2015 trading deadline

[sontensei]

Mets have acquired Gomez, according to Joel Sherman.

 

good just in time for the cubs to come up there

 

I'd rather him stay in Milwaukee and not going to one of our 2 competitors for a playoff spot

 

if the mets are going for it to a degree, theo has to do something, we have been ahead of them all season in the wildcard

 

Why, exactly? Why do we have to sell pieces of a very bright future to try to beat the Mets for a Wild Card spot?

 

Because its been a long time

[jersey cubs fan]

Mets have acquired Gomez, according to Joel Sherman.

 

good just in time for the cubs to come up there

 

I'd rather him stay in Milwaukee and not going to one of our 2 competitors for a playoff spot

Because wild card contention is better than not wild card contention and the bright future bs has already wasted 3 full seasons of present plus the two before that while the owner twiddled his thumbs

if the mets are going for it to a degree, theo has to do something, we have been ahead of them all season in the wildcard

 

Why, exactly? Why do we have to sell pieces of a very bright future to try to beat the Mets for a Wild Card spot?

[abuck1220]

wtf are the mets doing? Wilmer flores is crying on the field. maybe take him out of the game?

[SRQCub]

 

good just in time for the cubs to come up there

 

I'd rather him stay in Milwaukee and not going to one of our 2 competitors for a playoff spot

 

if the mets are going for it to a degree, theo has to do something, we have been ahead of them all season in the wildcard

 

Why, exactly? Why do we have to sell pieces of a very bright future to try to beat the Mets for a Wild Card spot?

 

Because its been a long time

 

Well, that's just silly. You don't get impatient because you have a chance to be the 5th team into the playoffs (behind 2 teams who are much, much better than you) when you are facing a window of competing for championships.

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Has there ever been a trade where one team gets the 3, maybe 4 or even 5 best players? Good grief.

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Has there ever been a trade where one team gets the 3, maybe 4 or even 5 best players? Good grief.

good lord, what a trade for Friedman.

[DiamondMind]

Seems like an absolutely awful deal for NYM

[Bryants Disco Ball]

Seems like an absolutely awful deal for NYM

 

Just wondering, but why do you say that?

[sontensei]

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Has there ever been a trade where one team gets the 3, maybe 4 or even 5 best players? Good grief.

good lord, what a trade for Friedman.

 

how much salary is involved? its amazing they must have a key to the FED to just print money

[Hairyducked Idiot]

So does the commish have to overturn that or is there like an 'approve' button on the league page on Yahoo! Fantasy.

[sontensei]

 

Well, that's just silly. You don't get impatient because you have a chance to be the 5th team into the playoffs (behind 2 teams who are much, much better than you) when you are facing a window of competing for championships.

 

they have a surplus of guys in the minors they should at least go get a 5th starter even a leake type. unless you suggest just throw in the towel with 60 games left this season

[apete6]

So with Flores off the Mets, Castro for One of their pitchers back on the table?

[sontensei]

I bet final offers are in for Hamels and Price.

 

according to MLB tonight

 

Hamels to Rangers will be announced tomorrow.

[sontensei]

So with Flores off the Mets, Castro for One of their pitchers back on the table?

 

who dillon gee?

[SRQCub]

 

Well, that's just silly. You don't get impatient because you have a chance to be the 5th team into the playoffs (behind 2 teams who are much, much better than you) when you are facing a window of competing for championships.

 

they have a surplus of guys in the minors they should at least go get a 5th starter even a leake type. unless you suggest just throw in the towel with 60 games left this season

 

"Throwing in the towel" is selling players from a team that has played into Wild Card contention over the 1st 100 games. It isn't "throwing in the towel" to not go for the 5th spot in the playoffs (when the separation between the top 3 teams and the Cubs is so dramatic.)

