2019-20 Offseason Rumors/General Chit-Chat

[Brian]

already 100,000 over the estimates

 

KB signed for 18.6

[Post Count Padder]

Cubs outfielder Albert Almora will earn $1.575MM this year, Robert Murray reports on Twitter.

[UMFan83]

Cubs outfielder Albert Almora will earn $1.575MM this year, Robert Murray reports on Twitter.

 

Low hanging fruit but $1.5749 million too much IMO. Yes I'm suggesting that he be paid $100 for his services this year.

[Cubswin11]

Cubs outfielder Albert Almora will earn $1.575MM this year, Robert Murray reports on Twitter.

 

Low hanging fruit but $1.5749 million too much IMO. Yes I'm suggesting that he be paid $100 for his services this year.

He should have to pay the Cubs to play

[JudasIscariotTheBird]

Cubs outfielder Albert Almora will earn $1.575MM this year, Robert Murray reports on Twitter.

 

Low hanging fruit but $1.5749 million too much IMO. Yes I'm suggesting that he be paid $100 for his services this year.

He should have to pay the Cubs to play

And you know that the Ricketts are down for pay to play.

[SouthSideRyan]

 

Low hanging fruit but $1.5749 million too much IMO. Yes I'm suggesting that he be paid $100 for his services this year.

He should have to pay the Cubs to play

And you know that the Ricketts are down for pay to play.

 

I’m pretty sure that’s how Donn Roach got a start that one time

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Donn Roach and Tuffy Gosewich both in the span of 24 hours. Any other made up baseball players you all want to throw out there?

[WrigleyField 22]

Cubs outfielder Albert Almora will earn $1.575MM this year, Robert Murray reports on Twitter.

 

Low hanging fruit but $1.5749 million too much IMO. Yes I'm suggesting that he be paid $100 for his services this year.

He should have to pay the Cubs to play

These little league registration fees are getting out of control.

[Brian]

975K for Kyle Ryan

 

Half way through and they're 250K under estimates

[CyHawk_Cub]

Cubs outfielder Albert Almora will earn $1.575MM this year, Robert Murray reports on Twitter.

 

Low hanging fruit but $1.5749 million too much IMO. Yes I'm suggesting that he be paid $100 for his services this year.

He should have to pay the Cubs to play

Ricketts just went from 6 to midnight.

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3:07pm: The Cubs will pay Javier Baez an even $10MM, per Jeff Passan of ESPN.com (via Twitter). That’s $700K north of his projected earning point.

 

3:00pm: Several other key Cubs players also have deals, per ESPNChicago.com’s Jesse Rogers (Twitter links). Catcher Willson Contreras receives a $4.5MM salary, right on the MLBTR projection. Outfielder Kyle Schwarber will play for $7.01MM, south of the $8MM that the model predicted.

 

So that means we're currently, what, 800K below the projections?

[weis21]

3:07pm: The Cubs will pay Javier Baez an even $10MM, per Jeff Passan of ESPN.com (via Twitter). That’s $700K north of his projected earning point.

 

3:00pm: Several other key Cubs players also have deals, per ESPNChicago.com’s Jesse Rogers (Twitter links). Catcher Willson Contreras receives a $4.5MM salary, right on the MLBTR projection. Outfielder Kyle Schwarber will play for $7.01MM, south of the $8MM that the model predicted.

 

So that means we're currently, what, 800K below the projections?

YESSSSS

 

This is almost excited as WS game 7!

[Cubswin11]

What the horsefeathers is this?? horsefeathering doofus

 

[Bertz]

After all of this, payroll for 2020 looks to be just under 210. Maybe climbing another million or two depending on how those split contracts work out and if the team is generous to pre-arb guys like Happ. The LT line is $208M for this year.

 

For 2021, I'm showing just under $200M if they keep Lester ($185M if they don't). That's a fuzzier number though as arb estimates a year out are obviously going to be inexact.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

The other important thing to keep in mind if you're treating a particular LT number as a hard line, is that the public is dealing with some fairly soft estimates in places. Stuff like the exact amount of the benefits that count towards the LT, and how all the partial year salaries count for players who spend small amounts of time in MLB can be guesstimated in the aggregate, but if you're worried whether your team is 400k under or 800k under, that is largely unknowable in January.

[Cubswin11]

[17 Seconds]

theo is going to give ptr a piece of paper that says "can we keep baez? check yes or no" and then run into a fort he made

[Cubswin11]

I’m 100% buying in to this, I don’t care

 

 

[Marlin Bystro]

Bruce must have started drinking early today.

[UMFan83]

I’m 100% buying in to this, I don’t care

 

 

 

It’s a tiny morsel of excitement, let’s hold onto it and never let go even though it makes absolutely no sense given the info we’ve heard all winter.

[PackLandVA]

I’m 100% buying in to this, I don’t care

 

 

 

Maybe they'll throw in Jon Gray too.

[Post Count Padder]

Almora for Arenado, who says no?

[WrigleyField 22]

Almora for Arenado, who says no?

Cubs. Too much money.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Feels a bit like going over the plan for Ocean’s Eleven.

 

Ross: “Say we trade for Arenado, and manage to get them to take Heyward. And in that deal or another we trade away Quintana and Chatwood”

 

Jed: “without taking on salary or trading away MLB pieces”

 

Theo: “oh sorry, forgot to mention that”

 

Ross: “yeah, say we do all that. We’re just supposed to win the division with Mills, Cotton, and Rea starting half the games?”

 

Theo: “......yeah”

[Gilby]

Stating the obvious but these rumors are just so incredibly bizarre after everything that has (or I guess hasn't) happened lately. And somehow we're going to shed Heyward's contract in this process? I don't get it.

 

Unless Ricketts is ok going over the tax only if it includes Arenado, which lol, that's not the case.