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  1. imb
    I get it, but people are saying he beats women (plural) and should be in prison and basically not given a second chance. I don't agree with that. Are any of you employers? Would you not hire someone who has served their sentence? remember that episode of the office when they found out they were getting some govt reimbursement because they had absorbed that other branch and one of their guys was a convicted felon? maybe that's an inefficiency we're getting on
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    i think i agree with that, though i don't think i have much info about what trades could realistically have been made. i mean, if we were willing to deal schwarber, what options open up? i guess i just don't know how much this really moved the dial, in terms of this team winning anything. And if you can trade Torres for something that helps a little less this year but also helps next year and the next year, etc, is that better? I don't know, but I think maybe it is. Added bonus if that thing also doesn't choke women. Would making one trade that included Archer and Colome count as one move? i guess it comes down to that either A.) wasn't an option or B.) the front office determined those two werent worth the asking price. im ok with either
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    well sometimes you need to win the world series and not worry as much about winning the award for most team control. 90 percent of our team is controlled for the next half-decade. how much do you think this increases the chances the cubs win the WS this year? how much would any move have increased our chances? I think this increases it as much or more than any other single possible move we could have realistically made.
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    does theo seem like the kind of guy to you to do something big without exploring all available options? (also chapman has thrown 90 less innings than archer this year and has been worth one-tenth of a point less in WAR) I'm in no way disputing the actual talent of Chapman. Just the time we have him under control. Chapman the baseball player is an amazing addition and right up there with anybody we could have reasonably acquired. well sometimes you need to win the world series and not worry as much about winning the award for most team control. 90 percent of our team is controlled for the next half-decade.
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    im just not going to fret one little bit about shoring up this team's biggest weakness by giving up ONE ENTIRE PROSPECT that anyone remotely cares about. Had cease actually been included i woulda tugged my collar a little bit and i would have been annoyed (but still happy to have chapman) if eloy had been the headliner. the package we gave up is literally one guy who might just as well turn into felix pie and three pieces of nothing. who cares, let's win a world series But again, not everybody even cares about trading Torres. A lot of us are cool with trading him. We just thought he could be used for another area of weakness but also for a guy in return with lots more years of control. Now in his defense, maybe Theo explored Archer, etc. and Torres was being viewed as the third piece to a trade and it wasn't going to happen so he did this. does theo seem like the kind of guy to you to do something big without exploring all available options? (also chapman has thrown 90 less innings than archer this year and has been worth one-tenth of a point less in WAR)
  6. imb
    umm no Pretty close. It's not unreasonable to be uneasy about paying a high price for a half season of an elite reliever. It can and has been taken too far into prospect clutching, but so is taking the 'Chapman is an elite reliever that makes us better' argument to 'Torres, Cease, McKinney, who cares they're in A-ball'. im just not going to fret one little bit about shoring up this team's biggest weakness by giving up ONE ENTIRE PROSPECT that anyone remotely cares about. Had cease actually been included i woulda tugged my collar a little bit and i would have been annoyed (but still happy to have chapman) if eloy had been the headliner. the package we gave up is literally one guy who might just as well turn into felix pie and three pieces of nothing. who cares, let's win a world series
  7. imb
    You're starting to sound as silly as the people lamenting McKinney's inclusion. umm no
  8. imb
    i really wish we would have traded for a lesser reliever so we could keep billy mckinney and ramon cordoba or whoever. Adam Warren's 6 ERA is gonna be missed, i really wish we could have gotten some team control on a guy like Abad instead of chapman
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    Yeah, I'd probably like that fictional trade more than the actual one. I can't say that I would rather have McKinney than Cease. Sure McKinney will be higher on the prospect lists and Cease is a complete wild card, but he is also a rarity in the Cubs system. mckinney is literal garbage so of course id rather have cease than him but jesus christ the wailing and gnashing of teeth over these children in LOW A BALL is really amazing.
  10. imb
    I just threw up. which of cease's 45 innings have been your fav so far
  11. imb
    This is an incredibly weird post. well he's an incredibly weird person
  12. imb
    I AM FURIOUS. CRAWFORD TOO? FOR A RELIEVER?????? has theo lost his mind.
  13. imb
    literally two posts up
  14. imb
    are you out of your horsefeathering mind
  15. imb
    WHO GIVES A horsefeathers. it's an A-ball prospect and three turds. for chapman.
  16. imb
    Guys the holdup is that the Cubs are trying to reverse their position in the negotiations. They knew the Yankees had all the power, so they took them right to the edge of a deal (it's called "edging" google it) and then said "actually if he won't sign an extension you can't have Torres." Now the Yankees are in a position of trying to please the Cubs because all the other suitors pulled out once the Cubs and the Yankees paired up
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    This is what I would have believed last year. But I thought I finally grasped that it's all a crapshoot and it doesn't matter who you add. Like people here have said you could add Chapman, Miller and Jose Fernandez and still have an 80 percent chance of losing. Oh well. I'll admit I'm an idiot. I'll be happy landing Chapman and not worry about it. As someone else said, it might only move the needle by 2%. But the front office may feel that the future value Torres is worth less than that 2% for a variety of reasons. Or that, considering our relative strengths (eveything except RP) and weaknesses (our RP) securing the back end of games is worth more than 2%. Part of the reason the playoffs are a crapshoot is because one game can wildly swing an entire series, going from bad to great in the bullpen is worth a light hitting blocked teenager.
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    http://www.reactiongifs.com/r/jck.gif Oh man what will we do without a shitty RP we sent to the minors and a guy who can't hit
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    using that logic, very good teams should practically never make trades at the deadline for players who will be free agents at the end of the season. Right. I think if a team thinks they are going to be in the playoffs and they believe the playoffs are a crapshoot no matter how many good players they add, that they won't trade their top prospects for any of them. case by case basis. this would help solve a glaring weakness, this isn't going from castro to russell and expecting it to win you a short series.
  20. imb
    yeah, guys, can anyone tell me why theo, GM of what might be the best team in baseball that just happens to have a bullpen weakness, wants to acquire one of hte best relievers in the game? can someone help me out here
  21. imb
    There's no such thing as a final piece to a World Series puzzle. I see Torres as almost entirely as a trade chip. Never pictured him playing for us really. But given his standing, he should be able to get us more than a rental on a (an insanely good one) reliever. If Theo does this without an extension, does that mean he doesn't buy the theory that the playoffs are a total crapshoot or that he doesn't want to assume we are in the playoffs? What would be his motivation? what? he's probably assuming that arrieta and lester are hitting their decline phase so this may be our best shot at the next few years and that strong RP is our biggest weakness
  22. imb
    i seriously couldnt care less well we should be able to get more for torres than two months + playoffs of chapman. period. maybe so but a stud rp is what the cubs want and the seller is controlling these negotiations. id rather do this than watch him go to cleveland
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    my issue with giving up torres (if it's only a rental) is not that we don't keep torres...it's that we don't get more than 2 months of chapman for him but if we extend him i'm good i seriously couldnt care less
  24. imb
    horsefeathers torres, I want a world series
  25. imb
    pretty sure that whatever theo does here will be smart and good so im not even concerned
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