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  1. Tryptamine
    Topic is a bit old, but relevant. I think my estimations are realistic. 1B- Pujols(26M) 9/235 2B- K.Johnson(8M) 2/16 SS- Castro 3B- Headley (Vitters,Dolis,Rhee) Too much? C- Geo RF- B.Jackson CF- Cespedes(8M) 7/50 LF- Ethier (12M) 5/60 SP: Hamels(19M) 5/95 I don't think Phillies can afford him Garza Darvish(19M) 40M posting fee with 5/55 deal Gio (Szczur,McNutt,Hernandez) Enough? Cashner/Wells Closer: Marshall, maybe Cash if his arm can't hold up. The Cubs have I believe 43M available this year with another 10M likely thanks to the CBA. Add in the money saved when you shop Marmol for prospects and that should be enough, or very close to enough, to cover the Pujols,Johnson,Cespedes and Darvish signings. In 2013 they have in the neighborhood of 40M to spend. Hamels/Either will eat the majority of that with arbitration eating the rest. Granted the lineup lacks the true second impact bat, but the depth is awesome. Combine that with a pitching staff likely in the top few in baseball and I think you have a team that can challenge for a championship. Thoughts?
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    If we want Alonzo its going be be Garza or bust. I sure hope you don't mean straight up. If the Reds want Garza it had better pull 2 significant pieces on top of that. I would think Marmol would be plenty, especially if you kicked in 5M on an already relatively cheap deal.
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    That would be incredibly unethical. In what way? Feigning interest in someone for leverage sake is a nice ploy and I don't see anything even remotely wrong with it. Now if you're talking about Sveum's perspective then that sucks a little, but it's not like it's going to cost him a job or anything.
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    I'm still waiting to find out who this elite offensive, elite defensive, young and in shape player is. The only person I can think of is Votto, but then you have to empty your farm and still give him a massive contract. There is no perfect candidate; any player is going to have a flaw of some sort. You can't let your fear of past failed contracts keep you from making moves in the future. With Pujols/Fielder, they will likely outperform their contracts in the first couple years. That being the case, I'm not too upset if they fall below value in the last couple.
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    why give up Cashner for Liriano when Cashner will probably have the better career moving forward? Liriano is just as likely to get hurt and Cashner will be cheap for a while. I don't know that I do this straight up let alone including Ha and Rusin.
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    I have no real interest in Jackson based on what I think he will likely be offered. He's always had good stuff, but is just as likely to get rocked as he is to pitch a gem. Unless he's willing to sign for something around 3/24 then no thanks. With that said, I wonder if the Cubs could swing something with the Braves to pick up Hoover. With Delgado,Minor,Beachy and Teheran either contributing or looming, I would think he's available. Perhaps eat some of Byrd's contract inorder to pry him away.
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    God [expletive] damn it, it's already started. This is going to end up giving me an aneurysm between now and next year. Not here, thank god. People I know, other various sites, etc. This place is my where I come when I want to slam my face onto my desk after talking to other people about the Cubs. Even if Dave occasional makes me want to do it as well.
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    God [expletive] damn it, it's already started. This is going to end up giving me an aneurysm between now and next year.
  9. Tryptamine
    This could be a blessing in disguise. Bruce can use the fact that he actually knows baseball to replace the god awful Phil Rodgers, and as a result, I won't want to smash my face into my keyboard when I read the column in the Tribune.
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    Amusing.
  11. Tryptamine
    The sharktopus can't be stopped. http://www.hulu.com/watch/165345/syfy-original-movies-sharktopus
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    The Daytona Cubs twitter feed described it as a "MOONSHOT" for what that's worth. Law will blame this on hurricane force winds which occurred only during Szczur's at bat.
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    How should he be involved with the development? The guy isn't a coach, that's not his role. Well let's see, he's the director of player development so it all starts with him. You don't think he has a say as far as coaching philosophies?
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    If this were to have happened, I'm not sure my fandom would have survived.
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    Just because he wants the organization to be more statistical doesn't mean everyone in the office will be touting big backgrounds in analysis. Even in the day of numbers and Ivy Leaguers running baseball teams there's room for people in baseball with a baseball background. In fact, some would even argue that the numbers are not even all that hard to learn, and despite not touting a major background in that area most guys in today's FOs can pick up on what they like to look at statistically. Surely you've noticed that nowadays any Dick, Tom, and Jerry can lean to the numbers side if they follow the game hard enough and that there's a gazillion different numbers to analyze players on. Numbers is one edge a FO can give itself. I see this as similar to the Mets keeping John Rico despite the FO overhaul last year. It's an organization keeping it's touted young FO guys while it still can. I'm not sure what the big deal. Fleita holds what is perhaps the most important position in the organization for embodying what your team's philosophies are about. His teaching has the biggest impact on the prospects of any one in the organization. If he's teaching them old timey baseball while the organization is preaching saber that's a pretty enormous problem.
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    This
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    God help us if he has a big first game. The meathead contingency will want us to lock him up for the next 5 years.
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    Moustakas has taken a long time to adjust at most levels. I wouldn't be at all concerned with him unless he's doing the same thing after the ASB next year.
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    HS stats can be ignored almost entirely in my opinion. I give more credence to college stats, especially for those in the power conferences. Really it seems the further along a player progresses the less needed the scout's opinions are.
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    I mega-loathe this kind of talk. The Cubs are not the A's or the Twins, they are a major market and can afford to develop the farm system and imrpove the major league team at the same time. It's really mind-boggling that there are people who call themselves "Cubs fans" who think the Cubs have to do one or the other. Not true, the Cubs can do both and they should do both. The people I talk to who believe this crap don't think we shouldn't spend at all, they think we should wait until the prospects are all up and producing them somehow go on one huge off season spending spree that fills all our holes in just that one off season. There's clearly a bit of delusion going on there.
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    Is it just me or is Hulet's response pretty much the opposite of reality? Outside of the Hayden Simpson pick, the Cubs have played it very safe the last few drafts. They've almost completely ignored high upside boom or bust types and instead stocked the farm with depth. This was the first year they really went all out on the high upside talent. He also calls the farm thin which is just wrong. Sure the farm lacks high end/elite prospects, but as far a depth goes the Cubs have a pretty excellent farm. I feel like he's talking about the Simpson pick and using that one pick to form an opinion about the entire farm.
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    Nolasco seems like one of those guys for whom a change of scenery could be HUGE. Given his propensity to have that "one big inning" it would seem something gets mechanically off that his pitching coaches haven't been able to pick up on. Or he could just be a headcase, who knows? Nolasco's game log is truly strange. He has 3 or 4 starts where he gives up 0,1 or 2 runs, then out of no where comes these 4IP 11ER games. He's been following a very similar pattern all year.
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    I'm always amazed by his production. The guy could probably hold an .800 OPS at age 50.
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    Would you be surprised if I told you that would be his 2nd lowest season OPS as a Cub? All this lazy talk and having to defend him from meat heads has actually led me to one realization. Ramirez is a heck of a lot better player than I had realized. Of course this makes it even more idiotic that people want him chased out of town as part of a purging of the "old regime".
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    He's definitely a good guy and he worked his ass off to do what he thought was best for the organization. In the end the results just weren't there. I'll always admire the hell out of him for getting that Lilly deal done while he was in the hospital. He was truly dedicated to the cause.
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