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I don't blame you for feeling this way but there's a lot of interesting storylines to this season despite a likelihood of being a little worse than mediocre. 1. Is Suzuki actually a superstar? 2. Brennen Davis call up watch. 3. Is 2021 Schwindel a thing? What if he is? 4. To a lesser extent, same thing but Wisdom. 5. How good is Nick Madrigal? If he can sustain last year he's a valuable piece. 6. Killian call up watch. 7. Not about the big league squad but I'm really excited to see how all these prospects on the precipice of top 100 status do. 8. Nelson Velazquez watch. Maybe a thing? 9. Stroman doing his thing. I'm as disgusted as anybody with this payroll BS and the fact that they passed on a really good player at one of the biggest positions of need in the lineup, but there is a lot I'm looking forward to seeing this year. None of those strikethrough notes are uniquely interesting storylines a Cubs fan should care about. They are mundane things all teams have every year, completely interchangeable storylines. The others aren't particularly relevant to watching the Cubs over the course of a regular season. It's a completely boring team with a couple interesting names that may or may not be a part of the team the next time this team is worth paying attention to. -
Payroll in the Ricketts era pre-Theo was 3rd, 4th, and 6th. Incompetence is not tanking. c'mon that was grandfathered in, their total spend in the 10-11 offseason was less than $28M If you intentionally keep Jim Hendry employed at GM, you be tanking.
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Gigantic Willy Style - The Willson Contreras Thread
jersey cubs fan replied to Sammy Sofa's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
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I am still in awe at how quickly the Ricketts family has managed to alienate the fanbase. They buy the team from an old fashioned ownership group. They let the team tank for the first couple years, I'mma stop you right there. It was way more than a couple years of tanking. They bought the team in 2009, the Cubs lost 89 games in 2014. There have been 5 (if you are being generous) non-tanking seasons in a 12-year span of their ownership and they are deliberately entering their 13th season of ownership with three hands tied behind their back.
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Same. I thought my final last chance was months ago, but I now have new final last chances. yeah, I'm getting a new last chance every week. I keep replying that I'm not interested in supporting an ownership group that promotes neo-fascist politicians and they keep replaying, "we understand"
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Kyle came
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Love that move for him. The Bears should have traded him there at the deadline before they got Odell. I just personally felt bad for this dude playing on bad teams w/ bad QBs and Detroit was the team with the most interest. Wonder if they'd trade us Bobby Trees.
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I hope you’re right, but this feels more like stockpiling trade deadline fodder to me. It seems to me to be what you do when you are trying to mask a weak overall roster and try and make them a .500 team that stays in the race.
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I preferred the lockout
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Rams signed ARob for 3/46.5, 30m guaranteed
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isn't he the king of being TOOTBLAN? according to his time in toronto, apparently.
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Everybody saying this means no Correa, which is probably true anyway, but not because of this signing. This guy isn't a starting SS. They still don't have a starting SS on the roster. They do not have an impact bat on the roster. This guy most likely will be the starting 3B for half the year. Bote is hurt and quite possibly out a long time. Wisdom is Wisdom. They've got a glut of bench players and there has to be some shaking up to come out of that soon. And they have plenty of room to add a Correa or Story.
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Grass won't be growing all that well rolled out in November in December. no, but summer/spring/fall months it would grow well and still allow the Bears to use the stadium for other purposes, march madness, concerts, what have you, and not destroy the turf doing so. Plus, a grow-house could be constructed next to the stadium if you want to keep it warm but dormant during the winter all grow house technology should be used for something more important, and icky.
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SF isn't really relevant? Arizona and LV are the only domed teams with grass. For those teams it was a matter of rolling the field out to take advantage of natural sunlight and weather. For Bears probably would be more likely to be some sort of artificial light growing system that keeps it all indoors. No idea if it's really that feasible, but would be awesome. I think there may be a couple soccer clubs that do it? i'm sure there are several ways to do it well, the rolling field would even work considering the size of the parcel the Bears bought Grass won't be growing all that well rolled out in November in December.
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Cubs lead the league in backup caliber infielders. Not a starter in the batch.
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Yep. That deal just screams “I’m taking the most money and that’s the only reason I’m going there”. Because my perception of the western United States is all skewed I thought maybe Colorado made sense as it’s close to Vegas and with twins on the way having family somewhat close by would be a perk but it appears Denver is about as far from LV as Chicago is from New York lol As somebody who has travelled between the former pair quite frequently for 3 decades, it’s quite easy. Probably much moreso with $200 million.
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Daniels got 3/26.5 and the guy they signed to replace him got 2/8. And he's supposedly a more nasty type of lineman, which Poles made clear he prefers. I think saving money and getting the type of player you prefer makes sense here.
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So they have to sign Freddie Freeman or Correa, no? Bryant was the one former cub I wanted back the most, followed by Schwarbs. But it probably doesn't make a ton of sense to sign Bryant with an already heavily RH lineup and crowded corner OF situation. Trevor Story fills a need position but he's another RH bat. If they sign an impact player here then 2022 becomes somewhat interesting. Right now they are a "stay in the picture for as long as possible" team with no real hopes of contending. Oh, and they need a pitcher.
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BOPA Still think he could hit wave 3 FA hard enough on O to be true BPA, but we'll see how the next 3 days shake out. I'm sure he could, what I'm saying is even if they did that, I still want the BOPA.
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do it Same. BOPA
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James Daniels is gone. Poles must have really not liked him.
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New CBA negotiations
jersey cubs fan replied to Transmogrified Tiger's topic in General Baseball Talk
5 IP is kind of a pointless goal as you'd pretty much just be losing your DH in games you go down big early. But 6 IP is not great and I'd hate to incentivize major league managers extending their SP past their comfort zone just to keep the DH. -
New CBA negotiations
jersey cubs fan replied to Transmogrified Tiger's topic in General Baseball Talk
Are you really bastardizing the competitive environment by implementing a rule that affects a handful of innings per year? -
Objecively, you're 100% right. In the bigger picture, an offseason all works together, and usually a free agent signing like this leaves more room to draft offense. Picks are more important than cap space. I don't care though I'm still gonna hot take it. Fair enough
