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  1. SouthSideRyan
    It's not circumventing the rules. Pena was free to not re-sign with the Cubs and become an unrestricted Rule 55 free agent. He chose to re-up with the Cubs on a minor league deal likely because A. there wasn't interest in him from other clubs to have him on a deal including a 40 man roster spot or B. he felt his opportunity was best with the Cubs, either through implicit promises, or comfort level with its instructors.
  2. SouthSideRyan
    If a player signs by 5pm Eastern, 5 days after the end of the World Series, in this case November 6th, he's not declared a FA and no other team has the opportunity to sign him. Felix Pena signed before the deadline. Then Pena's agent would be the one not doing his due diligence I guess, by signing before hitting FA if there was a team out there that had interest on him for a 40 man spot. Correct me if I'm wrong but I'm fairly certain 6 year MiL free agents are in the same boat as your standard major league FA. They can re-up prior to hitting the open market, but the team doesn't have any sort of auto-renew the first time around like with those pre-arb players on the 40 man.
  3. SouthSideRyan
    I think I was confused, I thought Pena was re-signed as a 6 year MiLFA. ETA: Wait, I'm confused, not sure why you'd assume he's getting added to the 40 man. All I can find is him being re-signed along with Batista and Chen.
  4. SouthSideRyan
    The point is other than a dumb FO not doing their due diligence, there's no reason to think he'd be drafted in Rule 5 when he was just a MiLFA 3 weeks prior.
  5. SouthSideRyan
    I don't understand why the Yankees would trade Gardner. They have injury prone Ellsbury, old and injury prone Beltran, and older A-Rod at OF/DH
  6. SouthSideRyan
    IIRC, ND was #1 in several computer polls heading into the title game vs. Alabama. Even after the depantsing they finished 5th in Sagarin. I think there's a lot of revisionism that goes on with that team painting them as a total fluke. They lucked out in the PItt game, and then had a couple close calls. They also beat 8th ranked Stanford, and won at #15 Oklahoma.
  7. SouthSideRyan
    They did re-sign Peña, at least. Oh cool. I was figuring he'd get rostered for us at this point and was surprised at AZPhil's report he wasn't. Doesn't make much difference really. He can still be selected in the draft, but it is an expression by the team that they're wanted. Sure it makes a difference. Now a team has to store a mediocre prospect 26 year old on their 25 man all year rather than signing him and having 3 years to pinball him in and out of their pen.
  8. SouthSideRyan
    And Marco Gonzales
  9. SouthSideRyan
    I don't see span as much more attractive than Jackson, so if this were somehow the choice, I'd take the latter. 100%
  10. SouthSideRyan
    Since it's a shoulder injury, and those are often the precursor to a pitcher's demise, he's presumed dead until proven otherwise. Plus ya, know, Cardinal.
  11. SouthSideRyan
    Lopes and Maddux are pretty good support staff for Washington.
  12. SouthSideRyan
    I don't think I've ever had waiver priority set by anything but record in a weekly league. Is this team that's out of the playoffs actually out of the playoffs or just way out of it at hte moment? I just improved to 2-7 and made a trade. We have 6/12 make playoffs, so I still have a miracle chance, and I've won the league before after making a trade at 1-7.
  13. SouthSideRyan
    I'd think he'd know where his meatball is buttered though.
  14. SouthSideRyan
    Mike THomas out at UI
  15. SouthSideRyan
    High individual scorer gets a sidepot in my league. DeAngelo Williams going down at the 1(with minimal effort to get into the end zone, since a FG won it) left me 1 point shy.
  16. SouthSideRyan
    This just shows how impressive that Bama win over Arkansas was.
  17. SouthSideRyan
    So do you take your 2nd chance and kick the PAT?
  18. SouthSideRyan
    That was awesome. It's a smart move that players seemingly never do, if you're on 4th and you know your short of the 1st down, you cannot let yourself be tackled with the ball.
  19. SouthSideRyan
    I think a 1 loss Clemson team would now fall behind a 1 loss ND team. Their loss would be to too bad a team. Maybe they could stay above them if they lose in the ACC Title game to UNC, but I kinda doubt it.
  20. SouthSideRyan
    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? Jed Hoyer told me he had no [expletive] idea what Gibbons was doing.
  21. SouthSideRyan
    Wasn't that basically in response to "David, do you think it would be special for the Cubs to win the World Series?"
  22. SouthSideRyan
    I don't agree that Edwards didn't fail into it(failure by inability to stay healthy) or that he could be converted back.(Ditto + 60 and ~50 innings the last 2 seasons.)
  23. SouthSideRyan
    I can't imagine Lackey couldn't get more than that on a 1 year deal, or close to AAV on a 2.
  24. SouthSideRyan
    Has Price communicated a clear preference for the Cubs?
  25. SouthSideRyan
    The Two Escobars is my favorite one.
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