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  1. Rob
    When I heard he was arrested, I thought to myself "I bet he utilized any relevant slurs against the police during his arrest." But I didn't understand why I thought that. Finding out he's MAGA explained it.
  2. Rob
    In fairness, that figure looks very different if you merely extrapolate his 2024 figures from his time with the Cubs rather than include his time with the Rays. I don't like doing such a thing due to sample size issues. But there's cause for concern with Paredes, certainly.
  3. Rob
    I doubt any disliked him. But I count myself amongst the number who are certainly skeptical. His profile seemed like a poor fit here, and so far it has been. I'm hopeful he eats his Wheaties and makes some adjustments going forward. There's enough that he does well that he can still be solid even if he's not a 3-4 fWAR player going forward. But I'm not expecting stardom despite his prior performance. If he's putting up 2.5 fWAR, I'm pretty happy and he's still a reasonable upgrade from Morel.
  4. Rob
    He specifically says he's NotKyle. Rude.
  5. Rob
    We all know why people want Sean Murphy...
  6. Rob
    Not to go all Tom with it, but there was no Age of Innocence. There was an Age of Plausible Deniability -- where everybody's bad acts weren't captured on video.
  7. Rob
    20th There were 8 teams with between 5.1 and 7.8 fWAR. Then a bit of a gap, and an additional 13 teams between 2.8 and 4.5 fWAR. Not too far behind the Cubs, it starts to get ugly. But we were still pretty firmly planted in the fat part of the bell curve, albeit on the wrong side of it.
  8. Rob
    Yup. Rose wanted to be in the Hall of Fame because he wanted to exploit that fame in pursuit of monetary gain. And it would have degraded the prestige of MLB and the Hall of Fame to allow him to do so. Schilling is in a similar boat. He wants to be in the Hall of Fame so he can charge more for autographs and so every ****** opinion he has is published "MLB Hall of Famer Curt Schilling says..." Allowing the Hall of Fame to be forcefully associated with his abhorrent politics would hurt the game. Both of them should probably get in eventually. But posthumous induction is preferable.
  9. Rob
    Bailey is the best defensive catcher in baseball by a mile. Most of his value comes from framing, so robot umps will ruin him. But he's a 4 win player this year despite a miserable bat.
  10. Rob
    I'd love to get my hands on Patrick Bailey. Part of me thinks that Posey might overvalue catchers. But another part thinks that he might want a higher offensive floor from his catchers just based on his own performance. Either way, it's criminal if Jed isn't checking in there.
  11. Rob
    I mean, ideally, Sasaki would come over. IIRC, he'd be capped-out at something like $5-6M kinda like Ohtani was when he came over early. So if Jed made the right sales pitch, we could get the best pitcher on the market for a pittance. Of course, if he does come over a year early he's probably signing with a better team than us. But maybe if we made an impact signing or trade to signal our intent to compete... So I guess we'd just have to sign Soto too.
  12. Rob
    Swanson was worth nearly 5 fWAR last season. He's on track to be worth about 4 fWAR this year. If he continues to lose 1 fWAR per season -- a very aggressive degradation of production -- he'd still put up a total of 15 fWAR (assuming we bench/cut him after he reaches replacement level) over the course of his contract. Which would mean we'd have paid him roughly $12 million per win. That is less than the rate we're paying Bellinger this year. Is that a mild overpay? Sure. But that's only with a pretty pessimistic decline baked into that. Swanson could still easily be worth the contract. I don't know why everybody's talking about him like he's some big disappointment -- he's been the most valuable player on the Cubs since we signed him.
  13. Rob
    Lowe is somebody I didn't think about, but he'd be a perfect fit. Trade for a Mariners SP (probably Castillo) + Vlad Jr. That'll probably require moving Busch, Nico, and prospects. Sign Lowe and one of the veteran catchers. LF - Happ 1B - Vlad Jr. RF - Bellinger (or throw money at Soto if Bellinger opts out) DH - Suzuki 2B - Lowe 3B - Paredes SS - Swanson CF - PCA C - Amaya/Kelly (or insert your other favorite borderline starter) Shaw and Ballasteros would be well-positioned to help at midseason or in the event of injuries to the starters. SP1 - Steele SP2 - Castillo SP3 - Imanaga SP4 - Taillon SP5 - Assad / Wicks / Etc... Probably still needs some relief help, but that's a solid team.
  14. Rob
    Busch was blocked by Freddie Freeman and Shohei Ohtani. We don't have anybody blocked to the same degree they did.
  15. Rob
    I feel like Busch to SEA makes a fair amount of sense, provided that we're able to use our prospects to peel Vlad away from TOR.
  16. Rob
    I think the solution to the catcher situation is to grab a borderline starter/backup type, much like Yan Gomes was when we first acquired him. Jansen, Kelly, and Higashioka all fit the bill. I have no strong preferences as to whom. Start the season with Amaya/Veteran. Give Amaya a chance to prove some of the late season adjustments may lead to full-season success. If Amaya bombs, it's Ballasteros' time to get a shot. At worst, he should be able to adequately back up one of the veterans. I don't think trading a bunch of assets for a guy like Langeliers is a good bet.
  17. Rob
    And he's already at 51
  18. Rob
    Extend Jed or fire him. I don't particularly care which. The one thing I don't want is a lame duck GM who tries to save his job by signing doomed contracts and making bad trades that will help in the short-term, but sink the team in the long run.
  19. Rob
    I'm surprised Chapman didn't wait a month and negotiate with the rest of the league. I know how poorly that went last year, but his problem last year was that he was ice cold in the second half and people thought he'd fallen off a cliff. This year, his production was good in the first half and has been even better in the second half. So I doubt his market would have been so reserved.
  20. Rob
    Yes and no. He was worth 2.0 fWAR in the COVID-shortened 2020 season. He pulled that in just 57 games. So that was easily his best pace, though it's an open question whether he'd have kept that pace up.
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  22. Rob
    Cubs offense woke up earlier this month. Is this the start of the defense waking up too?
  23. Rob
    PCA with the nice throw.
  24. Rob
    Cubs now at 69 wins.
  25. Rob
    Yeah, if the problem is that all of them are healthy at once, that just means they actually get to rest once a week. Not the worst possible outcome.
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