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2011-12 Hot Stove Thread

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by bigpern23, Oct 31, 2011.

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  1. Liut

    Liut Well-Known Member

    Re: 2011 Hot Stove Thread

    Hey, Ruckus. Learn some reading comprehension.
     
    Liut, Oct 31, 2011
    #25
  2. Liut

    Liut Well-Known Member

    Re: 2011 Hot Stove Thread

    Apologies, IJAG.
     
    Liut, Oct 31, 2011
    #26
  3. imjustagirl

    imjustagirl Active Member

    Re: 2011 Hot Stove Thread

    Don't apologize to me!!!!
     
    imjustagirl, Oct 31, 2011
    #27
  4. BYH

    BYH Active Member

    Re: 2011 Hot Stove Thread

    Well forget you, IJAG and forget you too.
     
    BYH, Oct 31, 2011
    #28
  5. RickStain

    RickStain Well-Known Member

    Re: 2011 Hot Stove Thread

    There's more to a team's future than where they are right now.

    In order of who concerns me in the Central, it's St. Louis, Houston, Milwaukee, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh.

    St. Louis has decent resources and a smart front office. Houston has excellent resources available to them and the new ownership sounds like they are looking in the right direction for new management, but I'm hoping they get moved to the AL.

    Milwaukee is good right now and will probably be good in 2012, but their slim resources and the cost of backloaded contracts and players hitting arbitration years is starting to creep up on them. They've had their small-market run when the talent was cheap and they were able to time it right, but they can't last much longer.

    Cincinnati has had some success in drafting and development but hasn't been able to sustain any success.

    And Pittsburgh is still too cheap to threaten outside of extremely fluky first-halves such as this one.

    The Cubs under average management will be a perennial playoff team. They just have too large of a financial advantage with which to bludgeon the rest of the division.
     
    RickStain, Oct 31, 2011
    #29
  6. Herbert Anchovy

    Herbert Anchovy Active Member

    Re: 2011 Hot Stove Thread

    Houston is years from contending, even with adequate leadership.

    It's the worst farm system in the majors by a country mile, and that doesn't get fixed overnight.
     
    Herbert Anchovy, Oct 31, 2011
    #30
  7. Uncle.Ruckus

    Uncle.Ruckus Guest

    Re: 2011 Hot Stove Thread

    To whom should he apologize? I am unable to comprehend your post.

    BYH's post just further confuses me.
     
    Uncle.Ruckus, Oct 31, 2011
    #31
  8. Liut

    Liut Well-Known Member

    Re: 2011 Hot Stove Thread

    I directed a profanity at you, re: whining. Then deleted the post, but IJAG and BYH must have read it before I cancelled it. I apologize to you and all concerned.
     
    Liut, Oct 31, 2011
    #32
  9. HanSenSE

    HanSenSE Well-Known Member

    Re: 2011 Hot Stove Thread

    Do you have any idea how un-PC I feel, writing a headline for a Braves-Indians trade?
     
    HanSenSE, Oct 31, 2011
    #33
  10. amraeder

    amraeder Well-Known Member

    Re: 2011 Hot Stove Thread

    Haven't had a chance to check out the PD today. But Pluto's been saying for a while that the Indians would love to sign Sizemore to an incentive-heavy contract. Who plays alongside Brantley and Choo with Sizemore gone? I've already forgotten who played OF when Sizemore was hurt last year...
     
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    amraeder, Oct 31, 2011
    #34
  11. sgreenwell

    sgreenwell Well-Known Member

    Re: 2011 Hot Stove Thread

    I think they kicked the tires on Travis Buck for a while, no? yikes. I imagine that they just put a good D, no offense guy out there for a year or two, while they continue on their rebuild project. Their task #1 should be to figure out what the hell is wrong with Jiminez.
     
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    sgreenwell, Oct 31, 2011
    #35
  12. BYH

    BYH Active Member

    Re: 2011 Hot Stove Thread

    Indians got Fukudome at the deadline, when they were actually leading the Central (great trivia question, that). They had Ezequiel Carrera and Shelley Duncan too. So, yeah. Not much.
     
    BYH, Oct 31, 2011
    #36
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