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I could see 4/84 and I still think that's very doable. That earlier mentioned number, if that was even possible, he'd be signed the moment the playoffs end.

A 3.63 FIP puts him ahead of guys this board covets like Logan Gilbert and Joe Ryan and yes while he did miss a significant portion of the season, it's not like it was an arm injury or reoccurring injury. He was hit in the leg with a line drive causing a fractured fibula. Teams aren't going to hold that against him. He put up 1.8 fWAR in just over a 100 IP. That puts him ion full season pace for just under 3.6 fWAR. That would have put him just outside the top 20 pitchers in fWAR this season.

That's going to be way light in my eyes.

Sure, why not. It's probably not the most realistic, but I think this team would at least be good to very good. In my eyes Seiya is gone. Someone is going to give him 5 years at 20-25 a year and that's just too much even if this OF class sucks. Also, I don't really want Happ back, but I think I'd throw a QO at him because this OF class sucks and you could do a lot worse than him on a one year deal. Bringing Holmes back is almost a no brainer in my eyes and I'd throw him something like 3/80, though a 4th year might be required. I'd also love to bring Peterson too as they seemed to figure something out with him. He had 1 absolute disaster start in the 10ER performance and 1 more bad start with a 6 ER peformance. Besides those two, he never gave up more than 3 ER in any appearance. Is 2/24 enough? I'm just assuming Horton wont see any time in 2027 and I would rather never see Shaw in a Cub uniform again so I'd like to see a big SP acquisition Shaw+Kepley+Wing for Reid Detmers Adrian Morejon is a dominant lefty who is nails on everyone lefty or not and is the big splash the pen desperately needs, but he going to be expensive. 4/80. I'd like to bring in Brooks Raley as your lefty on lefty guy. 2/8 to 2/10 would do it. I'm not sure he'd be open to it and honestly the Cubs might be better off just splurging to keep Seiya instead, because at least Seiya can play RF adequately, but the last piece I'd like to add is Randy Arozarena. I don't think he takes the 5 years it's going to take for Seiya, but the AAV is probably not all that far off. He's basically a pretty reliable mid 120s wRC+ bat so I think the ask would be around 4/88 while I think Seiya ends up going around 5/120. C- Ayers/Amaya 1B- Busch 2B- Nico SS- Dansby 3B- Bregman LF- Happ CF- PCA RF- Pedro DH- Arozarena SP: Steele/Detmers/Brown/Holmes/Peterson/Garrett/Assad RP: Morejon/Palencia/Zeferjahns/Miller/Webb/Raley It's probably a little overzealous given that the payroll would be increased even before addressing the bench and arbitration, but it is a team I think would give them a legit shot.

Thus far its true. As I said, small sample, it's 37 PAs I believe, but he has undoubtedly sucked in those 37.

We're still in small sample size territory, but early results are leaning towards PCA is ass in the playoffs.

Good riddance, what a bunch of unlikable choke artists. By the way, super glad Jed gave up a top 50 prospect for a guy who didn't throw a pitch in the playoffs.

Yeah I think I'm out for a bit. This team does nothing but make my life a little bit worse. It's not worth it

That'll just about do it

PCA choking epically

LOL Dansby, nice horsefeathers swing you chump

It's kind of amazing in that literally every single player on the team has been horsefeathers. No one has been good.

I almost want them to get shutout because these shitheads don't deserve any better than that.

Laff game over, epic choke job.

oh look another absolutely horsefeathers challenge

There we go, the infield hit for an extra kick in the nuts.

Ah, I went to bed with 1, my bad.

This is the hardest choke job I can recall in recent playoffs. 11 innings, 1 hit is just so laughably terrible.

2 wasted challenges in the top of the first, laff at this ****** team.

Be that as it may, they're having a lot more fun right now then we are.

At least one of the Chicago teams doesn't suck

Well, at least one team thought enough of him to throw 20M a year at him https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/50071951/falcons-sign-dt-gervon-dexter-sr-four-year-extension

Not a single positive to take away from this horsefeathers show

You could give Bregman 10 more at bats and he still wouldn't touch that sweeper, absolutely terrible.

Can we forfeit this one and just move on to tomorrow already?