Bryants Disco Ball
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I guess i will have to be the only one to say, 'Oh, hell no" on giving the pitcher who gave up the most runs, hits and home runs in baseball last season $20 million per season and give away a first round pick, too. Go get Grienke and spend more before doing this.
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Maybe smart people can post a bunch of numbers that say otherwise, but wow that seems a lot for JA Happ. I wouldn't even be excited to sign him, let alone for $12 million per.
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Maybe there is an obvious answer to this but I've always been curious. Why do free agents take so long to sign with an MLB team once the offseason starts? By contrast, NFL and NBA teams have usually signed the best players within the first day or two. Is it because there is no cap in baseball, so agents feel they can take more time to let teams perhaps overpay? Or something else I'm missing?
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I believe this will happen. Shark flew from Arizona to Chicago and hung out with Theo at a bar. That just seems really personal and not like a normal free agent visit. Or maybe I don't know what I'm talking about and I'm an idiot.
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I'd be surprised if he got more than $12 or 13 million a year. Really? I guess I just figured the lowest would be $15. If not, he becomes a lot more intriguing. Still scary, because he might just suck, but a lot more intriguing.
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My concern isn't much about whether he's an [expletive]. Although I do sometimes laugh when I think about Matt Garza's convo with him after Garza left. If Shark is good, I'd be happy to have him. It's just weird to think about giving a guy 15 to 17 million per year after he was one of the worst starting pitchers in all of baseball last year (which might not be accurate, but has to be close, right?) In Bosio we all trust, but damn what if Shark just sucks now and we pay him like he doesn't?
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Any Interest in Puig?
Bryants Disco Ball replied to SRQCub's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
How much do the Cubs value the tough to measure chemistry of the clubhouse? They had it this year, and it doesn't always stay the same, but it feels like Puig would not fit in well with this group. -
yeah that 5-time all-star and former cy young is mentally weak, but i guess one time he got a save in game 7 of the 2008 ALCS Jon Lester has some serious creds, and some people think he's mentally weak. Again, just asking, realized I would get mocked. But what's your take on why they pitched Price out of the bullpen in Game 4 of the ALDS -- in a situation where they didn't even need to -- instead of starting Game 5?
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I'm just asking, more for my own education, and not saying the questions below are based on fact. Is there any thought out there that David Price is mentally weak? That under a huge spotlight, etc., he more times than not melts down? Why did the Blue Jays, in a must-win playoff game, go with Estrada over Price?
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I mean, wasn't Soriano supposed to take roids DURING his career?
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And if he was going to take a one year deal to boost his value he probably would just take the $16 million qualifying offer since I can't see other teams giving him a one year deal and giving up a first round pick.
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Nobody has talked about this play, and I was at the game so maybe it wasn't as bad as it looked, but I thought he also had a terrible read on that double by Peralta in Game 3 of the NLDS in which I felt a guy like Jackson would have had it. That said, I think he is adequate on defense and am not worried about it at all.
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I know AZCubs guy gets abuse for really being a Cardinals fan. But in the time I've been paying attention, BanktoBanks also seems like a candidate for a long-term troll. I'm sure he likes some stuff about the Cubs, but I just don't think I've ever read any of it. He's a Cubs fan, he just hates Theo. Gotcha. So before he was hired was Banks a pretty normal fan who would actually say good things about the team or was he always more on the side of negativity? And is this why people often talk about Hendry with him, because he was pro-Hendry?
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I know AZCubs guy gets abuse for really being a Cardinals fan. But in the time I've been paying attention, BanktoBanks also seems like a candidate for a long-term troll. I'm sure he likes some stuff about the Cubs, but I just don't think I've ever read any of it.
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Check your math. Oh crap. Yeah good point. I knew what I meant, at least.
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Eh, I'd say marginally more fun. And not enough for me to say that the 03 season as a whole was more enjoyable than this year. Beating the Cards and doing it the way they did goes a long way for me. Beating the cardinals and pirates is better than beating Atlanta and then blowing a 2 game lead to Florida. It's always sort of easy to forget, but the Cubs actually blew a 3-game lead to the Marlins. That sucked.
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More to the point, guys like Schwarber usually get moved away from Catcher to get their bat in the lineup at a less demanding position. Why not just fast forward to the part where he plays LF and hopefully out hits his mistakes? As long as he drives in 2-3 runs a game to balance out the 1-2 runs he gives up on defense. i'm going to come out and make the bold declaration i don't think Schwarber will be a -24 win defender as you're describing... The chances of him being a -24 win defender are greater than him driving in 324-486 runs in a season. This just proves you don't even know who Kyle Schwarber is and simply just come on here to complain.
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Just a heads up, Coghlan is controlled for one more season.
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Am I right that Schwarber was totally fine in the outfield from July through early October?
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I know many would like it, but Hammel probably isn't going anywhere. Right?
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If the Cubs batters just concentrate a little more next inning on doing well, I could see us taking the lead.
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Regarding Hammel's contract, I'm pretty sure it's a club option for $12 million and he can't trigger a guarantee with any kind of pitching performance or number of innings. It's all up to the Cubs if they want him back for that third year, but if they decline they have to pay 2 million for the buyout.
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And almost everyone in our lineup is <25, and cost-controlled for at least four more seasons. Even the magical Cardinals never put together an offense like this. Hate to throw truth on the pity party, but 2015 is an enormous success by any measure. Definitely, though inevitably Kyle is going to run in here and point out how bright the future looked after 2003, too. Personally, I was expecting/hoping for them to finish in the 85-87 win range. That would have been an enormous success to me with all of the new players and after how craptacular the previous several seasons had been. Finishing with 97 wins? Beating the Pirates in the WC? Beating the Cardinals the first time either team had played each other in the playoffs? And after losing game 1? [expletive], what a crazy season. Yup. That's were I'm at. It would be unfair of me to get all pissed off and act like "How dare they [expletive] the bed in the NLCS!" when i didn't even think they were going to make the playoffs.
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Jaxon is off the books. That's 12 million freed up correct? One more season, brother. two more seasons of hammel though Nope. One more.
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Jaxon is off the books. That's 12 million freed up correct? One more season, brother.