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  1. Rex Buckingham
    If you don't want Contreras at C, you trade him for the best package you can get. He is a top 5 catcher by oWar (M. Garver, Grandal, Realmuto, and G Sanchez ahead of him this year). He'd be average in the OF as far as offensive value, and probably a negative defensively. Also, to stay with the thread topic - Maddon put Tony Kemp at leadoff for a game they played while in the midst of the stretch run of the playoffs, and it wasn't even his worst move in the series so far. Fire him, get someone else in, make some personnel changes and see what happens.
  2. Rex Buckingham
    Dont recall the number of moves allowed, but if I have one left: Drop Baez Add E Suarez
  3. Rex Buckingham
    As a Bears fan, the team that scares me the most in the NFC is the Bears.
  4. Rex Buckingham
    Drop: Carlos Correa (DH - $50) Add: Max Kepler (DH - $50) Drop: Mookie Betts (OF - $100) Add: Ronald Acuna (OF - $75) Drop: Jose Altuve (2B - $50) Move: Anthony Rendon (3B->2B) Add: Nicholas Castellanos (3B - $75)
  5. Rex Buckingham
    Lester should never be mentioned in that category. We always knew there would be a decline toward the end of the deal, and that decline has actually been relatively modest to this point. No matter what happens with him from here on out, he has lived up to his contract and more. Agreed. All I'm saying is his salary outpaces his production significantly now, and since the Ricketts decided to be cheap, that hinders us
  6. Rex Buckingham
    The problem with the Cubs roster construction is that it always depended on the young guys being awesome and cheap. Only KB and Javy have been consistently good, though Willy had a great year (pre-injury) this year after an awful one last year. Getting very little (compared to what we hoped for) from Schwarber, Russell, Almora, and Happ in addition to Heyward, Morrow, Darvish (until the last couple months), and maybe Lester now struggling to live up to their deals (or even completely falling apart) has made for the perfect storm of frustrating baseball.
  7. Rex Buckingham
    If Javy went to the plate lefty against the pirates, how many pitches would it take before he got plunked?
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  9. Rex Buckingham
    Had a friend who was in college a few years ago, healthy, clean-living, etc. Had a bit of a cold or something similarly small, took some OTC medicine, didnt wake up the next morning. 22 years old, a couple months from college graduation and she just didn't get up one morning. Please do not rush to assume Skaggs was into something bad. It may well be proven eventually that he was, but right now I'm thinking awful tragedy and nothing else.
  10. Rex Buckingham
    I'm pretty sure we have to give him a lifetime contract now.
  11. Rex Buckingham
    drop: Josh Donaldson (Bench) Add: Pete Alonso
  12. Rex Buckingham
    I feel like this is an example of the competitive advantage the AL teams have in acquiring players. Cubs could have given up a Cory Abbott or whatever comparable pitcher and used Edwin to mash some dongs, but since they have Rizzo at first there's no spot for him.
  13. Rex Buckingham
    I don't care if Hultzen can pitch multiple innings or two days in a row if we can just feel confident when he comes in the game.
  14. Rex Buckingham
    and if he whines about it, pay him with a suitcase full of nickels and tell him to go away
  15. Rex Buckingham
    Drop: Stanton Add: Trout
  16. Rex Buckingham
    Pretty sure the new Cubs network should create "Javy-cam" where there is a camera focused on him alone at all times in the game.
  17. Rex Buckingham
    good grief, what a terrible high strike
  18. Rex Buckingham
    What's it going to take for Schwarber to make contact?
  19. Rex Buckingham
    Watching Schwarber makes me sad
  20. Rex Buckingham
    I want interim manager Mark Loretta for the home opener. If we are going to suck, let's just get weird with it.
  21. Rex Buckingham
    Think Joe is counting on a rain delay after this inning?
  22. Rex Buckingham
    Yeah, benching a guy who hit two huge dongs and looked really locked in just because it's a lefty on the mound is peak Joe "smartest guy in the room" garbage
  23. Rex Buckingham
    Cool, so Almora is slow and dumb.
  24. Rex Buckingham
    This kind of game is why people think baseball is boring.
  25. Rex Buckingham
    3 batter minimum is stupid Single trade deadline is fine, though maybe pushing it a week or so further out would be good. Increased roster size is good Don't know why they don't go with a pitch clock, seems like that would solve a lot of issues while not causing any real ones
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