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  1. davell
    Honest question, why would you think it would work that way? I always assumed it meant the original team would keep sending the player checks throughout the year. That's what I'd always thought as well. But I've seen a few articles mentioning we're receiving 500K from the Marlins and are responsible for the rest. I'd have thought if the player is traded with cash, that the money goes towards paying him. But I guess the team can do whatever they want with it. Again, I'm making assumptions based on verbiage so I could definitely be wrong. It certainly seems like a Lauria type thing he'd do.
  2. davell
    Zobrist or Murphy next year at 2B. I'd say Kendrick, but I doubt we'd give up our 1st next year for him honestly. I think they'd want more impact to show for losing it than for him. just a guess though obviously. Unless they signed Zimmermann and just punted the draft-which also seems unlike this FO. Price won't cost one, I figure he's our top target, unless we trade for pitching and go after Heyward-who I don't see us having any issue at all giving up the pick for.
  3. davell
    How many true landing spots ARE there for Starlin, in all seriousness? The Nats, if Desmond declines a QO, would be a possibility. The Rockies, if they move Reyes in the offseason. The Reds, is Suarez a guy they're high on? I honestly don't know. The Mets, unless they have decided to just love Flores since he cried. The Rays have a true need, Cabrera has been bad and is a FA The White Sox maybe? But they can keep Alexei on a 10 mill team option. The Twins, it looks like they're in serious need, unless they've got a guy thats missed the season I'm forgetting. The Pads, who are definitely in need. From a FA standpoint, you'll have Stephen Drew, Asdrubal Cabrera, Ian Desmond, and Jimmy Rollins. When I started looking, I honestly thought I'd have a hard time finding options. The more I look though, the more I think he's definitely getting dealt and considering the options out there, it doesn't even have to be a complete dump.
  4. davell
    In response to Sneaky, even if the defensive numbers show he's just below average, I think the FO would likely prefer keeping Montero as a safety net for one more year. Whether you could keep him happy catching 40% of the games or not may be worth asking, but they'd have that talk and figure it out, I guess. 3 catchers is something that's obviously not ideal, but if 1 plays LF 40% of the time(Schwarber, 40% behind the plate too) and you grab Zobrist or Daniel Murphy to use as a multi position guy, I think it'd be fine.
  5. davell
    I'd love Heyward, any guesses on his upcoming contract? That'll begin with him at 26 years old.....8/200 possibly? Chance he gets 10 years from a team?
  6. davell
    I actually think we're paying all but 500,000 of Haren's remaining salary. The Dodgers sent 10 mill or whatever to Miami-but at that point, I guess it's theirs to do with what they want. I guess they used the Dodgers money to pay for him while he was a Marlin, but pocketed the last 2 months salary, minus 500,000.
  7. davell
    If I had to place bets, I'd bet Starlin and Javy are dealt in the offseason, but Montero stays.
  8. davell
    Jesus, are there really people upset with Lester's contract? I honestly thought that was one that we all basically agreed on.
  9. davell
    This isn't fantasy baseball. Is it likely that Schwarber is ready to be an everyday C in the majors? That's technically undetermined, but odds aren't good he will be. I'm as big of a Javy guy as there is on here too, but it's also extremely unlikely they move Castro to give him the job next year. They may(likely will) move Castro, but they would bring in a starting caliber guy to challenge Javy or give them a plan, if he fails(Zobrist).
  10. davell
    I'm guessing it'll be Lester/Ross, Arrieta/Montero, Hammel/Schwarber, Hendricks/Schwarber, and Haren/Montero. Start Schwarber 2 of his 3 games not catching in LF. Coghlan gets the 2 games Schwarber catches and the 1 game Schwarber has off.
  11. davell
    Well, she pretty much only reports what is told to her directly by the Cubs, so it's hard to be wrong then When she takes things into her own hands, she asks why Clayton Kershaw is in a Cubs uniform. Only to be informed its Brett Jackson.
  12. davell
    If I were trying to come up with 5 criticisms of this FO, I think I'd go this way..... 1) They very possibly broke Starlin. I think most would have tried to get him to show more patience, but it's still their job to know whether or not a guy has the makeup to do it. 2) The Almora pick. Hard to argue with Kyle's "CF Darwin Barney" comp. A hit with that pick and we'd be in that much better shape. 3) Lack of pitching from the draft. Probably too early to use this as a definitive, but drafting hitters lends itself to developing pitching that's not quite as talented. It's yet to be done with youngsters, even though I think it's fair to say they've excelled with older guys. 4) The IFA class from this season looks awfully weak for a team that's gone way over budget. Could be they fell in rankings from less looks after committing long ago, could be we flat out mis-judged them. At any rate, it's obviously way too early to know. But initial reports seem to support the former. 5) Edwin- No explanation necessary. They've obviously done a bunch right. I do think they're an elite FO. But I'm of the mindset at this point, there's not a huge discrepancy between the elite and the average. The only discrepancy falls with the Amaro and Stewart types.
