Sammy Sofa
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Me count real good. Again, it all depends on what the Ricketts are willing to spend. If they're willing to push the payroll to back up what a core of Castro/Reyes/Pujols/Kemp could do then it's all good in the hood. If they're going to insist on a self-imposed cap of around $120-130 million then it would suck. -
All depends on how much the Ricketts are willing to spend. Those 5 would probably be in the, what, $85 million range?
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Hill again and Pena inexplicably batting 8th? Fan-[expletive]-tastic. Hopefully Aramis kicks it in gear after coming back from his trip home.
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Craaaaaaaaaaap.
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Signing both Pujols and Reyes would cost us in the area of $40-45 million next season, meaning we'd be left with somewhere in the range of $10-20 million to replace Reed, Pena, Grabow, Shark, Kosuke and Wood. That's if we retain both Dempster and Aramis. However, we'd only have about $68 mil invested for 2013 - Soriano, Marmol, Pujols and Reyes - for non-arbitration guys with about $70-80 mil left for the rest of the roster. Question marks like Vitters and Jay Jackson would have to develop and become productive ML players, but I think we could do it. The Reyes & Pujols thing is pure fantasy on my part, but I'd love to see the Cubs do it and then replace Grabow/Wood/Shark with internal options (unless Wood can still pitch and is willing to come back cheap again). Hell, I'd tolerate Colvin out in RF if it meant getting Reyes and Pujols, though ideally they could still net a pretty decent corner OF with the money leftover. Who is out there as an OF FA? If there's nobody essential I'd prefer to just sign a placeholder with the idea of throwing money at Kemp for 2013.
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The Cubs would be spending more money on their teams during their time with Pujols than the Cardinals did when they had him.
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Well, strike that; I don't know the exact amount. I definitely wouldn't want him being signed for more than 10 years (and I'm optimistic that he can be had for 8), but the dollar amount, I don't know. I guess $35 million.
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Anything more than 30/10.
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And again, describing Hill's situation that broadly is just wrong. Just face it: you wrote a bad song, Petey.
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2011 Chicago Bulls Playoff Thread (5/26 7:30pm CST - TNT)
Sammy Sofa replied to chuckywang's topic in Other Sports
That is [expletive] hysterical. What a profound lack of understanding of...well, everything. -
But we aren't having to wait until Sori's contract is over. So I guess I don"t see your point. Yeah, no kidding. The Cubs can hypothetically add Pujols (and more) in this coming off season even though Soriano still has 3 years left on his contract.
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If the the 5 great years of production are coming courtesy of Albert Pujols? Of course. And the Cubs aren't hampered by Soriano's contract; they're hampered by his contract because of the sale. Unless we're thinking the Cubs are going to be sold sometime during the final years of Pujols' contract, then no, worrying about his money would limit the team isn't terribly realistic. A team like the Cubs can easily eat big contracts when they're not hampered by the process of being sold. Again, the area that should be of more concern is overpaying for role players, not overpaying for one of the greatest hitters ever.
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Soto to DL; Castillo Recalled
Sammy Sofa replied to BeerHere's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
Soto's value probably isn't all that high right now. -
I said I don't hate him. I just don't view him with same mystique as others here do. You want another 6+ year contract? If it's a truly great player and that's the only way the Cubs are going to get him? Of course. Being flatly opposed to 6+ year contracts would be a terrible idea.
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They are patient as long as they're prospects, but one they get to the big leagues and struggle some, they tend to give up. Felix Pie and Rich Hill come to mind. Of course Hills been awful since, but it was a bit early to ship him out for nothing. The obvious exception here is Samardzjia, but with him there's the matter of the contract and NTC. Pie wasn't a pitching prospect. See Truffle's post about Hill. Your jab was pretty obviously inaccurate. Yes, the Cubs have screwed up when it comes to position prospects like Patterson and Pie, but pitching prospects...no.
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So how do you think he got away with hiding his age over the last decade? Anything I say is anecdotal, but I used to work for the company that sold his JC's team in KC all their gear. Consensus among those people was he's much older. If you look at the old team pics he's markedly thicker, especially upper-body and through the hips. Make of that what you will. And what would they be basing that on? And why wouldn't that information have not been leaked or exposed? That would be a huge story. Plus you had the huge crackdown in the wake of 9/11 with all the extra scrutiny being paid to player's visas and documentation. Yes, you had guys who sort of snuck through like Soriano because of his relatively weird path coming from Japan and the type of vias he had due to that...so how would Pujols have escaped the investigations that exposed the real ages of several other players? I don't know. That's why I qualified it by saying anecdotal; from my impressions there was a huge degree of jealousy/animosity present with the people he knew in KC. So would you be willing to admit that the available evidence and a logical analysis of the situation would make any conclusion that he's somehow hiding his true age to be very farfetched and not really a good argument against the Cubs signing him?
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But nobody is saying pay him 30/10 just because the Cubs can. What's being said is that if that's what it takes, do it.
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So how do you think he got away with hiding his age over the last decade? Anything I say is anecdotal, but I used to work for the company that sold his JC's team in KC all their gear. Consensus among those people was he's much older. If you look at the old team pics he's markedly thicker, especially upper-body and through the hips. Make of that what you will. And what would they be basing that on? And why wouldn't that information have not been leaked or exposed? That would be a huge story. Plus you had the huge crackdown in the wake of 9/11 with all the extra scrutiny being paid to player's visas and documentation. Yes, you had guys who sort of snuck through like Soriano because of his relatively weird path coming from Japan and the type of vias he had due to that...so how would Pujols have escaped the investigations that exposed the real ages of several other players?
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Exactly.
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IT'S PUJOLS. THE CUBS HAVE LOTS AND LOTS OF MONEY. IT'S PUJOLS. MY WHITE SOX FAN GRANDPA SAID THE SAME THING ABOUT ALBERT BELLE. Hahahahahaahahaah! Really? OK, let's hope the Cubs don't sign Albert [expletive] Pujols because Albert Belle existed. Ok, laugh at me when you're the one being flippant Because you're being hilarious. And yes, I'm going to be "flippant" when we here for the bajillionth time someone not wanting the Cubs to sign maybe the best hitter ever because of this phobia that the Cubs are now going to a team perpetually hamstrung by a limited payroll instead of the big market team that makes a ton of money and would make a [expletive]-ton of money if they were good again and how a ginormous superstar. Signing Pujols for a ridiculous deal wouldn't preclude them from making other big FA signings, even in the same offseason, and it certainly wouldn't going forward. People are basically arguing to not sign him out of the fear of more bad smaller contracts for other players.
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So how do you think he got away with hiding his age over the last decade?
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IT'S PUJOLS. THE CUBS HAVE LOTS AND LOTS OF MONEY. IT'S PUJOLS. MY WHITE SOX FAN GRANDPA SAID THE SAME THING ABOUT ALBERT BELLE. Hahahahahaahahaah! Really? OK, let's hope the Cubs don't sign Albert [expletive] Pujols because Albert Belle existed.
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IT'S PUJOLS. THE CUBS HAVE LOTS AND LOTS OF MONEY. IT'S PUJOLS. Seriously, the Cubs can easily afford him even if he did get what he's asking for. Having Pujols would just make an already profitable team shoot through the roof. He'll all but pay for himself for a bunch of those years.
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2011 Chicago Bulls Playoff Thread (5/26 7:30pm CST - TNT)
Sammy Sofa replied to chuckywang's topic in Other Sports
Yeah. I basically squealed. Not my best moment. -
Love how WSR thinks the Cubs aren't patient with their pitching prospects.