 

I'm fine with being patient, signing a couple of important pieces for 2016 and then trading from depth to acquire whatever other piece remains. If you're talking the difference between a pennant and a wild card spot, you do it. When you're talking about the difference between playing one do-or-die game for the right to get your brains beaten in by the Dodgers or Nationals, I don't feel a sense of urgency there.

[Tryptamine]

So with Flores off the Mets, Castro for One of their pitchers back on the table?

 

who dillon gee?

 

The way things are going, that's about all the addition I'm expecting to this team.

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Well, that's just silly. You don't get impatient because you have a chance to be the 5th team into the playoffs (behind 2 teams who are much, much better than you) when you are facing a window of competing for championships.

 

they have a surplus of guys in the minors they should at least go get a 5th starter even a leake type. unless you suggest just throw in the towel with 60 games left this season

 

"Throwing in the towel" is selling players from a team that has played into Wild Card contention over the 1st 100 games. It isn't "throwing in the towel" to not go for the 5th spot in the playoffs (when the separation between the top 3 teams and the Cubs is so dramatic.)

 

I'm fine with being patient, signing a couple of important pieces for 2016 and then trading from depth to acquire whatever other piece remains. If you're talking the difference between a pennant and a wild card spot, you do it. When you're talking about the difference between playing one do-or-die game for the right to get your brains beaten in by the Dodgers or Nationals, I don't feel a sense of urgency there.

Except there's no guarantee that the better team wins in the playoffs.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

I'm fine with being patient, signing a couple of important pieces for 2016 and then trading from depth to acquire whatever other piece remains. If you're talking the difference between a pennant and a wild card spot, you do it. When you're talking about the difference between playing one do-or-die game for the right to get your brains beaten in by the Dodgers or Nationals, I don't feel a sense of urgency there.

 

 

Because there's no way a couple of wild-card teams who were meh in the regular season could ever go through to the pennant in the coin-flip-like baseball playoffs...

[SRQCub]

 

Well, that's just silly. You don't get impatient because you have a chance to be the 5th team into the playoffs (behind 2 teams who are much, much better than you) when you are facing a window of competing for championships.

 

they have a surplus of guys in the minors they should at least go get a 5th starter even a leake type. unless you suggest just throw in the towel with 60 games left this season

 

"Throwing in the towel" is selling players from a team that has played into Wild Card contention over the 1st 100 games. It isn't "throwing in the towel" to not go for the 5th spot in the playoffs (when the separation between the top 3 teams and the Cubs is so dramatic.)

 

I'm fine with being patient, signing a couple of important pieces for 2016 and then trading from depth to acquire whatever other piece remains. If you're talking the difference between a pennant and a wild card spot, you do it. When you're talking about the difference between playing one do-or-die game for the right to get your brains beaten in by the Dodgers or Nationals, I don't feel a sense of urgency there.

Except there's no guarantee that the better team wins in the playoffs.

 

No, of course not. But do you like the idea of this lineup facing any of the Cards, Dodgers or Nats?

 

I'd rather be patient and wait until we have an opportunity to start at even, if that makes sense. But I'm also not saying that we shouldn't do anything. I just don't think that it is a "must" at this point.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

No, of course not. But do you like the idea of this lineup facing any of the Cards, Dodgers or Nats?

 

In a five or seven game series? Yes, please.

 

Check where the Royals' offense was about mid-July last year.

[Guest]

The Cubs are 0.5 games behind the Nationals. 1.5 games behind the Dodgers. I don't think they should urgently trade away their best prospects, but this is a year to get better at the trade deadline. They've already spent 6 starts on Clayton Richard and Dallas Beeler, there's no reason to give 10-12 more to them or similar caliber players.

[ARCubsFan]

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[Cubswin11]

What the what, wonder if it had to do with Wheeler's medicals?

[Guest]

They made their shortstop cry for nothing.

[sontensei]

They made their shortstop cry for nothing.

 

Flores was signed at age 16 to be a met, same as castro as a cub right? they love their team.

 

If Flores crys what would castro do?