Cubs' Right Field Options
Submitted by Rob G. on Tue, 11/18/2008 - 4:47pm
The Kansas City Star says the Cubs are making a play for Mark Teahen. This on the heels of a radio report that the Cubs are very interested in Milton Bradley. The KC Star article also says the Cubs have interest in Raul Ibanez, but his cost may be prohibitive.
The Cubs would prefer David DeJesus according to the article, but he seems unavailable as the Royals want to move him to left field and acquire a new center fielder. Teahen though might be attainable. The names thrown out by the author are Felix Pie, Mike Fontenot and Ronny Cedeno.
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#1 Re: Cubs Right Field Options
Out of fear of Bradley mangling one of our white scrappy middle infielders on one of his 'off' days (or himself), I'm much more in favor of a KC deal. I'd prefer David of Jesus, though.
#2 Pardon my illiteracy
but is it suppose to be
Cubs' Right Field Options or Cubs Right Field Options
and if I was doing a page of Cubs that won the Cy Young Award, is it?
Cubs' Cy Young Winners or Cubs Cy Young Winners
#4 Re: Pardon my illiteracy
It's either Cubs: Right Field Options or Cubs' Right Field Options... I think.
#5 Re: Pardon my illiteracy
Cubs' RF options...options that are theirs.
Cubs Cy Young Winners...Cy Young Winners who are Cubs.
"He is a Cubs pitcher"
Cubs' Cy Young Winners...Cy Young Winners that the Cubs Organization has.
"He is the Cubs' pitcher"
#6 Re: Pardon my illiteracy
well I'm confused...so just tell me what the title of this page should be
http://wiklifield.thecubreporter.com/Cubs_Cy_Young...
and shhh, it's still a secret
#10 Re: Pardon my illiteracy
I think that technically, your title is now correct. I also think that, because 'Cubs' is the name of the team and a Cy Young winner is a 'Cubs' player, that you can write it without the apostrophe. 'He is a Cubs pitcher' doesn't indicate ownership of the pitcher by the Cubs (I don't think), but Cubs' pitcher does. Perhaps it goes down the argument, 'Am I a Cub fan or a Cubs fan?'.
Because there are multiple pitchers who are collectively 'Cubs', I think it's ok. If it was one player, you'd have to put 'Cubs' Cy Young Winner' or 'Cub Cy Young Winner' depending on what, exactly, you're trying to indicate.
#16 Re: Pardon my illiteracy
E-mail if you secretly want free labor.
#17 Re: Pardon my illiteracy
it'll be open up to everyone to contribute in a short time...actually it probably is now, but I want put together some more examples/templates and a solid help page before we announce it to the world.
#20 Re: Pardon my illiteracy
Good move, a vast improvement on the "junk drawer"!
#24 Re: Pardon my illiteracy
ooh ooh! i've already got quite few items thought up to add there. some are self serving, but hey it's part of legitimate Cubs' Folklore (Cubs Folklore).
#25 Re: Pardon my illiteracy
absolutely, ANYTHING related to the Cubs is going to be welcome
#26 Re: Pardon my illiteracy
Sweet. Let me know when I'm free to upload my nude photos of Uncle Lou.
#27 Re: Pardon my illiteracy
that's hot
#28 Re: Pardon my illiteracy
Wait till you seem them. My personally favorite is Japanese Schoolgirl Lou. He looks good in a sailor suit, believe it or not.
#30 Re: Pardon my illiteracy
so semi-nude? false advertising....
#32 Re: Pardon my illiteracy
we should definitely NOT allow manny to do the entry about Dusty Baker. or Jim Hendry either.
#35 Re: Pardon my illiteracy
or Manny.
#34 Re: Pardon my illiteracy
They are sequential shots. He starts out in the sailor suit...but doesn't end that way.
We did a whole series. I paid him in jellybeans.
#39 Re: Pardon my illiteracy
was johann's mom involved in any way?
#47 Re: Pardon my illiteracy
fluffer
#29 Re: Pardon my illiteracy
to start everyone off...take a look at this page
http://wiklifield.thecubreporter.com/Baseball_America_Prospect_Rankings
on player pages on Baseball Cube, they list if a player was on one of the BA Prospect Rankings since 1992. I've filled in basically everyone I can think of, but anything labeled "Missing" is doing just that.Any persons care to try to fill in the gaps?
Supposedly if you have a subscription you can get from 2002 online, but the rest has proved troublesome. It's basically been a trial and error of typing in Cubs prospects that I can think of.
I'm missing #10 on 2004 and then a bunch from 2000 and before...
unless there's a page on Baseball Cube that actually gives the team-by-team lists for each year, but I couldn't find it
#51 Re: Pardon my illiteracy
Rob, there isn't a list of that on Baseball Cub, but you can find the rosters for each of the minor league teams for each year. So by clicking through I just found Nate Frese as #10 in 2001 and filled that in. I'll try to find a few more before I have to get to work.
#53 Re: Pardon my illiteracy
thnx for the tip, I found #10 in 2004 - Jae-kuk Ryu
#56 Re: Pardon my illiteracy
Kyle Lohse was #6 in 1999. I filled in a bunch more, especially in the early 1990s - inlcuding Tim Parker (who?) in 1992. But that 8th slot in 1992 remains elusive.
#60 Re: Pardon my illiteracy
thnx again, filled in a bunch as well, got from 1999 through 2008 done, 1994 and 1995.
Missing - #8 in 1996, #7 in 1993, #8 in 1992
I don't think Baseball Cube has 1997 and 1998 in there because BA.com has Kerry Wood #1, but it doesn't show up on his player page. I also found a bio on Brian Ramsey saying he was a top 10 prospect in 1998 according to BA, but doesn't show up on his page either.
#64 Re: Pardon my illiteracy
ROB G: Try RHP Wade Walker (1996-#8), 3B Jose Viera (1993-#7), and 1B Elvin Paulino (1992-#8).
#65 Re: Pardon my illiteracy
why did I know you would have the answer? you happen to have the 1997 or 1998 lists somewhere?
Baseball Cube lists players that were on their top 100 major league list, but is missing the organizational top 10 for those years. From some BA.com pages I know Wood was #1 both years and I have a couple of other names that should be on the top 10 lists but can't confirm where.
#8 Re: Pardon my illiteracy
the former on both. take that from an english major.
#18 Re: Pardon my illiteracy
to add confusion to all this...i believe Cubs's would be technically correct, however, is so commonly not used it would lead most to say it's wrong.
so uh...yeah...
#3 Re: Cubs Right Field Options
Teahan... Pinhead and Perry better be damned sure that they can fix him if we trade anything more than a bucket of balls for him. I wouldn't trade Pie even up for him.
DeJesus doesn't hit well enough to be a left fielder, but I'd take him for center.
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