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thawv

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Just now, Bertz said:

We are not doing this horsefeathering dance again

Yes we have, and it's much more than 30 million.  So what is your source?  Mine is Cot's.

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7 minutes ago, thawv said:

Where is your number of 30 million coming from?  

Sometimes I feel like you're the guy from Memento with this conversation.

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4 minutes ago, thawv said:

Yes we have, and it's much more than 30 million.  So what is your source?  Mine is Cot's.

Definitely the guy from Memento

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Just now, Tim said:

Sometimes I feel like you're the guy from Memento with this conversation.

All you guys just make up a number, but have no source to your payroll number.  I have at least mentioned my source.  

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21 minutes ago, Stratos said:

Word is KatyPerrysBootyHole has their crack to the ground and hearing some rumblings. possibly from her own hole though.

Could you specify which crack

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19 minutes ago, TomtheBombadil said:

So then lets not, right? And by that I mean also be willing to move him for impact talent as he’s frequently mentioned as The One untouchable

Paredes to the Astros for Tucker still makes zero sense to me. Astros move 2 out of the 3 best everyday players on the roster but still want an arb eligible starter the same age? Doesn’t add up*

Call me a douche but being critical of Shaw just being handed freebies and the a la carte logic doesn’t strike me as condescending? Idk like you’re both stating that starting him would be lukewarm, but lukewarm is 2 WAR in a world in which 133 among nearly 1500 MLs put up 2 WAR. And that’s the floor! Lukewarm! Don’t add up

*Note I’m not actually against moving players just not in unprecedented deals and much prefer this super deep and top ranked farm we hear so much abt

Edit: Yeesh look at the Mookie Betts trade compared to what’s being discussed 

League media’s clowning the Cubs and fans, call them condescending

I feel like the amount of available impact players on Tucker's level is very small, and the target needs to be at that level for Jed to consider Shaw. The amount of good 3B in the league is very small also. So if I were trading Paredes, then I would hold onto Shaw tightly as well, because the alternative options are not attractive and Smith probably needs a year at least and there's not enough pro data on him yet. So yeah, to me, if he didn't move him for Crochet he probably doesn't want to trade for Tucker or anybody. 

 

Paredes is an arb-eligible starter controlled for 3 years and not 1 and who will make less than half of that guy that they have no expectation apparently of resigning. That makes sense to me.

 

If I say, it looks like the Cubs are ready to run with Shaw, to noone in particular, just throwing an opinion out there, that is condescending?

Condescending to me is when someone quotes my post and in the last couple lines basically says "sheesh Cubs fans". Like talking down to someone as if they don't know what they are talking about. I don't believe there would be many posters here who feel like I do that.

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2 minutes ago, 17 Seconds said:

does this make them less likely to give up gil? I'm unfamiliar with their situation

I just posted something similar . I think it should , but never know .

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3 minutes ago, 17 Seconds said:

does this make them less likely to give up gil? I'm unfamiliar with their situation

I would think so.  They had 7 viable SP and hour ago, which is what made dangling Gil so plausible.  Trading another, and reportedly one of your best AAA depth guys in the Bellinger deal would feel dicey.

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7 minutes ago, thawv said:

Thank you!  Finally a source instead of just ignorant posts.  Cot's has them at 47.8 million under. 

Ignorant?  People have done the math for you ad nauseum.  You're the ignorant one.

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9 minutes ago, thawv said:

Thank you!  Finally a source instead of just ignorant posts.  Cot's has them at 47.8 million under. 

I'm positive people have talked about Fangraphs in other posts as their source.

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4 minutes ago, mul21 said:

Ignorant?  People have done the math for you ad nauseum.  You're the ignorant one.

Cot's has 47.8 million.  Put away about 10 million for injuries and deadline moves, we're looking at 38 million.  How is that ignorant to site a reputable site, that most people use?

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thawv

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4 minutes ago, Tim said:

I'm positive people have talked about Fangraphs in other posts as their source.

I never saw one source sited.  As often as I asked, you were the first to site a source.  Thank you

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