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From Cubs Insider: https://www.cubsinsider.com/2021/01/02/not-talking-seriously-about-jake-cronenworth-may-give-clues-to-cubs-plans/ This is totally insane. The Cubs never considered someone with his skills who is controlled for 5 more years while making the league minimum. "They didn't want to lock in someone at 2B for the next 5 years"? If Hoerner develops into a solid ML, he could take over at SS, if they decide to not extend Baez, move to CF, or trade from a position of strength to acquire what they need.
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Speaking of Trump, I think we'll be getting a lot of lies and claims of fake news from the Cubs starting with Hoyer's claim that the Darvish trade had nothing to do with money. Stay tuned.
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Even Ben Zobrist has had enough: https://www.chicagotribune.com/real-estate/elite-street/ct-re-cubs-ben-zobrist-selling-house-near-wrigley-20201229-cpodxbzqxjd2lip4exl5twd7se-story.html?fbclid=IwAR2gTs5LFZ9q4A12s78rg6Dc6OGNsDiPz-NGU0d_TN6nETgRDH11i-ypP8g
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I miss all of his wacky three team trade proposals. Most of them made more sense than the embarrassing Darvish trade.
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Like the boss praising you before giving you the pink slip. Do we want to start a pool as to how soon he's traded?
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I wonder if there’s a veteran catcher out there with a long, storied career who could mentor Amaya for a season. Perhaps even has a ton of experience in the NL central and could pass along that expertise as well. (At this point, might as well right? Burn it all down) We don't need a veteran catcher to mentor Amaya, we need somebody to teach him how to hit ML pitching. He's not a great hitter down in the low minors.
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Part of Jed's quote - "Have to be more efficient with fewer employees" actually means fewer ML players.
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Davies?
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The Rays literally just got two MLB ready guys in the Snell trade. Yeah, but the Rays don't have PTR as an owner and Hoyer a president.
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What do you have against teenagers? After the embarrassing trade of Darvish, I wouldn't get my hopes up too high.
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Tbf, that's not crazy far from what the people have been demanding for years now (though 18-20 is likely a little young for the league's agenda, don't want to undermine the NCAA!). I think it's pretty cool the Cubs have a couple guys you can squint and see making a ML debut at 20 (Howard, Preciado) Nobody was demanding that in the last 5 years. You must be getting paid by Ricketts to post all of this positive spin about this trade. As for squinting, I think most of us will have our eyes completely shut for the next few years. As for Contreras being shopped, somebody ought to tell Jed that Campusano wasn't part of the Darvish deal.
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Play all of the 18-20 year olds. We'll have to when every team below AA is dissolved No, we'll just lose them to some other team in the draft.
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Play all of the 18-20 year olds.
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Two words: Scott Feldman. :beg: Yeah, Hoyer will trade him plus another player for Arrieta and Strope at the deadline.
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Looks that way now, lots of risk being taken on by the Cubs, historically that's never played out well. I'd say there's a better than average chance none of these guys are Cubs in two years than any one of the prospects panning out to be a productive MLB'er. Prospects which are all, what, 4+ years away at best? Zach Davies? Weren't the Cubs one of the few teams against which slow, slower and slowest was effective? Remember when Bryant was being shopped and we couldn't get what we wanted for him. If I was a GM on a team that needed a 3B, I would be calling Jed with offers of 2 16-year-olds for Bryant plus cash.
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For those of you pushing for a fire sale, what kind of shrewd deals do you think Hoyer can make on Rizzo, Bryant, Baez, etc. when this is all he could get for Darvish & Caratini? I will say that GMs should be lined up at Hoyer's door after this deal.
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End of the rotation? Right now he's our #2 in the rotation.
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I think for 2021 he certainly will, plus it allows you to start Nico in AAA if you want. Or Nico can platoon with Cronenworth and backup Baez.
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We can hope that MLB keeps the same plan as last year, so we only play Central Division teams. We could still have a decent "regular season" with very little competition except the Twins and White Sox. Of course the playoffs would really be ugly.
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Twins, Angels, and Blue Jays I think make a ton of sense. Each has a strong farm, a need at the front of the rotation, and indications are they have at least one big money move in them. Twins especially, as they finished second for him in FA. Phillies and Yankees maybe if the right set of dominos fall this offseason? Maybe the Giants try to compete a year early? Of course, we don't know which teams are on his no-trade list, which might complicate things.
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The Rockies got little-to-no production from C, 1B, and 2B last season. How about a Christmas trade: Rockies get Caratini + Bote + Underwood for Jon Gray + Mychal Givens + Cash ($3 million?)
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An example of how corporations/companies think. Union Pacific railroad made $300 million one year and $250 million the next year. When they started negotiations with the union, they said that they would have to make cuts because they "lost" $50 million.
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Hopefully the vaccine is available to players soon because the Cubs certainly won't be able to social distance at spring training with all of these signings.
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The whole point of the Frasier/Musgrove trade was to get Musgrove, but seeing that the Pirates want to dump salary I added Frasier. If the Pirates want to switch names away from Bote/Mills toward prospects, that would be fine. Both Frasier and Musgrove would be great additions to filling 2 of the Cubs biggest holes at a reasonable price. Of course, "reasonable price" is relative to everything we have been discussing.