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6/7 Cubs (Garza) @ Brewers (Wolf) 1:10 CSN TV
jersey cubs fan replied to Brian's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
ian needs a homerun -
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6/7 Cubs (Garza) @ Brewers (Wolf) 1:10 CSN TV
jersey cubs fan replied to Brian's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
let's go back to talking about Reed's slide -
6/7 Cubs (Garza) @ Brewers (Wolf) 1:10 CSN TV
jersey cubs fan replied to Brian's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
live look-in and first thing I see is weirdest pseudo slide at 1B ever. Looking good Reed. -
6/7 Cubs (Garza) @ Brewers (Wolf) 1:10 CSN TV
jersey cubs fan replied to Brian's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
breaking up the perfecto -
Minor League Discussion & Boxes 6-6-12
jersey cubs fan replied to Outshined_One's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
He's all over the place at the plate. Doesn't like to stand still. Did we watch different videos? His hands never stop moving, he does a couple toe taps and has a high leg kick all while the bat is waggling all over the place. -
But if signing him requires you to pay him over his slot, that would in turn take away from what you have at 2-10, correct? So, if you don't sign him, you aren't using his allotment, but you aren't also using the overslot that he would take up himself.
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That would make sense in the offseason, but in the middle of the season, for as drawn out as this process has already becoming, I don't see them wanting to waste another month of work. The interested teams should be able to get to their numbers fairly quickly.
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Is there any thought that the Cubs will not sign this guy so they can have 2 early picks next year in the supposedly better draft, and use his allotment to overslot some guys this year? Or would overslotting guys take away the make up pick next year. You have to sign the guy to use that pick's portion of the allotment. So if you ignore Almora, then you forfeit the slot amount, I think it's around 3.25 million. Right, but doesn't it still leave a little more flexibility to overslot others if you aren't already overslotting Almora a bit?
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I don't think it's the latter since he's stating the team will be a trainwreck during that timeframe.
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Is there any thought that the Cubs will not sign this guy so they can have 2 early picks next year in the supposedly better draft, and use his allotment to overslot some guys this year? Or would overslotting guys take away the make up pick next year.
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There is nothing ideal about that timeline. Nothing at all.
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I think he wouldn't have been available at that pick under the old rules.
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If you would be angry if he's traded then you must be writing off the possibility that 2011 was the outlier.
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A bad team played poorly and nobody can be blamed for that fact?
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He doesn't have to, but it will be a lot easier, and more awesome, if he does.
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It would hurt their ability to compete in 2013, however, I don't think the goal has been to be competitive as soon as possible, but rather when they get competitive, to be as good as they possibly can.
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I think the assumption that Garza is now entirely what he was in 2011 and not what he was prior to the trade (or this year for that matter) is too big of an assumption to make when it comes to handing out the contract he'd get under the terms of that assumption.
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Yeah, losing 9 WAR or so in 2 SP with no MLB return from trading/losing them would be very difficult to handle and still improve the MLB roster going forward. It would be difficult to handle in the immediate short term but how would it harm their ability to improve the MLB roster going forward?
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They already suck a lot. And that assumes they don't add anything else.
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Plate appearances is more telling.
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Know I'm late, but I thought I was the only one feeling this way. I can't imagine being happy either with any non Blue Jays or Diamondbacks trade, but seriously someone young in their current rotations would have to be included along with a top 3 prospect and a 2nd top 10 guy. I was sensing that was the prevailing opinion on the board. I wouldn't want a deal to just be guys in A ball or lower, but I'm still very open to a trade. Also, what exactly are the "consequences of trading him and losing Dempster"? That the team would suck?
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Minor League Discussion & Boxes 6-6-12
jersey cubs fan replied to Outshined_One's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
He's all over the place at the plate. Doesn't like to stand still. -
Has anybody done a consolidated breakdown of what the Cubs did in this draft?
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I'd love to see a thread on this at some point. How badly do we want the No. 1 overall pick? On the one hand, that's obviously a huge asset. On the other, it would mean that we'd have to be really, really bad the rest of the season, and that means some long-term assets we are hoping will appreciate will have to perform badly. Unless we can somehow manage to suck entirely on the backs of the expendable veterans while Rizzo, Castro, Samardzija dominate. Or we just have to trade Dempster and replace him with someone awful. That'd go a long way, I'd imagine. I'm more concerned with the pressure and depression of losing all the damn time on guys like Castro/Samardzija. Historically awful teams have a stink on them that's tough to wash off.
