Cubs Sign Zobrist - 4/$56M

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[UMFan83]

Please give us at least 2 very good seasons before falling off a cliff.

[ctcf]

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[Guest]

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Seems more likely Castro gone since Maddon loves to [expletive] with lineups and Javy is more versatile

[Derwood]

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[davell]

This breaks 30 seconds after Sahadev posts a quote from Theo saying he's not super confident we get something done at the meetings.

 

Theo loves [expletive] with everyone.

[Outshined_One]

Waiting for the other shoe to drop on the Castro trade. That's a big part of whether or not I'm a fan of this deal.

[Post Count Padder]

Wow. Love it. And love it more at that price.

[NonProfitCow]

jesus [expletive] christ i hate that you guys have a good front office now

[Bryants Disco Ball]

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If true on numbers, oh hell yeah.

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Since it's inevitable, would love to see Castro traded to a team I don't hate.

 

Oh and sign Heyward.

[weis21]

I should have trimmed back a million AAV from my 4/64 projection instead of adding a million from the 4/60 that I originally threw out there. 4/56 (taken as a whole) could be worth every penny, honestly.

 

Still sad to see Castro go, but it seems inevitable now. I'll have to change my sig :(

Edited December 9, 2015 by weis21

[jersey cubs fan]

So the new market inefficiency is getting really old?

[ConstableRabbit]

Gotta love that price!

[Bryants Disco Ball]

Waiting for the other shoe to drop on the Castro trade. That's a big part of whether or not I'm a fan of this deal.

 

Not to tell you how to feel or think, but [expletive] the other shoe.

[ctcf]

I'm.... really happy with that price?

 

What the hell just happened.

[XZero771679666304]

If we give Zobrist 14MM per over four years and then cry poor on Heyward, I am going to be something a lot less than thrilled. That is unless Heyward signs for something truly outrageous.

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I'm.... really happy with that price?

 

What the hell just happened.

 

Rosenthal failed to mention that Joe is also buying him a shot and a beer, so

[Outshined_One]

Waiting for the other shoe to drop on the Castro trade. That's a big part of whether or not I'm a fan of this deal.

 

Not to tell you how to feel or think, but [expletive] the other shoe.

 

Typed that one out before I saw the years and money.

 

Me likey.

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[Andy]

4/56 strikes me as way too damn much for Zobrist. Maybe I'm overly attached to Castro but given their ages are we really looking at THAT huge a difference between their next 4 years?

[Aaron_Kennelly]

It would be extremely odd (and honestly, somewhat of a letdown from a personal standpoint) to go from Castro, Soler and/or Baez to Zobrist, Heyward and/or random CF. I understand, still have Rizzo, Bryant, Russell and Schwarber....but jettisoning young, cheap, under long-term control talent to pay older guys for a potential shorter term (if Heyward has an opt out, this is possible), doesn't seem like something a great front office should do. And I kinda feel that they won't do that (trade Castro, then trade Soler and sign Heyward) so I'm not a fan of this potential move for if nothing else but that reason.

 

Well, the fact that we would still have Rizzo, Bryant, Russell and Schwarber is kinda big in this scenario. If we trade Castro and Soler, then they are simply trading the two worst guys of our "core," depending on if you consider Javy a part of the core. They aren't trading away the cheap, young stars. In fact, Starlin isn't really any of those things. His salary isn't really cheap anymore. It's not prohibitive or expensive really. But, he isn't pre-arb, like those other guys. And he is what he is now. He's just a guy that happens to be kinda young and under contract for awhile.

 

Trading a guy like Soler might bite us. But, he's like our fourth or fifth best pre-arb guy, anyway. And he hasn't done anything to prove that he is anywhere near the level of the guys we are actually keeping.

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4/56 strikes me as way too damn much for Zobrist. Maybe I'm overly attached to Castro but given their ages are we really looking at THAT huge a difference between their next 4 years?

 

i really like castro, but you're all alone out here.

[rawaction]

If we give Zobrist 14MM per over four years and then cry poor on Heyward, I am going to be something a lot less than thrilled. That is unless Heyward signs for something truly outrageous.

 

Still not worth it. Unless someone signs Heyward for 14M more per year than the Cubs should pay (thinking 38-40Mil aav), then I'd still take 1 Heyward over Zobrist and whoever else they get.