Sammy Sofa
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Wrigleyville is packed nearly every weekend regardless of whether or not it's baseball season.
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Ugh. I swear, it's like Soriano has left Cubs fans with PTSD. The 2010 Cubs were the result of poor team construction from the top to the bottom. Blaming it on "bad big contracts" or whatever the [expletive] is a stretch to say the least. All I was alluding to is that it's hard to compete when players like Soriano and Zambrano make up roughly 25% of your payroll, and it's been that way for several years. It puts you in an unnecessary hole that's difficult to get out of. It does, but it's hardly insurmountable, especially when you're talking about 25% of a nearly $130 million dollar payroll. Look, signing Soriano for the years and money he got was a bad move from day 1, everyone knows that. It was not, however, an "albatross" contract for a team with the resources of the Cubs. Looking at the Soriano contract as being indicative of the main problem is looking backwards at how poorly the team was constructed overall. Soriano's deal didn't make or break the Cubs. Hell, Soriano's deal coupled with Zambrano's (and it's ridiculous revisionist and alarmist history to lump that in with Soriano's deal as if they're readily comparable) didn't make or break the Cubs. What broke the Cubs was crappy, crappy drafting and player development.
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Ugh. I swear, it's like Soriano has left Cubs fans with PTSD. The 2010 Cubs were the result of poor team construction from the top to the bottom. Blaming it on "bad big contracts" or whatever the [expletive] is a stretch to say the least.
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Really hope this is true. It would explain a lot with the spending, too.
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Yeah, $18 million is all it takes to build a hell of a contender. no one said that 18 million is all it takes to be a contender. only that they arent willing to spend on a big free agent with that contract hanging around. 18 million may or may not make us a contender with this division you never know. 18 mil spent properly probably makes us more interesting to watch though. Thats all im looking for really. Field a team that has a chance to be .500 while all the guys in the minors continue to progress. The Cubs are in REALLY bad, bad, bad shape financially if the remaining three years of Soriano's contract are anything more than a frustrating annoyance. Fortunately, that doesn't seem to be the case.
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Yeah, $18 million is all it takes to build a hell of a contender.
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You're horrible.
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Update thread title, please.
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Yes, the "many" are right.
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You don't?
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We got any of that popcorn left?
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Somebody here actually has a VoR post as their sig.
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Trading Soriano
Sammy Sofa replied to ctcf's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
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i'm sure they did. i'm saying that miami is the only location where he visited and checked out the stadium. Not coming to Wrigley definitely works in the Cubs' favor.
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Yes, your expectations towards big ticket FA are unrealistic. I have zero interest in chasing this particular tail for the zillionth time, so I'll just end it here and pretend like you don't exist going forward.
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Yes, we know that's your opinion. Let's just leave it in that box over there. FA "impact players" aren't these catch-all constructs that you can just mash into whatever you spot you want them on the team. It's a matter of both who is available and the needs/openings you have on the team. I really cannot understand why you don't see how hard it is to plan for all of those factors to line up to just right to justify spending big ticket FA money by the rather narrowly defined standards you've repeated ad nauseum.
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Huh. That's actually a pretty good way of putting it.
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To me the middle ground does include moving Marshall. For all the much vaunted talk of rebuilding the Cubs really haven't made any moves that had to have been done without the intention of competing in 2012, and yes, I include the Marshall deal in that. Trading for Rizzo really hurt that goal because he is good enough to not want to acquire somebody great for 1B, but not ready enough to really help the 2012 team. I'd still want them doing something like the trade for Rizzo even if they had sign Fielder. Blocked or not, he'd still be a valuable chip that could be spun off if necessary. Well, yeah, this is what I'm talking about when I sarcastically mention "the time to panic is past;" that's out of the realization that the Cubs simply don't have a ton (relatively speaking) of money freed up right now. Despite my hyperbole over guys like Fielder and Darvish and co., I have no problem with how the Cubs are spending their money right now. I just can't wait until they get to the point where they can be the Red Sox or even the Yankees of the Midwest.
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You realize that's nearly impossible to predict and align, right? It's impossible to predict when you're one or two elite players away from being the sort of consistent 95-win team I described? Yes, that's the part that's very, very difficult to align. It's not a matter of, "welp, we've got our young core established...now bring on the plethora of under 30 elite free agents!" If you keep waiting for "synchronicity" you're not going to to have it most of the time.
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Guys like Kuroda and Oswalt can be dealt. It's inevitable a team will be "saddled" with overpaid big ticket FA; it's unavoidable if you want to actually utilize them at any point. You have an unrealistic idea of big name FA being available lining up just right when a team has enough internal talent developing so as to avoid payroll bloat. That's not going to happen.
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You realize that's nearly impossible to predict and align, right?
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To me the middle ground does include moving Marshall. For all the much vaunted talk of rebuilding the Cubs really haven't made any moves that had to have been done without the intention of competing in 2012, and yes, I include the Marshall deal in that.
