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What if he does both? No because then his legend will live on forever. -
That would be a lot of fun. Dealing with the mother's basement cackles on here wouldn't be. Don't get me wrong, Go Edmonds's corpse and all, but man the stat-hating beatdown on here would be the worst nerd beatdown since CT was in high school.
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Please Please Please Get Rid of Jason Marquis
SouthSideRyan replied to VGLOHAUS's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Josh Hancock tried that last year, but this Edmonds guy appears to have body double. I'm gonna have to call "too soon" on this one [-X You weren't around much last season were you? -
As I understand it he's cleared waivers therefore, no team has put in a claim meaning all Hendry has to offer is the league minimum. just because he CAN offer league minimum, doesn't mean he WILL. The teams didn't pass on Edmonds, they passed on him at his current salary. THe OP is saying that Hendry is thinking that SURELY a lot of other teams are interested in him at a reduced rate, so Hendry will outbid himself. Any money paid to Edmonds is deducted from his salary as a Padre. Jim Edmonds will make 8M this season no matter if he plays in Chicago, Tampa, Gary, or he goes home and sits on his ass. There is no reason for any team to voluntarily pay more money to get Edmonds because it's only going to benefit the Padres, not Edmonds. There's also no reason for the Cubs to have any interest in Edmonds. But Edmonds would be a free agent and Jim has big against himself for more than his fair share of mediocre veteran free agents. What is the point? Why does Edmonds want more money from his new team when he's still going to be making 8M no matter what? Why would he go to the highest bidder, when the money being bid is going right into the pockets of the team that cut him?
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As I understand it he's cleared waivers therefore, no team has put in a claim meaning all Hendry has to offer is the league minimum. just because he CAN offer league minimum, doesn't mean he WILL. The teams didn't pass on Edmonds, they passed on him at his current salary. THe OP is saying that Hendry is thinking that SURELY a lot of other teams are interested in him at a reduced rate, so Hendry will outbid himself. Any money paid to Edmonds is deducted from his salary as a Padre. Jim Edmonds will make 8M this season no matter if he plays in Chicago, Tampa, Gary, or he goes home and sits on his ass. There is no reason for any team to voluntarily pay more money to get Edmonds because it's only going to benefit the Padres, not Edmonds.
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Edmonds will make the pro-rated version of the league minimum. ~280K. The Padres will pay the remainder of his 8M contract minus that. No player that ever gets waived gets more than the league minimum. Didn't Reed Johnson? Reed Johnson was on a non-guaranteed contract. (sort of) He was given the Todd walker 1/6 pay deal for being cut before the start of the season.
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Edmonds will make the pro-rated version of the league minimum. ~280K. The Padres will pay the remainder of his 8M contract minus that. No player that ever gets waived gets more than the league minimum.
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Everyone keeps saying worst case scenario, Edmonds sucks for a few weeks, Pie comes back up. That won't happen. If Edmonds sucks, A. he'll get a far longer leash than Pie, after all he's old or something. B. If they ever have the nuts to DFA Edmonds, they'll go get some other stop-gap to take his place. Felix Pie won't start more than 15 games the rest of the season. If they don't dump him in some stupid trade for a starter who's worse than Rich Hill, then they can have him on the roster next year, and they can say, well hey Felix has had almost 300 PAs in the majors and hasn't shown he can hit yet, he's gonna have to earn his position on this club. The unwashed masses will claim this is his 3rd year in the bigs, if he can't hit now, you might as well cut him, he's just another Corey Patterson(to be fair they are both black CFs) Felix will either make the team as the 25th man behind some mediocrity like Coco Crisp or Jefferey Hammonds or be sent down to AAA until they can find an adequate middle reliever to trade him for. (I can't decide exactly how they'll botch him next year yet.)
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I'm a huge Maddux fan, but trading for him is just an awful idea.
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I HATE THIS TEAM.
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Lou Pinella, What the hell are you doing?
SouthSideRyan replied to Keener98's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
He probably will after a couple more Marquis disasters. Our 2nd best starter will be 8th in line for a starting spot. Awesome. -
Money can't buy happiness but it can buy a waverunner. And have you ever seen somebody sad on a waverunner?
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I'll be taking my 2-1 record to the game tomorrow.
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Plesac is subtly ripping Marquis here, awesome.
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That was probably a good idea. Funny, I just used my first foe-ing too. I'd be shocked if it wasn't the same person.
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Reed Johnson vs. righties!!! WHOOOOOOOOOOOO
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Yay Wuertz!
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Would you prefer Marmol? I took back my statement after seeing he'd only thrown 19 pitches.
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Ward-Johnson-Fontenot most likely. Cedeno-Ward-Fontenot is a much better idea.
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Eh, he did pitch efficiently in his first 2 innings, maybe he'll be ok.
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Wuertz for 3 innings, brilliant!
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Pie and Cedeno are the pinch running options because we certainly don't need them to bat or anything.
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He was already there for his half inning. They let him stick around because the Cubs hit like ass in just under a minute in the bottom of the 7th.
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What the Reds Have to Look Forward to With Baker
SouthSideRyan replied to vance_the_cubs_fan's topic in General Baseball Talk
Keppinger breaks his knee, plays 2 more innings on it. Yep. -
Simon Le Bond is SO BRITISH
