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Probably good enough to be in the middle/back of our rotation.
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More dongs. With some people on base.
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Between Darvish being injured and lousy all year, Quintana being mediocre and inconsistent, and Chatworth being unbelievably lucky so far, it's going to be hard going on an extended win streak. Hoping that our inconsistent offense and a great bullpen will carry us is hard to imagine.
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From MLBTR: The Cubs have designated outfielder Efren Navarro for assignment, tweets Carrie Muskat of MLB.com. In his stead, the club has selected the contract of catcher Chris Gimenez. Fellow catcher Victor Caratini has been optioned to Triple-A Iowa in a related move. We bring up Gimenez to fix Darvish, but apparently he's a little late.
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So let's say Baltimore were to take most/all of Heyward's contract (and his weak pop outs to the SS behind 3B)....how much more in layer compensation would the Cubs need to come up with? For instance, if Addy, Monty and Alzolay is a huge overpay straight up...is it a huge overpay if they took all/most of Heyward's contract with those three? And would that make Machado as a rental much more appealing knowing it frees up tons of years/cash, most likely for Harper? I'm not relly good with the contract/$$$ stuff. Thoughts? The Cubs can dump Heyward and his contract on the Orioles in a trade for Machado if they include Russell, Hendricks, and Contreras.
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I like Gold Gloves and I cannot lie: the Jason Heyward thread
Backtobanks replied to NOLA's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
There is a slight chance, just like there is a slight chance of me winning the power ball lottery. -
It could happen, but I think it would need to be expanded to include another useful player coming to the Cubs.
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Obviously he's not a fit for this team.
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Heyward gets 2 hits in a game early in the season and Maddon has him lead off for the next 155 games.
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Maybe get him some playing time at the ML level to increase his trade value at the deadline.
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Now who is going to replace Leonys Martin on our WS roster?
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I'm a big Almora fan, but I would have loved for the Cubs to sign him at that price.
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Darvish to Cubs, 6/$126 Million + Incentives
Backtobanks replied to UMFan83's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
If Jake gets more than Darvish, then Boras is a miracle worker. Also, Jake can pick where he wants to live for the next 6 years, but he won't be getting paid for that long. -
I'd just head to camp with what we have right now. Save some room under the cap in case we need additional pitching depth mid year. Yeah, no reason to make any other moves now. Getting Darvish pretty much puts us in the drivers seat to get deep into the playoffs, if not to the WS as things stand now.
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I think you have to side with the players to get as much as they can because they have a limited career. The owners are making hundreds of millions per year (win or lose) and when they decide to sell they make an obscene profit on their original investment.
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This years Leonys Martin.
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It could have a lot to do with the disparity between the "rich" teams and the "poor" teams both in finances and ability. The "rich" teams have the most money to spend, but don't have the need to spend because of the luxury tax because they already are playoff bound. The "poor" teams have less money to spend and more holes to fill, but they know signing a $100+ million star won't put them into the playoffs.
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Cubs Sign Mike Freeman, Kyle Ryan To Minor League Deals, so no wonder the odds improved. Signing Freeman probably killed all of the Machado trade rumors too. =D>
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Not necessarily true with the Cubs, Yankees, and Twins in on Darvish, two of those teams may move on Jake after Darvish signs. Also we don't know how deflated the market is until a few of the big names sign. The agents and the teams are taking a strong stance on the market prices, but we'll see who blinks first.
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The Cubs don't have to make any other moves to win their division and get into the playoffs. Obviously their current roster would come up short in the playoffs, so making a deal at the deadline (or waiting for FA prices to go down) actually isn't a terrible idea.
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From MLBTR: Reports early in the offseason suggested that Cobb was seeking upwards of $100MM over a five-year term, though FanRag’s Jon Heyman recently wrote that Cobb is now believed “willing” to sign a four-year deal at a total of $70MM or a five-year deal worth $80MM. Despite a fairly robust group of potential landing spots, those numbers range from ambitious ($70-80MM) to outlandish ($100MM), in my view.
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I can't believe Avila will sign with us to back up Contreras. Somebody will offer him more money and more playing time.
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Wade Davis Signs with the Rockies, 3/$52 M
Backtobanks replied to Liam Neeson's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
In some cases, I think we may be looking at multiples.... Trade for Machado, sign Reed, plus a cheap starter to compete with Monty Trade for Archer, sign Reed, replenish what we lost in trade Trade for Yelich, sign Cobb, replace traded parts Sign Cobb and Reed Sign Yu and be done I think these are kind of our general options. Guess I should add trade for Colome and sign one of Yu, Jake, or Cobb as an option, since its in Levine's latest article as a possibility. Why are you using "or"? Why not sign and trade for everybody. :yahoo: -
Wade Davis Signs with the Rockies, 3/$52 M
Backtobanks replied to Liam Neeson's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
In some cases, I think we may be looking at multiples.... Trade for Machado, sign Reed, plus a cheap starter to compete with Monty Trade for Archer, sign Reed, replenish what we lost in trade Trade for Yelich, sign Cobb, replace traded parts Sign Cobb and Reed Sign Yu and be done I think these are kind of our general options. Hope you're right. -
From yesterday's MLBTR chat: "I am the walrus 5:57 Cubs trade Happ, Russell, Carantini and Alzolay for Archer. Done deal? Jason Martinez 5:58 That would get it done. I don't think the Cubs would offer that much and I don't they'd have to offer that much. Happ, Caratini, Alzolay and another prospect, maybe." So Happ, Caratini, Alzolay, and another prospect for Archer? :beg: