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I don't understand what all that means.

timely double play

juiced bags for Rizzo and the first swing and miss looked weak, and then a soft one hopper to 2B.

Bailing him out of what? Hamels is really good and only signed through his age 34 season. If we can get him without giving up our top end guys, I'd be all for it. It's like if we could give Lester a 4 year $94M deal. I'd do that in a second. i realize it seems like my last two posts conflict with one another, but that's because we have one guy talking about trading top 5 prospects in the game and another talking about him like he's an albatross. Yeah, I'd be more than happy to see the Cubs bail him out of that contract, as long as taking on the contract is considered a substantial portion of the return in the trade. The Phillies aren't in trouble because they have Cole Hammels.

yikes, this isn't going well.

that was quick

are there 1,000 people at this game?

swinging bunt out? strong start

That's not really the market for very expensive players now though, is it? I see no reason to consider giving up 2 top prospects.

Am I missing where someone said that the yankees could have easily beat the offer? that lunatic for the ny daily news maybe? Ah, ok...thought we were talking about Cashman or Francesca. The Daily News article doesn't use that exact verbiage, but close. No, not exact, but more or less the same. "seemingly" is weaker than "easily", but it is followed up with "far better package" which essentially means they could have easily beaten the A's offer.

Yes, during his slumps.

Why would you set up picnic tables in the OF of a baseball stadium so that half of the seats would have their back to the field? Only a handful are positioned perpendicular to the field so everybody could look (not that anybody was sitting there).

whoever is on deck

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any team that would've had javy up to start this year would've been wrong, though. You cannot make that judgement.

i get that you're making fun, but honestly, it's so sad that guys like sullivan, rogers, rogers, telander, haugh, morrissey, muskat, etc. have actual jobs and he can't find one. i mean, most of that list is HOF of terrible worthy. hey! I like David Haugh. You should reconsider.

His contract is structured in a way that he can opt out of it whenever he becomes arbitration eligible. Service time still matters, for both arbitration and free agency.

I highly doubt it. What the Cubs are doing is very rare for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is deliberately holding guys down and therefore not graduating them from prospect status. The Dodgers used to do it for years. It's one of the reasons for the rule 5 draft. Imagine the external pressure on these kids when the come up. I really hope they bring them up in groups to dilute the madness. I doubt many people had "legit" top 100 prospect lists in the 50's.

I highly doubt it. What the Cubs are doing is very rare for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is deliberately holding guys down and therefore not graduating them from prospect status. who have they really held down? Bryant? i mean, yeah, he's destroying every level, but he hasn't even been in professional baseball for a year. mainly it's the combination of a smart front office having extremely high draft picks and devoting a huge percentage of assets (and money if you go back to soler) to the minors. and some luck with who has been available to them. but it's still pretty cool. I think several front offices, historically, would have had Baez start with the team this year. And comparatively few of them would have been keeping Bryant and Baez down until 2015. Alcantara would probably also be up for several organizations that are so devoid of offensive ability. The Cubs are operating under a mandate that is pretty much unprecedented in baseball for anybody but the occasional expansion team or actual small market franchise. They both have the money to sign guys like Soler but absolutely no pressure to win any games at the major league level (thus eliminating any thought of trading some of these guys for major league help and actually making it possible to trade even more major leaguers for prospects). Most front offices can't get away with this mindset. Therefore, I doubt it's something we've seen in the era where these lists have even been a thing people talked about.

yes, this. his approach is already good. if he gets injured, he can do in chicago. there's also no need to worry about service time, either. So nobody thinks we keep him down until we're past super 2, to delay his opting out by 1 year? When is the likely time that this is no longer an issue this year?

I highly doubt it. What the Cubs are doing is very rare for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is deliberately holding guys down and therefore not graduating them from prospect status.

Yeah, it's not that loony of an idea.

The prospects they sent would have been Yankees prospects, thus, better prospects.

Core four was ridiculous, but now future five is just silly and I hope they keep coming up with new ones. Six dudes swinging their big dicks?