backloaded and the Padres will not be picking up any of that tab. Don't be a farm system for other teams. The Cubs got a good thing started. Stay the course and don't let one year ruin it when you will probably lose to either Greinke or Bumgarner in the play in game anyways.

IF the cubs acquired shields today, it would cost them about $68 million for a little less than 3.5 years. The cubs offered him 3 years, $60 million before the season started. And if they only had to give up a couple double A guys or Baez to get him, why wouldn't you?

Amongst the Ani · July 2015

Because Shields sucks, thats why. His ERA+ is 94. He is less than an average starter when adjusted for opponents and park right now. You would be paying a backend starter 68 million for 3 1/2 years. Plus he blows in the playoffs. He hit the 13,000 pitch marker in 8 years as well which always spells issues. Giants fans know that one well as Lincecum hit it a couple of years ago. Look at how well that one worked out recently. Shields will age really badly and most of the 68 million is on the backend of that deal.

Last-12-Exit · July 2015

Maybe you should look at his stats. It's not really fair to compare all pitchers to Tim Lincecum. His nickname isn't big game James because he sucks. Back end pitcher? Seriously? Dude is a solid number two on most playoff contending teams and an ace on most of the others. Fuck yea I'll take him in chicago.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/shielja02-pitch.shtml

Amongst the Ani · July 2015

I look at ERA+ and FIP and Shields sucks in both. Are you having trouble reading in your advanced age as you missed his 7 ERA in the playoffs. I always assumed he was well hung as he is not big in the playoffs.

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