Jump to content
North Side Baseball

Cubswin11

Old-Timey Member
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    29,456

  • Joined

  • Last visited

 Content Type 

Profiles

Joomla Posts 1

Chicago Cubs Videos

Chicago Cubs Free Agent & Trade Rumors, Notes, & Tidbits

2026 Chicago Cubs Top Prospects Ranking

News

2023 Chicago Cubs Draft Picks

Guides & Resources

2024 Chicago Cubs Draft Picks

The Chicago Cubs Players Project

2025 Chicago Cubs Draft Pick Tracker

2026 Chicago Cubs Draft Pick Tracker

Blogs

Events

Forums

Store

Gallery

Everything posted by Cubswin11

  1. Cubswin11
    hahahahahaha Wow. All the talk around Hamilton was indicating he'd likely have to settle for a 3 year deal, and now this. If those are the actual terms and if the contract is guaranteed, this is a desperation move after losing out on Greinke, imo. All MLB contracts are guaranteed I mean with no incentive clauses. Gotcha
  2. Cubswin11
    hahahahahaha Wow. All the talk around Hamilton was indicating he'd likely have to settle for a 3 year deal, and now this. If those are the actual terms and if the contract is guaranteed, this is a desperation move after losing out on Greinke, imo. All MLB contracts are guaranteed
  3. Cubswin11
    Do you know what 10/5 rights are? I meant the 10 not the 5 (obviously he can't have the 5 part as he was on 2 teams last year and doesn't have the whole 5 years on one team thing going on ), he's been in the league at least 10 years right? He needs both. I did not know that, I thought it could be one or the other.
  4. Cubswin11
    I meant the 10 not the 5 (obviously he can't have the 5 part as he was on 2 teams last year and doesn't have the whole 5 years on one team thing going on ), he's been in the league at least 10 years right? He needs both. I did not know that, I thought it could be one or the other.
  5. Cubswin11
    hahahahahahahah I wouldn't have minded the Cubs matching that at all. He probably wanted an NTC though. That seems like a reasonable deal for Dempster. I don't get the shock/laughs. I certainly would have taken him back on that, but like you said NTC could have been an issue. I would assume the Cubs would only offer him a partial NTC at most. But doesn't he have 10/5 rights by now? Do you know what 10/5 rights are? I meant the 10 not the 5 (obviously he can't have the 5 part as he was on 2 teams last year and doesn't have the whole 5 years on one team thing going on ), he's been in the league at least 10 years right?
  6. Cubswin11
    Every GB fan I know thinks Finley is a [expletive] idiot
  7. Cubswin11
    hahahahahahahah I wouldn't have minded the Cubs matching that at all. He probably wanted an NTC though. That seems like a reasonable deal for Dempster. I don't get the shock/laughs. I certainly would have taken him back on that, but like you said NTC could have been an issue. I would assume the Cubs would only offer him a partial NTC at most. But doesn't he have 10/5 rights by now?
  8. Cubswin11
    Lot's of nees hurding there
  9. Cubswin11
    You should find better friends
  10. Cubswin11
    Absolutely. If he can put up a .730ish OPS with that elite level defense and good base running I'd be thrilled. Not to mention a combination of Barney/Castro/Bourjos would make the Cubs a tremendously strong defensive team up the middle. Do you guys think it would take a lot to get him? I wonder if they are still interested in Marmol? Marmol+$$$$ for Bourjos would be a pretty nice trade for both sides.
  11. Cubswin11
    We'd come close though, probably. We'd likely have to give up at least 2 of Baez/Soler/Almora and whichever pitcher (assuming we have at least one) out of the Maples/Paniagua/Underwood/Johnson/etc. field has the best season and presumably became our best pitching prospect. Not that I'd have a problem giving up any of those guys for a Felix/Price/Stanton type player
  12. Cubswin11
    Well, Andy's plan was to emulate the Braves. And his interpretation of how to emulate Atlanta was by drafting and developing pitchers and then acquiring established bats when they could. Those were his words. At a time when the great franchises were churning out great bats on a regular basis, the Cubs couldn't do that, but they also kind of weren't even trying. When they did venture into young hitters they focused on all the wrong things, the proverbial 5-tool athletes instead of baseball players. They actually did a fairly decent job of drafting and developing arms. They wanted hard throwers that could strike people out and they got those, for the most part. They were were absolute morons about bats though. Their willingness to focus on pitching prospects at the expense of hitters and their focus on ancient methods of evaluating hitters doomed their plan. But they did have a plan. I guess that's true. They drafted and developed Kerry Wood. Zambrano too. But Mark Prior was pretty much ready made. I guess Cruz was a viable major league arm. Also, Marshall, Marmol, Guzman (the little bit he was healthy he looked like he could be awesome), Nolasco, Samardzija, sure I'm missing a guy or two. Plus you also have an acquisition like Dempster where he wasn't drafted but I think you could make an argument he was "developed" here.
  13. Cubswin11
    Woah, Villanueva 4? What was your reasonsing for that? Just low on the pitching? Do you like that it appears Villanueva can at least be an average ML 3B and is one of the safer bets in the system to stick in MLB (ie high floor), despite not likely being a impact player? Or do you have a higher outlook on him than that?
