Interesting 20 minutes with Ben Sheets. The Cubs have a shot, if they pay... More to follow on Tuesday.
Facebook can be a pain in the ass website sometimes, especially when your parents get accounts. It’s terrible because when you really have important things going on in your life, all you want to do is “chat.” People find you that you really didn’t want to find you, and it can be a mess.
But, Facebook can also be a really great thing. Like when you add Ben Sheets as a friend. Then you talk to him on Facebook chat.
*Side note — (dying laughing) is a macro at ACB. Everytime you post “lol” at ACB, it automatically transfers to (dying laughing). So, Sheets and I were actually typing lol. Just for clarification.
10:19pm Marco
how’s the off season treating you??
10:19pm Ben
awesome
10:20pm Marco
we’d love to have you in chicago
10:20pm Ben
thx it may happen
10:22pm Marco
when you choose a team, what do you look for most?
10:22pm Ben
what do u think is most important?
10:23pm Marco
Either winning or money, depending on where you are in your career.
10:24pm Ben
haha u answered ur own question
most of time team that pays is teams that win.
10:25pm Marco
you’re a force, ben. we gotta get you in chi-town
10:25pm Ben
i love chitown
fave city
10:26pm Marco
all you gotta do is come here, and we’ll build you a statue after we win a world series
10:26pm Ben
(dying laughing)
illll just take a pic with jordans
10:27pm Marco
how’s the elbow feel??
10:27pm Ben
im rehabbing and it feels grerst (great)
10:29pm Marco
i feel you on the rehab
i tore my elbow at 18, so i know what it’s i only topped out at 84, it wasn’t a big loss (dying laughing)
10:29pm Ben
i hope to top at 84
(dying laughing)
10:29pm Marco
for sure, do you usually talk to GMs or is it more your agent?
10:31pm Ben
agent
i dont know hedry
but i did talk to him at a country club in louisiana bout 2 weeks ago
10:33pm Marco
what are the conversations like?
10:34pm Ben
i forgot
drinks on course
(dying laughing)
10:34pm Marco
when do you hope to find out about next year?
10:34pm Ben
about week or 2
10:34pm Marco
are the cubs the frontrunners? haha
10:35pm Ben
no frontrunners
10:36pm Marco
how many teams are calling?
10:36pm Ben
about 100
(dying laughing)
japan
korea
mexico
little league
said i look younger than danny almonte
The guy has a sense of humor, that’s for sure. ”I hope to top out at 84″ was obviously a joke.
But more impressive, the Cubs actually have a shot here. He’s going to go where the money takes him, but he really likes the city, and the Cubs could be a contender with him.
CHONE projects Sheets at about 2.3 wins over 114 innings. Fans suggest he’s worth about 2.6 wins over 122 innings. Will Sheets pitch to projections? It’s anyone’s guess, but it depends on what Sheets brings on Tuesday in front of eight teams. Sheets has the ability to out pitch his projections, especially if he stays healthy and makes 25 starts and goes 150-160 innings. He could be worth up to four wins, and that would put the Cubs closer to the Cards in the NL Central. The Cards are probably at 92 or 93 wins, and the Cubs are probably at 85 right now (with projected rebounds), so adding Sheets cuts the lead in half. Combine that with question marks with Chris Carpenter, and the Cubs have at least a shot in the NL Central.
Fun night with Ben Sheets — Hopefully he shows that he’s healthy, and he comes to the city he loves in 2010.
When I saw that the Cubs traded for John Grabow, I thought it was a good move. He had a low ERA, pitched reasonably well vs. the Cubs and I thought he was worth what the Cubs gave up. In hindsight, the move was still good, but the contract he received this off-season was not.
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