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    Stay far away, idiots.
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    92 wins (NLCS), 95 wins (most in NL in regular season) and last years horsefeathers show the last 3 years. If you think the true talent is closer to 2017 and 18 (I do) than 2019, Pythag agreed, then yeah we don’t need major changes to win. Small tweaks to optimize things are going to put them in a plenty good spot to win 90+ and what more can you really ask for? True but they are claiming that they don't have any money to spend and are already down a starter, 2B, utility guy and several bullpen arms. We have to somehow fill those holes while dropping payroll. Not saying that trading Kris Bryant is my first choice or second or 5th, and horsefeathers the Ricketts for makin them drop payroll, but I think minor tweaks will have us worse than before. Right. But the roster we have doesn’t need “major changes to win” like David said and was then rebutted. I was making the case we likely only need some tweaks to a talented roster through FA and trades to win with this core. Which is really just the ability to spend that $20-30 million to be over just the middle LT tie, which gives us a good shot at 90+ wins and be division favs but the Ricketts are being little shits. Major changes are not NEEDED to win if we acted like a major market team in a competitive window.
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    they don't really need to make major changes to win We've been saying that for 3 years. 92 wins (NLCS), 95 wins (most in NL in regular season) and last years horsefeathers show the last 3 years. If you think the true talent is closer to 2017 and 18 (I do) than 2019, Pythag agreed, then yeah we don’t need major changes to win. Small tweaks to optimize things are going to put them in a plenty good spot to win 90+ and what more can you really ask for?
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    Come on....by insinuating it will be a good thing that the Ricketts might one day decide to carry a payroll significantly lower than 2019's?! It was an odd route is all I'm saying I'll throw one out there...not only are they launching a network but MLB is allowing teams to shop their streaming rights now. The Cubs - thanks to this network - will be able to sell their streaming rights without having to negotiate with an RSN, something pretty much everyone else but the Yankees will have to deal with I’m not saying it’s a good thing right now, it obviously sucks. All I’m saying is that we don’t need to be dooming and glooming about long term spending and what it all means to the point of likening it to the Bulls or how we’re only going to run Brewer level payrolls for eternity. The streaming thing is big, but again something they currently aren’t making money on and likely have to spend some up front money on to get going. Long term good, right now may have them tight up (in their eyes and how they operate).
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    Whatever you want to call it, still such an extremely positive stance based on their future willingness to spend less than they did in 2018 after all the media rights are figured out and the network gets launched plus whatever else is going on (Rickettsville, etc) They still talk about being able to spend in the future on things. I don’t think we’re looking at things getting gutted down anytime soon unless we go back to purposely doing it like pre-2015 tanking. We also have kinda heard hints the network and Ricketsville was a miss or is taking long to realize revenues on (especially the network with the structure of owning it and funding upstart instead of taking a check from an RSN). Not an excuse, they obviously can spend but I can also see how this is a temporary pull back from the middle LT tier and not a long term thing. I’m trying to find a little something to stay positive about long term here.
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    For the record - neither the Leake or Kemp trade cost the seller a prospect. The Red Sox actually received prospects in the 2012 blockbuster and the Cardinals got a minor league for Leake. The Braves took back Gonzalez, Kazmir, and McCarthy for Kemp and got Charlie Culberson as a MiLer. The Blue Jays gave up not top prospects in the Jays/Marlin trade, the most notable at the time IIRC was Heccevarria or Nicollino, probably misspelled both names...They did give up Jeff Hoffman to land Tulo and Hawkins plus dump Reyes I'd throw the Angels into the pool of teams that might get desperate enough this offseason I was talking the Leake trade this year to the D’Backs. The Mariners sent Leake and $10 mil for a nothing prospect. So either you’re having to throw money in (real money or other players coming back to net off) or prospects. I don’t see us in an overly advantageous spot to be throwing money in deals either. Any money thrown in a deal is owed within 18 months, even if it’s spread out over a few years to pay a guy. FWIW.
