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Bullpen comings and goings
SouthSideRyan replied to Transmogrified Tiger's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Any of Watkins, Vitters, or Szczur would be better options off the bench than having Travis Wood as one of your bats off the bench. They're not stellar, but neither's Ryan Kalish, let's have a 14 man staff! -
He only makes 1.5M/Y less than Jackson, and the contract as a whole is worth 16M more. ETA: My bigger annoyance in contrasting the 2 is the White Sox actually making an attempt to improve the team, rather than fiddling for 4 years waiting on prospects. There's been a sucking void of creativity here coming from some of the smarter minds in baseball
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Bullpen comings and goings
SouthSideRyan replied to Transmogrified Tiger's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Hopefully we stop having a 13 man staff at some [expletive] point this season. -
I just really hope our FO isn't making decisions based on the type of things that got Jim Hendry laughed out of town.
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I bet it would have been as exciting as our going after Tanaka
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You really think he'd last until our 2nd pick?
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Minor League Discussion & Boxes 5-7-14
SouthSideRyan replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
Is Paniagua important enough to spin the wheel of bizarre minor league "injuries." If so, I'll go with cataracts -
You feel Garza's attitude affected the club's performance in any way? They must've got hotter than [expletive] once they dumped that cancer off the team
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I've seen no indication that the 2 sides are close on money, nor has Shark shown any desire to stick around for more of this.
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I honestly don't think it's been decided. Do you think it wasn't decided last June when they said there were still discussions to extend Garza?
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Is The Ricketts Family the worst thing to...
SouthSideRyan replied to JoseHernandez18's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
With my increasing belief that we'll see no top prospects called up this season(Maybe Alcantara?), I guess Samardzija's first comments after being traded is what I'm most looking forward to this season? I wouldn't get my hopes up. I'd say maybe something a little passive-aggressive, but that's about it. Maybe Garza will just have hour long press conferences every time Milwaukee visits Chicago. -
He didn't wear down in 2012, so I doubt it was that.
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Is The Ricketts Family the worst thing to...
SouthSideRyan replied to JoseHernandez18's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
With my increasing belief that we'll see no top prospects called up this season(Maybe Alcantara?), I guess Samardzija's first comments after being traded is what I'm most looking forward to this season? -
For Rondell White? I think we got him from Minnesota? Maybe with Rick Aguilera? [expletive] yea
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So Strop is bad and hurt now.
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Where the hell did the White Sox dig up this pitching staff from. I just read their BR page, and out of 19 guys who have pitched for them this year, I could've guessed 5.
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And no there's no chance of us playing at a level where the FO would decide to keep him
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It's a little less than 2/3 IIRC due to early April off days and the all star break
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Assuming we're bad again next year I can't imagine a scenario where he'd come back
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...which is why the White Sox signing one guy (who btw is outperforming his peripherals and will likely not be a long-term cornerstone) does not "expose the fallacy" of the Cubs' plan. Wait, why is Abreu unlikely to be a long-term cornerstone?
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Who should we have signed? Outfielders under 32, last offseason: + Chris Coghlan (30) -- signed + Ellsbury (30) -- NYY 7/$153m + Chris Young (30) -- Mets, 1/$7.25m [i probably would have taken that] + Jeff Francoeur -- "Could anybody be this good?" + Sizemore (31) -- Bos, 1/$700k [coming off injury, but worth it for that $] + Choo (31) -- TEX, 7/$130m + Franklin Gutierrez (31) -- SEA 1/$1m [interested at that price, but not sure what the hometown situation was] Our OF is horrendous, but would Chris Young have made the difference? Or were you hoping to back up the Brinks truck to end up paying dudes into their late 30s... ETA: wasn't cherry picking the ages -- 32 year olds were Kelly Johnson, Sam Fuld, David Murphy, David Kubel, Nate McLouth. I already said Ellsbury.
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Well if we had enough to make a huge bid on Tanaka, we had enough to sign anyone this side of Cano
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A worse, cheaper version? Yes. Cespedes?
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Of course not. Look, the Cubs have some sort of budget constraints. The Cubs have also tried to get free agents that would have been productive for the major league club. The Cubs missed on those free agents because of budget constraints. Jose Abreu was a free agent who wasn't as good as the ones the Cubs targeted. He was had at a reasonable price due to his lesser abilities and older age. There was no place for him on the Cubs. Had the Cubs needed a first baseman, they may have made a run at him. And the end of the day, I don't think that is Abreu the case study for how to build at the major league level via free agency. It smells of media meatballery and gushing over a pleasant surprise at the beginning of the season. Would this article would have been written if Abreu weren't outperforming his peripherals? He's not the case study, but he is a perfectly reasonable example that plays for a team in the same city as the Cubs and happen to be playing them the day it was written. there's nothing wrong with this. So, if Abreu were a RF instead of a poorly fielding 1B, do you think that the Cubs would not make a serious run at him? Like if his name was Jacoby Ellsbury or Shin Soo-Choo? ETA: And to be fair, I didn't like Choo at what I expected him to get.
