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  1. Agony and Ivy
    No. Almora AND Happ and Monty may be a start, but even that can get blown away by other teams. Two things: Yelich is better than Ozuna and has a better contract situation, The Marlins don't need to trade Yelich at this point. They'd be smart to hold out for a HUGE package for Yelich. My thought is would the Cubs be willing to give up one of Baez/Russell for Yelich? How about Russell/Baez, Almora, Montgomery, Ademan, maybe more for Yelich and Castro Yelich fills CF for the next few years, Castro gives you a more than capable back up MI The kicker here MIGHT be if the Cubs are willing to take on a bad contract like Chen to go along with Yelich. Chen has 3 for $52mm left with a $16mm vesting option in the 4th year.
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    Maybe. Maybe not if they acquire Archer or Cole or someone like that. Regardless of their win total in 2018, they're still young and improving. They really aren't that young outside of Arcia, Hader and Philips/Brinson. All the guys that carried them last year were older and had career years (Anderson, Davies, Shaw, Santana, Thames, Sogard, etc) most are big regression candidates for me personally. Holy horsefeathers. Cubswin and Cubswin11 are two separate posters. I thought you were arguing with yourself for a second.
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    If they traded a bunch of good prospects for one-year of Machado and signed Davis to a 4-year contract, I'd be okay with that. They'd be a much better team for one year (and definitely give the Cubs a run for their money for the NL Central) while giving up many of their best prospects and potentially hamstringing their payroll a bit by paying big for a closer. IMO, the Cubs would still be the envy of the division (with Milwaukee gaining) because their line-up is so young they are likely to get better over the next 2-3 years offensively without "improving" the roster with outside acquisitions. Milwaukee is still trash and they'll prove it by winning 77ish games this year.
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    [tweet] [/tweet] Kipnis? No thank you.
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    Man I love these hedged bet tweets, they give me life this time of year.
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    That’s the guy UMFan loves to hate follow, right? obsessively loves to hate follow I refuse to follow him but sports mockery follows me and retweets his horsefeathers into my timeline.
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    Sean Sears working up the masses saying the Rays and Cubs are getting serious about Archer.
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    Finish signing Morrow and Cobb, trade Happ for Hand, sign your backup C and OF of choice, go home happy. Have SD throw Carter Capps into that trade and I'm happy. Carter Capps is absolute garbage. I'm not as high on Happ as som but he's worth so much more than Brad Hand.
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    Stanton is going to spend more time on the DL than he will be in the lineup over the course of the next three years. If he can't stay healthy when he's young, it's only going to get worse as he ages. He played 159 games last year. And getting a fastball to the face doesn’t make on injury prone. This is a weird take that’s more commonly accepted on the internet than it should be.
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    Poor Starlin.
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    How are you able to navigate to this website and yet can't find anything on Ohtani signing?
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    i'm not ruling out Cobb, but i kind of get the feeling there's a stronger market for him that pushes him beyond what the cubs are willing to commit to, so they jumped on Chatwood. And then, yeah, the other rotation spot will be a bigger impact guy. Yeah and if they get Ohtani, they would get him for basically nothing (ok fine ~$21m in year 1) and Ohtani seems to be comfortable with a 6 man rotation so it wouldn't be that difficult to see them going after Cobb as well if they wanted to. Almost positive the posting fee is paid in 4 annual installments of $5mm
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    https://www.baseballamerica.com/international/teams-international-penalty-2017-2018/#OL1RSMI1SDjDMWc7.97 Giants, Cubs, Padres, Dodgers are all in the penalty and capped at $300k
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    http://northsidebaseball.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=230635#p230635 Have no idea how I missed that and now I feel shame.
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    Flight times to Japan are solved. Theo is a horsefeathering wizard.
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    They can, but can still only go up to $300K on any individual signing I have it on good authority that Theo has cleaned the horsefeathers up in the bitcoin boom. And, since those transactions can’t be tracked, Ohtani will be getting an under the table offer of about $45mm from the Cubs.
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    Just get Theo in a horsefeathering room with him, that’s all I ask Hasn't Theo already been in a room with him, though? Didn't most teams schedule meetings with him in LA this weekend? I'm sure Theo and Jed met Ohtani and his agent when the Cubs did their presentation. There was no presentation yet. That’s what we are hoping the Cubs get to do.
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    He's already wealthy from salaries and endorsements from his time in Japan and by all accounts the dude is suspiciously disinterested in money.
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    Well normally the rumors ive seen from him and Sears are rehashed stuff from the beat and national guys. Those are not worth posting other than to make fun of them. Sears is my favorite of the wannabe transaction monkeys. He plays his role as the corner store psychic very seriously, but then just blocks anyone that says he stole his scoop. That's dedication because I imagine that is an exhausting fraud to keep up.
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    I think he winds up in Seattle. However, at this point I just want it to be anyone but the horsefeathering Dodgers
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    Yeah, I seriously doubt the Giants would want to do that deal. You'd have to expand it and the Cubs would have to throw in some cash and maybe some decent prospects. If they worked out all the details and money issues, Heyward could still just veto the trade. I don't think Heyward is that unhappy being here and Cubs fans hardly give him any grief because he helped win a WS his first year here + Game 7 inspirational speech. If the Cubs ate the entire Heyward contract plus take Shark and Melancon off their hands then the money saved is a huge win for the Giants and their pursuit of Stanton. Heyward’s bad but you’re not giving up prospects while also eating the money in the deal and if you do it’s not going to be anyone like Alzolay. That’s just asinine. His defense alone makes him league average and getting that for free is insane value.
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    Heyman suggesting that this makes the Cubs favorites to land Alex Cobb since he and Hickey are close
  25. Agony and Ivy
    I'd love Dinelson Lamet, but he's not going anywhere.
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