Tick-tock, tick-tock, pitchers and catchers reporting grows ever closer....
- "Dying Cub Fan" of
Ron Santo fame, sent along a few links gauging some of the Veterans Committee members' takes on Santo's candidacy.
Bob Feller believes Riggs Stephenson is more deserving than Ron Santo (although Riggs isn't even on the ballot, makes you wonder what trouble Riggs got Feller out of back in the day). Feller has this little gem:
"We're going to find out in a few days who makes it, and I think we're going to lower the standards, and when we lower the standards, I think [Ron] will have a better chance."
Really Bob, you have to lower the standards to get Ron in, but your old pal Riggs (I can only assume they were pals because otherwise Feller is just dumb or delusional or both) has a much better chance. Meh!
On the last ballot, Mike Schmidt
made it pretty clear he'll never vote for anyone so forget him. The
ever-fortunate Brooks Robinson backs Santo and Lou Brock is
in Santo's corner as well.
UPDATE: It appears Mike Schmidt
has changed his mind since the last vote, thanks to Cubster for the tip.
- The
Brewers site here had a nice comparison of their pitchers
using PECOTA 2007 forecasts versus what the World Champion Cardinals actually did do last year (which is not very well). So I thought I'd at least post the Cubs numbers and see how they stack up:
Name |
GS |
VORP |
Zambrano |
32 |
40.6 |
Hill |
26 |
24.2 |
Lilly |
27 |
24.6 |
Marquis |
21 |
9.1 |
Prior |
15 |
12.8 |
Miller |
12 |
7.3 |
Guzman |
16 |
11.6 |
Total |
149 |
130.2 |
What does this tell us? First, forecasting systems are kind of a joke. It predicts
Sean Gallagher with the 4th highest VORP on the team and it doesn't even have Marquis as a Cub yet (this is the first round of predictions, more will be coming). Second, the Brewers came out at 130.5 in 161 starts using their top 6 pitchers and I'd say we stack up just fine.
- In other news....well there isn't any other news, go watch the Bears this weekend! I've got some serious Chicago Cubs prospect talk for Monday and Tuesday ready to go though.
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