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  1. If I remember correctly, Bystro over on PSD said the Cubs really hated his attitude and wanted nothing to do with him.
  2. 5M bonus for a guy most see as 4th OFer with an Almora comp as an upside. Not sure what the bidding war was all about.
  3. If we're dealing with the Dbacks I want Taylor Widener coming back some how.
  4. Assuming starting point after arbitration is 206M and 246M is the point at which draft picks start being penalized, I'd do the following. Trade Almora+Chatwood for salary relief (-13M in 2019) Trade Caratini+Kintzler for salary relief (-5.5M) Trade Happ+Montomery+Hatch to Colorado for J.Gray (0, 3 years left) Trade Duensing +1M to ARI for Jarrod Dyson (+1M, one year left on Dyson) Trade Monasterio+Little to SF for W.Smith(+3.5M, only one year left under contract)) Sign Harper for 10/300 (+30M) Sign R.Rivera for 1/2.5M (+2.5M) Sign Z.Britton 3/36M (+12M) Let Rangers buyout Hamels' option (0M) C:Contreras 1B:Rizzo 2B:Zobrist SS:Baez 3B:Bryant LF:Schwarber CF:Heyward RF:Harper Bench:Bote,Lastella,Rivera,Dyson SP:Lester,Hendricks,Darvish,Gray,Quintana RP:Britton,Morrow,Strop,Edwards,Cishek,Smyly,Smith Gives the Cubs a bullpen of death, another SP with huge upside who's also young, another impact bat, but they certainly do lose depth. This also leaves just under 10M to make any other moves. I don't think Jose Iglesias is the worst option.
  5. Very much so. There was that bat throwing incident where he intended to swing and let go of the bat to launch it at the pitcher but instead held on too long and chucked it at Josh Donaldson
  6. Now if we can only figure how the Astros managed to lead every level of the minors in strikeouts, in most cases by huge amounts.
  7. Jon Gray is my #1 target Archie Bradley Whit Merrifield
  8. Davis needs his walking papers like right now. This offense has done nothing but get worse and worse under him. I can't wait to see this team get absolutely roasted by the media, especially Maddon, but he's going to come back as usual with no real answers. Welcome to the hot seat in 2019 Joe.
  9. Hey now, if you combine all 3 PAs, they collectively might have gotten the ball out of the infield. Maybe.
  10. This is where the Cubs really stick the knife in. Now suddenly the relievers will start getting people out, but they wont sniff a run in the next few innings.
  11. Was there any horsefeathering doubt. Good bye Cubs, see you in 2019.
  12. It's amazing to see an entire team collectively piss down their own leg.
  13. I've pretty much given up on Carl ever realizing his potential as an elite closer, at this point point I'm instead wondering if I trust him on the playoff roster in a tight game.
  14. When the Brewers take the division, does that pretty much wrap up Yelich as MVP now? I don't see how you can give it to Baez if that happens.
  15. Thankfully for Archer, the Cubs are equally inept at scoring runs. It's been a joy watching this offensive behemoth slug its way to mediocrity.
  16. I just don't get how outside of Baez and Zobrist, just about every single player fails to meet expectations offensively. Not a single player benefits from the HR explosion over the last couple years and now were about 2 or 3 games from being ranked 12th in runs scored.
  17. Down to 8th in MLB for runs scored, just 5 runs away from 13th, or pretty much just an average offense. Combine that with the 1st half SP struggles and half the bullpen being hurt or incredibly over worked and it's surprising they're still on the pace they are.
  18. I really find it strange that the Cubs were like the only team who have gained absolutely nothing from this sudden HR explosion in baseball. If anything, our guys are hitting fewer HRs now, while Albies has already hit 6 more HR this year then he did in in entire Milb career spanning 4 years.
  19. Agreed. Nagy’s playcalling was awful. If we wanted conservative we would have kept Fox. Very disappointing. Basically 15 scripted plays and Mack almost carried a garbage team to a win but our high profile CB blew the game I think it's very telling that the coach basically took the ball out of Trubisky's hands in the 2nd half preferring to try and run out a clock with 7 mintues to go in a game.
  20. What an awful cumulative choke job. Lost a lot of faith in Trubisky who looked scared and will someone teach Kyle Fuller how the hell to catch a football?
  21. Edwards just gets rattled so incredibly easily. His stuff is incredible, but but he completely lacks the ability to fight through tough innings.
  22. .380babip and making overall worse contact this year than last. Clearly his numbers are totally sustainable.
  23. I have zero faith in them to call it correctly, in fact I believe they would actively torpedo the project out of spite.
  24. Apparently TB also got a PTBNL and that player is Shane Baz, the Pirates #4 prospect and 1st round selection from the 2017 draft.
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