Cubswin11

Yeah and the best XFL storyline next year. Luck and AB on the same team or do they go to separate teams?

Yeah he’d be an ideal target, don’t know if they’d deal with us or accept their fate of being a garbage team for the duration of his deal and sell. I also like Jed Lowrie as a target if he’s healthy and they do some reshuffling.

MRI came back clean but I’d say I’m 90% certain this is a Darvish situation where they just didn’t do the right scan yet that they know identifies all issues

#BigBoyTime

Anderson seems like a guy we either get 5+ against and he’s out by the 4th inning or he shoves our butts and we get 0-2 runs and he pitches in to the 7th with no in between

The guy I would go after to replace Zobrist and pinch hit is Howie Kendrick. With the year he’s having I’m guessing Kendrick. gets a near everyday job somewhere next year and I don’t think we’d give it to him/hope we’d aim higher for an everyday guy as idk how much of what he’s doing is real. The goal should be to find the next 2019 Kendrick (or 2018 Descalso) on the cheap before they have a big year like this instead of paying for the guy after he has the big year that may be flukey for a bench/role spot.

That’s a big half win (and L column) pick up there. Thanks Giants. #Believen

Man, how are you not most worried about the Brewers? I realize I'm paranoid, but I think you got this all wrong. We are closer to the Cardinals for the division (whom most have rightfully given up on thinking we can catch or at least think it’s a long shot) than the Brewers are to us.

Go drive your dirt bike off the Golden Gate in to the bay, Bumgarner

Why can’t he pinch hit?

I’d prefer keeping both and think we’d get by fine with the defense, we’d need Almora to somehow figure out a way to be a good player or find a defense first CF’er for late in games. Idk what’s more valuable though if it’s a choice between Schwarbs for less or Nick for more +Schwarbs trade because it seems hard to judge how Schwarber would be valued in a trade. You’d think he could bring back a cheap, good reliever and maybe an A ball lotto ticket or a cheap/controlled SP that’s a middle-back of rotation type. It also wouldn’t surprise me if Castellanos only ends up getting 2 or 3 years. Murphy and Lemahieu both just got 2/24, Khris Davis signed for 2/33 in season, Lowrie got 2/20, Marwin 2/21. He seems like he’d be valued closer to guys like that than a JD Martinez type deal in the new normal we’ve seen in offseasons. Maybe he only ends up costing 2-3 years at $35-50 mil. Yeah I would love to keep both, just not sure if the FO is comfortable with that given their past emphasis on defense. Maybe they saw something in Nick they thought they could fix (a la Fowler). We've somehow been the best defensive team, per FG, in baseball since the trade, however the outfield is only ranked 16th (2nd place at first and second (somehow), 3rd at short). Trading Schwarber also requires filling that spot in the field, and if they go that route it would imply that wouldn't settle for poor defense, so it's not something that can be fixed by moving Contreras out there. The projections have them being about the same player offensively going forward. I can see the appeal in both directions...I think it depends on what else is out there and what holes need to be filled (starter, probably a second baseman, bullpen as always), which is a much bigger conversation. Yeah the eye test seems to tell me that he shouldn’t be nearly as bad a fielder as the numbers suggest. He’s a good athlete and moves well, maybe they see something in positioning or working on him getting better reads/jumps. I really would roll the dice with him and Schwarbs in the corners next year, they’ve done it for a month+ now and it doesn’t seem to be hurting us. I hope they’d fill 2B with a Whit trade, SP with one of the guys in the massive heap of the Pineda, Hamels, Odorizzi, Keuchel, Gibson, Roark, type guys and then do a Cishek level cost signing for the bullpen and then back fill it internally/cheaper options on top of bringing Nick back as my preferred offseason.

