davell

SIT DOWN

A DP would be swell

Whew

DP PLEASE

KB BITCHES

That is what cracks me up the most about the Cubs fatigue stuff. You know who's even more sick of talk about lovable losers and curses and 108 years? CUBS FANS. Also, sorry that the Cubs are by far the best team in baseball with a rabid fan base and are a more compelling story than the Dodgers' make-a-wish campaign for injured pitchers. Actually, I'm fairly sure they're dedicating their season to that old ass dude that tells boring stories and messes them up all the time.

Yeesh. Jansen is a free agent, so screw him I guess. He's thrown 3 of 5 days for a combined 80 pitches, the closest he came to that this year was throwing 3 of 6 days for 59 pitches, and when he pitched the next day he blew a 1 run save. Its definitely something to tuck away. I was really wanting him to be a Cub next year. But they're riding the hell out of him obviously. At any rate, he's not full strength tonight, which helps.

They expect Jansen to be available, but for one inning only.

horsefeathers the Cards and White Sox, the Doyers are going to be our most hated rival for the foreseeable future. This is just the start of what's going to become a yearly event. Punch them in the mouth early and watch them choke on our dongs.

I think we left him on a rock in San Fran.

Zastryzny in, La Stella out for NLCS

I hope Miggy can play. If we go with 12, I'm hoping Seal Boy is the casualty.

[tweet] [/tweet] Not a hype video, but pretty cool.

Good God, even the Dodgers celebration is lame as horsefeathers.

I think CK just saw Wilmer Difo in the on deck circle lol

God damn, I'm so horsefeathering glad this ain't the Cubs in this horsefeathers.

Kershaw vs Bryce, comin' at us.

He didn't want to give away an out. Yet, he loves bunting. So yeah.

29 pitches for Jansen, with a guy on 1st and no outs. How long can he go?

Evidently, Eloy hit a ball 119 MPH today......In the Statcast era, only Stanton has done that.

But the thing is, he's kind of the reason we're having this conversation. Its a very real possibility he pushes Zobrist to the OF more often. Potentially making it even harder for a guy like Soler to find AB's.

Has anyone said he's INCREDIBLY expendable? Isn't most of my argument based on us also keeping Dex?

Are his constant injuries and his health good signs too? We don't HAVE to trade him. But that's not bad value(and it doesn't need to be a prospect, just that value equivalent) If we keep Dex, its not a horrible idea to look at the pitching he can net. If Candelario nets us the same, fine, look at moving him. But, looking at moving Soler isn't ridiculous at all. He's not very important to us, if we keep Dex. Even if he misses 80 games every year (like he did this year) he's still a surplus value for the next 4 years. You won't get that back in trade so yes it's stupid to trade him just because you can. That's why people who win the lottery go broke quickly. You're using .7 WAR as if its some sort of great gauge. Last year, he was at .1......Surplus value on these levels shouldn't even go into the equation. Especially when we have plenty of others who can likely provide that same surplus, in Almora, Candelario, Szczur, maybe Zagunis. You wouldn't be trading him just because you can either. You trade him IF you don't think he'll ever stay healthy, IF you think his defense cancels out a decent amount of his offense, and/or IF the pitcher you'd conceivably be getting in return, is someone you think is a contributor or future contributor. I have no clue what the FO sees at this point on him. If they still love him, he's obviously not likely to be moved at this stage of his value. If not though, grabbing what you can, while you can, is an option. I guess we'll see where they stand on him.

I'm actually relatively confident a guy like Zagunis can give us relatively decent AB's next year, if we needed him to. Wouldn't shock me if Candelario gets some Of reps this winter either.