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I'm pretty sure that the Cubs finished farther back than 2nd...
I'm pretty sure that the Cubs finished farther back than 2nd...
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Referring to A-Rod.
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fisch.And who the **** is Captain Obvious?
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Aposter
remember the following:
Randy Wells is good due to FIP
Adam Dunn is coming to the Cubs
Prince Fielder is coming to the Cubs
Albert Pujols is coming to the Cubs
Soriano is good due to Range Factor and UZR
Soto is better than Mauer
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I think you guys made him re-rage quit 
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I think you guys made him re-rage quit
While it's not exactly good policy to ridicule a user until they feel they have to leave, if the guy can't take some ribbing and back up his arguments without cherry-picking statistics, then it's not exactly a huge loss anyway.
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Zambrano is one of the 10 best pitchers in Cubs history.
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Soto is a beast & Wells is "unlucky".
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Soto is a beast & Wells is "unlucky".
Well yeah ... that's too obvious.
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To be fair, Randy Wells was unlucky... he wasn't born with above-MLB-average skills and potential.
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You can't always look at BABIP or LOB% and cry "luck". Sometimes the guy just sucks and the BABIP and LOB% is because he's giving up line drives all over the place.
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He was in beast mode.
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Not the case with Wells. In 11, his LD% actually decreased from 10. This season was his first season that it was above 20%. Last year he gave up more fly balls, but it was not a great percentage change. What got him was that his HR/FB rate was off the charts at 13.8%. HR/FB rate is about as lucky/unlucky as you can get, as there is virtually no correlation from year-to-year.
Now, with that being said, I think that is due to the fact that he "forgot" how to throw his fastball last year. He only threw it less than 49% of the time and the average speed was only 88 MPH. Both significantly down.
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also if you are back can you bring poodski back? I want to hear more about Soriano and I really want to hear more about how fukudome is better than carlos quentin. go team!
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