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Are you excited for the Cubs start of the season
imb replied to CubinNY's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
i keep pretending that im not excited about it but really i am there are enough things that could plausibly go right (bryant healthy, maybe javy takes another leap? schwarber could luck into a .280 avg and turn into a monster, darvish might be healthy and awesome, happ could bounceback and hit 30 bombs, contreras could be a stud again, addison russell could get hit by a car) that it makes the season worth following but also it could all go very wrong and in that case at least it will be fun to talk horsefeathers about the ricketts and turn on theo -
how can you be this wrong all the time
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holy horsefeathers you're right
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[tweet]https://twitter.com/sung_minkim/status/1091711084816257024[/tweet]
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horsefeathers it i just put him on text alert so i can learn when he signs with the seattle mariners or whatever is gonna happen
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If the cardinals sign Bryce Harper I’m telling you right now I will only watch 2/3 of the cubs games this year AT MINIMUM
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jesus christ
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2018-19 Other Team Offseason Transactions Not Worth a New Thread
imb replied to Cubswin11's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
i still dont understand why the braves aren't in on harper or machado (or hell both) their payroll is like $110m, freeman is locked up, literally everyone else is cheap. why not pair the acuna/albies (not convinced he's good but still) with two mid 20s super talents? They could sign both guys and still have a manageable payroll. They have a new stadium on the way, it makes too much sense. what am i missing -
Judging by online reactions it appears fans are quite content with the spending money is stupid idea. These same goofs would definitely rage at Theo for not sealing the deal if we were actively pursuing case in point
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he's selling essential oils
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Lmao go read his chat today and count how many times he answered an honest question with some rude [expletive] answer (or twitter slang a 40 year old single dad prospect expert) shouldn’t be using. I know you have to be somewhere on the spectrum to receive money to talk about baseball prospects but god this guy sucks
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We have the same amount of players as them projected for 3+ WAR (KB, Rizzo, Javy And Schwarbs vs Goldschmidt, Dejong, Carpenter and Ozuna) more than them over 4 (Rizzo And KB vs Goldschmidt) and the only one at 5+ in KB. We also project for more offensive WAR 28.1 vs 25.8 and their entire rotation is full of question marks. Martinez, Wacha and Reyes off injuries (all 3 have been hurt every year the last few years as well), Wainwright’s corpse, Flaherty (who I think is good) and Mikolas who are a bit unproven. Idk, they have more question marks than us in the rotation. Probably more upside but more downside and volatility. Imo. Carpenter at 3B could be a disaster as well, he can’t really throw and Ozuna is coming off a shoulder surgery and allegedly is behind for swinging and throwing already. quit trying to make me feel better
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what do you disagree with in that assessment
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I've fallen into my yearly early season trap of discounting the brewers, but the cardinals kinda freak me out. Their offense is stacked and I think fangraphs is unnecessarily low on their pitching. Until we sign Harper or machado and/or see a healthy bryant in spring training, the cardinals may be the nl central faves
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crazy that it was like 4 months ago we all assumed that was just a foregone conclusion
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All of this is true. It's also true that Bryant has reached that level in every season in which he was "fully" healthy and also was on pace to go well past 6 WAR last year before the injury. It's possible that the injury will limit the finish on his swing going forward and that his results dip as a result. But I'll take bets on the gap between his 2018 and 2019 more than offsetting the dip in Javy's, assuming KB and Javy each play in 145+ games. Any of you doom bonering people want to wager? i actually have more faith in javy not dipping *that* much than i do in Bryant getting back to 2016-17 levels of production right now
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if kb is healthy that's great, but rest didn't help last year and it's not like he was out with a hamstring injury, it was a shoulder thing. look over in RF if you don't think those can have a longterm impact on your swing/power heyward is 100 percent healthy, but the shoulder injury lowered the bar for what he could accomplish when healthy. and even if everything *is* 100 percent cool, (by my count) only 4 players (McCutcheon, Miguel Cabrera, Trout and Votto) have posted more than three 6 WAR seasons since 2010 (Bryant has 3.) So it's not like it's some sure deal that he ever reaches that level again even if 100 percent healthy. I mean everyone is upset because we aren't giving $300 million to Harper (we should) and he only has 1 6-WAR season to his credit.
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i love a good bitch fest as much as anyone but you realize that these have been the biggest FA signings since 2015? like there hasn't been an FU free agent yet. Not that it excuses us from not going after harper and machado but we've gotten two of the biggest signings of the last three offseasons. I'd even argue that Darvish was an FU signing. heyward price greinke cespedes Edwin Encarnacion Justin Turner Darvish JD martinez Lorenzo Cain????
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my best post ever dont know why i dont have a job in the cubs FO
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i went to find the lester thread and on the first page you have TT arguing that we should target Kenta Maeda instead. I love this forum.
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man i dont know what has to happen to you to think that the lester signing was boring, even in retrospect. i feel like when that signing went down we all knew it meant we were finally serious and about to start winning a lot of games.
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Without the Lester signing, none of the 2015-2018 stuff happens IMO so it's far from a snore. It's the most consequential FA signing in team history
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what the horsefeathers
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2004 was way worse. They (had to) blow up the teams from 2003-2004 and you knew the 2005 team had no chance of being competitive. It was a surrender year after two years of relevance. Us deciding not to be heads and shoulders above the rest of the NL but still very likely a playoff caliber team does not match up to that. Hell no, this is worse because the roster is built on such a strong foundation and they are choosing not to supplement it because they know it won't hurt their bottom line. Those mid 2000s teams were built on such a shoddy foundation that choosing to not keep adding old FAs to the roster was just the latest in a long line of indignities. this is ownership treating the team like a bank. why spend 250 million on a player when we're going to make $x amount of dollars regardless.
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good god, george kontos is "a really nice signing." horsefeathers right off
