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  1. Tryptamine
    This pretty much where I'm at. It's not the guy I wanted, but at least the contract is decent.
  2. Tryptamine
    I just can't think of anyway to fix things that isn't going to take 3 to 5 years. They're like the 2020 Cub team but Heyward is on year 1 of his deal.
  3. Tryptamine
    If the mutant option means Bellinger will mutate into someone who can hit I like it, guessing Levine meant to write mutual option. Stop taking away what little joy this offseason is bringing me
  4. Tryptamine
    Market inefficiency?
  5. Tryptamine
    I think somewhere in the 9-12 range is going to be where the farm averages. I remember seeing some as low as 16.
  6. Tryptamine
    Waiting until the trade deadline before everyone was a FA certainly didn't do anything to help with that. If he makes those moves before the 2021 season we're looking a whole lot better. By all accounts Jed killed the 2021 deadline. He got PCA, Alcantara, Kilian and Canario. I know we’re all pissed at Jed now but to think he didn’t do a great job in returns in 2021 is insane and the system is also in really good shape and on the rise. It’s far from average. He absolutely did, given the circumstances. I just think it's reasonable to believe a full year would have gotten substantially more.
  7. Tryptamine
    Waiting until the trade deadline before everyone was a FA certainly didn't do anything to help with that. If he makes those moves before the 2021 season we're looking a whole lot better.
  8. Tryptamine
    When you only have to watch 7 full games to beat the number... I’m not sure I watched a full game start to finish in 2022. I did not. A few times I watched a couple innings, but that was about the extent of it.
  9. Tryptamine
    Hurts is going to absolutely torch this defense; I see no way they keep the Eagles under 30. Fields is going to have to carry them with his legs to make this even competitive. 38-21.
  10. Tryptamine
    9/225 is a number that keeps rattling around in my head. A few months ago I would have said like 6/140, but yeah.....
  11. Tryptamine
    If he's what we hope he is, he either starts in AA or has a brief stint in A+ to start the year before AA. He spends the vast majority of the year there and gets a taste of AAA at the end of the year. Then he likely opens 2024 in AAA with a chance at a call up around the 2024 ASB, perhaps earlier if he's completely torching AAA.
  12. Tryptamine
    Luckily I'm on a bye or I'd be in panic mode too. Brady and Dak have pretty much sucked for me.
  13. Tryptamine
    I wouldn't give up a ton, but it's pretty clear he's very unhappy there and the overall team chemistry is a dumpster fire.
  14. Tryptamine
    Based on their unwillingness to spend, I can't see them moving their top prospects who they're going to almost entirely depend on to make the team relevant in the next few years.
  15. Tryptamine
    A no shortstop offseason would have been a lot more viable if it was the plan from the beginning. Add an Abreu or Bell, go harder on SP, etc. I think at this point the top tier no SS offseason is probably something like - Trade for Danny Jansen - Sign Nate Eovaldi - Sign the best DH option available (Michael Brantley?) - Sign someone who can cover 3B and/or SS. I'd prioritize offense and do someone like Justin Turner - Go fairly hard on the bullpen, but guys who are already good rather than those you think you can make good, something like Taylor Rogers and Adam Ottavino But like if they're drawing such a hard line on keeping the powder dry, even the above plan you have to have doubts around Jed's appetite for the modest prospect costs of Jansen and Eovaldi's QO. In this scenario, which is far from ideal, do you get someone like Segura for 2B (keeping Hoerner at SS), or do you sacrifice a live chicken in the hopes that it wakes up Madrigal's bat? Not that it's great, but after his return from injury on 8/4 he did put up a 95 wRC+. That's greatly improved from the 47 wRC+ he put up in the 115 PAs before that. As a 100-105 w RC+ guy he's probably a 3 fWAR player.
  16. Tryptamine
    So it sounds like the plan is to try and replicate the historically great farm the Cubs had in 2014/2015 before going all in. A totally reasonable scenario and not at all completely unrealistic.
  17. Tryptamine
    We know the first part of option 1 isn't true. If they had no money, they wouldn't have been trying to buy a soccer team.
  18. Tryptamine
    You understand that, like the Bogaearts and Turner contracts, they're only giving them these extra long contracts to lower the AAV and help them with their cap situation correct? That's why Correa is only 27.5m annually. If not for the cap implications he would have gotten more like 35M annually and 3 or 4 years less.
  19. Tryptamine
    Does Hoyer really have a choice? Ricketts is the owner and doesn't have to do anything. Jed... Well, that's kind of his job. I honestly think there's at least a part of them that is considering cancelling the convention. They're going to get absolutely destroyed by the fans and the media.
  20. Tryptamine
    There's no way Ricketts or Hoyer have the balls to show up to the convention, right?
  21. Tryptamine
    They're just going to roll the savings over. That's what they claim right? So grabbing Devers and Ohtani next year should be just a drop in the bucket.
  22. Tryptamine
    I may have been too optimistic back then.
  23. Tryptamine
    it seems much lower than 50/50 that the cubs will even get swanson taillon was our splurge Honestly, the "best" move they can make at this point is just sitting out. They're going to give Segura some ridiculous 3 or 4 year deal and try to sell him as an undervalued star.
  24. Tryptamine
    Chicago Cubs: Small Market Team Who needs a World Series when you can chase the smart spending championship. That's the real prize.
  25. Tryptamine
    I guess my summer is officially free. Enjoy a half empty Wrigley Hoyer.
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