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who asked for clippy in the metaverse
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*errors
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Curbelo into transfer portal
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..nice clearance?
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makes sense for a moment til you reason that instead of Schwarber Darvish Bryant doing nice things sometimes, you just have a couple new guys to provide a few compelling moments on a kinda dog horsefeathers team in actuality you get to May and you're sick to death watching Andrelton Simmons pop out so you steadily tune out for the remainder of it -
the optimistic take being that we're unlikely to do better than 3rd place in a weak division, but(!) there's help on the horizon with some talented kids who mostly haven't even seen stateside competition yet, so come.. 2025? you can start to conceive of a manner we'll have some pieces in place to put up a fight kinda bleak if you ask me
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I'll use Fangraphs grades/rankings since it goes very deep in a sortable way. In their updated 2022 rankings, there are 114 players with a FV of 50 or better and 5 are Cubs. Drop down to 45 grade(which includes 45 and their "45+" designation), and there are 213 players and 16 are Cubs, most of any org. It doesn't strike as particularly far-fetched that 3 of those top 5 play well(or hold steady and others fall off/graduate) and 2-3 of the subsequent 11 take a big leap, or some combination therein. ok only focusing on the one service that's anomalously higher than the rest and assuming positive outcomes throughout paints a bright picture in our rose colored daydreams last year at this time Amaya's and Marquez's and Franklin's arms stayed intact and Howard learned how to hit a baseball so who knows maybe the opposite is likely to happen this year with everybody's development, i just know i really wouldn't bet much on it
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there is absolutely not a very real chance of that, come on probably are 5-6 guys that could have a chance to make the jump, sure, but very remote odds that they'll all explode on the scene in concert
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i don't see that at all, like the one benefit of building the entire team out of nice bench players is you're not really too exposed to major injuries torpedoing your season, but except for Suzuki & maybe Madrigral/Happ, bullpen leverage, there's not really a whole lot of positive variance you can foresee either the team probably is what it is for the most part
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some impressive cope to reason, it's ok that we're punting needlessly because we gotta wait 3 years for our #16 farm to come kick ass
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I'mma stop you right there. It was way more than a couple years of tanking. They bought the team in 2009, the Cubs lost 89 games in 2014. There have been 5 (if you are being generous) non-tanking seasons in a 12-year span of their ownership and they are deliberately entering their 13th season of ownership with three hands tied behind their back. Payroll in the Ricketts era pre-Theo was 3rd, 4th, and 6th. Incompetence is not tanking. c'mon that was grandfathered in, their total spend in the 10-11 offseason was less than $28M
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Gigantic Willy Style - The Willson Contreras Thread
sneakypower replied to Sammy Sofa's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
taking a brainless approach to team building as well, expressing general satisfaction with our middle infield as it stands and the .550 OPS horsefeathers head currently slated to start -
same class as Carsen Edwards, Zavier Simpson, Cassius Winston, amazing
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was looking up Eli Brooks' recruiting class then fell down the rabbit hole to recall Kansas standout Jalen Coleman-Lands was in the same recruiting class as Ben Simmons, Donovan Mitchell, Luke Kennard, Mo Wagner lol, nobody loves the college experience more than this guy [attachment=0]jcl.PNG[/attachment]
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Kofi played all game wearing a seat belt, refs kinda clueless what to do
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down goes UK & Coach Cal
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i had them in my final 4 whoops
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Gsellman, Espinosa, Norris, Gonsalves..we're just using 2017 top prospects lists as a checklist
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also did the butt slide
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isn't he the king of being TOOTBLAN? as a Brewer he stole 1st base against us, from 2nd base
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Sounds like Jones' concussion was suffered in practice between the BTT and going to Indy for the 1st round butterfly effect
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Whaddaya Seiya Suzuki (Signed with Cubs, 5/$85m)
sneakypower replied to David's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
this guy is surely a bad bs artist https://twitter.com/KuchiSports/status/1504101695651041282 -
injuries to Isaiah Livers last year & Devante' Jones this year, maybe Michigan should try to opt of the B1G tourney next year
