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  1. CubinNY
    I mean why even try?
  2. CubinNY
    To quote John Candy in Stripes," But that's me, I'm an aggressive gambler, Mr. Vegas". I would sign Gallen and Bo and then strut around like Vince McMahon at the WWE compound whenever I saw another division rival's GM.
  3. CubinNY
    He cannot like baseball while playing for the Cubs as much as anywhere else.
  4. CubinNY
    Honestly, I'm a pretty harsh critic of the Cubs' entire administrative apparatus, but this trade is exactly the type they should be making at this point in time. They have an abundance of OF prospects at the higher levels, and Hernandez is no longer a "young guy" and has been playing professional baseball for a few years. I do think he may turn out ot have a better career than OWNKC, but even if Owen becomes a star, it's still a good trade b/c it fits the Cubs needs so well. I don't know how anyone can be critical, but to each his own.
  5. CubinNY
    Who are you two talking about?
  6. CubinNY
    Hernandez might turn out to be the better player. I think they also got another very low level IF.
  7. CubinNY
    Check that, great.
  8. CubinNY
    This is good
  9. CubinNY
    the best players
  10. CubinNY
    They won't go into ST without upgrading their starting pitching. I kind of love Zack Gallen for the Cubs. It may also come via a trade. They are chock-a-block full of outfielders all up. and down the system.
  11. CubinNY
    RF and LF in Wrigley are incredibly difficult to play because of the wind and the well. It takes time to learn. I'm not saying either is good or bad. Whatever issues are going to be exaggerated in specific conditions. Happ and, to a lesser extent, Soriano mastered the position. Fonzie mostly by just playing against the wall and using his cannon of an arm.
  12. CubinNY
    Yes!!! That's the point, isn't it? You generate value by underpaying rookies and preabritation players. and squeeze the arbitration lemon as hard as you can. Then you supplement them with "stars" or whatever and can't necessarily squeeze out value, because it's not there.
  13. CubinNY
    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.
  14. CubinNY
    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.
  15. CubinNY
    That's not remotely true.
  16. CubinNY
    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."
  17. CubinNY
    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.
  18. CubinNY
    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.
  19. CubinNY
    You don't offer someone something you're not willing to give.
  20. CubinNY
    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.
  21. CubinNY
    🥚
  22. CubinNY
    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.
  23. CubinNY
    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.
  24. CubinNY
    What does that mean? They are going to beat the players over the head with the RSN collapsing like it’s their fault.
  25. CubinNY
    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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