  14. Cubswin11
    Fom an Olney tweet, figured it was worth mentioning.
  15. Cubswin11
    8. Vitters 9. Maples 10. Lake I agree with Tim that Vitters will hit eventually at the ML level, defensive position still is up in the air and his value could be affected by where he ultimately ends up. It's been talked about on here how he's had struggles every time when he had an initial call up then figured it out and he'd still be age appropriated if he spent this whole season in AAA. I think he could still end up being a solid average hitter in MLB. Maples is all upside and he probably has the most upside of all the pitchers in the system (including Vizcaino and Paniagua). Hopefully he stays healthy this year and we get an idea of what he can do. He's a guy who is in the top 3 next year for us or isn't even a thought inside the top 20. He might have the most variance of any prospect inside to top 10 from being a impact player at the ML level or a total flmae out as the rest of the top 10 guys seem they will be able to make it at the ML level even as a backup/relief pitcher. Lake has all the tools and hopefully he starts to put them together. I'm intrigued that he's playing OF in the winter leagues and think he could be a valuable RH "super sub" type guy that can play SS/3B/2B/OF when he first comes up and then eventually settles on a position and I think he will be up at some point this year. Like Maples, he seems like a boom or bust guy.
  16. Cubswin11
    Wouldn't be an awful addition, I guess. He's had a few nice fWAR seasons in Oakland the last 3 years
  17. Cubswin11
    Which is kind of weird because he's shooting at quite a good percentage this year. It's not like he's having to chuck 40+ times to get there. I think he was something like 17/26 last night against Cleveland. It points to the fact that he doesn't distribute the ball. With Nash out, there is no one to run the offense It points to the fact they don't have someone to distribute the ball, I don't know/think it's entirely fair to blame their poor ball distributing on Kobe. Like I said if he was shooting 40ish times a night to get to 30 points I'd say he indeed has a distribution issue, but he's making a good enough percentage of his shots this year and he's not shooting a ton of shots. I'd say it also points to the fact that outside of Kobe they have nobody who can create a shot for themselves. Artest/Meeks/Jamison etc. are more catch and shoot guys/scrap a rebound and put it in and Dwight at least needs someone to dump it into him if not drive and draw his defender and pass it off to him.
  18. Cubswin11
    Kind of agree. But the Giants D-line v. Bears O-line is a major mismatch and they could wreck Cutler. Possible to be a near repeat of the Sunday night Giants v. Packer game a few weeks ago where Rodgers literally couldn't taken 2 steps back without getting hit.
  19. Cubswin11
    Seems roughly about right, outside of the defense like you mentioned. Would be disappointed if that ended up being Castro's final line and I guess I'd be fine with a .800ish OPS out of Rizzo in his first full year. But that record is about what I think they will be, this team is going to struggle to hit for power again and score runs consistently I feel like. The team isn't even finished yet. I was going off the assumption that we have a finished product/what the season would be like if it started now with our current roster. I don't see us adding much to change from being about a 90 loss team though +/- 5 games. Outside of adding some sort of RH hitting OF/3B/1B and maybe another lottery ticket arm I don't see us adding anything more to the ML roster.
  20. Cubswin11
    Which is kind of weird because he's shooting at quite a good percentage this year. It's not like he's having to chuck 40+ times to get there. I think he was something like 17/26 last night against Cleveland.
  21. Cubswin11
    FFS, Towers That's from the D'backs MLB beat writer.
  22. Cubswin11
    What can be said? At least we could say if it came down to field goals the Bears had the advantage. But no. Have you seen Mason Crosby kick this year? He's 17 for 27 overall and has missed 9 FG's his last 9 games. Mare coming from wherever the hell he's coming from the last 15 weeks very well could be better than Crosby right now.
  23. Cubswin11
    Seems roughly about right, outside of the defense like you mentioned. Would be disappointed if that ended up being Castro's final line and I guess I'd be fine with a .800ish OPS out of Rizzo in his first full year. But that record is about what I think they will be, this team is going to struggle to hit for power again and score runs consistently I feel like.
  24. Cubswin11
    I am a big fan of Choo and think the Reds did just fine in this deal. But if the D'backs really liked Didi that much and he along with a lesser part or two was enough to get Bauer why not directly deal Didi to the D'backs for Bauer? They could have kept Stubbs and signed one of Bourn/Swisher/Upton (when he was still available) rather than deal for Choo. Seems like adding Bauer, keeping Stubbs and adding one of those OF makes them a better team now (or about as good depending on Bauer's eta) and moving forward.
  25. Cubswin11
    Amateur draft is only like 200 days away! So we have that going for us....
×
×
  • Create New...