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another soul-crushing tanaka update: he now has 66 strikeouts and 7 walks

 

How many of those count for us because our willingness to bid $120m plus the posting fee?

That's the soul crushing part. He's exactly the type of player Theo said they wanted target. I guess they targeted him but not only did they not hit the bullseye the never made it to the board.

 

I don't remember them being referred to as not having come close. We know that for sure?

 

We weren't willing to give a NTC or an opt out, before figuring in that we were a few million/year short.

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@TheBBRcom: Dr. Andrews: "teenagers who pitch more than 100 innings per calendar-year are 3x more likely to have surgery by age 20 than those who don't
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This may be the biggest statistical fluke I've ever seen. Johnny Cueto is now sporting a 99.5% strand rate and .160babip through 72IP. That has to be comparable to a hitter having a .500babip at this point in the year.
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This may be the biggest statistical fluke I've ever seen. Johnny Cueto is now sporting a 99.5% strand rate and .160babip through 72IP. That has to be comparable to a hitter having a .500babip at this point in the year.

 

Baseball prospectus actually just had an article about this and said his year so far is

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Go [expletive] yourself in the face, Dr. Andrews.

 

Hear about the kid who threw 194 pitches in a 14 inning appearance earlier this week?

 

http://www.maxpreps.com/blogs/maxwire-national-blog/urkAf30UN0KCULlfdhH9qw/high-school-pitcher-throws-194-pitches-in-14-innings.htm

 

I liked this article as a response: http://www.sbnation.com/mlb/2014/5/15/5720296/high-schooler-throws-194-pitches

 

The whole thing is more balanced, but this tweet summed up a lot of what I was feeling when reading about it.

 

@ChronAVT Dylan Fosnacht is gonna be so mad in 5 years when a doctor tells him his pitching career that ended 4 years and 11 months ago is over.
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The Cubs are going to retire his jersey despite never playing for them.

 

We will probably retire Jeter's number and Arod's before Slammin Sammy..

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Gross negligence and child abuse. Indoctrination.

 

 

The new market inefficiency is pitchers who don't care enough about winning to throw their arm out.

 

I think I am being about 75% sarcastic.

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another soul-crushing tanaka update: he now has 66 strikeouts and 7 walks

 

How many of those count for us because our willingness to bid $120m plus the posting fee?

That's the soul crushing part. He's exactly the type of player Theo said they wanted target. I guess they targeted him but not only did they not hit the bullseye the never made it to the board.

 

I don't remember them being referred to as not having come close. We know that for sure?

 

Masahiro Tanaka is who the Cubs thought he would be when they made a six-year, $120 million offer last winter – someone with the stuff, guts and intelligence to be a frontline pitcher in the big leagues. They just didn’t think he’d be doing it in their pinstripes.

 

Tanaka is unbeaten in his last 42 regular-season starts and will face the National League’s worst team on Tuesday night at Wrigley Field. At 6-0 with a 2.17 ERA – and 66 strikeouts against seven walks through 58 innings – Tanaka will be in the Cy Young, Rookie of the Year and All-Star starter conversations.

 

Epstein’s front office expected a big-market team like the Yankees or Los Angeles Dodgers to push the bidding to a place that could cripple a payroll limited by ownership’s leveraged partnership, as well as the uncertainties surrounding the Wrigley Field renovations and the next TV deals.

 

That final bid didn’t even include the $20 million release fee for Tanaka’s Japanese club, and it didn’t come close to the seven-year, $155 million megadeal the Yankees gave their new ace.

 

http://www.csnchicago.com/cubs/theo-vs-evil-empire-how-cubs-move-tanaka-fallout

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If Theo really didn't think we had a chance at Tanaka, why didn't he do anything else all off-season? I'm as sick of 'the plan' as anyone here but I'm not sure how much I buy that.
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If Theo really didn't think we had a chance at Tanaka, why didn't he do anything else all off-season? I'm as sick of 'the plan' as anyone here but I'm not sure how much I buy that.

 

Mooney had a piece on it a little over a month ago.

 

All along — despite the Twitter rumors and Cubs Convention speculation — team officials predicted Tanaka would sign with the Yankees or the Los Angeles Dodgers.
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The only way I can buy that line of thinking is if they thought they had a real chance with the old system and then after the new posting system came out they had already missed on some of the intermediate guys they could've spent their money on instead. The idea that they intentionally didn't spend on anyone just so they could take a chance on Tanaka they didn't believe they had a real shot at(collective they, I don't doubt Mooney can find a 'team official' that was more skeptical) is basically slitting your wrists with Occam's razor to me.
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The only way I can buy that line of thinking is if they thought they had a real chance with the old system and then after the new posting system came out they had already missed on some of the intermediate guys they could've spent their money on instead. The idea that they intentionally didn't spend on anyone just so they could take a chance on Tanaka they didn't believe they had a real shot at(collective they, I don't doubt Mooney can find a 'team official' that was more skeptical) is basically slitting your wrists with Occam's razor to me.

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Cliff Lee to the DL with a "strained elbow"

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