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  1. CubinNY
    Why spend $4 million on a backup SS when you have Hoerner and Alcantra making league minimum? This sounds like another "we didn't trade Darvish for financial reasons" and "signing Gomes doesn't mean we're trading Contreras" statement. Because 4 MM is not a lot of money in MLB terms (as David has already stated). It's nothing and throwaway money. And you do remember that the Cubs already spent big on Marcus Stroman right before the lockout, correct? There are a hell of a lot of better directions to throw $4M. This is a smart dumb thing or a dumb smart thing whichever way you want to look at it. Get the backup plan in place first.
  2. CubinNY
    Someone check to make sure Jed isn't still receiving 17-year-old complaints about "Why can't we hit soft-tossing lefties" Why do you think he signed Miley?
  3. CubinNY
    I’d prefer a new lockout.
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  5. CubinNY
    Like Miley, I forgot Frazier was on the roster.
  6. CubinNY
    That's kinda how it has to work given the power dynamics, right? One favorable interpretation for the players is that they learned from the owners and started opening cracks in the system that can be expanded, the same way that the way the CBT operates now is far from what it was initially marketed. The bonus pool for pre-arb is a big thing there, and it'll be easier to continue to reform pre-FA comp with that mechanism to be added to/adjusted than it was in November. Service time levers are the other in that vein, though they are more modest in their current benefit. When you layer that on top of significant increases to minimum salary, the CBT, and closing some player unfriendly loopholes(option limits, draft/tanking reforms), I think they can be reasonably happy with the outcome, even if the net result isn't as much as our hopes and dreams given the last 2 CBAs. Yeah, the owners didn't get to the power side of the arrangement just through the last CBA, they got there through several of them. The players took a step back in the right direction this time and they'll just have to keep it up in 2026. They should bargain for scraping the CBT and go for revenue-sharing and a salary cap/floor. To me, it's the fairest way to divide the spoils. It also seems to work in other sports pretty well.
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    No
  8. CubinNY
    So, Levine says things have cooled and Morosi says Cubs are likely destination.
  9. CubinNY
    Lets go already, I want some rumors.
  10. CubinNY
    Game on!?!
  11. CubinNY
    I'm so ready to have inane arguments about baseball on this site again.
  12. CubinNY
    Banning shifting is a solution in need of a problem.
  13. CubinNY
    They can't trade players, have fans except for season ticket holders, or sell merch. Really seriously frozen, like in ice.
  14. CubinNY
    I'm backing the players regardless of what they want to fight about, but I do think an international draft is a weird hill to die on when the practical difference between that and the already-existing tight restrictions on spending in that area is not much. I think a lot of this is still on the owners for constantly being untrustworthy and now we have a situation where the players basically just want to say no and have things on their terms as a result, even though the two sides are moving closer on most issues. Now I'm just getting more sad than anything else. I am with the players, too. Unfortunately, MLB is using the GOP playbook of drawing the compromise line, not at the 50-yard line, but the 10-yard line hoping to get agreement at the 12-yard line, and when the players make it the 30-yard line they look bad.
  15. CubinNY
    Not good players, not good.
  16. CubinNY
    Apparently, the PA is not against the international draft as a concept, only that they want to delay it.
  17. CubinNY
    It looks like they are going to get this done!
  18. CubinNY
    That's a fair point. But at the same time, they are pricing people out of attending games as well.
  19. CubinNY
    It's dumb. It may benefit Apple+ as they may get a handful of new subscribers. But the vast majority of people who are baseball fans are a specific team fan first and a baseball fan last. They are not subscribing to Apple+ just for baseball. On the other side, MLB has further marginalized its product by placing a handful of games exclusively on an obscure content provider. It's short-term profit over long-term gain. Just horsefeathering stupid, stupid, stupid as usual. Instead of making the game more accessible, they are making it less accessible. Are there any strategic planners working for MLB or is just counting the money?
  20. CubinNY
    I love Grant. I wish he was a Cubs beat writer. He had another post that said something like, “my favorite thing to do on a Friday after work is to crack a beer and not watch a baseball game.”
  21. CubinNY
    Reminds me of the episodes of East Bound and Down where the goal of the show was to rip the other guys.
  22. CubinNY
    Owners are not interested in bargaining with the players. I don’t see that a season will happen any time soon.
  23. CubinNY
    6 feet 6 inches tall. Amazing.
  24. CubinNY
    The funny thing is the Ricketts probably don’t like soccer either.
  25. CubinNY
    Kind of ruins the the PTR narrative. The American oligarchs aren’t even trying to hide it.
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