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  1. SouthSideRyan
    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? Does it matter? Yes, because we're talking about rebuilding, not being hot for a month. But Abreu is just an example, and a convenient one for a sportswriter to use because he plays in the same city as the team he's covering. He's saying "Hey, the White Sox lost 99 games last year, and had a much worse farm system than the Cubs, somehow they determined that there was a better strategy out there than not trying until 2018. Maybe the Cubs could've done that?"
  2. SouthSideRyan
    2012 campaign season. It would really suck if there was some deal that was near being worked out with Emmanuel for getting the money publicly somehow and that fell through because of that stupidity. Can that even be a thing? If our FO lost their ability to have "unlimited resources" because the Rickettses are now funding the stadium renovations themselves, then any talk of debt/terms of sale limitations holding down payroll are a steaming load of [expletive].
  3. SouthSideRyan
    The payroll for the listed players is something like $50m, but you'll probably have some really funny #PoorTomRicketts jokes. So it's your belief that next year we'll decide to have our highest payroll since PTR austerity measures began following what will probably be our lowest revenue generating year in that timeframe.
  4. SouthSideRyan
    I'd rather just have Nelson Cruz or one of the other random OF's we couldv'e gotten and not [expletive] with Rizzo. Ellsbury
  5. SouthSideRyan
    What is this? I've never heard of it. http://www.thecubreporter.com/cubs-40-man-roster http://www.thecubreporter.com/book/export/html/3525 Player needs to be placed on revocable waivers prior to being optioned. If another team claims him, you either can pull back the waiver and keep him on the 25 man or let him go to the claiming team. I guess if the Cubs don't think too highly of Parker they could call him up and assume nobody would claim him should they need to option him out, but with Rivero, Vizcaino, and Fujikawa, it seems unlikely. He may have never seen the bigs until September even without this tied to him.
  6. SouthSideRyan
    Trade Questioned in connection to a double homicide. There's nothing illegal about killing hopes and dreams. Speechless
  7. SouthSideRyan
    So what changed? Also pretty surprised at Ricketts's candor with the students to say Theo keeps asking for more money and he tells him not until some time in the distance for which I'm not quite sure when it is.
  8. SouthSideRyan
    Killing time on AZPhil's 40 man roster page; Blake Parker has to be placed on optional assignment waivers to be sent out starting on 5/17, so I'm thinking we don't see him on the big league club again until we're approaching expanded rosters.
  9. SouthSideRyan
    Trade Questioned in connection to a double homicide.
  10. SouthSideRyan
    Who cares? We have 3 free years of him regardless.
  11. SouthSideRyan
    Did I miss the 60M we have to spend on FAs next season? And with the slimmest of margins to compete next year, we'll almost certainly be keeping at least one prospect who can contribute in April down so we can bleed another cheap year out of him(them) because we're not serious about competing next year either. Why are people acting like Kyle is Erik in 2008, this has been a shitty team for awhile, and they'll probably still be shitty next year, but negativity is not allowed?
  12. SouthSideRyan
    I don't think there's any ranking system that agrees with this. It goes beyond just prospect rankings, though, considering the team was the only one in the league still charting by hand and not having any video of prospects at any level. No teams could come close to the Cubs' level of improvements system-wide because the Cubs were so ass-backwards they were the laughing stock of the league. And you don't think these improvements show up in prospect rankings? Indirectly, sure, the club develops and drafts players leagues better as a result of the improvements. But no, I don't think, say, Keith Law takes facilities and development assets into account when he ranks the Cubs' farm system. But if the facilities and development assets aren't turning into better players then I don't care. Unless there's some reason why Cubs prospects are being undervalued because of the updates, then it should already be built into the prospect recipe
  13. SouthSideRyan
    No result is "worth" the 10 years of losing because the 10 years of losing are always going to be completely incidental to whatever fantasy scenario we're talking about for 2022
  14. SouthSideRyan
    I don't think there's any ranking system that agrees with this. It goes beyond just prospect rankings, though, considering the team was the only one in the league still charting by hand and not having any video of prospects at any level. No teams could come close to the Cubs' level of improvements system-wide because the Cubs were so ass-backwards they were the laughing stock of the league. And you don't think these improvements show up in prospect rankings?
  15. SouthSideRyan
    Why is this the new thing now? The fact that the Rays got good in 2008 didn't make the previous 10 years of garbage baseball any less garbage-y. If the Astros get good with their merry band of prospects, it won't change the fact that they played [expletive] teams for like 5 years in a row on purpose. You can be aware of what the 'plan' is and still not like that you have to watch terrible teams for years waiting for it to hopefully work. [expletive], if we turn into a big market Rays, the 10 years of losing would be completely worth it. No.
  16. SouthSideRyan
    I don't think there's any ranking system that agrees with this.
  17. SouthSideRyan
    Look, he had his chance in the 8th, and didn't hit a HR. Nobody to blame but himself
  18. SouthSideRyan
    I hope Sulley doesn't find out about this.
  19. SouthSideRyan
    Theo's sandwich heavy portfolio pays off again! Come on! I made that reference like 3 days ago
  20. SouthSideRyan
    [expletive] it, bring him back out for the 10th if we don't score here.
  21. SouthSideRyan
    I wonder if we get a replacement all-star after we trade him between his selection and the game
  22. SouthSideRyan
    [expletive] you Ryan
  23. SouthSideRyan
    Ahhh yes, Junior Lake the perfect player for a man on 3rd with 1 out.
  24. SouthSideRyan
    lol, [expletive] you guys, I'll do it myself
  25. SouthSideRyan
    Funny thing about that: The Jays are who the Cubs claimed Valbuena from in April '12, and they sold Bonifacio to the Royals last August.
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