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  1. Agony and Ivy
    The Red Sox were at $118m in obligations when today started, so it will be interesting to see how these contracts are paid out over the lives of the deals. I was surprised at how much they have expiring in 2015, looks like 44m or so? https://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=tz8qHiYrIzlFtVnly7gibjw&output=html Yeah so I am guessing the first year of each of these deals will be pretty low to keep them under the luxury tax. I wonder if they still have the flexibility to go after Lester?
  2. Agony and Ivy
    The Red Sox were at $118m in obligations when today started, so it will be interesting to see how these contracts are paid out over the lives of the deals.
  3. Agony and Ivy
    where are you seeing this? (that it sounds like it's nearing and that rumored figure, not that they're interested still) It's all over Twitter that Fatty is flying to Boston tonight to sign tomorrow. It's not official until Wittenmeyer says though.
  4. Agony and Ivy
    Gotta wonder if he left money on the table.
  5. Agony and Ivy
    first derrick rose and now this [expletive] god This got a hearty chuckle out of me. I can't wait to read those best baseball fan tweets when 2 cancer survivors beat the cardinals. Also my buddy and his wife run a cancer survivor charity and are both good friends with Lester and his wife and the sonuvabitch won't even ask lester a questions hinting at this whole situation. I called him a selfish jackass because I've known him for 15 years and he's known this pitcher guy for about 2. Now I'm pissed off again.
  6. Agony and Ivy
    Of course they are. Guy wont even get 100ABs as Rizzo's back up and can't play OF anymore thanks to his knee surgeries. Between Swisher and Gomes, Theo is just determined to shove some old veteran club house guy down our throats. Yeah I couldn't stomach Swisher.
  7. Agony and Ivy
    Bruce Levine ‏@MLBBruceLevine 7h7 hours ago Cubs one of the teams that have inquired about Swisher .
  8. Agony and Ivy
    Did you miss the sarcastic posts on page 28? We were lamenting the fact that the Cardinals are now seemingly involved in Lester talks then sarcasm happened.
  9. Agony and Ivy
    I swear to god if the Cubs lose out on Lester to the [expletive] Cardinals I will lose my [expletive] mind. Jokes on them. We could get like Brett Anderson or something. 1/3 the production at 1/6 the cost. hell yeah. But then we'd have like a billion dollars in roll over cash to use to miss out on free agents next year. So I guess I am aboard the Brett Anderson as our big FA acquisition train.
  10. Agony and Ivy
    Posted this in the rumors thread but [expletive] it. I am mad about them even being in the [expletive] conversation.
  11. Agony and Ivy
    I swear to god if the Cubs lose out on Lester to the [expletive] Cardinals I will lose my [expletive] mind.
  12. Agony and Ivy
    I didn't expect this to happen near this quickly. What little hope I had for Theo convincing him to wait is down around zero now. This whole situation is very weird to me. First, the commie government lets their best baseball player in a generation leave the country without a fight. Second, he has a CPA in Miami acting as his agent and has access to armed guards to kick out Boras' people (which is cool). And now he's declared a free agent in record time? It's probably nothing but it sure is weird set of circumstances that give the Yankees and Red Sox an advantage on signing him. All that being said, I would love for the Cubs to sign him and I'm guessing if he's offered big money to sign July 2 that he'd take it. It's already being reported he may wait until June, which is a good move for leverage as it brings all of the July 2 teams into play.
  13. Agony and Ivy
    The Pirates just traded LH reliever Justin Wilson for Yankees C Francisco Cervelli. I think this is a sneaky good move by Pittsburgh.
  14. Agony and Ivy
    Welp that's where you're wrong and it isn't arguable. He's not better than Kershaw, Hernandez, Price, Scherzer or Sale and that's without digging at all. He's probably more like top 12-20 starting pitcher. Zimmermann also has one year left before free agency and posted a season more than a win and a half better than his previous career high. So, if you're going to say he's more valuable than Castro going forward he better be a 5-6 win pitcher going forward because he's about to get very expensive. This shouldn't be that hard to grasp.
  15. Agony and Ivy
    Kap-Wittenmeyer-Rogers-Mooney might make my eyes bleed.
  16. Agony and Ivy
    And Wittenmeyer is a clown.
  17. Agony and Ivy
    Jesse Rogers has turned himself into the "temper expectations" guy and it annoys me. He just rattles off stuff like "You might be disappointed because they might not spend" what the actual [expletive] does that mean?
  18. Agony and Ivy
    He called Bosio "Bos" and said they're good friends.
  19. Agony and Ivy
    Oh this is gonna be good... what'd he ask? Accountability for Castro? He basically asked how Dusty and Lou (who he presumably thinks are on the same level as Maddon) couldn't get it done and why Maddon was gonna be different and topped it off with "do you know what the hell you've gotten yourself into?"
  20. Agony and Ivy
    God he just owned Kap. That was awesome.
  21. Agony and Ivy
    http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2014/11/yoan-moncada-to-hold-showcase.html Yoan Moncada is seeking free agency and that could be a game changer depending on when he's declared a FA. Git r done Theo! I want ALL THE SHORTSTOPS!
  22. Agony and Ivy
    BRO! I AM SO EXCITED! BROOOOOOO!!!!! Dies of heart attack.
  23. Agony and Ivy
    The guy who wrote the brilliant Schwarber is finished because he's going to be a catcher instead of an outfielder article is spewing hot takes on Twitter if anyone wants to have some fun.
  24. Agony and Ivy
    .328/.373/.550, .390 wOBA, 153 wRC+ .278/.358/.527, .392 wOBA, 152 wRC+ One of those is Reggie Jackson's postseason line and the other is Panda's... Harold says plenty of dumb [expletive] but that wasn't one of those times.
  25. Agony and Ivy
    Russell almost killed the pitcher with a line drive in his second AB tonight and Vogelbach is 0-1 with 3 BB. His plate discipline is pretty impressive.
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