Same tired arguments for Ramirez. If Ramirez is so great, shouldn't he have put the 2011 Cubs on his back like Pujols Soriano does for the Cubs at a couple of weeks at a time.
No one is arguing that Ramirez has bad stats, I'm saying you have to look at his production, and most of it came after the Cubs were out of the race. When the Cubs needed him the most, in the beginning of the season, he was invisible. I don't see the point in keeping Ramirez to be a 67 win team vs a 71 win team.
No one is saying he is great, though. We're saying that he is the best option at 3B. Do you think that if Ramirez had produced at the beginning of the season, we'd have had that big of a different outcome? I don't.
You're correct that it doesn't make sense to keep him if we're a 71 win team again. But that's assuming that we don't really do anything this off season and that's just asinine.
You gain 3 and lose 4, only down 1 win from this year. That's a HUGE difference. What would the Cubs have done without that 1 more victory. A POS 3B? You mean one that can play defense? That's terrible.
As long as the Cubs are out of playoff contention, he's fine. Playoffs? Choke artist.
And you're basically right back where you started. That is terrible if you sign Prince because we want to use Prince to help us win. I'd rather have the +3 wins you get with Fielder and Ramirez as opposed to being right back where we were with just Fielder.
So 6 games makes a choke artist? I think you're forgetting the first 12 games he played, in which he had a .956 OPS. That's kinda good. Those games don't matter now?
As long as the Cubs are out of playoff contention, he is fine? So when we are in playoff contention he sucks? Is that what you're telling me? His two best seasons were in 07 & 08. I'm pretty sure we were in playoff contention then. I *could* be wrong though.
EXACTLY. anyone can go look at a players stats on baseball reference or espn but if you actually WATCH the games you know they are not clutch
You can't possibly convince me that your eyes are more objective than the metrics I use. Plus, just because you saw it, doesn't mean it's true. If it was, then there would be a lot more serial killers on the streets.
