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Kyle > Meph

GIF abuse, since it's been used a million times here, but... http://i.imgur.com/RG0BS1U.gif

Should I feel bad for liking Meph at one point? That obviously didn't last, but I didn't always hate him. Maybe because he was at least part of what got me to start delving into baseball analytics.

Shameless post count padding/helping reach the 100 page mark. Yay Jon Lester.

Well, that wasn't the question. It was why would we give up so much for a guy who, while really good, isn't Mike Trout. He's essentially JD Drew as far as I can tell. And while that's a really good player, I don't see why we'd be willing to give up as many players who are as good/potentially as good as they are. You aren't very good at this whole baseball analytics thing, huh?

It does include Kris Bryant. It didn't used to, I think they added him yesterday and that's what pushed us over the top. Either way, that's so freaking cool. You are correct, which only means we can probably put even more stock into it. Pretty exciting stuff.

If we are going by the Fangraphs depth charts projections, after the Lester signing, the Cubs are projected as the 2nd WC in the NL. Playoff teams: AL Mariners (ALW Champs) Tigers (ALC Champs) Red Sox (ALE Champs) Blue Jays (AL WC1) Angels (AL WC2) NL Dodgers (NLW Champs) Cardinals (NLC Champs) Nationals (NLE Champs) Pirates (NL WC1) Cubs (NL WC2) ETA: Projection does include prospects. Get excited! http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--FsJU9bbr--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/dy2rayzhxlzhckim4fhs.gif

Lester is represented by ACES. Sam and Seth Levinson lead the agency. They have a lot of big clients. http://acesincbaseball.com/

YES. If this is an option, it has to be the one.

So based on recent FA history, the winning team will just need to add a 7th year and an additional $1m AAV to best the Cubs. There will be at least one team that will be desperate enough to do that. So 7/142 Forgot to add the extra year of salary.

Lol, you think Tommy La Stella is a reason to trade Baez or Castro?

thanks Editing your mistakes won't help you. You remain confused and fell down in the process. Laughable. No, that's not what happened. He was right, you were wrong. The whole time.

FTFY. Yeah, Felix, you're confused.

Soriano's deal was better. I apologize I should have clarified. Soriano never lived up to being paid $18 mil a year, just like Cutler looks like he is not going to live up to his contract if he keeps turning the ball over. Both were over paid, decent players, but not worth the money in the long run (though Cutler has time to make up some of it). Both teams overpaid and bid against themselves. There was no team going to give Cutler this money even if he was on the open market. That is all. Never did I compare the dollar amounts or say it was like a disaster. Yeah, he did. Depends on how you look at it. On a year by year basis solely, some years he came close, some (one?) years he provided surplus value, but overall he came up well short thanks to a couple of [expletive] seasons. Well, he averaged 3.37 WAR per season over 6.5 seasons with the Cubs. At $5 million/win, he was worth $16.85 million/year. At $5.5 million/win, he's at $18.53 million/year. That's with his sub-replacement season, and his 1 win season. Yeah, if you are fair and look at his value over the whole contract, he doesn't look as good thanks to this season, but this perception was from his play with the Cubs, not people saying that he wasn't worth it because he was awful this year with the Yankees. He was pretty much worth the contract for when he was playing with the Cubs. I don't think it's fair to say he never lived up to it.

Soriano's deal was better. I apologize I should have clarified. Soriano never lived up to being paid $18 mil a year, just like Cutler looks like he is not going to live up to his contract if he keeps turning the ball over. Both were over paid, decent players, but not worth the money in the long run (though Cutler has time to make up some of it). Both teams overpaid and bid against themselves. There was no team going to give Cutler this money even if he was on the open market. That is all. Never did I compare the dollar amounts or say it was like a disaster. Yeah, he did.

Get ready for lots of fake injuries. I don't think so - maybe that happens once or twice but I don't see that being commonplace. What you do? Fake a blister or something? Otherwise it would be pretty obvious. You can make a rule that if you leave you have to go on the DL or something. LOL.

Yeah, definitely pissed about the progress Rizzo and Castro made.

Yeah, imagine if that was Soler. This place would explode with meatball rage.

Jorge Soler.

Holy [expletive].

A homophobic misspelling of Gleyber's name.

infield single Oh, cool.

15-homer power, eh?

God, we're going to love that trade. This, so much.

Addison Russell is a damn machine.