Russell Martin

[EhDubya]

I really do hope we sign him. Who are other teams that might be aggressive?

 

Adding Maddon and Martin would be an A+ start to FA and would multiply our sexy by about thirty. What FA pitcher wouldn't want to sign up?

[jumbo]

2 Martin

6 Castro

3 Rizzo

9 Soler

5 Bryant

7 FA/Platoon

4 Baez

8 Alcantara

9 Pitcher

 

Lester

Arrieta

FA (hopefully better than Peavy)

Hendricks

Wood/Turner/Straily/etc

[Guest]

2 Martin

6 Castro

3 Rizzo

9 Soler

5 Bryant

7 FA/Platoon

4 Baez

8 Alcantara

9 Pitcher

 

Lester

Arrieta

FA (hopefully better than Peavy)

Hendricks

Wood/Turner/Straily/etc

 

I don't really care about the order, though hitting the pitcher 8th would be fun, but just go ahead and put Valbuena at 5 and Bryant at 7.

[tfarks]

Whatever a .700 OPS + fiery gravitational leadership is worth, then I'm in.

[Fro]

Whatever a .700 OPS + fiery gravitational leadership is worth, then I'm in.

 

Martin's also great at pitch-framing and Castillo is flat-out awful.

[Guest]

Whatever a .700 OPS + fiery gravitational leadership is worth, then I'm in.

 

Martin's also great at pitch-framing and Castillo is flat-out awful.

I'm going to laugh laugh my ass off if Martin comes to the Cubs and his magical framing abilities are suddenly lost.

[Sammy Sofa]

I'm not.

[treebird]

i want a magic framing catcher and i want it now

 

(not because i'm mr vain, i just think it'd be good for the ballclub)

[treebird]

i want a magic framing catcher and i want it now

 

(not because i'm mr vain, i just think it'd be good for the ballclub)

 

 

that's not really how the song goes

 

i know

[Sammy Sofa]

I want a beanball feast.

[Tryptamine]

A catcher who is going to be 32 when the season starts and coming off a career year and likely to 15M a year over 3 or 4 years. Yeah, I'll pass.

[mul21]

A catcher who is going to be 32 when the season starts and coming off a career year and likely to 15M a year over 3 or 4 years. Yeah, I'll pass.

 

This is dumb logic, because by the time that contract is terrible, Schwarber will be starting and hitting 30 dongs a year for almost free so it won't matter if we're paying him $5M a year to catch once a week.

[Tryptamine]

A catcher who is going to be 32 when the season starts and coming off a career year and likely to 15M a year over 3 or 4 years. Yeah, I'll pass.

 

This is dumb logic, because by the time that contract is terrible, Schwarber will be starting and hitting 30 dongs a year for almost free so it won't matter if we're paying him $5M a year to catch once a week.

 

Am I missing something? Why would we only be paying him 5M a year when he's going to get 15M annually?

[jersey cubs fan]

A catcher who is going to be 32 when the season starts and coming off a career year and likely to 15M a year over 3 or 4 years. Yeah, I'll pass.

 

This is dumb logic, because by the time that contract is terrible, Schwarber will be starting and hitting 30 dongs a year for almost free so it won't matter if we're paying him $5M a year to catch once a week.

 

Am I missing something? Why would we only be paying him 5M a year when he's going to get 15M annually?

 

massive signing bonus

[treebird]

A catcher who is going to be 32 when the season starts and coming off a career year and likely to 15M a year over 3 or 4 years. Yeah, I'll pass.

 

This is dumb logic, because by the time that contract is terrible, Schwarber will be starting and hitting 30 dongs a year for almost free so it won't matter if we're paying him $5M a year to catch once a week.

 

Am I missing something? Why would we only be paying him 5M a year when he's going to get 15M annually?

 

massive signing bonus

 

maybe russell (and the players union) will get confused and he'll sign an nfl contract that reads 6/102 but is actually 2/10 and a bunch of horrifying team options

[Janelle-Alexis]

I'm going to laugh laugh my ass off if Martin comes to the Cubs and his magical framing abilities are suddenly lost.

 

If the Cubs signed someone with amazing pitch framing abilities, that would probably be the day MLB implements robo-umps.

[seanimal]

I'm going to laugh laugh my ass off if Martin comes to the Cubs and his magical framing abilities are suddenly lost.

 

If the Cubs signed someone with amazing pitch framing abilities, that would probably be the day MLB implements robo-umps.

 

sometimes you have to sacrifice for the greater good

[WrigleyField 22]

I'm going to laugh laugh my ass off if Martin comes to the Cubs and his magical framing abilities are suddenly lost.

 

If the Cubs signed someone with amazing pitch framing abilities, that would probably be the day MLB implements robo-umps.

 

sometimes you have to sacrifice for the greater good

K Sulley

 

 

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[Guest]

I'm going to laugh laugh my ass off if Martin comes to the Cubs and his magical framing abilities are suddenly lost.

 

If the Cubs signed someone with amazing pitch framing abilities, that would probably be the day MLB implements robo-umps.

 

sometimes you have to sacrifice for the greater good

 

Yesss, team anti-framing

[Guest]

catchers aren't that good anymore to begin with so they probably don't get all that much worse when they age...at least not early 30's.

[mul21]

A catcher who is going to be 32 when the season starts and coming off a career year and likely to 15M a year over 3 or 4 years. Yeah, I'll pass.

 

This is dumb logic, because by the time that contract is terrible, Schwarber will be starting and hitting 30 dongs a year for almost free so it won't matter if we're paying him $5M a year to catch once a week.

 

Am I missing something? Why would we only be paying him 5M a year when he's going to get 15M annually?

 

Because reading is apparently exceptionally difficult for me. Geez, that was bad.

 

Although the point remains, and I'll be shocked if Martin gets anywhere near $15M annually, which is probably why my brain thought $15M was over 3 years.

[Guest]

A catcher who is going to be 32 when the season starts and coming off a career year and likely to 15M a year over 3 or 4 years. Yeah, I'll pass.

 

This is dumb logic, because by the time that contract is terrible, Schwarber will be starting and hitting 30 dongs a year for almost free so it won't matter if we're paying him $5M a year to catch once a week.

 

Am I missing something? Why would we only be paying him 5M a year when he's going to get 15M annually?

 

Because reading is apparently exceptionally difficult for me. Geez, that was bad.

 

Although the point remains, and I'll be shocked if Martin gets anywhere near $15M annually, which is probably why my brain thought $15M was over 3 years.

 

I'll be shocked if he doesn't.

[sneakypower]

he'll get McCann money- 5/85

[imb]

FOR RUSSELL MARTIN WE DONE LOST OUR DAMN MINDS

[abuck1220]

well that's [expletive] bonkers. no way he gets McCann money.