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Bears D is killing my fantasy week with Brown and Sanders. And they wont win anyways lol
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What the horsefeathers? Santos can’t attempt a 48 yard FG??
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And now Jenkins is being carted off. 4 plays and 3 commercials due to injury
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Great ESB is hurt and Harry is out. We have Velus Jones taking snaps with the starters. Running out of guys to catch the ball…
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I wouldn't think someone with such weak arm strength could be so strong defensively at SS, unless arm strength differences are negligible and thus just don't matter that much.
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Was second in ISO behind Correa but ahead of Turner and Bogaerts
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He likely sees Correa in a higher tier of player And he's probably right, but I'd bet on 7 good-to-decent years of Swanson over 13 good-to-decent years of Correa. I don’t actually think anyone expects Correa to play 13 years. If he does $27m might be an average MLB contract by then lol
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Nope, this makes the Correa contract look like an absolute steal. People need to stop being trained to care about years on a contract. You'll never sign anyone good anymore if you care. Huh? Swanson: 7/177 = $25M AAV Correa: 13/350 - $27M AAV Basically the same per year, but half the commitment. Why is that horrible? He likely sees Correa in a higher tier of player
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So Heyward remains the biggest contract in Cubs history, Swanson (I think) the highest AAV given out in Cubs history
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Better defensive middle infield: Javy and Russell or Swanson and Hoerner?
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Take that? Lol Well good it makes the plan to sign a bunch of complimentary pieces seem more enticing. We will have great defense up the middle for the next several years
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Sooo ESB, Pringle, Pettis and Harry are the WRs this weekend? Oh and Velus
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Doesn't surprise me. The Bulls had also had never signed a bigger contract than 5/$75m (to Boozer) before LaVine's contact this summer. JR is a cheapass Edit: Nevermind, Boozer was the largest FA contract. Rose signed for 5/$94. But still, I believe they were one of the only teams in the NBA to never give out a $100m contract, possibly the only team.
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Any interest once he clears waivers and not on the hook for his contract? Edit: nevermind, I think the Padres are on the hook for his salary regardless
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Guess what an idiot with a big market baseball team did this time
UMFan83 replied to imb's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Wonder what accolades we can give to Pat this year to give the fans a feel good story when the team is 55-67 in August. -
**caveat, this is not a list by most recently followed, but interesting that he's following Swanson and his wife. Edit: Yes we're gotten to "someone followed someone on social media" part of the rumor mill. whatever
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Guess what an idiot with a big market baseball team did this time
UMFan83 replied to imb's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Signing Boxberger seems like something a kidnapper would do if they kidnapped Jed and needed to do something so people wouldn't suspect he was missing. -
Considerably less than that. I've got right around $56. Yeah I got $56m from Sportrac which has their estimated luxury tax number at $176.8m compared to the $233m luxury tax threshold. https://www.spotrac.com/mlb/chicago-cubs/payroll/ To answer your first reply, how do you see $56m vanishing quickly without Swanson?
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Cubs are $56 million under the luxury tax threshold right? Are we going to have to hear all season about how Jed left money on the table again?
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Guess $27m a year for 6 years isn’t intelligent spending
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they're like the blackhawks but somehow 2 years behind that was kind of my thought, they are in denial about their need to rebuild. But AKME doesn't seem like a FO that is going to be open to a gut rebuild and will keep doubling down on mediocrity.
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If you're taking "blow it up" off the table, what do you do if your the Bulls? Best hope is that they can swing some sort of trade and get a piece that can help you be a 2nd round team. But the Bulls assets are not great if you are considering DeRozan and LaVine untouchable. Vuc's expiring is likely only interesting for a contender who is looking to add another piece to their roster. Not really going to get a valuable player or prospect back, most likely a draft pick. Our younger guys have only lost value over the last year. Coby and Ayo are both expiring contracts and neither seem like anything more than role player. PWill is putting up some numbers but metrics show him as a slightly below average player. While he's still young its getting harder to sell teams on his potential. Like I just don't know how you can stay the course at this point, especially if Lonzo doesn't play this year. Are they just going to take it on the chin and give up a top 10 pick to Orlando and then run it back again next year? I'm not necessarily on "Team Blow Up" but I'm just struggling to see options for building onto the current team to make them less depressingly hopeless.
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