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Divorce sucks. I feel bad for the kids.
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Yeah, after reading that I'm going to give my daughter the biggest hug when I get home from work tonight. I ugly-cried while reading that. Not ashamed.
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Finally...
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1.) Jason Heyward is nearly as good as Bryce Harper this season. 2.) Javy struggles out of the gate and tries way too hard to bring his season averages up, causing a prolonged slump. He ends up around 1.5 fWAR. 3.) Bryant rebounds and posts a near-MVP season. 4.) Cole Hamels posts an ERA over 4. 5.) Darvish is our best pitcher around the All-Star break, but gets tired and struggles down the stretch.
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I'm pretty sure I simply no longer care about baseball at this point. Would anybody be able to explain cricket to me?
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Yeah, I'm done with him. And I'm done with the Cubs until he's off the team.
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Yeah, Russell needs to go. Yesterday. I'm so sick and tired of seeing the Cubs walk down this ugly path. Ever since they brought Aroldis Chapman in, this team has become harder and harder to cheer for.
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I certainly wasn't espousing my belief that everything is secret good news --just that I refuse to get worked up over reports that we're saying exactly what I thought we'd probably be saying.
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The Lester thing is clearly different. The Cubs were coming off a 73-89 season and had almost no big-league talent. This was not an organization that people were going to want to come to for reasons other than money. So we advertised the money. Now we have a team that good players want to be a part of, so our pitch can lean a bit more heavily on those things.
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Meh, I'm still not putting much stock in all the media reports. If Harper wants to be here (and it certainly seems that he does), it makes a lot of sense for the front office to act poor and hope he'll lower his demands to make it work. I refuse to get outraged when everybody is doing exactly what I'd expect them to do. I'll wait and hold my outrage until he signs elsewhere.
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2018-19 Other Team Offseason Transactions Not Worth a New Thread
Rob replied to Cubswin11's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
It's not really a bounceback deal. The Blue Jays are eating his entire salary. Wherever he signs, it will be for the $500k league minimum with the Blue Jays making up the rest for the next two years. So it's more a question of what team offers him the best opportunity for him to continue playing. I think the Cubs could be reasonably high up that list. We have a lot of roster flexibility, so he only needs to play when he's feeling up to it. There's plenty of other big names on this team, so nobody would expect much of him. They could just slot him in at SS 2-3 times per week and bat him 7th or 8th and let him work his way back on his own schedule. Good clubhouse atmosphere and a team that should definitely compete. There's a lot to like. -
2018-19 Other Team Offseason Transactions Not Worth a New Thread
Rob replied to Cubswin11's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
I would be all about trying to pick him up for the league minimum. -
The issue is Harold Baines only got in because he got the "he definitely didn't do steroids" vote from the Morganistans and "he was on my team" vote from LaRussa and Reinsdorf. It's not about making the Hall more inclusive and will not help other borderline cases. In the short term, I agree that it doesn't do much. But it should help the crowd of primary DHs. I imagine Edgar gets in this year, and Papi should follow him without sucking up a spot for 3-4 years while writers debate whether they can put DHs in the Hall. And even if you consider him a RF, I imagine it's a lot easier to check the box for a guy like Larry Walker when you know Baines is in.
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I've always been a "big Hall" guy, who thinks almost every borderline case should probably get the nod. So I'm trying to look at this bizarre election of Harold Baines and think about what it could mean for guys like Todd Helton, Gary Sheffield, Kenny Lofton, Jim Edmonds, Andruw Jones, Fred McGriff, Carlos Delgado, etc... It's a lot harder to keep guys like that out when guys like Harold Baines are in the Hall. So I guess I'm alright with it. That said, the utter sanctimony of the Hall of Fame voters keeping out guys like Bonds and Clemens has really turned me off on the whole thing.
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I never hated LaTroy. He was a perfectly fine setup guy who openly expressed that he didn't want to close games, and Dusty pushed him into that position regardless. When he'd screw up, I'd be mad at Dusty rather than him.
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I am struggling to process what I just read. I cannot fathom how a parent could be so cruel to their own child. Simply unbelievable. I felt awful for letting my daughter cry for 30 seconds because I couldn't hold her and look under the couch for the pacifier she wanted at the same time. I cannot fathom actively inflicting that kind of pain on your own child. Simply monstrous.
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Rumor has it that it may not have been an accident. Apparently bandits in Venezuela like to place boulders in the road to make people stop or cause accidents so that they can rob them. This is heartbreaking stuff. He was always a favorite of mine.
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I keep coming back to the Milton Bradley situation. Even when it was clear they didn't want him back, I was livid at Hendry for putting the final nail in the coffin for his trade value by suspending him at the end of the season. I couldn't understand how he could overlook the obvious baseball implications. I was very wrong about that. The more info we got about how bad it was, the worse and worse I've felt about defending Bradley. I'm not making the same mistake again. Russell needs to go.
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Tommy's overall numbers as a Cub. 597 PA, 62 R, 9 HR, 63 RBI, 2 SB, .273/.356/.397 He was basically a league-average hitter despite the pinch-hitting penalty. So he might do just a bit better in Anaheim while playing slightly below-average defense. He could string together a few nice seasons and put up 2-3 fWAR pretty easily. Or he could be out of baseball in two years. Given his history with the Cubs, I'm hoping its the former.
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I don't think Russell plays another inning for the Chicago Cubs, but I do wonder if they could get away with optioning him to Iowa for the start of the season and hoping he plays well enough to build trade value for a desperate contender. I don't think they will, but I'm just curious about the technical aspects of it. I'm pretty sure he has options left. I'm pretty sure he doesn't have enough service time to negate those options. I'm less certain whether that would be grounds for a grievance with the union.
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i love these lists every year Next year's is likely to be a doozy. He's within 5 fWAR of: Jim Thome Ivan Rodriguez Larry Walker Carlos Beltran Paul Molitor Ozzie Smith Willie McCovey Barry Larkin Robin Yount Manny Ramirez Tim Raines Mark McGwire Harmon Killebrew Edgar Martinez Tony Gwynn And he's within 10 fWAR of: Derek Jeter Reggie Jackson Rod Carew Frank Thomas Eddie Murray Ron Santo Miguel Cabrera Rafael Palmeiro Scott Rolen His 64.7 fWAR currently ranks him 5th among active players, behind only: Albert Pujols - 88.2 Adrian Beltre - 84.0 Miguel Cabrera - 70.7 CC Sabathia - 67.8 None of those guys look to be contributors for much longer. So he's likely to take over as the active leader within the next few years unless he falls off pace and Justin Verlander (63.6) or Clayton Kershaw (61.6) can pitch like an ace for a few more years.
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A partial list of players Mike Trout passed this season the career fWAR leaderboard: Jim Edmonds Alan Trammell Yogi Berra Mike Piazza Roberto Alomar Duke Snider Ernie Banks Chase Utley Willie Stargell Kenny Lofton Joe Torre Gary Sheffield Dick Allen Pee Wee Reese Darrell Evans Hank Greenberg Ryne Sandberg Joe Jackson Billy Williams Sammy Sosa Dave Winfield Bobby Abreu Andre Dawson Keith Hernandez Tony Perez Ichiro Suzuki Jackie Robinson Fred McGriff Robin Ventura Jeff Kent Lance Berkman Todd Helton His career 64.7 fWAR ranks him 89th of all time on total career value. He's officially entering the part of the list where there are more HOF players than not. He's still just 27 years old.
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Yelich with a 2 run shot and Braun with a solo shot to tie it up.
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And the Phillies have now been eliminated.