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    I might agree on some of the other stuff, like that Bryant's been boiled down to YoC and his age at FA is insane, but pre-praising the Ricketts for future spending way less than this franchise can afford but up to the salary cap they're fighting for is gross I wasn’t praising the Ricketts. I’m was just pointing out that the doom bonnering they’ll become the Bulls is a bit much if we can assume they’ll keep spending in the $200 million range. Since unlike the Bulls we can draw FA when we decide to spend and don’t get laughed out the gym/don’t even get an interview with a top tier FA.
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    I think it’s more we wouldn’t be willing to send off the requisite prospects to make a deal. Those trades can still happen, Matt Kemp and Mike Leake are recent examples off the top of my head. Like to unload Heyward we’d have to give up multiple of Nico, Amaya, Marquez, and Davis. I think the prospect hoarding mentality would kick in on our side to not do it. horsefeathers I bet you’d have to attach at least Ademan or Roederer just to move Chatwood and we wouldn’t do that. A team like the Marlins, Mariners, etc should absolutely be looking to do a deal like that though.
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    Yes, because a blow-up means 2-3 years of gross baseball and I'm getting too old for that horsefeathers The mid-2010s Bulls employed the middle way the Cubs seem about to embark on. How's that worked out? At least when the Cubs dig out from some of these salaries and have money to spend again they could actually attract some of the top FA when they hit the market assuming they will run $200 million payrolls again. They aren’t the joke amongst the league with players/agents the Bulls are.
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    Same, assuming we can’t spend to even 240. I’d rather have death by be-heading than death by paper cuts with the be-heading at least maybe giving us some prospects for 1-3 years from now.
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    Cubs today and if they can spend to the 228-240 number, if they have to get under 208. Reds or Cardinals. Very confused by the comma and period placement in this comment. Fixed.
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    Everyone is saying there’s no chance he wins, Maybe teams just take the risk to do a deal now. Or maybe you do the trade now and the return reflects 1 year of control but then there’s PTBNL’s that will be added/picked from once he loses the case and he has 2 years left for sure? That allows both sides to go about their offseason normalish.
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    Lawyers are the one profession who procrastinate more than Baseball Executives It's insane. On a case like this, you think you would want this done ASAP so every team knows the ruling. They had YEARS since his rookie season to figured this out and now they're just getting to it? Just mindboggling to me is all. Yeah the timing of this is just odd. There was clearly no foresight in planning this to make sure the decision was made during a time neither party could be hurt. Like how wasn’t this decided between last February and October or this year?
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    I think I’d prefer Spencer Howard and Bohm as a package to anything the Braves could package.
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    Cubs today and if they can spend to the 228-240 number. If they have to get under 208, Reds or Cardinals.
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    Respecting CBT threshold. horsefeathers them. The Ricketts are about the worst possible outcome we got in new owners. They are going to make 10s of millions of dollars in profits on their TV network and Wrigleyville while "respecting the CBT threshold". FWIW from the sounds of it, they really won’t be making money off the network for some time. It’s a back end/long term deal for them, since they had to sink a bunch of money in to it. But nevertheless, horsefeathers them.
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    I get not wanting to go over the top end (which is 248 this year) but it’s [expletive] not to be willing to be between the middle tier at 228 and top end at 248 and it’s completely ludicrous to want to get under the 208 this year and reset. They should be more than willing to pay the $6-15 mil or whatever in penalties for being over 208 but under 248. But if they are gonna do that just trade off Q and attach a prospect to Chatwood. Don’t take some horsefeathers package like Pache and Fried for KB to accomplish that.
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    Yu probably left $30-50 million on the table by not opting out.
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    This is a pretty good let the MF’er burn the hell down for a few years plan. Certainly no half measures, which probably is a good thing. Pick a lane go full measures instead of being stuck in the middle. I dont get the blow it up plans. The whole tanking till 2015 was to build a core (supposedly save $ during the tank) then use that saved $ to pay that badass core. So when this team thats averaged 94 wins.per season cost controlled core comes to FA finally then its time.for Ricketts to payup.. I don’t get it either but it seems like there’s a real possibility it’s on the table as a course of action over the coming weeks/months.
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    This is a pretty good let the MF’er burn the hell down for a few years plan. Certainly no half measures, which probably is a good thing. Pick a lane go full measures instead of being stuck in the middle.
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