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  1. Rob
    why would the cubs do that? I would think you'd really like Ackley as a target. College bat with a great BB rate and some pop for a 2B plus a strong MLB season. He's had a couple down years, but that's why he's available and he's 26 next year. Lake would be selling high on his MLB time last year and his tools, plus the Mariners aren't going to trade Ackley without getting something that can help right away given their current situation. how is his outfield defense? He hasn't played much out there, but UZR hates him in CF (-10.3 UZR/150). It likes him at 2B though (7.3 UZR/150). I'd like him a lot better if he had any semblance of power. He had one decent half season for that, but the last two years his ISO has been in Darwin Barney territory.
  2. Rob
    His swinging strike percentage last year was actually the highest its been since 2010. I wouldn't be shocked at all to see the strikeout rate climb back up a bit. On the negative side of things, his first pitch strike percentage last year was his lowest of his career. So I'm not sure the improved walk rate isn't a mirage.
  3. Rob
    Proposal or rumor?
  4. Rob
    Another pretty interesting day. Cano to the Mariners at 10 years and $240 mil. Granderson to the Mets for 4 years and $60 mil. Feldman to the Astros for 3 years and $30 mil. Kuroda to the Yankees for 1 year and $16 mil. Not bad before lunch.
  5. Rob
    The reason I like getting surplus value on the complementary type players is precisely because it allows us to have the money to overspend on the difference makers. Overspending on them is fine as long as it doesn't get too crazy.
  6. Rob
    Looks like we'll control Wright through 2015 too. Nice.
  7. Rob
    Yeah, I'm pretty thrilled with this if that's all it took.
  8. Rob
    Honestly, with the way this offseason is going I'm surprised not to be hearing more about trading for Stanton. I'd have thought every writer would spend all through January working up trade proposals, and every fan on every board going nuts about the possibility.
  9. Rob
    I edited my post on the last page. Szymborski got duped by a fake twitter account, and took me along for the ride. Cano is still on the market.
  10. Rob
    Edit: Dan Szymborski is a jerk retweeting fake accounts. Cano not off the market yet.
  11. Rob
    Losing out on Ellsbury really, really sucks. And acquiring him instead of Cano probably leaves the Yankees with enough money to get Tanaka too. This offseason is not going well.
  12. Rob
    A's trade Seth Smith to the Padres for Luke Gregerson. I hope the Cubs go after one of Maybin or Venable.
  13. Rob
    I do hope they manage to bring Lim back at a more reasonable price.
  14. Rob
    I wonder if Kaplan's racism extends to the manager position.
  15. Rob
    He'd have to be under about $3 mil for me to even consider that one. He's been pretty atrocious the last couple years.
  16. Rob
    I don't think I could care less about Hughes signing elsewhere.
  17. Rob
    I'd almost guarantee we're set at C now. It'd have to take something silly popping up in trades from here out.
  18. Rob
    It sure is. Last year he walked more often than Joey Votto and struck out more often than Adam Dunn. That's talent.
  19. Rob
    Nice, assuming we didn't have to give up anything worthwhile.
  20. Rob
    Lawrie is better than every single one of our 3B options. 106 career wRC+ in over 1100 career PA despite being just 23 years old. Plus defender and the scouts loved him. Still cheap and under club control for a few more years. There are plenty of ways to rearrange the defense to accommodate Baez and Bryant if/when they force the issue. If Lawrie is on the table, the Cubs would be fools to pass him up. There's no [expletive] way he's a better option than Bryant unless the world has gone crazy. I love Bryant, but he's still got plenty to work on in the minors. He's played 16 games at A+ and 20 games in the AFL and he's still striking out in over a quarter of his plate appearances. Nobody thinks the glove is ready yet either. Steamer is currently projecting .213/.261/.348 for him. Yeah, Bryant may be a better option in the long-term. But Bryant is far from a guarantee to force his way up before the end of 2014 and be handed the starting job in 2015. It could be 2-3 years before Bryant is really ready to take over the reins.
  21. Rob
    Lawrie is better than every single one of our 3B options. 106 career wRC+ in over 1100 career PA despite being just 23 years old. Plus defender and the scouts loved him. Still cheap and under club control for a few more years. There are plenty of ways to rearrange the defense to accommodate Baez and Bryant if/when they force the issue. If Lawrie is on the table, the Cubs would be fools to pass him up.
  22. Rob
    Damn good signing. I like his chances to bounce back.
  23. Rob
    If I thought for a second that the Cubs are serious bidders on Tanaka, Ellsbury, Choo, or even Ubaldo I'd be feeling a lot less pessimistic right now. What was the last estimate as far as how much payroll room we have to work with though? 15 mil after arb raises or something like that? I keep trying to puzzle my way through a workable solution, but I'm stumped. What potential matches are you looking at in trades? The only guy I could really see us pushing for is Porcello.
  24. Rob
    I don't know what you're drinking (or smoking), but it's pretty potent stuff. You're right. We just need to bring Hendry back. He can work out a three way deal where we move Vitters, Jackson, Barney, and Lake for Trout and Cabrera. Then we are golden. I guess you're still fixated on Hendry. If you think signing a few mid-tier FAs are going to get us to about 88 wins, then you're drunk, stoned, or crazy. Read it again. Slower. Key off of words like "magically" and the creative use of italics. Report back to us when you grasp what I was actually saying.
  25. Rob
    I don't know what you're drinking (or smoking), but it's pretty potent stuff. You're right. We just need to bring Hendry back. He can work out a three way deal where we move Vitters, Jackson, Barney, and Lake for Trout and Cabrera. Then we are golden. And don't worry, the other teams won't notice they're getting screwed because you thought to include a Kendrick for Porcello swap, you glorious bastard.
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