Cole Hamels Traded to Rangers

[SouthSideRyan]

I can't believe how many Cubs fans don't think they have a shot to do anything this year. It's funny because this time of the year when fans are discussing playoffs, most like to over-simplify a team's chances based on how good their top of the rotation is, and our 1-2 is as good as, if not better than, every other NL team besides the Dodgers. That type of meatball thinking is more fun than fatalism.

 

I get that the Phillies series really sucked and was damaging, but man, it didn't totally ruin the season.

 

PTR successfully broke the fanbase.

[sneakypower]

Then [expletive] trade Hamels in the offseason. Surely putting all of our offseason eggs into the top pitcher on the market basket (while competing against a team who clearly wants him with endless pockets) would never fail.

calm down there, at the very least we're still returning the same full pitching staff that's 4th or w/e in FIP

[abuck1220]

i will say, the current regime has done a pretty good job of convincing a large percentage of the fanbase that a) the team is broke and b) the only way to be successful is to intentionally suck for five years.

[SouthSideRyan]

And it's dumb to not trust what management has done over the past few years.

 

What they've done over the years is prove they can lose a whole lot of baseball games.

 

While building a system that can win a whole lot of baseball games.

 

But not enough to try just yet.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

Then [expletive] trade Hamels in the offseason. Surely putting all of our offseason eggs into the top pitcher on the market basket (while competing against a team who clearly wants him with endless pockets) would never fail.

calm down there, at the very least we're still returning the same full pitching staff that's 4th or w/e in FIP

 

So we return the same pitching staff that is old and was probably overachieving. We return the same offense that is young and probably underachieving. And we add a pitcher, unless the Dodgers buy them all.

 

Then this time next year we can be 1 game up in the second WC instead of 2.5 out, but still like a hundred games behind the Cardinals.

 

God I can't wait.

[SouthSideRyan]

Oh come on, I liked Alfonso but that contract was one of the worst contracts in the last 15 years no doubt. And it got the Cubs a grand total of 0 playoff wins.

 

What are some of the other worst contracts in the last 15 years?