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What was the Office Space reference?
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I'd go 2 for 28 if necessary. I've always been an Oswalt fan though. I'd prefer 2 years, hence the larger AAV. 3 years, I'd give him 36.
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Would the Mets want minor leaguers for him? I could see if they lose Reyes as well, how Barney would be of interest to them. Maybe as a 3rd piece type guy anyway. Yeah, I figure they'd want Brett, but I would think they'd probably want major leaguers as well. Jackson, Cashner, and Barney? Is that enough? Not even close?
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In building for tthe future, it's certainly OK to add one big piece this year and another one next year, if that's what finances dictate. It's going to be up to Theo and Company, as to which way is best. Pujols or Fielder vs. Wilson this year, followed by Kemp, Upton or another huge hitter from 2013 vs. Cain, Hamels, Greinke or some other bigtime pitcher from that class. We probably need one of those hitters and one of those pitchers, at a bare minimum. We've just got to decide which way is the best to go.
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Going all in immediately doesn't seem like anything Theo would even think about. You do your player evaluations and just go from there. If you aren't convinced Wilson is the answer, then you pass on him and wait for what you think is a better option down the line. But, that doesn't mean you tank either. Adding a Kuroda, Oswalt, Bedard, or Vazquez helps our rotation quite a bit and all of them should be available on one or two year deals, maybe Oswalt gets 3. But I doubt the others do. It's just checks and balances. We've got Z and Demp gone soon anyway, so we've got to invest in pitching somehow.
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If Theo wants to come in and clean house, he's got the ability to do it. My honest guess is he'll take a year to evaluate things, but if he wants to trade Z, my guess is you could get a team to pay close to half of his 18 mill. Byrd is easily tradeable, if Theo wants to find more power out of a corner spot, with Jackson taking over CF. Soriano is even dealable now. Granted, we'd be eating too much money here, but he's to the point in his deal that by next year, he's a possible DFA candidate. Everyone else on the roster is definitely tradeable, so it's not going to take much for Theo to give this team a makeover.
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True, but I'd bet one way or the other that we don't go into next season with both Z and Dempster on our team. Whether it's a trade of Z or Demp opting out, I just doubt we only need to fill one spot. I'm not even sure Theo is going to want to trust Wells with a spot, could be replacing him possibly instead of one of them.
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Here's the starting pitching available this offseason: Bruce Chen, Erik Bedard, Mark Buehrle, Javier Vazquez, Yu Darvish, the guy coming over from Taiwan, Edwin Jackson, Hiroki Kuroda, Paul Maholm, CC Sabathia, CJ Wilson, and Roy Oswalt. If we're going to go for it, and not make any trades, then adding 2 of these guys is a necessity, along with one of Fielder or Pujols and some semblance of a solid 3B, Hopefully a platoon of Flaherty and LeMahieu to help keep cost down. For instance, adding Vazquez and Maholm to the rotation, Pujols, Kouzmanoff and a bench guy would probably keep our payroll around 130 or so. And to me, even that's a team that probably is a serious contender within the division. Payroll hike and we can do some serious damage, if you ask me.
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I don't care whether Dempster is back or not. We'd get a pick or two if he opts out and we offer him arb. I wouldn't want him back at his same salary unless we really are increasing payroll bigtime anyway. If he'd accept a 2 for 22ish type deal that gives us a little discount on 2012, then fine. Otherwise, let him walk and hold onto Z, since he'll be pitching for a new contract next year as well.
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Minor League Blog's Cubs Top 15 Prospects
davell replied to Little Slide Rooter's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
I think I may have been the only guy so far to post a list on here with him in my top 10. The very valid concern about him is age and how he'll do against better competition. By Instructs, it certainly looks like we have lots of reasons to be optimistic. But, even while I have him ranked where I do, I see why others will temper their expectations quite a bit. But, if you asked me who in our system has the ability to make biggest jump in other people's eyes, it's definitely him. -
Ricketts gave us all some pretty big hints when he said he wanted to model us after the Red Sox. Guess he wasn't kidding, huh?
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Do we have the best front office in the NL? MLB?
davell replied to David's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
We may have the best, but at the absolute least, we're in the discussion. Considering we were possibly bottom third this time last year, it's a pretty damn pleasing and shocking turn of events. -
Yeah, I can honestly say other while sleeping, I've checked in every couple of hours at least, usually much more often than that. Was checking Twitter a ton as well, but nothing of note ever made it 5 minutes without being posted here, so I quit checking there as often.
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Who will be the manager? Quade Fired (pg 15)
davell replied to Magnetic Curses's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
if we hired francona it would be too much boston. theo is all the boston we need. Nah, I want him to bring as many of his FO personnel as possible. Tito would be great, but I want as many of his guys coming with him as we can get. -
Who will be the manager? Quade Fired (pg 15)
davell replied to Magnetic Curses's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
My guess is Hale. If not him, then Ryno. Definitely think Quade's gone immediately though. -
Minor League Blog's Cubs Top 15 Prospects
davell replied to Little Slide Rooter's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
I don't even think Chen makes my final top 30. Not sure if Zych does either for that matter. -
It's not even sinking in to me. Theo Epstein is a Cub. Wow. Just hard to believe we've literally done a complete 180 in organizational philosophy within a single season. Unfreakingbelievable.
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I guess the Red Sox finally figured out it wasn't going to be all that smart to pay Theo 7 mill next year while he's sitting around throwing paper airplanes in the office.
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Awesome news! Does this actually mean Theo is now negotiating his own trade though? Is that what this means?
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If we're truly going to go into next year with the ability to spend a ton of cash, I'd rather have Pujols than Fielder. But, with the caveat of signing him to a shorter term deal than what anyone thinks is possible. Give him 4 years at 35 per or something like that. Include a couple of option years that are performance based at around 20 per on top of it. Make the entire value wind up at 6 for 180 or 7 for 200 max. Supposedly the Cards offered 9 for 195. He may see a deal like this much more enticing. But, we'd have to overpay obviously to get him to consider a shorter deal. But, I like this much more than having him on a 10 year deal or so where we're paying him 25 mill when he's 41 or 42 and he's a shell of what he was when we signed him.
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Hoyer took a horrible farm system and turned it into a top 10ish one. Without even having a huge budget to do so.
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So, does this basically signify the end of Tim Wilken's run here?
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Is there such a thing as a Padre fan to come do that?
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Should Hoyer have his own thread?
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What's next? Theo to play 2 for the Bulls? Maybe he's on a weight gain program to plug in at LT? Or is he actually going to be a part of the Cubs organization? BTW, how many pages were the Roberts and Peavy threads? Has this one eclipsed them yet?