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QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 22, 2013 -> 06:47 PM) No Wilkins, Tim Anderson or Barnum = yawn Probably traded for Buster Posey

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 22, 2013 -> 06:34 PM) With the money they'll have to spend, they're going to use a lot of these prospects to go after the likes of David Price, etc. Their organization is in a far better place now than it was a year ago, despite the lack of improvement by Castro. Especially if there are two PTBNL and Ramirez is one of them, this was an incredible deal by the Cubs. The Rangers are giving up more for Garza than they did for Cliff Lee. I'll stand by what I've said for a while -- they'll be good once they buy some good players.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 22, 2013 -> 06:28 PM) Cubs are going to have the #1 ranked farm system, aren't they? That will look great next to their attendance trophies. This deal, in a couple years, could look like a "meh" deal or it could look really good. Not bad when you really HAD to move him.

QUOTE (DirtySox @ Jul 22, 2013 -> 06:27 PM) Peter Gammons ‏@pgammo 18m Garza haul of Edwards, Olt, Grimm and the chance to take N. Ramirez as PTBNL a boom for Cubs, statement about Tex. system Expand Thanks

QUOTE (DirtySox @ Jul 22, 2013 -> 06:15 PM) Sounds like the PTBNL could be Neil Ramirez. Fantastic return if true. Source?

Lots of risk, decent upside in this deal. Hard to say what will come of Olt - I've always loved him but this concussion/vision business is troubling. Tough to say what will happen with Edwards, I'll be interested to see if the Cubs promote him from low-A where he is old-ish. I'm not a fan of Grimm, but he could develop into a decent enough NL starter, so not a bad third piece.

QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ Jul 22, 2013 -> 04:28 PM) He makes better contact and has been posting reasonable walk rates, though. He should be a substantially better OBP guy than Alexei IF he develops as he should. Hard to guess that he'll be as good of a defender though, so in the end I see them being fairly similar -- and this is if Sardinas can sustain himself as he moves up in level. His bat isn't exactly prolific in SAL

Olt, Edwards, Grimm, PTBNL per Passan

I like Sardinas, but I see him as a guy whose ceiling is Alexei (the powerless version).

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jul 22, 2013 -> 04:19 PM) What exactly are the Cubs gonna do with Olt? 1st base is locked up, and if I am to believe the hype, Bryant should be in the majors at 3B very soon. Can he play in the outfield? There had been speculation that the Rangers were thinking about him in the OF as a means to open a spot for him, so I suppose that is in the cards.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 22, 2013 -> 04:16 PM) It's amazing how much more the Cubs got for Garza as opposed to Dempster last year. I think Garza's street cred from his AL East days has helped him immensely, plus the recent development that he is supposedly an ace

Boston and St.L would also make great trade partners

Much better than anally I would suppose

QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ Jul 22, 2013 -> 03:54 PM) Lol, I don't know why I felt like I remembered him being a low-ceilinged guy that was surprising people by being rosterable last year, I must have had him mixed up with someone else. I just took a look at his numbers in the minors and was obviously mistaken. I mean, being a little guy seems to put a ceiling on you, but the production in the minors has been remarkable

As much as I'd love to see the Cubs get screwed in a Garza deal, we should root for them to get something that looks like a good return. The better they do, the higher the market is set for Peavy, who should fetch significantly more (by significant, I mean enough that you can tell that it is more) QUOTE (hammerhead johnson @ Jul 21, 2013 -> 10:28 AM) Because he only has 475 IP on the major league level. Only 53 career starts. I put his arm in the 25/26 age range. I want to put Sale at 21/22 (obviously, no minor league innings = less wear and tear), but I hesitate because of his gruesome throwing motion. You can't discount the minor leagues. Samardzija is what his age says he is. A guy that has pitched consistently through age 28. He doesn't get bonus points for not being good enough to glide through the minor leagues in 1-2 years.

QUOTE (bbilek1 @ Jul 22, 2013 -> 03:52 PM) Great post but AZ isn't moving Eaton. Kubel might be moved out to make room for Eaton. We'll see how badly they want an ace, then. Not that we can't work something equitable out without him, lots of good players in high minors for AZ which makes them especially attractive.

I think Wong is the lowest risk, lowest ceiling player of the bunch. That's not necessarily a bad thing.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Jul 22, 2013 -> 03:48 PM) Me either. Um I'm going to go ahead and try anyway 1. Reasonable suspicion is being black. Not officially, but in practice 2. Reasonable suspicion is communicating with known or suspected foreign terrorists There was something about algorithms being able to predict whether a given computer user was a foreigner with a very low certainty

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 22, 2013 -> 03:45 PM) I read this and thought "I can't tell which one is supposed to have the reasonable suspicion and which one is supposed to have nothing at all". Is that defending the patriot act or stop and frisk? I literally cannot tell. I was just trying to figure out the same thing.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jul 22, 2013 -> 03:26 PM) Give me a link to Slate or The Atlantic or the study didn't happen. Not that I'm surprised, but that "study" (it's just numbers) reports a seasonal change. That's not analysis, that's just reading off numbers. If it's anything like the municipalities I've studied in my work, crimes usually go up significantly in the summertime anyway. Someone should have taken the time to look at these numbers over a longer span of time instead of just spewing out nonsense

QUOTE (lostfan @ Jul 22, 2013 -> 03:15 PM) He also rescued a black baby from an orphanage just before it collapsed and then because he had some extra time he rescued a black kitten from a tree. Fixed

Never forget!!!

QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ Jul 22, 2013 -> 02:45 PM) I don't understand all the love for Eaton. What's his upside? We already have Tekotte if we need good defense with no bat. Owings, though. Yeah. It might be the .350 batting average over 1300 MiLB ABs....or it could be the .450 OBP. Maybe, rather, it is the .950 OPS. The 46 doubles in AAA might be it....or maybe the love comes from the 38 SB. Why the love for Adam Eaton? No chance of any of those skills translating to the MLB from AAA ball. No way.

It seems pretty simple. End SAF and quit punishing large groups of people for sins of a few people. It's inefficient and even if it did make some dent in crime (as SS pointed out, it doesn't appear to even do this), it wouldn't be worth the costs anyway. The problem of crime isn't solved by simply removing SAF and doing nothing else, but the overall situation is improved by just ending SAF. As far as political will goes, I tend to think that SAF either is very unpopular with people who live in cities or it can certainly become unpopular with a little bit of effort.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Jul 20, 2013 -> 03:04 PM) On July 18th. Mommy and baby are doing well. The most amazing experience in my life (sorry 2005)!!! In true kindness to daddy, she chose to be born on one of the rare days where none of the major professional sports had a game (which my dad pointed out). He then decided it was because she wanted to watch the open. Weak! Geoff Blum > baby