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  1. Cubswin11
    Adding Hedges allows to cut down on innings for Contreras behind the plate to keep the bat fresh (assuming we think there still a solid bat there, which I do). Also allows to throw Willy in the OF or 3B/1B from time to time.
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    He’s going to fall back in to the Nats lap, imo
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    In the underwhelming but would be decent moves to end the offseason I wouldn’t mind seeing some combination of the following moves yet..... - Bote (maybe more and maybe work in Duensing) for 1 of Castillo or Hedges from the Padres - Sign Oliver Perez to a Brach type deal - Sign Maldonado (if no Hedges)
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    We don't currently have the roster spots for that. So if true that means either a pitcher is dead that we don't know about, a pitcher is being traded, or we're going hard on the Dodgers' "shamelessly DL guys who aren't actually hurt" strategy. Between Morrow possibly (likely?) starting the year on the DL and not caring if they DFA Kintzler or Duensing, I don't think roster spots are an enormous concern. Jen Ho Tseng is still on the 40-man, he can be blasted in to outer space if needed. Also I’m buying there’s some truth to Bote to the Padres for a RP.
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    The biggest difference between us and the Dodgers isn’t talent, I think we are pretty close. The difference is the division, they can more easily stack wins and have a higher margin to tolerate injuries/regression and still win it vs what we have.
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    Looks like initial reports on the deal were a bit off [tweet] [/tweet]
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    Since we never seemed to take advantage of it, I’m fine with it I guess. This fucks with the Dodgers and Brewers especially with how they are always shuffling guys around.
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    That seems perfectly reasonable to me for a guy who’s only had 1 good year and has been hurt every other year since and is 31 already
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    Perez is my #1 realistic FA target left, short of Kimbrel taking a 1+1 deal. I wouldn’t mind Madson though.
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    I’m not advocating it or like it, but I could see us in on Madson. His FIP/xFIP were better than his surface numbers, he doesn’t really walk guys (something the FO has said they are looking for in the bullpe) and his velo was at a career high last year.
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    With the Rea signing official, we have some decent starting pitching depth considering we don’t have any real big time pitching prospects. Monty, Mills, Adbert, Rea, Underwood, Graveman (in the 2nd half maybe), Chatwood, and maybe 1 of Steele, Hatch, Thompson of some other prospect emerging isn’t the worst depth in the world. You don’t want 25-30+ starts coming out of that group but ~15 out of them would be something that we should survive without worrying much.
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    Less about Pomeranz in particular, but any buy low candidate is going to be low for a good reason. You don't have to bank on 200 IP from Pomeranz or his proxy, but you also have internal options(Start Montgomery) and buy low options are easier to stack for cheap too. im with you. we know how slow the market moves now, why spend 99 percent of your FA budget on Day One on 53-year old Cole Hamels when you could wait the market out and get 75 percent of whatever value he'll provide for pennies on the dollar in January or February again, cole hamels is bad, and i feel like im on the right side of history by saying so edit: Hamels, despite being mostly otherworldly with the cubs, was worth the same WAR last year as clay bucholz (who pitched 16 games.) How much is Bucholz getting this year, because it sure isn't gonna be twenty fuggen million. Bucholz elbow is fucked up, fwiw. He was shut down and had that PRP injection. Harvey and Lynn got around $10 mil on aav. Unless we are absolutely dumpster diving we weren’t saving a ton on the SP addition (and again there has to be some consideration given that we “saved” $7 million with the Smyly swap).
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    Yes please. I’d be good throwing in whatever minor league pitcher they wanted too.
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    Yates would be an awesome target but doubt he’s really available and it probably takes more than Bote. Hedges makes some sense too. I don’t think I’d want to move Bote just to clear Kintzler or Duensing (especially looking at remaining FA RPs), I’d rather keep Bote around in that case if it was a salary dump for those two and get nothing back. What else do they have that’s interesting? Quick look at not Yates bullpen guys, Castillo and Strahm as LHP are intriguing and Stammen was awesome last year but is like 34 so maybe they are good selling off him.
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    If he’s remotely healthy it’s a good chunk more than $1.5 mil.
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    I sure as hell would not be happy if the Cubs intentionally went into 2019 with him in the rotation. Right. For SP depth on a AAA deal in the Alec Mills range of the depth chart, sure I guess, or even to try him as a bullpen option out of ST. But to have him be planned to be in the rotation with only Monty or Chatwood as the fallback would not be pretty dumb.
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    I mean Pomeranz was awful, hurt? and his velo was down last year. This seems like the type of deal he should be getting and shouldn’t have been in any contenders planned rotation.
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    Clearly the Ricketts/Crane found a loophole that they get some sort of tax benefit for having naming rights on the stadium for below market rates. I wouldn’t be surprised, or really care, if in the next decade or so we do see the Wrigley Field at XYZ company Park/Stadium type deal thag was mentioned above.
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    More reason to go the safest routes first - rest and therapy, not less. The first reaction to fixing something extremely valuable and expensive should definitely not be to blast it with dangerous particles. Straight up - people overrate and overvalue fancier sounding medical procedures, most of that horsefeathers is fast becoming archaic/obsolete. There’s tons of literature on unnecessary medical procedures, this country especially can’t wait to test, scan, image, and/or operate. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/medical-procedures-prove-unnecessary/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/doctors-estimate-68-billion-in-unnecessary-medical-tests/2011/10/28/gIQANpEXZM_story.html?utm_term=.609ae14b4ddf For the regular person I agree. For athletes that need their bodies working as best as possible at certain times of the year that have millions invested in them and talking specifically pitchers and their arms here, I don’t get why you aren’t doing all the reasonable tests out there when guys tell you something hurts to get to the bottom of it. If you know there’s 2-3 scans that will show you the cause, but some can miss certain injuries why not do all them? I’m not saying go cut a guy open and dig around until you find something.
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    When you have so much invested in these players and they tell you something hurts why wouldn’t they do the tests necessary to diagnose ASAP? Nobody is saying cut these guys open whenever, that should always be last case. But why shouldn’t they do the tests they know is going to show the causes right away? This isn’t some person off the street that timing isn’t as crucial and they can let things play out. Morrow was from July-October with them not knowing what was wrong and him telling them he didn’t feel right and not getting any better/being able to throw without pain. Why did it take so long for the light to go off “hey, maybe we should do a CT Scan since that shows things differently from an MRI since something is clearly wrong and the MRI is telling us there isn’t much here for him to be feeling this way?”
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    This horsefeathering medical staff Why the horsefeathers wasn’t the CT Scan done sooner?
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    And is no contest the best closer in MLB history. There are discussions about who the best player was at each MLB position throughout history. Not so for closer. Sure I’m not saying he doesn’t deserve to be in. Just think it’s funny that he was the first unanimous one and not one of the 100+ players who accumulated more value over their careers Not that I necessarily disagree but WAR is kind of a shitty metric for RP’s. Who really cares though, the HOF is a joke run and overseen by sanctimonious assholes
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