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Clean books is Jed's calling card. I don't know what surplus value means, but to me it means you aren't sending money or taking trash when you want to do a trade. I know they put dollar values on WAR and I can't get behind that.
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I don't need to. All you need to do is look at the number of games he's caught in AAA. His problem, if you want to call it that, is that his bat is so advanced. And of course, the elephant in the room (no pun intended) is his weight.
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That's not remotely true.
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The offer is "come back to us if the contract terms are around X dollars for X years and we will see what we can do."
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Truth be told, I think "Clean books" means they aren't overpaying anyone by a substantial amount. And that's the way they want it.
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He has multiple guys, but my hypothesis is that they have a metaphorical price tag on every one, and they aren't going to go over what they think a guy is worth or the length of the contract. Jed likes payroll flexibility and "clean books" (whatever that means) so he can grab a high AAV guy like Tucker. They may also see Steele/Wiggins/Horton as the foundation of their rotation and don't like the prices for FA and trade candidate SP. They may see "the roster cliff" (TM, NSBB, 2026) as an opportunity to reset the core with Busch, OWNKC, Alcantara, PCA, Mo Baller, and Charlie Kirk's best friend. And we don't know how much PTR and the sibs are paying for The Zachary, the sports book, and the AirBnBs around Wrigley. So he may have told Jed that the LT is a hard line (or that lower than the LT is the hard line), so Jed is having to reverse-engineer everything from there.
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You don't offer someone something you're not willing to give.
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The offseason is far from unsalvageable. As is his pattern, Jed waits for the market to come to him. He takes whatever is left in the basket. I expect that they will have a payroll slightly under the luxury tax level.
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They have to be caught when the players get moderately expensive and they aren't waxing talent. They are definitely waxing now, with many of the trades they've made over the last couple of years. They have a decent manager, and I like Kapler a lot. I don't think they are going to make any moves that keeps the needle from rising.
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No. The correct interpretation is that they are in no way accurate and no one should pay any attention to them except in a general way to see a ballpark number that may or may not happen based on variables that are not controlled for, ever, no matter how much they "tweak" the system every year.
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What does that mean? They are going to beat the players over the head with the RSN collapsing like it’s their fault.
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So by your definition the Cubs are(?)… unintelligent spending? There doesn’t need to be a .80 correlation for something to be generally true. The Cubs should be spending more- and that’s the point. Intelligent spending is just a business buzzword PTR put in the lexicon for or five years ago. They are not using the one advantage they do have over everyone else. So I guess we agree. That’s pretty unintelligent.
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And also I’m going to start a Shaw for Gore rumor.
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The Cubs signing Gallen is far far from a sure thing with the QO attached.
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They aren’t willing to go long term but also aren’t willing to go make good. What did any one else expect? like here’s the pitch- well we don’t think you are good enough to invest long term but also you might be so we are not going to give you an opportunity to show you can. Ready to sign?
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The straw grasping and rationalizing is both expected and pathetic
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lol right on cue
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Who said we are tight lipped? That’s never been a problem here.
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I never considered that but it makes a lot of sense.
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So weird how this process has gone. Maybe Boras has something to do with it.
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We have one- it’s called The Ricketts are awful for many reasons. You have to go to page 3 or something
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We should know more by this afternoon if not sooner
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It’s like with Cease. The Cubs were interested but when the agent said we are approaching $200M, the Cubs bowed out. One could say they were never in it to begin with because they never made a formal offer, but I’d bet they made a proposal that would make manny fans happy.
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Lollypops and rainbows