  13. davell
    I don't think the Cardinals see any of that money for a couple of years I just saw a blurb yesterday, I hope you're right.
  14. davell
    1) Count me with David. Most baseball fans I know seem to love our future. Probably more so than hardcore Cub fans who see things negatively from the outset. 2) 2016 is up in the air-Depends on offseason, not just ours either, with Cards getting new TV deal. 3) I'm assuming this exercise means no playoffs for Cubs this year, right?
  15. davell
    I'll have to dig it up again, but I believe last year I came up with three teams who were below us in either a 2011 or 2012 farm ranking report, were under .500 in 2011, spent less than $100m in payroll each year, and made the playoffs in either 2012, 2013 or 2014. Once shouldn't be under consideration since you just said twice was a MAYBE for you. It was a maybe because I don't know the White Sox's current situation all that well. I know they've got like Sale and Rodon and Abreu, but I have little idea beyond that. I'm not THAT up on them either. Quintana, they're annoyingly high on Avi Garcia.....Adam Eaton. I'm not in love with any of their minor league guys.
  16. davell
    I'll have to dig it up again, but I believe last year I came up with three teams who were below us in either a 2011 or 2012 farm ranking report, were under .500 in 2011, spent less than $100m in payroll each year, and made the playoffs in either 2012, 2013 or 2014. Once shouldn't be under consideration since you just said twice was a MAYBE for you.
  17. davell
    With 0 playoff berths? No. If they had one or two, maybe. Two is just a maybe for you? You evidently like our future quite a bit, if that's the case. I honestly think the criteria you have set is something that maybe could have been accomplished 1 time out of 25 run thrus. And with those odds, it wasn't worth it to chase it.
  18. davell
    I would take us against the field(assuming you mean division) in 2017 and with a halfway successful offseason, in 2016 too.
  19. davell
    I think that in order to be thought of as unquestionably good at this point, we should have employed parallel fronts to at least two competitive seasons and an above-average stable of young talent (doesn't have to be mega-super-elite, just 14th out of 30). So like Hahn, if they win 84 this year? Is their stable of young talent above-average? Definitely not elite. But likely in that 11-20 range that could be considered interchangeable. So, my question is if they're 11th in this exercise....They conceivably have 2 .500+ seasons with 84 this year(0 playoff berths) and a worse looking future.....You'd prefer that to where we're at? That's what you're saying.....
  20. davell
    I think that in order to be thought of as unquestionably good at this point, we should have employed parallel fronts to at least two competitive seasons and an above-average stable of young talent (doesn't have to be mega-super-elite, just 14th out of 30). So like Hahn, if they win 84 this year?
  21. davell
    If you somehow got lucky and made the playoffs once in those 3 seasons, the odds would be that your future wouldn't look as good as it currently does and you'd likely lose that 1 playoff advantage by the end and maybe more.
  22. davell
    I don't think *any* other GM would have done what Epstein did, and I think many of them would have had better results. The pointless personal shots are, as usual, noted and given their due relevance. It's not a personal shot whatsoever. It calls you out for continually being as vague as humanly possible and never giving anything substantial. I've taken up for you on most cases, even if we do go back and forth a ton. I'm not asking for you to try and go through fictitious 4 seasons worth of moves....I just want more than standard whack off [expletive] you're spewing while naming nobody or at least giving a general idea of what you'd think other GM's COULD have accomplished during that time, inheriting what they did.... One playoff berth? More? Future look brighter? Worse? If you're going to continue to bitch about this group, at least give us your god damn Gokd standard of where you think we should be right now instead.
  23. davell
    Yep. Those were our choices that offseason. Epstein, Beane, Amaro and Stewart. The only four on the table. Now who's changing his criteria to fit his needs? I'm implying no smart GM would have went a different direction than what was chosen. Name some guys you think would have.....Maybe Hahn? They did win 85 his first year.....Missed the playoffs, won 63, 73, and are a bit under .500 this year, without a great looking future. Which is likely the same general area of where anyone would have navigated us as well trying it that way. Wait. There is one GM I'm forgetting.....Kyle Hindsight, who would have had us with a top 5 system, have averaged 88 wins during these 4 seasons, trending upwards, with a 75 mill payroll and no bad contracts.
  24. davell
    I want to see an alternate universe where Epstein treats the Cubs like he would have treated the Red Sox in the same situation. Or at least one where we hired someone else. With a shrinking payroll and definitely less than league average talent-I think you'd have seen the Amaro's and Stewart's of the world choose a different path than Theo took, that's it. MAYBE Beane, but if the first year started out poorly, he'd have retreated and done the same.
  25. davell
    I want to see the alternate universe where Hendry inherited Hendry's mess, with the restricted payroll, and for Kyle to have to watch THOSE seasons forever.
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