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  1. jersey cubs fan
    Imagine how crappy his teams would have been if they played in a real division.
  2. jersey cubs fan
    You don't always take it, especially if the opportunity exists for even more down the road, and that doesn't exist after 8 years in Seattle.
  3. jersey cubs fan
    Because the Cubs can't contend for another 4 years so there's no point. See, what we'll do is not sign anybody good just to prove they can't contend.
  4. jersey cubs fan
    How is being at a disadvantage evidence of being able to split evenly with them? Boston is going to have an advantage given their place as the only game in town, not to mention the region. They dominate one of the wealthiest parts of the country with absolutely no competition for eyeballs, plus they have the advantage of a DH spot.
  5. jersey cubs fan
    Quit being such a dolt. It is to the Cubs immense advantage that they are in need of a position with a player readily available while the Yankees, Red Sox, Mets, Phillies, Angels and Dodgers are not in the bidding. Why are you pretending that is not an accurate and fair statement?
  6. jersey cubs fan
    The fact that there are numerous productive 1B, or 1B types, does not mean it is all that easy to find them. The Cubs don't have one. You actually do need to acquire them and there are non on the horizon in the system, nor through other likely acquisition possibilities. The Cubs went through the Matt Stairs and Fred McGriff are good enough stage already. You can hide a lower tier 1B out there and not get killed, if you have some studs elsewhere, but the Cubs have no other impact bats. You can't fill your roster with all 6 hitters.
  7. jersey cubs fan
    Um, yes. They are operating at a $30-60 million advantage to the Cubs. What kind of a question is that?
  8. jersey cubs fan
    A non-roster invite is exactly the type of gamble he's worth.
  9. jersey cubs fan
    ugh, there's a headline on the tribune about the Cubs having interest in Varitek and Wakefield. Wakefield might now suck (but he probably does), however, Varitek is pretty much the epitome of replacement level play getting paid millions as a favor for his loyalty/championship aura. He's worthless to the Cubs.
  10. jersey cubs fan
    Yeah, I don't know the details but my thoughts on what happened to Seattle during his reign was a solid but unspectaculiar franchise went to crap.
  11. jersey cubs fan
    I don't know why in my mind he's already 33.
  12. jersey cubs fan
    But there will be better times to sign FAs. Like when you're competing with Boston and the Yankees for those free agents. That's always fun.
  13. jersey cubs fan
    You can only get big bats in three ways, draft/develop, trade your farm for an established one, sign free agents. The Cubs haven't drafted/developed big corner bats in over a decade and have none on the immediate horizon. They don't have the supply in the farm system to go out and trade for them. They need to sign one now, and then allow the new regime to draft/develop the replacements who will be significantly underpaid for the duration of Fielder's contract to offset costs.
  14. jersey cubs fan
    go cheer on the A's.
  15. jersey cubs fan
    Hey, you go play with your reasonable contracts in the corner and the rest of MLB will get going with reality. We may have different definitions of reasonable as mine might be slightly less conservative, but overall, I'm with davearm here. If you signed Soriano to his deal when he was 27, warts and all, you wouldn't have been upset during the timeframe of that contract. And while Fielder's warts may be the type you find on your hands, Soriano's were genital.
  16. jersey cubs fan
    His age 24 season is every bit as close to the statistical prime of most players as his age 30 season will be. And he was good in it.
  17. jersey cubs fan
    I love how you people try to hold his age 24 season against him. Shows how dimwitted the anti-Fielder arguments are.
  18. jersey cubs fan
    You don't know what mediocre means.
  19. jersey cubs fan
    All this is true, but there were three negatives to take into account. He was coming off a bad elbow injury, he was over 30, and his production came in a league that doesn't translate all that great in the states. He was a worthwhile target, but he had bigger red flags than somebody like Fielder. Oh, he definitely had question marks, but he's still indicative of how rarely the Cubs even looked at the right types of players during the Hendry era. Absolutely. They finally looked at a worthwhile candidate, but they were also forced to look at him because they couldn't develop anybody. And we're forced to go back out on the market four years later because they still didn't develop anybody. We talk a lot about how Castro and Soto represent the first impact players the Cubs developed in decades, and along with Barney and Theriot the actual numbers are at least better than they were 10 years ago (when Hendry was in charge of that by the way). But they still have developed anything resembling a corner bat. That is why you have to sign free agents. I'd love to never have to sign a big bat because they are expensive. But you need to develop them if you don't sign them, and with the new regime in place it's going to take 3-5 years before we actually develop one.
  20. jersey cubs fan
    i'm not really saying what they should do, more what i think they will do. teams generally don't relegate high-paid star players to part time duty until their production has reached poor levels, and soriano isn't quite there yet. If Soriano isn't there, he's on the door step. Jason Veritek wasn't much worse for much longer before Boston relegated him to part-time duty. Posada has been basically a platoon guy/utility player for a couple years now making $13m. It is relatively rare largely because it's rare to have a replacement level guy with 4 years remaining on a huge deal. Eventually he will have to at least be platooned, there's very little chance of him starting everyday the rest of his contract or simply disappearing.
  21. jersey cubs fan
    All this is true, but there were three negatives to take into account. He was coming off a bad elbow injury, he was over 30, and his production came in a league that doesn't translate all that great in the states. He was a worthwhile target, but he had bigger red flags than somebody like Fielder.
  22. jersey cubs fan
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  23. jersey cubs fan
    From a strictly business standpoint, sure, that would have been smart. But in reality they had a lot of pressure to resign him, and the smart thing from that point would be to try and maximize his value, not completely [expletive] with him.
  24. jersey cubs fan
    You also had most everybody in the 28-32 range, with Edmonds as the high end exception and Soto, I believe, on the low end. If the team was ever going to win, that was the year.
  25. jersey cubs fan
    We only know the first part in hindsight. And Zambrano was freshly turned 26 and coming off 4 straight seasons of 4 WAR, two of which were 5. Yes, he was having a bit of a down year in 07, but to say that at age 26 it was clear that he was on the decline is wrong. Fukudome got more money than people expected and wasn't as good as expected. Didn't Fukudome reportedly take LESS money than what was being offered to him elsewhere to sign with the Cubs? Reportedly, yes. But the dollar figure was higher than most were discussing at the time. I think 4 @ 8-10m was thought to be his price, not 4 @ 12.
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