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  1. Cubswin11
    Throw [expletive] strikes you nerd
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    I really don’t want any part of him long term
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    4 straight balls to start and Wilson swings at 2 balls, good effort morons
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    Jesus Christ
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    Snow Dong
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    These guys are largely just complete morons. They already tried incentivizing them with the being vaccinated/85% of a team thing with loosened restrictions in the clubhouse/travel/around the stadium, not being an auto sit/quarantine if you are vaccinated and around someone with it with contact tracing, more freedom on the road/allowed to see family more, etc. I hope these guys start losing pay if they continue this nonsense with the vaccine readily available to them. Yea that's never gonna happen. Their salaries are prorated, horsefeathers around enough they won’t be able to play the full 162 and lose money. Plus the ESPN broadcast just mentioned guys can be suspended without pay for behavior.
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    Hopefully organizations are using this as a talking point with their players. They can't force anyone to get vaccinated, but they can let them know that anyone who chooses not to get the vaccine is putting their team at risk. These guys are largely just complete morons. They already tried incentivizing them with the being vaccinated/85% of a team thing with loosened restrictions in the clubhouse/travel/around the stadium, not being an auto sit/quarantine if you are vaccinated and around someone with it with contact tracing, more freedom on the road/allowed to see family more, etc. I hope these guys start losing pay if they continue this nonsense with the vaccine readily available to them.
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    The lineup today actually fucks pretty hard
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    Yeah probably worth giving this guy $15-30 mil more than he’s really “worth.”
  13. Cubswin11
    I only saw Higgins catch 1-2 innings in a game last week and he looked horrible behind the plate. Like Michael Barrett bad, couldn’t block horsefeathers. He was catching one of the minor league guys like Thompson too, who you’d think he’s be familiar with. Woelter’s sucks though, Tyler Flowes is still a FA. He should’ve been the add. He’s considered elite defensively and has had plenty competent seasons with the bat for a backup catcher, lots of 80s and 90s wRC+ seasons. Guessing he thinks he’s deserving of closer to a starting/platoon role though.
  14. Cubswin11
    - Cubs win 88 to 92 games and the division - Contreras leads MLB in catcher WAR as the framing gains maintain from last year - Rizzo and Bryant both post over 4 WAR - The OF of Joc, Happ, Heyward gives us a top 5 OF by WAR - Sogard is actually decent when used in the LaStella pinch hit/once a week or so start role - Starting rotation is solid and keeps us in games more often than not. Hendricks and Davies both are FIP beaters, Williams becomes a lab/Hottovy success story, Jake and Adbert are a little up and down but generally fine. Mills does a good job in the Montgomery role of spot starting/being a long reliever. Then the rest of the alt site/minor guys like Miller, Franklin, Thompson, Braylin do enough until we add a SP or two at the deadline. - Bullpen is solid and Kimbrel is mostly good as a closer.
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    I think that’s a completely fair offer objectively. But Rizzo means more to the org than just being objective about it. The AAV on 5/70 is pretty insulting when guys like Castellanos, Moustakas and Abreu all recently got more AAV and similar guarantees along with the other names mentioned. Rizzo is worth a little bit of an irrational overpay, imo. 5-6 years at $90-105 mil or so seems right. Or going shorter years like Abreu at 3/50-60 with some options. It’s not going to kill you either like a Miggy/Pujols deal for 30+ AAV for 7 years or whatever.
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    What a horsefeathers head
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    Is the 85% based on the 40 man or MLB roster? Would assume it’s 40 man or at least opening day roster + alt site guys since there’s going to be a lot of movement there.
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    Unfortunately, it may balance out with a poor offensive showing. The offense may be annoying and has its flaws that we all know of but I don’t think we should expect the overall offensive production to be bad or something that hurts the team. I expect very solid offense and top ~8 or so in the league, think this core has been roughly there every year since 2015 and there’s no real reason to think they won’t roughly be there again despite the flaws/slumps/annoyances. At least until they potentially start selling off and/or get hit by a lot of injuries.
  19. Cubswin11
    C: Yasmany Grandal 75 1B: Anthony Rizzo 75 2B: Ian Happ 25 SS: Trevor Story 100 3B: Anthony Rendon 100 OF: Aaron Judge 75 OF: Juan Soto 100 OF: Bryce Harper 100 OF: Joey Gallo 75 DH: Pete Alonso 200
  20. Cubswin11
    Minimal? They're saving literal millions by 2023 when he's collecting a league min salary instead of going through arb, which in turn will impact his 2024 and so on and on into and beyond his FA. Paying Sogard for a few weeks to benefit even more over years on Hoerner, plus having the cover of his 2020 triple slash to do it, is a no brainer for them Lol, it’s not literal millions by 2023. 2023 is Nico’s first Arb year. He won’t even make, or barely make, more than $2-3 million that year. Then he’s a FA 2 years later. There’s literally no savings here.
  21. Cubswin11
    It was, until that signing was Sogard and not a Wong, Hernandez, etc type. Nico’s spring and physical growth doesn’t mean nothing and when it’s him vs a shitty ass player like Sogard the calculus changes.
  22. Cubswin11
    It's about the money, it's forever about the money. They don't care what his perceived upside is, they have confidence he can start and start for a good team, that's more than enough incentive to have as much control of earning potential as possible, delay arb, etc If it’s about the money then they’re spending more this year keeping Sogard over Nico for some potential, minimal, savings 3-4 years from now. Paying more for Sogard this year than what Nico costs, in a year they’re at their poorest, so Nico makes like $3.75 mil vs $4.25 mil in Arb in a few years is some galaxy brain horsefeathers.
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    I get wanting flexibility and optionable guys but at the same point Brothers having options shouldn’t matter if he horsefeathering sucks and his entire body of work as a major leaguer for the last 8 years says that.
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    I really don’t get keeping Brothers around. He’s 33, his last good season he pitched significant innings was in 2013, he’s a lefty which automatically makes him harder to use with the 3 batter rule with a career .260/.350/.415 slash line against righties, he also walks a ton of dudes. Chafin as the lone lefty is fine with, Ryan, Wieck, Little, Carraway, Brailyn as back up options.
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    Nice culture/organization you’re running there fellas https://twitter.com/Cubs_Live/status/1375674971167584256?s=20
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