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This is how I see it. I'd rather have had Headley, but it's far from a total loss. -
Ray. I [expletive] hate Ian. Me too. Screw you too
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My personal feeling is that the Cubs moved on Stewart because something happened to reduce their chances at Headley, or because the Padres were asking for too much. I thought they'd wait until after the non-tender deadline, though.
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unlike the other cheap available options, he surely has the potential for more today's moves make me wonder why Theo hasn't dismissed Wilken; three recent very high picks of his he's let go without pause he does fill a hole if he can provide some power. we're going to need a lot of it, a lot. It would be reasonable to think he could give us 25 HR over 500 or so PA. Or he could flame out.
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If he is what he was in 2009-10, we could do worse.
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[expletive] you.
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8th overall pick in 2007, had TJ surgery at the end of 2008. The fact that the Cubs apparently wanted him makes him have a small amount of intrigue-maybe they found some mechanical flaw? Or perhaps he's just a longshot throw-in to help compensate for including D.J.
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For some reason I'm pretty optimistic about this. Stewart/Baker platoon?
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Just a tad late
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I think that pursuit took a big hit when the Padres acquired Street.
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So does Ian Stewart. So does Tyler Colvin. And how. I'm fine with this, but would be more so had Flaherty not been nabbed earlier. I think Stewart still could very well wind up being a good ML player. He's got Tyler's power and contact problems, but he also will take walks. It could go either way.
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The Winter Meetings Thread
XZero771679666304 replied to ctcf's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
Like many others I'm a bit disappointed nothing came to fruition for us at the winter meetings, but we can't forget that aside from the Angels and Marlins, no one else did much of anything either. We'll see in the next 5-7 days what groundwork was laid. And after the non-tender deadline things should pick up considerably. -
I would have vomited if we signed Pujols to that contract and Wilson would never have given us that discount.
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http://gatewayredbirds.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=48147
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Peter Gammons is a joke, wishy-washy, uninformed and kind of sad.
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I do as well.
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the vast majority of the people on this board would have hated all of those signings except cj wilson. a reliever for 27 mil? jose reyes for over 100? pujols for 254? buerhle for almost 60? stop your whining, those are bad contracts. if we'd had a big SS need, i'd probably have liked Reyes' signing quite a bit Too many guaranteed years for a guy who can't stay on the field. If it were a 3-4 year deal with vesting options, maybe I'd have liked it. But as it is? No, I wouldn't have liked it at all.
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The Winter Meetings Thread
XZero771679666304 replied to ctcf's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
Alex Gonzalez to the Brewers. Not flashy, but an upgrade to be sure. -
A lot of Cardinals fans are trashing Pujols and fellating Musial because he stayed and never would have left. They have no idea what Stan would have done because he never had much of a choice in the matter. Of course now he'll toe the line and say he never would have left, but we'll never know. It's easy to hold these guys up as loyalist heroes when they were essentially held hostage by their employers.
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Do you even check what thread you're posting in before you post?
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http://espn.go.com/blog/chicago/cubs/post/_/id/7419/pujols-deal-sets-up-well-for-cubs lol good luck even getting 7 At some point Boras will claim he has a 10 year offer for Prince, but there's no way in hell. 6-7 max.
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If I had to guess, I'd say Cubs Brewers Blue Jays Rangers Cards were only willing to go where they did with Pujols because he was iconic and the could market his assault on the record books. Nolan Ryan says the Rangers aren't in, but I'm not buying it. Particularly after this morning's events. The Mariners have a putrid offense (yes, worse than ours), a huge ballpark and no hint that I'm aware of that they'd spend to surround Prince with any real talent. And now they're well behind two other teams in their division in terms of being able to compete. Therefore I don't buy Seattle as a real possibility.
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It's too bad there's not a Rule V thread.
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yeah, because pujols and fielder are available every offseason. And they're only useful for the first year or two of their contracts, too
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nonsense Utter and complete