I think because of his age he gets at least 4 years, somewhere between 4-5 years guaranteed and $16-18 in AAV makes sense to me and I absolutely do that for him. Have to remember there’s a lot of guys with his profile available this offseason too which should keep him a little cheaper. JD can opt out then there’s bat first/DH/Corner OF/1B guys like Abreu, Thames, Asdrubal, Alex Gordon, Ozuna, Avi Garcia, Markakis, Howie Kendrick, Nelson Cruz and EE who all either are outright FA or can be FA with options. It’s a crowded market for that type of player. If you want to do that deal, do you want to go him and Schwarber in the corners for the foreseeable future? And if not, do you think Castellanos at something like 4/72 plus whatever you get for Schwarber is more valuable than Schwarber for the next two years at like...$12m total? I probably go option 1 and hope Heyward holds up in center (along with hoping Almora can recover to a serviceable backup or picking up a glove first guy). I’d prefer keeping both and think we’d get by fine with the defense, we’d need Almora to somehow figure out a way to be a good player or find a defense first CF’er for late in games. Idk what’s more valuable though if it’s a choice between Schwarbs for less or Nick for more +Schwarbs trade because it seems hard to judge how Schwarber would be valued in a trade. You’d think he could bring back a cheap, good reliever and maybe an A ball lotto ticket or a cheap/controlled SP that’s a middle-back of rotation type. It also wouldn’t surprise me if Castellanos only ends up getting 2 or 3 years. Murphy and Lemahieu both just got 2/24, Khris Davis signed for 2/33 in season, Lowrie got 2/20, Marwin 2/21. He seems like he’d be valued closer to guys like that than a JD Martinez type deal in the new normal we’ve seen in offseasons. Maybe he only ends up costing 2-3 years at $35-50 mil.

This could be a something real and a mini leap by him.... [tweet] [/tweet] https://www.cubsinsider.com/2019/09/04/this-minor-adjustment-could-be-contributing-to-kyle-schwarbers-drastic-offensive-improvement/

I think because of his age he gets at least 4 years, somewhere between 4-5 years guaranteed and $16-18 in AAV makes sense to me and I absolutely do that for him. Have to remember there’s a lot of guys with his profile available this offseason too which should keep him a little cheaper. JD can opt out then there’s bat first/DH/Corner OF/1B guys like Abreu, Thames, Asdrubal, Alex Gordon, Ozuna, Avi Garcia, Markakis, Howie Kendrick, Nelson Cruz and EE who all either are outright FA or can be FA with options. It’s a crowded market for that type of player.

:flythew: Keep doing your job, idiots

What a bizarre, stupid rule

Is Schwarbs taking a leap? Haven’t looked in to the numbers but the eye test says he may be the last 1-2 months.

I feel pretty confident we are gonna bring him back, even with this run he’s not going to get anything crazy. The overall value is still capped around a ~3 win player.

Glad we got that guy back

Would make sense we looked like that vs King Felix in the first since we don’t advance scout, it seems. Not way to know he’s a King junk baller since the most recent scouting report on him we have is from like 2010.

? You didn't know he hurt his knee way back then?I knew he hurt it, I was unaware of or have since forgotten the exact game and date.

Bryant hurt seems to be the common denominator

You ain't know??

July 3rd the Cubs were in Pittsburgh. Correction, I misread the tweet. He hurt it in Cincy prior to that but July 3 in Pittsburgh it was finally bad enough to sit. If he was IL’d on the 3rd for only 10 days he would have only missed 5 games, he could have been IL’d for 2+ weeks and only missed 8-10 games because of the ASG falling a few days after the 3rd. Seems like pretty optimal use of the IL in that scenario to make sure your best player gets over something “minor” that he has admitted this knee thing has happened to him before and took a few days of rest to get over it. Especially when we have a bunch of evidence the last few years of the Cubs letting a minor thing turn in to a lingering thing because they don’t 10 day IL guys and there’s really no excuse in this case because of the timing with the ASG they could’ve been safe with it and it doesn’t cost them KB missing a ton of games.

Bryant claims the injury happened July 3rd in Cincy, way to avoid using the 10 day IL once again you horsefeathering idiots.