Changes Coming For The NL Central?

[poodski]

Changes Coming For The NL Central? | FanGraphs Baseball

Over the last decade, the Cubs have compiled a losing record (.496) and three playoff runs, while the Astros have managed a winning record (.510) on the strength of some early-decade 2nd place finishes, reaching the Great Crapshoot 3 times in 10 seasons.

The Cubs
For Chicago’s yuppie team to succeed, they need to reinvent their 100-year-old model of winning a few and thinking about next year. The Cubs have a developed and effective scouting department, but tragically lack any legitimate statistical analyst wing to balance out the process. If they can establish a competitive front office, they could easily press themselves into the ivy league of competitors.

Recently, certain baseball gurus have opined that firing ol’ Jim Hendry would be a misstep. I really do not agree the franchise has been wildly successful under Hendry’s regime, but I do think the man has been an above-average evaluator of talent, a gentleman who has made many successful transactions as well as many preventable bad ones.

The Cubs would be probably fine without Hendry, but possibly even better if they could move him back to his forte, scouting, and bring in a compliment of analysts to augment his staff. Either way, the Cubs, who have the payroll potential of an untapped gold mine, will not find success — consistent, year-after-year success — with Hendry running the show like the Lone Ranger GMs of yester-decades.

 

[cubsneedmiracle]

Over the last decade, the Cubs have compiled a losing record (.496

Honestly.. thats enough to say we need to have some changes with the big league front office..

Keep Wilken.. otherwise Im gonna on some changes.

 

[poodski]

Honestly.. thats enough to say we need to have some changes with the big league front office..

Keep Wilken.. otherwise Im gonna on some changes.

Eh that probably includes 2002 and 2006 which were downright terrible.

Just going 2003 to present without 2006 we are at .523 with only two losing seasons (2005, 2010)

 

[cubsneedmiracle]

Eh that probably includes 2002 and 2006 which were downright terrible.

Just going 2003 to present without 2006 we are at .523 with only two losing seasons (2005, 2010)

Theres still gotta be more to show for it honestly..

We don't contend one year then go right back to barely mediocre the next.

 

[nwfisch]

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