SouthSideRyan
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I'm assuming that SS is Nick Green? Ruggiano I only know because of fantasy last year.
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By my count, 19 of the 25 men on the current active roster were either acquired or promoted to the roster by the Epstein/Hoyer regime. It's time they start getting the credit for what's happening. Promoted to?? What a weird qualifier. By my count there's only one guy who falls under that. (Castillo) You know that I think this is a hideous plan they've enacted, but you don't think the fact that we've had to turn over 2/3 of the roster in 2 years lends credence to the fact that the roster he was handed sucked?
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MIA in 4 BOS in 7 BRK in 6 IND in 5 OKC in 4 SAS in 4 LAC in 6 DEN in 6 MIA in 5 IND in 7 OKC in 7 LAC in 7 MIA in 5 LAC in 7 MIA in 5
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I can't imagine somebody like Derrick Rose coming to a dumb conclusion
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Minor League Discussion & Boxes 4-19-13
SouthSideRyan replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
Borbon has to go on the 25 man. Gonzalez was DFAd -
For me, it's more like, "If you see me in a fight with a beer, pray for the beer." I don't think you got it.
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Giancarlo Stanton has 0 RBI
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This is why the hotel will be crazy expensive
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Somebody doesn't realize how good marble did against teams that missed the tourney
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And then we have a 2 man starting rotation again to start the offseason.
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Wood is under club control through 2016, and Villanueva has another cheap year on his contract.
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I think it's more about how much N&G specifically has lamented Cespedes. If he's a 3 win LF under control for 4 years, why waste so much energy over him and not the host of other guys who could've been added for a similar value? My assumption is because Cespedes was the exact type of player the front office should have been throwing around their money on and they still got beaten for him.
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Yeah, it does. But it's the only one that really bothers me. Darvish stings a bit too, but to a much lesser extent. We were right there with Cespedes (apparently) and just botched it. The Darvish scenario really doesn't bother me because of the blind bid nonsense. Cespedes...gah, it just makes me mad/sad. Things could easily be VERY different if they had pulled off that one signing. how so? ZiPS projects the guy for 3.2 wins...i'd actually like to know what exactly you see in him that's fostered the strange obsession you have And now we come back to no one player would have made a difference, so why bother.
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CJ Wilson was another one that was popular last year. He put up the same WAR as Paul Maholm last year. Was Paul Maholm not valuable last year? He was...and our guys got him for 2 years/11.25M while CJ took a hometown discount to get 5/78 ETA - I really wanted CJ. I don't think CJ was do-able because of the quickness with which he signed with Anaheim, but my overreaching point is that KingCubs seems to want to play WAR/$ rather than play WAR. Don't tell me that a high payroll doesn't mean anything and then say well we got Maholm much cheaper, so aren't you glad we didn't sign CJ Wilson?
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Which is what I was expecting when they came on board. I'm not going to be satisfied with an above average performance from our superteam of a front office.
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CJ Wilson was another one that was popular last year. He put up the same WAR as Paul Maholm last year. Was Paul Maholm not valuable last year?
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I don't understand how you can overstate the value in being able to get good players for free.
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Just imagine how much worse those low payroll teams would've been if they spent an extra 100 million. Just because you can be good without a high payroll, and that you can be bad with a high payroll doesn't make it a correlation (or non-correlation in that regard I guess)
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The Cubs probably won that trade, but it wasn't anywhere close to a don't do deals with them again win. Not that I think Friedman would be the type to ever act that way to begin with (even if it was the same Cubs regime)
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Who expects things out of Wisconsin other than terrible drivers and cardiac arrest?
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Let's say the team continues to be a dumpster fire through 2014. How many millions do we lose on our TV contract due to this "winning the right way"
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Why do people keep trying to discount the enormous advantage a high payroll gives you?
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Enough mumbo jumbo, let's hear from Aramis Fan
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Everyone knows 4 guys isn't enough to poison a pizza
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Marcus Smart announced he's returning to school. Dumb, I don't care how much you love college he's guaranteed to go top 5 and probably top 3, you don't pass up that money. Especially since next years draft is looking like it could be really strong and he can really only fall I don't know a whole lot about Smart and if that is the case then he probably should turn pro. But I don't know if I'd label it as "dumb" either. I can totally respect kids who want to go to 2+ years of school. The last prospect who deterred the NBA for 4 years turned into one of the best players of all time. Psycho T? Jared Sullinger
