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  1. Sammy Sofa
    Literally the only reason I'd think the Cubs weren't doing some variation of the same is that PTR wouldn't shell out for anything more expensive than trying to listen in via a glass pressed up to the opposing clubhouse's door.
  2. Sammy Sofa
    The only semi-legit knock along those lines is that someone like McCutchen actually played over the course of the entire decade, and Yelich only played roughly 6.5 seasons. With the way his career has gone, Yelich extrapolated over the entire decade would be an obvious no-brainer.
  3. Sammy Sofa
    [tweet]https://twitter.com/HitEmLowTfue/status/1214363980610686976[/tweet]
  4. Sammy Sofa
    Yeah, five whole seasons is WAY too small a sample size. We demand more than half a decade of kicking ass, I guess.
  5. Sammy Sofa
    There's just no way that he built the team with Plan A being trade Bryant for prospects(and Bryant is the only salary big enough to fix payroll ills). He committed 8 figures in 2020-21 to a reliever in June, combined with the rapidly approaching FA of the positional player core there's no way trading your best player to get under the tax was his first choice, because you know you're taking a step back when you do it even if they're showering him with prospect riches. Why is there no way? AKA
  6. Sammy Sofa
    I mean, it just feels like it shifts the narrative to the idea that the Cubs did 2016 with nothing but a ragtag band of young go-getters who cost nothing but a song, but they were straight up playing a team in the WS who (relatively) ACTUALLY DID THAT by spending close to $90 million less than the Cubs did.
  7. Sammy Sofa
    But it doesn't work that way; they still spent the money. One couldn't, IMO, in good conscience declare that a team that spent $150 million dollars didn't in part buy their way to victory. They went out and got Heyward, Lester, Lackey, Montero, Zobrist and Arrietta, whether by trade or signing, because they knew that had horsefeathers You Money.
  8. Sammy Sofa
    No, that definitely was a huge part of what they did.
  9. Sammy Sofa
    Sounds like this thread should be rocketing up the charts: viewtopic.php?f=29&t=2624
  10. Sammy Sofa
    [expletive], it's ridiculous how much they shot themselves in the foot by completely breaking Heyward.
  11. Sammy Sofa
    My god, signing Puig would be like injecting a ray of desperately needed sunshine right into my heart at this point. Yes, please.
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  13. Sammy Sofa
    He's a body and he's cheap. That's it.
  14. Sammy Sofa
    Who cares what his contact rate is when it's essentially all garbage contact. This is like the longwinded way my dad will perpetually prefer a thousand weak Almora groundouts vs. how frustrated he'll gt over a single Bryant strikeout.
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    4-5
  16. Sammy Sofa
    If you want reasons to think Shogo won't work out they definitely exist, but I would hesitate to say his game is predicated on speed. His plate discipline and hit tool are the main attractions. Speed makes both of those things more useful, but they also remain useful even with waning speed. When I think about his profile, on one end you can see a lot of Zobrist as a hitter. On the other hand, you can see Fukudome with a touch less pop. Both those guys stole their share of bases in their prime, but it wasn't the driver of their production. That's true, but I was also largely thinking about his defense, too. I dunno; this just seems like there are a zillion warning flags with this deal.
  17. Sammy Sofa
    I swear I want to try and be more positive about the Cubs, but if they sign this guy it's basically screaming "BUST" in gigantic, building-sized neon letters. A past-30 international player whose main assets seem to be hinged on speed and who has been dealing with foot injuries being signed by a team trying to right the ship and with VERY limited resources? Yiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiikes. This makes drafting pitchers sound like a sure bet.
  18. Sammy Sofa
    Fortunately they only signed his back. BRAIN TRUST, BABY.
  19. Sammy Sofa
    They were always an ATM.
  20. Sammy Sofa
    Fixed that.
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  22. Sammy Sofa
    I heard Cubs did something similar when they met with Shogo, they gave him a printout of the Cubs Wikipedia page wrapped in a leftover t-shirt from a giveaway from last season. Do you remember what the Cubs did for Lester?
  23. Sammy Sofa
    Q is whatever. Kudos to him for tidying up his KBB so that fg would like him enough, but his run prevention is on a sharp decline. Despite moving to a more pitcher friendly park and having a better defense behind him he has accumulated less than half of the bwar with us than he did in the 3.5 seasons prior with the Sox. Before we got him he was excellent according to both systems. Now we are just grateful that one finds him to be good still.While I think you're being a little harsh on Q in general...no one is expecting him to be the ace of this staff, which is, statistically, the kind of pitcher he was when we acquired him. Maybe they didn't expressly expect him to become an "ace," but I think it's safe to say they expected more of a guy that they gave up what they gave up to get him.
  24. Sammy Sofa
    The farm giveth, and the farm taketh away. The system bottoming out for a while there really killed their ability to dump bad contracts since you often have to sweeten the pot to do so. Now that they do actually have some decent/interesting prospects again, the perfect storm of the Cubs having no money and Theo being King of the Prospect Hoarders has them terrified to move anyone who could be cheap and useful. The King of Prospect Hoarders who executed two of the biggest prospect-driven trades of the last few years? That’s constantly brought up? Hence why he's extra flop-sweaty about doing it now. I mean besides the constant DT's.
  25. Sammy Sofa
    The farm giveth, and the farm taketh away. The system bottoming out for a while there really killed their ability to dump bad contracts since you often have to sweeten the pot to do so. Now that they do actually have some decent/interesting prospects again, the perfect storm of the Cubs having no money and Theo being King of the Prospect Hoarders has them terrified to move anyone who could be cheap and useful.
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