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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. -
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.
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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.
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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.
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The Cubs just acquired Houstons #2 and 3 slots for Ronald Torreyes.
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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.
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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.
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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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I believe that makes Alfonso Soriano the longest-tenured Cub — at least until he's traded and the title passes to Samardzija.
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From the standpoint of negotiating a contract extension, we've got Garza by the short hairs right now. He's certainly worth tendering a 1 year, 14 mil offer to. But he's not so good that teams will be lining up to give him the contract he wants AND lose their first rounder for the privilege. So we can probably get ourselves a pretty reasonable 2-3 year extension on his contract. Any Garza trade needs to reflect that leverage. Kelly and Hedges doesn't do that for me.
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I'm not sure I like including the submissions that didn't bother to fill out the whole thing. One person did a top 5 and another just a top 7, which artificially inflates the gap between some of the later players. At any rate, I noticed that I definitely have a case of Shiny New Toy Syndrome compared to the rest of you. Bryant was #2. Zastryzny #9, Hanneman #13, and Skulina #25 on my list.
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Minor League Discussion & Boxes 6-10-13
Rob replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
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Good pick
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THEY'RE WATCHING US Apparently the front office liked your argument better.
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I love the fact we picked a Mormon ten seconds after our religion conversation in this thread. That's fantastic timing.
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Did I say I was thankful? Tim did Then take it up with Tim. I maintain its not weird just to bring up the fact it could potentially be an issue. Especially since it has at least presented a media distraction before.
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Did I say I was thankful?
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Thank you for making me happy we didn't pick him. You guys are weird I don't see why. That said, welcome to like 90% of athletes on Twitter. Oh, you see plenty of "Thank God" and "I'm so blessed" stuff, sure. Token Christianity, mostly. Not a lot of people memorizing and utilizing long quotes from scripture. If he's a bit of a bible-thumper, I can see that not going over well in a locker room full of guys many/most of whom party hard and/or cheat on their wives pretty frequently.
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So much handsome at CF, 1B, and LF. Those are some good looking dudes, I must say. Where's Taiwan Easterling supposed to play?
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I wonder how much input Derek Johnson has into the pitchers we draft.
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Ok, that's interesting. I should know better than to listen to Mayo's opinion.
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He sure better. Slot for our 2nd rounder was something like 1.3 or 1.4 mil, wasn't it?
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I'm actually pretty confused by this one.
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The Span comp made no sense. The whole night has been a clinic in latent racism, so why not keep the theme going? I can think of 3/5ths of a reason.
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It kills me that MLB still insists on wasting five minutes in between picks. If the coverage was good, I'd be fine with it. But it's mostly moronic commentary and bad interviews. Cut it down to 2 minutes a pick and keep Jim Callis on screen at all times.
