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The Cubs are trading away bonus slots? WTF?

http://www.philly.com/philly/sports/flyers/20130702_Goaltending_on_Holmgren_s_free-agent_list.html There are quite a few goalies out there, aren't there? I hope he's not getting a raise. Wait, he's only 30? Coming off a strong season he's going to get a raise isn't he?

Well, he's nothing special, but he was having a good year and those guys tend to get you nice returns.

They aren't working at PriceWaterhouse.

I would hope they at least aren't picking up the rest of the tab on Feldman.

Rusin. which probably also means every reliever.

I didn't value him that high but thought they could get a prospect, and not a couple of crappy late 20's bullpen arms.

except they aren't young

about an injury/rehab dispute?

So I guess they were concerned the bullpen wasn't already walking enough guys?

yep

Exactly, well said. Then why allow the trading of IFA money at all? It's overly complicated stupidity To further benefit the teams that don't want to spend, and provide a compromise for the teams that do want to spend.

I am familiar with it but not how it was used in this opening which is why I asked what the hell it meant.

Right. This isn't a big deal. It's the most perfectly irrelevant Goony nitpicking tangent possible. I just asked what the hell it meant. Who said anything about a big deal?

I did. nothing It's a poorly written opening. "That is to say" suggests he's going to explain what he meant by that opening line, but he does not do that. You shouldn't have to google translate such an opening. Translation: Jason Parks is a well respected authority on minor league prospects. Did you really not understand that, or are you being purposely obtuse? Of course it's not proper writing style, it's Brett's style. It's how the man talks in person. I did not understand it because it did not make any sense.

Well if two Yankees representatives were there I'm not sure how nobody at the Yankees knew about it. An executive VP and a Director obviously knew about it.

that was a curt reply

It is 9:46 AM EDT here, does that count?

where there is no there, there is treymon

http://deadspin.com/the-butler-bulldogs-training-montage-is-the-cutest-dam-645295615 I guess this would go here, since there isn't a college tennis thread.

I did. nothing It's a poorly written opening. "That is to say" suggests he's going to explain what he meant by that opening line, but he does not do that. You shouldn't have to google translate such an opening.

What in the hell does that mean?

i feel like almora has had a few OF assists already. Lord knows where i'd find that stat though. absolute beautiful throw, right on the money on the fly, got him by several steps. vogelbach has these weird idiosyncrasies. he draws a v in the dirt and then covers it with dirt before stepping in the batter's box. also, he draws things in the foul lines on the infield and then wipes them out. he's constantly doing this. wouldn't sign autographs before the game, but i got Rock (who looked like he could barely walk before the game), Candelario (i asked him if it's Hymer or Jamer, and he said Jamer, forgot he was from New York, was expecting an accent), and Almora on my hat. Vogelbach looks really uncomfortable in the field, i didn't understand it until i saw it first hand. it's like he hasn't played baseball his entire life. His lack of agility may actually serve him better in the outfield as weird as that sounds. Hernandez made a fantastic play in the hole and flashed a really nice arm in the second or third. Almora looked very confident in the box, kind of reminds me of Nomar without the nose. Reggie Golden is built like a [expletive] ice box, he's as wide as he is tall. Rosario's breaking stuff looked remedial, but his fastball was low 90's. I had a buddy take his kid to a game a few weeks ago and they asked Vogelbach to sign and he walked away from him. My buddy said he kinda carried himself smugly and seemed like a prick. Why bother getting a DH with a sub 800 OPS in low A to sign something?

It's a cap on how much you can pay any one player ($250,000): If you go over and pay the penalty, and can now only pay $250k for any one player next year, can you still trade away your cap space next season?

The Dodgers will have given Kershaw an extension by then. They've got Greinke and Ryu as their 2 and 3. If they give Gonzalez over 10 mill a year, you c as n pencil him in. They'll still have Beckett and Billingsley for another year and expect Zack Lee to compete for their last spot as well. If they give a guy 60 mill that doesn't become more than a mid rotation type, it doesn't help them all that much and gives us a better shot at signing one of the other guys. We're not playing on the same field(or planet possibly) when it comes to the Dodgers financially. Better to vet them out of the way, in my opinion, and it gives us a much better shot at the others. Who may be better anyway. We can compete financially with anyone else, given the current landscape. Nobody has any real idea what they can or can't spend, so just assuming/hoping they'll spend themselves out of contention sooner rather than later isn't a sound plan. It ranks up there with people expecting a sudden flood of homegrown talent and the FA market lining up with when the Cubs are "ready to compete again;" you can't just keep talking yourself out of making necessary moves to ideally improve this team. This is exactly the type of player they were supposedly going to focus on to help jump-start this mess and they've already missed out on several key chances. I don't know, it only took teams 15 years to see the Yankees get themselves a little over their head and hoping to pare their expenses.