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  1. imb
    Yeah, I was just about to mention this. If Heyward does not return to form and continues to struggle the Cubs may have to explore trades in 19' or 20' where they eat most of his contract, especially if E. Jimenez is ready to take over in RF. Kinda sucks that that is a possibility now, but we did get a WS Championship in year 1 of the contract... If he continues to struggle at the plate, yes, they'd have to eat a lot of that contract to move him. Of course, he's even more tradable if he returns to form. Obviously, that's the scenario I'm hoping for. Heyward hits along the lines of his career numbers, remains healthy and continues his GG defense in RF. The Cubs are able to move him with prospects for whatever they need at the time while bringing up Eloy at the league minimum to take his place. The defense takes a big hit, but if Eloy progresses as he has been, the bat makes up for it. The Cubs are able to open up some payroll and fill some needs at the same time. But a lot can happen between now and 2019/2020. It's just something to keep in mind when looking at the Cubs payroll options in the years ahead. if heyward "returns to form" i really dont see the cubs moving him to put Eloy Jiminez in his place. They'd probably just keep the 6 WAR outfielder.
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    Give it three years...or is it two? I forget 0 chance their deal looks anything like what LA got.
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    kris i love you
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    mason jar storm? did jars of clay cover ride the lightning? solid jars of clay ref
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    Pissed off Molina should have earned this clip extra credit
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    The top 10 prospects are so down compared to recent years that I can't really fault them for putting gleyber up so high.
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    I, too, hope that the cubs sign the no. 1 free agent every year for eternity
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    He's a very good prospect, but you're basically hoping and praying he becomes Placido Polanco. That's no insult, Polanco was very good for a number of years, but that's not the hopes and dreams of someone in the Top 5 of all of baseball. He's high risk of being a second baseman, he had a .775 OPS at High A, and his K rate is high for someone who isn't going to slug like someone like Russell. You don't even really need something to collapse for Torres to be a non-descript major leaguer, just the attrition of his production at the 2 levels he needs to ascend through would do it. When you call someone a top-5 prospect, you're not implying they could or will one day be a top-5 player in the league. I think Law is going off a little recency bias, because Torres tore up the AFL right after a pretty disappointing 30 games for the yankees A+ team. Also I do think there's a little bit of "I can generate happy responses from yankees fans and pissed off responses from cubs fans."
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    what am i missing with overton? he only spent parts of two years in the minors, cant they just send him back
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    Probably should take a break on what amounts to Pedro Martinez tweeting about a rumor coming from the DR. Speculation and rumor always goes out of control after a high-profile death – it could be as simple a thing as he lost his ring in the crash and someone going "he was robbed!" and it snowballing from there. It's the DR so anything is possible.
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    seems like a decent bet to get 180-200 innings out of monty+anderson so cool.
  13. imb
    there's no way kyle hendricks eats oreos. He eats oatmeal raisin cookies
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    glad it's not dozier
  15. imb
    ok yeah but the alternative is the patriots
  16. imb
    whats wrong with the falcons (besides their horsefeathers uniforms) I dislike them for the same reason so many on this board hate the Packers. I will be pulling for them though. Usually whenever an NFC South team wins the NFC their next year is horrible. oh yeah duh
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    whats wrong with the falcons (besides their horsefeathers uniforms)
  18. imb
    what kind of weirdo says influezna instead of the flu
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    in more "mike trout is insane" news Vladimir Guerrero (first year on the ballot) missed out on the HoF by 15 votes. If Trout is healthy next year, he should surpass Vlad's lifetime fWAR sometime in August.
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    man DO NOT DRIVE IN THE DR just seconds ago i was messing around on FG and was like why are people search yordano ventura of all people? Now I know. Again DO NOT DRIVE IN THE DR
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    Dude it's hard to even go down to the local level and find a preps writer who doesn't take himself more seriously than journalists in DC. It's unbearable.
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    The amount of hemming and hawing over the hall of fame is so tiring, but I guess I'm just at the point where im not really looking over a WAR spreadsheet to see who should get into the hall. If you were near the very best at your position for a long time and someone wants to put you in the hall, more power to you. Hoffman was worth about the same amount of fwar as Brad Penny so its hard to argue against keeping him out of the hall, but it doesnt hurt my feelings if he gets in and david wright, who had twice as much fwar, doesnt.
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    Im shocked Hoffman got that close. I really dont pay close attention to the HoF nonsense because it's dumb but jeez.
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    i couldnt even comprehend what was happening last night when he did that, good stuff.
  25. imb
    ok cool that's not the point though so try and stay with us here
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