spaincubsfan

Hey all, as noted before my first thread on this site. Hope to contribute and discuss all that is Cubs related. For the purpose of this thread I wanted to pose the question TOR pitching. The FO has made it known that their goal is obtain 1 more TOR addition to slot in between Lester and Arrieta *My interpretation(. As we have seen the cost has gone up dramatically and you are know paying 25-30M per year for Ace or number 2 pitchers. My out of the box suggestion if it has not been posted already is to go into the season with what we have and wait until the trade deadline. The reason for this is twofold: 1. As noted above the price of both free agent and cost controlled pitching has soared through the roof and is not feasible. 2. The preferred route now should be to wait until the July trade deadline and let our prospects get even more development time so this increases their value and we can offer more in a trade package. 3. Hopefully by then some pretender contenders will be out of it and we can poach a TOR pitcher. I have spewed this on other sites ad naseum but since I am new here this is what I hope for - The south siders are in the middle of I don't know what. One day they are all in and the next day it is a 3 year retool or rebuild. So if they are struggling and Hahn gets the green light they may opt to blow it up and put either Sale/Quintana on the block or both. We can then look at this and try to pounce if it makes perfect sense. If they rebuild they will want prospects so McKinney, Almora, Contreras, Torres could be on the table as well as others. Just an idea Thoughts?

Projections are based on past performance, so wouldn't a player with poor durability have that already built in as a feature of the projection? I know some of the projections factor that in at least, unlike I think Steamer which gives everyone 600 PA. the FG depth charts are based on STEAMER (but have playing time allocated differently to everyone) I don't really know how much of x, y, or z, goes into how they dole out the PAs on those, though. Hey all, new kid on the block. I think Heyward is projected to give us a total of 6-7 WAR which will be at 50 wins above replacement total. I am no saber metric geek but am trying to learn.