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  1. Rob
    I've got his legion of fans. It's cute that they think they can wear me down. Fantastic.
  2. Rob
    I looked at some of that stuff yesterday. It was encouraging on the surface, but when I got to looking at contact rates and particularly swinging strike rates, I'm not at all convinced he'll be able to keep the K's lower than zips is suggesting.
  3. Rob
    Baez HR
  4. Rob
    Has goony come in here yet to tell us how holding onto Schierholtz and DeJesus signals we wont attempt to compete next year?
  5. Rob
    Mayo's new top 20: 1.) Javier Baez 2.) Albert Almora 3.) Jorge Soler 4.) Kris Bryant 5.) Mike Olt 6.) Arodys Vizcaino 7.) Pierce Johnson 8.) Arismendy Alcantara 9.) Junior Lake 10.) Matt Szczur 11.) Dan Vogelbach 12.) C.J. Edwards 13.) Brett Jackson 14.) Christian Villanueva 15.) Jae Hoon Ha 16.) Jeimer Candelario 17.) Paul Blackburn 18.) Duane Underwood 19.) Gioskar Amaya 20.) Alberto Cabrera This is... not a good list.
  6. Rob
    FYI, we have two AA's. That is not a good abbreviation for either of them. It's been established AA is Alcantara. It's been established that AA is a stupid [expletive] nickname for either of them. It's not a nickname, it's a way to not type Arismendy Alcantara. oic. y u no type tuip as s/n? a/s/l? omg lol Or just type Alcantara. It takes less than a second, and doesn't use the "must abbreviate everything!" thought process of a thirteen year old girl.
  7. Rob
    FYI, we have two AA's. That is not a good abbreviation for either of them. It's been established AA is Alcantara. It's been established that AA is a stupid [expletive] nickname for either of them.
  8. Rob
    Shut up. I'm so very rarely right when it comes to prospects. Let me enjoy this.
  9. Rob
    I remember being very against any deal that included Wells. At the time, they were coming off similarly valued seasons, IIRC. Garza still had a ceiling above that, of course, but it didn't make much sense to give up Wells+ at the time. I was still pissed about the deal when it went down (even sans Wells), but I hate almost every deal at first. I came around on it when I started to see Garza throwing a lot more breaking pitches and getting some strikeouts.
  10. Rob
    I probably would rank him the top pitching prospect, but if somebody is really worried about his size (and by extension, his ability to stay in the rotation) I wouldn't begrudge them for ranking Pierce Johnson higher. If we're completely ignoring that, I'd think Arodys Vizcaino would be the #1.
  11. Rob
    Lake has more walks than strikeouts in his MLB career. Figured I'd type that out while I've got the chance.
  12. Rob
    I think the recent backlash against Olt around here is going a bit over the top. No, he's not in any way the type of guy that can headline a package right now. But as the 3rd piece? Yeah, I'd love to have him in the system and see if he can't bring the K rate down to around 25%. He's plenty valuable at that point.
  13. Rob
    The Cards seem to have figured Gregg out.
  14. Rob
    That was absolutely terrible defense by Sappelt.
  15. Rob
    I still see it as unlikely that he's extended at this point, but I wont be upset if he does. All I care about is getting the best value - whether that's from a good extension, or (hopefully better-than-reported) prospects.
  16. Rob
    Look, you are the one who tried to equate this to trading for the 16 year old. They didn't have to trade stuff to sign him. They could have just signed him, and he wouldn't have been the only one. Sure, they could spend all the money they wanted to on international free agents. Of course, if we don't have the bonus pool to get that straight with the league, we aren't allowed to sign any of those players next year.
  17. Rob
    I think last year's Maholm trade had people expecting a bit too much out of a Feldman deal this time.
  18. Rob
    I got $999,100 in bonus money. $273,200 + $150,900 (Baltimore 3 & 4) + $468,400 + $316,300 (Houston 2 & 3) - $209,700 (Cubs 4 to LA). I wonder if the Cubs get a 5% overage on acquired pools too. Yours looks right. I probably typo'd somewhere. Edit: Nevermind. MLBTR is saying $963,100 too.
  19. Rob
    I saw somewhere in the madness that is my Twitter stream right now that we're sending some money with Marmol, like $2m or something. That sounds right. If we were saving about $3 mil on a guy we were going to cut in a couple days anyways, that would be crazy.
  20. Rob
    Feldman's salary is $6,000,000 this year plus $1,000,000 in incentives (unknown whether he'll reach them, but it's likely we don't have to pay) Marmol's salary is $9,800,000 this year. Clevenger's salary is $496,000 this year. Guerrier's salary is $3,750,000 this year. He had a $3 signing bonus to be paid in four installments from 2011-2014 (unknown who is on the hook for that) Arrieta's salary is $516,500 this year. Strop's salary is $502,500 this year. I'm not sure how these deals are prorated. But if we just say we're at about half the way through the season, we saved about $5,750,000 in salary commitments the rest of the way (depending on who pays Guerrier's bonus). That's in addition to the over $900,000 we got in international bonus pool money.
  21. Rob
    Cubs get: - Jake Arrieta - Pedro Strop - Matt Guerrier - $963,100 in International Bonus Pool money (total) Cubs lose: - Scott Feldman (to BAL) - Carlos Marmol (to LAD) - Steve Clevenger (to BAL) - Ronald Torreyes (to HOU) Is the only part of Marmol's contract we're paying the #4 slot? If so, we saved a truckload of money in these deals. Edit: Didn't realize Guerrier was that expensive.
  22. Rob
    The Cubs just acquired Houstons #2 and 3 slots for Ronald Torreyes.
  23. Rob
    I'm not angry about it(especially if this is the last resort to get IFA money), but those two would be easier to handle as a return if it were a lot later in the month. As it stands though, I am glad they got immediate contributors. Guess we have to hope they can fix something to bring down the walks for both of them. This is pretty much where I am.
  24. Rob
    You can probably figure mine out if you wanted to parse the data, but I guess I can put it all in one place. 1. Javier Baez 2. Kris Bryant 3. Jorge Soler 4. Albert Almora 5. Arismendy Alcantara 6. Pierce Johnson 7. Dan Vogelbach 8. Arodys Vizcaino 9. Rob Zastryzny 10. Jeimer Candelario 11. Junior Lake 12. Juan Paniagua 13. Jacob Hannemann 14. Duane Underwood 15. Matt Szczur 16. Alberto Cabrera 17. Christian Villanueva 18. Dillon Maples 19. Ronald Torreyes 20. Marco Hernandez 21. Paul Blackburn 22. Josh Vitters 23. Brett Jackson 24. Tony Zych 25. Tyler Skulina 26. Logan Watkins 27. Ben Wells 28. Jae-Hoon Ha 29. Austin Reed 30. Gioskar Amaya That was the submission I put together in a couple minutes. Looking at it now, there's a decent amount I'd change.
  25. Rob
    Gun to my head, I'd say it's because I'm far more familiar with the flaws of the people he's ranked above than I am with his.
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