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  1. Cubswin11
    If the national deal got a healthy bump, hopefully that means whatever we are trying to pull off with our TV deal isn’t totally fucked.
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    I’d probably do that. Especially if Bryce is in play and if they’d take Kintzler or Duensing back in the deal.
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    They should announce Bryce right as Yelich is announced MVP tonight
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    Cleveland. Seems a little light for a perrenial CY candidate switching to the DH-less league Edit: Missed that Quintana is in the trade. Hm...I mean I’d be very interested if I was the Cubs, for sure, and that seems alot more fair. I’d ask for another arm out of principle but in this case that could be some longshot at the SS/Rk levels Yeah if the assumption is Cleveland is looking for a trade that keeps them as good or better in a Kluber deal it would be tough to top this (if they’re looking for prospect packages then yeah they can do better than this, but they’re in a competitive window in the easiest division in MLB, they will likely do a trade that helps them now over 3-5 years from now). They add a young, controlled bat that’s better than all their non-MVP candidates, an established SP that’s about 50-75% of the pitcher they’re trading that’s younger and cheaper (next year) and get a bullpen arm to throw in the mix. They’re trading upside/ceiling but locking in a higher floor and spreading talent around to positions they lack even replacement level guys at (which they apparently can’t spend to add to). Kluber is 33 on opening day and guaranteed controlled for 2 more years, fwiw, at $10.5 and $13 million. Then has team options for 21 and 22 at $13.5 and $14 million but both can go up ~$4 million with escalators.
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    Who says no? 1 of Schwarber/Happ, Q, Kintzler and a prospect for Kluber and maybe a prospect back. Reasoning is the Indians are apparently strapped/not wanting to spend. They didn’t even offer Brantley the QO because they couldn’t fit that $ in if he accepted. Kluber is owed $1.5 million more the next two years than Q (and is ~3 years older), their position players outside of Lindor and Ramirez (especially outfielders) suck and they lose Miller and Allen and need some bullpen reinforcements. They are in a competitive window and this lets them fill their roster without spending a ton more. They lose the top end of a guy like Kluber but in the aggregate they make up for it in the 3 guys they get. This move clears a little money for us and the OF log jam for Bryce and gives us more upside in the rotation. I really only like this idea if we get Bryce, if we do it and just get like Brantley or Pollock I don’t love it.
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    PTR from being able to price tier more appropriately obv How many different prime/premium game price structures are layered over the 25 seating sections? Is this the PTR version of 4D chess? Switching the portion of the former 400 level to new 300 level probably lets them do a decent upcharge on that “new” section and probably also allows them to sell branding/naming rights on it.
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    I’m surprised it took this long for an active/long thread to be derailed by pizza talk
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    $17M for a 32-year old starting pitcher who hasn’t topped 130 innings in any of the last 6 seasons seems a bit steep. He was really good for them this year once he got healthy. But yeah, glad they got stuck with that LT hit and it’s smart he took that deal. He probably would have had a hard time getting even Chatwood’s deal with the draft pick attached.
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    15 day window for what?
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    Yeah this is my clear preferred route and makes us the best team possible for the next 2-3 years.
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    His angle is actually paying Machado at 26 v Bryant similar or more money at 29, without ruling out doing both, and not trading Bryant I'm reading it the way Bull did. That he's saying you sign Machado, who is younger and his deal will end sooner than what will be a 29 year old Bryant when the time comes, and Machado would then come with some of the "best prospects in baseball," meaning through trading KB. No? That’s exactly how I read it
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    I think they’re good, but I don’t see them beating the Saints, Rams (both on the road) and an AFC team (Chiefs/Pats let’s assume) 3 straight games and that’s assuming beating the Panthers/Vikings most likely in WC weekend.
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    Damn, dude; they still play golf even if he's on another team. I just saw some pictures posted on social media, I didn't mean for my post to come across as the golf meaning anything more than some buddies hanging out and playing golf together in the offseason. It just got me thinking (irrationally) of bringing Dexter back.* *It is a pretty sneaky move by Happ to start kissing ass with his future manager though and/or planning the kill on Joe.
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    Dexter, Happ and Ross were playing golf today. I don’t care how dumb and irrational the idea is. Figure out a way to get Dexter back, send Chatwood (owed less overall $ and 1 less year) and a prospect or something. Then send Almora away for whatever you can get. Get the band back together for the FU revenge tour.
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    Hasnt join been the opposite of that approach when it comes to leadoff. Almora and Murphy lead off a combined 76 times, he runs out sub optimal guys there a lot.
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    Yeah none of those names are remotely close for me. My list would start and end with Trout. Like Theo said “virtually impossible to envision a deal that makes sense.” And a network that runs pretty much non stop “Take” programming when it’s not showing a live event probably isn’t below making Olney find a story to make some wild jumps on vague Theo quotes to make a story/headline that’s going to get clicks.
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    Why's that gross? I don't think he's all that good (or at least a ~5 win player like last year, he's probably closer to 2-3), he's going to be 30 when the year starts, he certainly isn't a leadoff hitter and he'd project to have like the 7th best OBP on the team next year, he seems pretty BABIP/speed dependent, I don't like the idea of having guys steal in front of KB/Rizzo/etc., he's going to take some real things to trade for that I'd rather keep whatever it takes or use them for something else, his career OBP (pretty much the same as Heyward's) wouldn't have been top 60 last year and his Steamer projection for 2019 (.329) wouldn't have been top 80. His numbers up until the last 2 years are awful Almoraish in the majors and minors.
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    Gross, he's not a leadoff hitter
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    Charles The Cat is the hero we need right now with all the idiot, hack beat writers doing their thing
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    Kaplan tried to push this same BS in the last month and Sharma (one of the only good Cubs writers) shut it down then. https://sportsmockery.com/2018/10/david-kaplans-report-about-kris-bryant-turning-down-a-big-contract-in-the-last-several-months-is-being-refuted/
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