Comments on: Chicago Cubs: Top 10 Prospects

By: NEX-5N

NEX-5N — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 19:22:28 +0000

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NEX-C3 — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 18:30:41 +0000

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By: cubfandantheman

cubfandantheman — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 00:02:20 +0000

Why is no one talking about Darwin Barney? I think he is the Cubs best minor league shortstop.

By: Mike Olson

Mike Olson — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 19:32:06 +0000

You guys are talking about vitters like hes some kind of bust, hes like 19 for christ sakes. I live in peoria and when he was here last year he was on some kind of hot streak at the plate. Ive said it before, the florida st league is a league where hitters go to die. The only thing he needs to work on offensively is being more selective, if he learns how to hit his pitch and not the pitchers pitch hes going to some kind of player in the majors. His defensive is pretty raw, but that should come with time. On another note, Luiz Montanez is a pretty good major league player for the orioles and I would not call him a bust, some guys just take a little longer to develop and Brian Dopriak has put up some great numbers the bluejays system the last 2 years. Harvey was a disaster and I always thought he projected better as a pitcher with that arm of his. Tyler Colvin will be a good major league center fielder within a few years.

By: David MVP Eckstein

David MVP Eckstein — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 03:23:03 +0000

Stop the madness, start the movie

By: GameOfInches

GameOfInches — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 08:10:43 +0000

I’m guessing you’re not from Chicago, otherwise those references would make sense. Hendry guys are players who are constantly rumored as trade candidates for the cubs, and ultimately end up on the Cubs years later. This would be fine if Hendry guys were actually good players, but usually they are not. Also, Hendry guys tend to have a short self life on the Cubs, due to being bad at baseball.

If either Marlon Byrd or Willy Taverez end up on the Cubs this year, it will solidify my theory of “Hendry Guys”

For the third time, a high school SS taken 3rd overall was projected to develop into an Alex Gonzalez type SS. Instead of pointing out that Gonzalez was an average defensive SS with a career 300 wOBA, I decided to point out his suckiness through one error in the most important playoff game of my life. At least Felix Pie was projected to become a left handed Vlad Guerrero, hence worth the signing bonus. Montanez was projected to become a below average player, which he is.

My posts arnt meant to make make Hendry out to be the worst GM ever. Omar Minaya, Dave Littlefield, JP Richiardi have certainly been much worse, but just as I want the best players on the Cubs, I also want the best front office personal

By: pr

pr — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 01:53:09 +0000

Why would a shortstop draft that compared favorably to Alex Gonzales have anything to do with Alex Gonzales botching a play in 2003? How is Milton Bradley any more of a “Hendry guy” than any other number of players he’s signed? Especially when he’s attempting to unload him. How is Derosa a “Hendry guy” when Hendry traded him? Why would they have to trade for Marlon Byrd when he’s a free agent?

I’m certainly not defending Jim Hendry as he’s had his share of miscues but your posts are not really strengthening your case at all.

By: GameOfInches

GameOfInches — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 18:58:12 +0000

Sorry guys that my post lacked consistency, but i had a med school final this morning so i had like 4 minutes last night to blast on Hendry. I refer to everything starting with Montanez as the Jim Hendry era. Drafting Harvey was definitely a Hendry decision regardless who the scouting director was. THEY ARE FROM THE SAME HIGH SCHOOL!

I’m not going to salute Hendry for stealing 2 players from 2 dirt poor teams. The Pirates had absolutely no reason to trade Ramirez, accept that he was entering arbitration. And we all know how the marlins run business

I think everyone likes Hendry as a guy, but I cant support him as the GM. He makes too many decisions based on personal bias. He always signs/trades for “his guys”. Michael Barrett, Dusty Baker, Jacque Jones, Bradley, Derosa…they were all hendry guys. Dont be surprised if he trades for Marlon Byrd, cause he too is one of many Hendry’s guys. Also, Hendry didnt start using sabermetrics until 2 years ago. He should have been ahead of the game, not the last GM, besides the guy who runs the Royals, to understand that OBP is important. No wonder the cubs sucked in 2006 when you have Pierre, Neifi Perez, Jacque Jones, Ronny Cedeno making outs left and right. The only guy on that team who had a .360 OBP was Matt Mutron and thats the guy Hendry gave up on first.

Also, just because everyone thinks someone is a great prospect, it’s still your job to verify that for yourself. He obviously has not done that, nor has he had his farm system develop any players. We have all read Moneyball. The trick is to not go with conventional wisdom. Just because you are lefthanded and have a 15K/9 rate in high school doesnt make you the next Randy Johnson

Oh, and how about last off season where instead of thinking rationally to improve the team, he somehow got it in his mind that he needed to get more left-handed athletic players on the team. That resulted in the addition of Bradley, Joey Gathright, and Aaron Miles. Left handed-check. Athletic-check. Can actually play baseball-oops. Now Hendry is doing nothing but trying to trade Bradley and ignoring the rest of the free agent pool. It’d be better for everyone if he just kept Bradley, who will play better next year guaranteed, and go find some valuable players out there. But Jim and I have different definitions for valuable. Dont even get me started on trading Jake Fox…

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:59:05 +0000

Yep, the same farm system that turned its prospects, via trades, into Aramis Ramirez, Derrek Lee, and 1.5 years of Rich Harden. Without the 2003 trade (Ramirez/Lofton for junk), the Cubs don’t make the playoffs that year, and very possibly 2007 and 2008, too.

I’m not disputing that most of the Cubs’ top draft picks didn’t work out, but there are other ways to get value from a farm system, and they’ve done a pretty good job with that, especially for a system that’s an “embarrassment.”

And please elucidate why neither Soto nor Theriot count as “decent” position players (neither are great, though I think we can expect them to be league average for their positions in 2010).