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Is anyone counting on Brailyn Márquez at all next year?
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Brett seems to think that Cubs and/or other "big market" teams will not sign any QO free agents. If he is correct, that leaves a limited pool of smallerish market teams for these guys. If true, the owners have won the chess game and wages will be severely depressed.
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That reminds me - Sulley still owes me money from that wager. Socialists don't pay their debts.
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As predictable as ever. I’m not a betting person but if I was I would’ve bet a lot of money on Purdue this week.
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Who said we shouldn’t talk about it? Put it in the off-season transaction thread. He’s nothing. This is a nothing move. Not even a fungible asset. The definition of dumpster diving.
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This not worth it’s own thread.
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I've never owned a car that could go that fast, but if I did I sure as hell wouldn't be tanked anywhere near it nor would I have a horsefeathering gun in it That's just you. I always go 100 MPH high off my ass with my Glock in my lap in downtown Vegas.
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Let's get this party started!!!!!!!!!! Which FA are the Cubs going to be attached to who they ultimately lose out on, but the offer was "competitive". Let's go!
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MSU will do an MSU thing like they always do and lose to Purdue, PSU, or Maryland and get wasted by OSU. So they will be out.
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At least this one had runs. Game 3 was over the 2 hour mark, it was 1-0 and they weren’t even through 5. Overmanaging + too many commercials + no pitch clock I don't understand people bitching about watching something they purport to enjoy being too long and boring. Baseball is like an opera and for a fan of the teams/game, the ups and downs and pauses make it that much more compelling. It's for the World Series where one mistake can make or break a season.
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This was a write up on him in early 2020. Seems to have tapped into something. I love he was already an above-average defensive player. The 2022 ETA might be right on the money.
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That's exactly correct. Baseball is like a microcosm of America, it's always has been that way. They are going to degrade the game to make a few extra millions per year.
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Front office types don't want to work for a meddling owner. The Mets need to find the next Theo circa 2000.
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According to a report in The Athletic, the Cubs will shop Contreras if they can't get an extension worked out. I don't know what that timeline would look like though. I'm guessing by the Winter meetings, but I don't really have a clue. Who they may replace him with is something I'd really like to know. I have no idea who is available. A 34-year-old Yan Gomes or a 34 year old Manny Pina?
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Alabama may be off a tick or two from usual, but they aren't going to lose again.
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Megill?
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I’m not much of a scout or whatever, but I think fields has the tools to be a good QB. He doesn’t have the talent around him. However, you can see the separation between him and Brady. He needs a good coach(es), game plan, and talent.
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That was a fun and exciting ending. I think they should change the rules of college football and just make the entire game overtime.
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Brett has a write up about the Cubs potential strategy that makes sense to me. And I agree with him, if they go short-term high AAV and end up missing out on the guys they target resulting in seconds and odds and ends they will have failed miserably. https://www.bleachernation.com/cubs/2021/10/23/can-the-cubs-actually-afford-to-sit-out-the-deeper-end-of-the-free-agent-pool-entirely/
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Plan to try what? Winning without spending too much. "Compete" is going to be the watchword.
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They got spent by the Giants. It's why a seven game series is important. They need to shorten the season by two weeks and have all playoffs series be seven games.
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Who are they going to replace him with? It's not trading him that is the main problem, it's replacing him. Especially, on a team that is absent talent.
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As we have seen, that's much easier said than done. It's stupidity draped in 3-dimensional chess.
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MLB to begin Providing Housing for Minor Leaguers
CubinNY replied to Bertz's topic in General Baseball Talk
They already cut a bunch of teams, I'm not sure how much more they could realistically chop. (Not that they might not try.) They could not have set out a better to plan to kill baseball if they tried. Naked greed. -
I'm a little bit late on this thread, but why in Jah's name would the Cubs be interested in trading Willson Contreras if they say they plan to be competitive soon? The only way I could squint and see it is if they got a cheaper version of him in return. If they trade him they are tacitly admitting that they have no plans to compete any season soon.