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What the? Sig-worthy.
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Misc. Free Agent News
CincyCubsFan replied to Clem Fandango's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
I honestly stopped reading at versatile. I thought you were joking with "excellent." You weren't. Holy [expletive]. -
Misc. Free Agent News
CincyCubsFan replied to Clem Fandango's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
Versatile? lulz. -
Trading Soriano
CincyCubsFan replied to ctcf's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
So the general agreement is that Sappelt will be either mediocre, slightly better than mediocre, or slightly worse than mediocre? -
There hadn't been any activity in the thread in 11 days. When I all of a sudden see this thread at the top of the page, one logical thing comes to mind. Have a great day.
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Yay for purposely misleading thread titles.
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Is there a WSR drinking game yet?
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Refusing to spend money on impact players is being cheap. Holding to a budgetary figure on a middle reliever is just being prudent. And doing this while at the same time wasting money on Reed Johnson and Rodrigo Lopez would qualify as (fill in the blank?)
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If they were trying to get me to sign another 1.5m contract after throwing 1.15m at Reed freaking Johnson, I'd probably walk, too.
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He was something of a [expletive]-eyed optimist...
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Trading Soriano
CincyCubsFan replied to ctcf's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
Constant annoying misspellings like, say, mineaswell. Oh good god... -
Misc. Free Agent News
CincyCubsFan replied to Clem Fandango's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
:shock: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: This is the quintessential WSR post. He makes some stupid offhanded remark, everyone calls him on why it's [expletive], and then he follows up with a rambling post like this, trying to cover his tracks. -
Yet, you just said this in a another thread: I can't imagine it's a possibility Jed and Theo would consider. What would we do with him? The question that's been attached to most of this years signings. Do you just jump from side to side depending on which thread you're in and hope no one notices? Also, give me a break. Giving Kerry a couple million is not going to detract from what Theo's doing with the rest of the roster. If Reed Johnson deserves a million and a half to be a fifth outfielder, Kerry should get paid too. Also, pot-kettle-black re: "figuring it out."
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Yep you nailed it. There's only been one FA in the last 4 years that I would have been comfortable signing. :lol: Whatever. You know in what context you gave that response. If you want to twist it to get a laugh, have at it. The context was, I didn't like Fielder or Pujols, so I gave some recent examples of big-ticket 1Bs that I would have been comfortable signing. The ginormous leap you're making deserves a laugh. Anyone that isn't a 7-year old girl that uses this word should be banned from the forum forever.
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As am I. Floored, actually.
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Wow. This is a freaking awesome trade for us. Now if we could only swing Headley, our corners would be set for the foreseeable future.
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Luckily we're not talking about a diner, because you can build a quality organization in the future while still trying in the present. There is no need to punt 2012 no matter how hard davearm works to convince you people otherwise. I seem to recall a lot of excitement about this offseason on this site. Money off the books and the Cubs would be players in the big free agent sweepstakes. I am getting old so maybe my memory isn't very good. Am I remembering wrong? One by one the zombies have been convincing themselves that spending money on baseball players is foolish. I'd choose a much different word than "zombies" to describe folks that think it would be foolish to hand out the contract Pujols got, or the one Fielder is asking for. Hey Dave - No one, including Boras or even Fielder himself, believes that Fielder is going to get, or should get, a contract anywhere near what he is asking for. Please stop trotting out this tired old line page after page.
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Luckily we're not talking about a diner, because you can build a quality organization in the future while still trying in the present. There is no need to punt 2012 no matter how hard davearm works to convince you people otherwise. I seem to recall a lot of excitement about this offseason on this site. Money off the books and the Cubs would be players in the big free agent sweepstakes. I am getting old so maybe my memory isn't very good. Am I remembering wrong? One by one the zombies have been convincing themselves that spending money on baseball players is foolish. Yea, the general thinking around here seemed to suddenly take a 180 at some point within the last two months. We went from being a Fielder & Darvish/Wilson away from winning the division, to being a fundamentally bad team that wasn't even worth improving with free agents, seemingly overnight
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And the other rotation holes? Don't forget the left field and third base holes.
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Yes, it's rare for guys like Pujols, Fielder, Wilson and Darvish to all be available to the highest bidder in the same offseason. That was the point of striking while there was a chance, because those guys would fit into this team so well, and there is no guarantee you'll get a better option in 2-3 years. A lack of impact free agents becoming available is hardly an excuse to steer clear of impact free agents when they do become available. I just don't understand this obsession with having the most efficient roster. If Hoyer and his boys are any good at their job they will have plenty of young prospects to exploit on the cheap for several years, you don't have to suck on you way to getting there. You didn't hear? Inexpensive, mediocre players under team control are the new "versitile middle-infielders" or "left-handed leadoff hitters" of regimes past.
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Yea, my comments certainly weren't directed specifically at you Dave. If you or anyone else doesn't think Fielder is a wise signing, that's fine. But when we start painting all free agents with the same brush (We don't want anyone that's going to be over the age of 30 during the last few years of a contract, we don't want to overpay anyone at any cost, let's wait until someone younger and better comes along,) we end up backing ourselves into a corner really quick.
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Right. I think it's a cop-out to suggest that Theo's not responsible for winning in the next 'x' number of years while he rids the roster of Hendry's players (Not that I necessarily think this is what Theo is doing.) But an incoming GM has the responsibility to evaluate what he inherited and to make use of the parts that are usable. An elite baseball mind like Theo has the reputation for being should be able to both "win now" while also building the farm system to "win later." You know, the whole "parallel fronts" thing.
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This makes sense, but it completely flies in the face of the Reed Johnson contract.
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Also, as an added bonus, during those 3 years we get to waste cheap 5+ WAR seasons from Starlin Castro. If we're blowing an offseason that could have made us a playoff team or near playoff team, why are the following two seasons already written off when we've only gotten rid of expiring contracts and added guys under control for several years? This is becoming somewhat maddening. Having good players under team control I agree is a good thing. Mediocre players, or players who were once good and are no longer good, I don't see much of a value in.