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  1. Transmogrified Tiger
    C. Can't be higher than that when your biggest hole goes (likely) unresolved, but the options to fill that hole that actually did move were very scarce and went at uncomfortable prices. Would've preferred some slightly different reliever options, but those are basically RNG for a 2 month period so I'm willing to see how they perform(plus the possibility Soroka goes to the pen and continues being dime-store Duran). Wanted the resources spent on pitching first and foremost, but Castro is the best position player fit and they got a strong deal on him so his raising of the floor on that side of the ball buoys the grade.
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    Boy is that not how that comparison works on like 3 different levels, but enjoy being furious about the Cubs having a very good team I guess
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    Listen dude if you just want to be mad that they didn't give us the dopamine hit of The Big Trade (tm), just say that instead of making up these increasingly intellectually dishonest caricatures
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    They graduated 3 top 50 prospects in 12 months and used a bunch of prospect capital to get one of the best hitters in the game.
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    Nope, the Cubs are a really good team with a really good outlook so I'm not going to do that type of prisoner of the moment silliness. He's taking on risk with the pitching staff, but he also made a sneaky big upgrade with Castro. Even though I would've rather the resources went to pitching than a position player, he made the one that was most impactful, and the true needle movers on the pitching side didn't really happen so there's either dozens of irrational GMs or the move wasn't truly there to be made. I probably would've preferred to pay a bit more for Iglesias than Kittredge, but Iglesias wasn't moved either so maybe that wasn't the choice.
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    The Cubs' prospect capital is the lowest it's been in a number of years specifically because Jed has eaten into it significantly over the last 12 months.
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    Initial thoughts Good: Good value in the trades they made Didn't give up too much prospect capital when they're already a bit depleted The pen got a pretty big jolt, Palencia/Keller/Thielbar/Rogers/Kittredge/Brasier should be nice for when consecutive game days stack up Castro is as big an upgrade as they can make on the position player side, injury insurance everywhere and a matchup skeleton key Bad: Playoff starter was the far and away biggest need and they didn't get one unless they are very right about Soroka. No 2026+ assets added aside from the right to pay Kittredge 9 million Lost a window to capitalize on the AAA hitters without risking value depreciation Silver lining: None of the controllable SP options went anywhere Of the rental SP the only one that is clearly more interesting than Soroka to me is Kelly and I'm still not super jazzed about him, so the prices may have been unreasonable Reasons to believe Soroka can be a Boyd-type of hit
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    If you think the middle ground is off the table you're basically admitting you were never gonna be able to see the middle ground as a possibility.
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    AJ Preller is so close to inventing a pyramid scheme about prospect futures. Just hard selling GMs on 60 grade tranches or something
  10. Transmogrified Tiger
    The defensive concerns are more than just framing, he's only throwing out 13% of baserunners and has 14 passed balls in about 100 AAA games.
  11. Transmogrified Tiger
    The equivalent might be something like Wicks, Franklin, Tyson Miller?
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    If the Brewers continue to have the best offense in the NL by a significant margin, as they have since that May 22 mark, they're very likely to win the division. The performances carrying that offense, especially if you compare to the Cubs in that timeframe, would not fill me with a ton of optimism of that continuing over the final 55 games if I were a Brewers fan.
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    ah my bad I forgot runs only count when they meet narrative approval
  14. Transmogrified Tiger
    The Cubs have 3 runs in 5 innings
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    There's no reason to think Soriano is available in trade, and Ward cannot play third base at the MLB level. Jansen fits the Iglesias mold of pricey rental reliever that shouldn't cost much, including the hot streak as the weather has warmed up.
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    Assad threw 3 innings on rehab assignment 4 days ago. He's not a week away or anything, but he's very much a candidate to get bulk innings at the big league level from mid-late August onward.
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    I don’t know if you’ll find much agreement on this, I suspect if you asked GMs they’d pretty much universally prefer 2025 Gore to 2017 Quintana. Also, Top 100 is a big range and not a homogeneous value. Jimenez and Cease at the time are likely 1-2 in the Cubs system today, maybe 1 & 3. Plus, the way teams value good early arb players has simply changed in the last 8 years, there’s fewer of those deals because they value them higher.
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    I was not saying what I think the Cubs will end up doing, but what it would take to actually get a deal done for that respective profile of player.
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    Welcome!
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    Welcome! Fedde had gotten DFA'd earlier this week, so I'm guessing Atlanta was fine taking him for basically free to sustain their rotation given all the injuries they have.
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    I think a good rule of thumb would be that at least at the moment: The highest end of controlled SP being floated in rumors(e.g. Gore, Ryan) would require at least one of Shaw/Horton along with one or both of Caissie/Wiggins. The controlled SP with good performance and potentially another level(e.g. Cabrera, Bubic, Keller) are at least asking for Caissie + Wiggins to lead a package until the deadline arrives and they potentially take less. So the game of chicken continues until those teams need to make a decision or some other team(e.g. the Rays) finds a middle ground in their willingness to accept less than those offers for their SP. Sandy is also a wild card because of the broad variance in all directions of his situation.
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    Both the days off have been against sinker-heavy starters, I suspect there's a certain repertoire-based weakness they feel he has that they're shielding him from
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    Welcome!
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    The problem with Sandy is that his increased performance risk since the start of the season has almost certainly risen higher than the actual cost to acquire him has fallen. Pairing him with another SP is fine and all but that's a lot of resources used even before addressing the bullpen or more luxurious additions(a hitter).
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    I don't think that's true, he had a less invasive elbow surgery than TJS and had it in April
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