SweetZombieJesus

Just like Werth and Crawford were only going to get 80-90 mill. Boras isn't dumb

Lulz at Fielder getting merely Jayson Werth money. Lulz. Last 4 years fWAR 4.1, 6.9, 2.7, 5.3 = 19.0 5.0, 4.9, 5.1, 3.2 = 18.2 Which one is Fielder and which one is Werth? If he's talking about perception, he's right. Fielder will expect more because he's seen as a star and Werth is not. We have a winner folks. Ryan Howard's laughable deal has made Fielder all but a lock to get a deal in the 25 mill range.

Lulz at Fielder getting merely Jayson Werth money. Lulz.

Pujols might get upwards of 40 mill the way the market is going.

He woul have a 400 OBP but also 250 SLG. Juan Pierre has more power than fuld.

in this hypothetical I take it Fuld is swinging a aluminum bat right?

I hope Colvin and jackson both bomb out also castro too. That way I can get my dream of 8 Adam Dunn's playing at the same time.

Wasn't the two main guys on the cubs end was Ryan Jorgensen (who was coming off a great year in high A) and Crazy Julian.

Yeah both of those guys were totally similar to Heremida.

Like last year? :D

They just signed Hermida, I wish hendry had the foresight to sign him.

Matt Clement completely sucked for 3 seasons :roll: Dontrelle was a overhyped player save for 2005. You could make a decent arguement that the Cubs won that deal.

meh, Mitch Atk...err Randy Wells could do that.

So now a man who has had one season of a ERA+ of over 130, three years ago and has a WHIP consistently in the 1.3's is a ace of the caliber of cliff lee? LOL 14 mill for the rich man's Jason Marquis. But he's since he's considered funny it doesn't matter.

Because he doesn't look like an ace. Aces don't have male pattern baldness, red goatees, or a sense of humor. #4's do That sound you just heard was Dempster walking Furcal again.

Who are these starters? I'd say Garza, Dempster and Z LOL, looks more like Randy Wells, a vastly overpaid #4, and a petulant child to me.

Who are these starters?

Archer and McNutt were 21 and 20, respectively, last season. That's pretty young. They each put up pretty incredible numbers last season at a very young age. You can't possibly know what they are going to do over the next 6-7 seasons. Grienke is 27. We do know what he did over the last 6-7 years. Some good, some great, some not so good. You might be right that Archer and McNutt will never be as good as Grienke is now. There's a chance you're wrong. Obviously, I'd take that chance if it were a straight up one-for-one deal to get Grienke, but it's likely going to take 3 or four top prospects to get him and I'd rather sit back and see what Cashner, Archer and McNutt can do along with Brett Jackson and Hak-Ju Lee. I disagree simply because Grienke is a top pitcher at 27 and should be very good for quite a few more years (assuming we can re-sign him). Let them pick from 3-5 players from a list of Archer/McNutt (one of them), Gorzelanny, Mateo, Russell, Berg, Coleman, Maine, Stevens, Castillo/Chirinos, Guyer, Vitters, Adduci, Snider, Fuld, etc. There are a few players on that list that are pretty good prospects, but none that are irreplacable. But at what price financially? If Archer, McNutt and Cashner (or one of their other prospects) can be 3 of the 5 starters for the Cubs the next several seasons, think of the money that will be available to sign someone like Pujols for example. But if we keep trading our young prospects for older more expensive ones, we never get that window. Yeah, because pitching prospects are sure things. J.K. Ryu, Angel Guzman, Bobby Brownlie all became superstars.

I'd do this in a second if I wasn't so sure Grienke would committ suicide after the dopes start booing him after a string of bad starts. There's a good chance all three pitchers none will equal greinke

not even close colvin blows and snider is the second coming of jose canseco. Ignore the fact snider has been slightly better than Alex Gordon in the bigs.

I'd rather have Dunn for the next 40 years than one year of pena.

I want Gil meche or Kyle lohse Instead of garza. I'll trade colvin for them.

Between trading Colvin for Loney or Gordon straight up. I wonder if the cubs could the caliber of player Aaron Miles for Colvin in a straight swap. Good lord, people.

I'd rather have Crawford.

Correction: THE ENTIRE infield will be atrocious defensively.