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God damn it, this sucks. So sad. RIP to the bat flipping king.
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Hopefully Theo’s Spirit Airlines flight gets to Vegas in time to meet with them
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Javy’s going to regress, even if it’s to 2-3 WAR. He can’t be a 5+ win player with his profile. KB being KB should make up for it though. So...It's just as good a team. Oh yeah, it’s going to be the most irrationally hated 90+ win projected team of all time if we just do moves on the margins.
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I'm curious how it is a worse squad. The only person on offense who should decline based on age would be Zobrist. Rotation is nominally stronger with the addition of Hamels. Javy’s going to regress, even if it’s to 2-3 WAR. He can’t be a 5+ win player with his profile. KB being KB should make up for it though.
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He would really have to want to play for the Cubs to take that deal. If other teams are offering him $35 million plus for every year, would he accept $20 million per year for the first two years waiting for a huge payday after that. Also, if he wants to play for a winner, there wouldn't be much of a guarantee that the Cubs would be competitive with big pay raises/extensions to Baez, Contreras, Bryant, Hendricks, etc. in addition to his huge bump of $30 million. Any contract of this size, by any team, is going to have some quirks with deferments or salaries being lower or jumping in various years. He probably isn’t getting an opt out earlier than 3 years in by anyone and he’s still getting the AAV he wants in the first 3 years in my scenario + deferment money. We only have $60 million on the books for 2021 right now, we could pay him $40-50 million that year and have plenty of money to spend elsewhere. If a team wants to offer him like 10/400 with the money evenly split and opt outs every year and no deferment good for them and he probably takes it. But I’d bet any deal he gets won’t have opt outs for the first 2-3 years, some money deferred and probably years where he’s making less or more than the AAV of the deal.
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I wonder if the "get creative" and "things need to be sequenced" means more they'd have to get creative with Bryce's contract to make it work for this year and next than them necessarily needing to move a ton of other players/contracts around. With all the money coming off the books after this year and next maybe they need to stack the money in a creative way to fit him in (like not giving him that much in the first two years and a healthy deferment). Lets say he signs for 12/375, $25-40 million of that gets deferred ~15 years down the road in some sort of installment plan (which he gets no matter what even if he takes an opt out). Then the first two years he "only" gets around $18-22 million and in year 3 (after we have all of Zobrist, Lester, Q, Morrow, Hamels, Chatwood, etc off the books) he gets a big bump and like a $40-50 million salary and an opt out after that year. So he would roughly get $90 million guaranteed in the first three years + the deferred money down the road, year 4 he gets another sizable amount in the $40-50 million range and an opt out after that as well so if he opts out after then he still would have gotten around $130 million over 4 years + deferred money. Then years 5-12 can come down a bit to in the $25-32 million a year range for the remainder (with another opt out in there potentially).
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There’s no way they added Darvish if they thought he could affect Bryce at the time of signing him. Either these are complete lies about our spending abilities or something drastic happened to shut it off.
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Or why we traded for him in the first place only to non tender him. Well yeah. The whole sequence of transactions with him was odd. It made a ton of sense to get him for the Mike Freeman AAA SS role
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An 06’ Pierre line by Hamilton would be by far the best offensive season he ever had
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I still don’t get why we just didn’t tender him. That was such an odd move.
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He only costs $9 mil a year and is done after this year, we all knew this was part of the risk (and why he was relatively cheap). He did give us 30 awesome innings this year and Joe/medical staff fucked him up, hopefully they learned their lesson that he needs to really be on a strict schedule when he comes back this year and he's back to normal by middle of the year and maintained to be healthy and ready for the playoffs.
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First horsefeathers Dr. Gryzlo. Second yeah he shouldn’t really be planned on in the first half and maybe that’s a blessing to keep him healthy to not bring him back until June/July and go easy from there for the playoffs. Third and final, LOL at our “connected” beat writers, he had this procedure in early November and not a single one reported it until early December. These guys have no sources
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The Cubs' offer: In theory, depending on our grander plans/ability to spend, there’s a few variations of trades for either Kluber or Bauer that make decent sense for both teams that includes some combo of Q, Willy, Happ, Almora, Schwarber, Monty, Kintzler, Duensing (as pure salary dumps/offsets on the latter 2) maybe even Zobrist and prospects. If the Indians goal is to get mostly players back that help them now vs a prospect heavy package.
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Yeah I mentioned that basically the other day. With Rosenthal’s stuff the last ~24 hours, Levine admitting on the radio today they are clueless and now Kap’s tweet. It doesn’t seem like anyone knows what the hell is going on and at the least we probably can take comfort in those “Cubs have no money” articles early on are probably baseless and them just making dumb guesses. What was Rosenthal saying again? He tweeted something like “Theo watch is on” in response to Mooney’s article the other day asking are the Cubs “laying in the weeds” on Harper and then he was on MLBN last night saying he expects the Cubs to make moves and it could be big. That clip is like a page or two back I think.
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Yeah I mentioned that basically the other day. With Rosenthal’s stuff the last ~24 hours, Levine admitting on the radio today they are clueless and now Kap’s tweet. It doesn’t seem like anyone knows what the hell is going on and at the least we probably can take comfort in those “Cubs have no money” articles early on are probably baseless and them just making dumb guesses.
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It’s awfully vague but pair it with his/Athletics article yesterday about Theo maybe being up to something/lurking on Bryce and maybe he’s starting to hear things on us. Hopefully big things. -
I’d gladly take that
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lol "signals a breakout" is a pretty optimistic take on his almost unplayable 2018 Yeah breakout is a bit much, but it’s good to see some underlying improvements were taking place so hopefully he at least is more usable this year. I still think he was rushed a bit to MLB and he needs more time until we can figure out exactly what he is but I’m optimistic he can be some sort of useful and valuable enough player eventually.
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