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Wild Card Round: #7 Bears @ #2 Saints, 3:40 CT on 1/10
Tryptamine replied to UMFan83's topic in Other Sports
Wow Trubisky, grow some balls. -
I don't believe for a minute that dominic smith is available. At least not for 1 season of Bryant. He has put up a .957 OPS over the last 2 seasons, good for a 149 wRC+ and 390 wOBA. I believe he’d be available for KB. He can’t play defense and there’s no NL DH this year and they have Alonso. Idk why we’d be interested in him since he’s a fringe 1B at best and there’s no certainty a DH is coming to the NL for good anytime soon. Because we have an aging 1B who is a FA next season and is going to want near 20M a year.
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I don't believe for a minute that dominic smith is available. At least not for 1 season of Bryant. He has put up a .957 OPS over the last 2 seasons, good for a 149 wRC+ and 390 wOBA.
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Lindor & Carrasco to the Mets for Giménez, Rosario & 2 Prospects
Tryptamine replied to Bertz's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Further proof that a guy like Kyren Paris is probably best case scenario for Contreras. Marsh isn't going anywhere and probably not Adams either. -
I'd expect something like Kyren Paris, Alex Ramirez and Jack Kochanowicz. I wish it was more, but I think that's about as good as it's going to get.
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This may be the least I've ever cared that a team I followed made the playoffs.
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So excited to watch them get blown out at NO too. Now hopefully they keep Trubisky and Nagy to complete this utter shitshow scenario.
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I'd be mad if they weren't shopping him. Thry aren't going to be competitive so get what you can for the rebuild, the same goes for Bryant,Hendricks,Baez and Rizzo. The absolute worst thing you could do is put together a middling team hoping to 84 win yourself into the playoffs all the while wasting the remaining trade value.
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Fantrax top 500 prospects has Caissie #197 Preciado #164 Mena #216
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I think we'll look back on this in 2 or 3 years and be fine with this deal. The most disappointing aspect is that it looks like they're going long term rebuild so we can expect 3 or 4 years of really bad baseball. I was hoping for a 1 year retool and back to decent in 2022.
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No Campusano is a pretty big bummer.
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And he was on pace for a 4.2fwar season while not being a FA until 2026. Remember that Darvish is 34.
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I think that's accurare but replace Morejon with Hassell/Head and frankly we should be pretty happy with that return.
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Yeah I'm all in on San Diego and Toronto this year now that we're returning to the time where I pay more attention to the Cub prospects than the mlb squad.
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If the other 2 beyond cronenworth and campusano are any good, it's a nice haul
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If Campusano is indeed one of the guys involved, Cubs would unquestionably have the best crop of catching prospects.
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Swap one of Head or Hassell for Wilcox? Or is he way down now Wilcox was traded in Snell deal
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Unfortunate a pitcher basically has to be in the deal because I'd love Cronenworth,head and hassell
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Gore is 100% off the table, same with Abrams unless Contreras is involved too. Still, you could get a really nice package involving any of cronenworth, head, weathers,cantillo,etc. I wouldn't mind a chance to get any of morejon,lucchesi or strahm in the lab either.
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Blake Snell Traded to the Padres
Tryptamine replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Zunino is a great guy to work with Mejia and try to get his defense passable. I still feel confident he'll hit. -
That's because he isn't very good. Since May 15th of 2019 covering 669PA, he has put up an .807 OPS good for a 107 wRC+. Outside of the crazy start to 2019 he has never been good. Meh, name a player and I can find the reasons not to get that guy. For the price they just paid I'd rather focus on him being a giant, cheap athletic switch hitter in his 20s with a high Iso offense at a position the league isn't really stacked at with starters. It's hard not see this as at least a potential coup for the Nats, in many ways the kind of trade I'd like to see the Cubs make On the other end, the Pirates are hoping Wil Crowe can replace Trevor Williams so they don't have to spend too much money while trying to lose So you like the 28 year old who is a FA in 2 years and accumulated 2.1fwar over the last 2 seasons (836 PA), but you don't like the 23 year old Arraez who has 5 years of control and put up 2.8fwar in the last 2 seasons (487 PA)?
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[highlight=yellow][/highlight] That's because he isn't very good. Since May 15th of 2019 covering 669PA, he has put up an .807 OPS good for a 107 wRC+. Outside of the crazy start to 2019 he has never been good.
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So the answer to fixing a team that couldn't hit last year, is getting rid of Schwarber, who could hit outside of 2020, and bringing in a guy whose last 3 year's wRC+ was 89,90 and 90 before 118 in a 53 game 2020 fueled by a .353babip. The only thing I see that potentially makes me think that 2020 was legit was that he drastically cut down on pulling the ball and went up the middle significantly more. The BB%, K%, ISO were all pretty normal for him and his batted ball profile had a slight increase in GB% and decrease in FB%. I just don't see it.
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Every time there is an expansion team or a rebranded one, I think about when I was a kid and the Rockies, Marlins and San Jose Sharks were all brand new. Just about every kid wanted one of those old Starter jacket pullovers with those big logos on the back of them. I think I still probably have my San Jose Sharks one laying around somewhere or it's in my parent's house.
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I'm fully prepared for them to do mostly nothing, throwing minor amounts of money at roster hole bandaids and hoping they can 85 win their way into the playoffs before letting Rizzo,Bryant and Baez walk for nothing.