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I don't disagree... But few thought it was a good contract at the time, and in hindsight, I don't think anyone would have done it again (we got what, maybe 2 WAR from the last four or five years we had him?). At the time, I would have preferred opening up the pocketbook a year or two earlier and nabbing Vlad or Beltran over Soriano. All that said, I would sign Soriano again in a heartbeat over that contract they gave Hosmer. According to Fangraphs, we got 8.9 fWAR from his last 3.5 years before before trading him to the Yankees. The Soriano contract was fine, both at the time and how it turned out. it turned out better than people generally seem to think, but it was still negative in value overall at the time it happened, i definitely had a bittersweet feeling about it. i was excited that we signed the best player out there to a big contract but i was also pretty annoyed that we didn't decide to throw all that money around when there was a better free agent class. soriano was the type of player i begrudgingly liked despite an approach at the plate that was everything i learned to dislike in a baseball player. he was so talented that he was still productive despite his allergy to working counts and walking (i think he did have a year or two where he wasn't so bad in this regard). and we got two division titles out of it.
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I'm not defending Hendry, but there's a humongous difference between those 2 moves. At least the Cubs signed a bunch that off season. Bought themselves into being the favorites. Plus, Sori was a hell of a lot better player than Hosmer. I don't disagree... But few thought it was a good contract at the time, and in hindsight, I don't think anyone would have done it again (we got what, maybe 2 WAR from the last four or five years we had him?). At the time, I would have preferred opening up the pocketbook a year or two earlier and nabbing Vlad or Beltran over Soriano. All that said, I would sign Soriano again in a heartbeat over that contract they gave Hosmer. what? no
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They immediately won the division the next two years. How was it the wrong year? wrong year in the sense that soriano was the best free agent out there. to this day i'm disgusted with not signing carlos beltran
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It’s a player who doesn’t affect us signing with a team that doesn’t affect us. I’m fine with the mega thread yeah you're right with this mess of threads being constantly created it would just be stupid to have a specific place to discuss it
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are we really at the point where we're megathreading a $150M 8 year free agent signing in an offseason where nothing has happened? i think i'm going to crusade against these things again
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[tweet] [/tweet] [tweet] [/tweet] I can't decide what I think of this in terms of value. This isn't a horrific deal if he can be the 2015 and 2017 guy much more often than the 2014 and 2016 guy. And yet I'm still incredibly confused by what the Padres are doing here and why it took that to get him.
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[tweet] [/tweet] I guess Baldy has never heard of Mark Gonzales (or filters)
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NL Central: Reds, Pirates and others
David replied to Hairyducked Idiot's topic in General Baseball Talk
Went to look up tickets to that first Cubs/Brewers series in Milwaukee and this came up as my section...lol (yes i know it stands for field infield box) -
They have for those and bleachers. The new best value is the front of 200 that's actually where our seats are. i still miss the upper deck IF though.
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https://www.instagram.com/p/BfSI4DkFrB1/
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it almost looks like theo is taking the throws at first...
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Bears 2018 Offseason: Matt Nagy Hired as Head Coach
David replied to Outshined_One's topic in Other Sports
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one of the best values and one of my favorite places to sit = front of upper deck (400) infield
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When I think of Valbuena, the first thing that still comes to my mind is that breakout series he had against the Cubs in 2009 as a member of the Indians (in a series the Cubs swept despite him) the first thing that comes to mind for me are gloriously bat flipped singles
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You won't believe who we traded him for! My memory for trades and transactions is basically non-existent. For all of the trivial, useless stuff that occupies my brain, who got traded for who and when is not part of it lol guys he really doesn't know this is so derwood
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You won't believe who we traded him for!
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Wrigley Renovations and Related Wrigleyville Stuff
David replied to David's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
https://www.mlb.com/news/chicago-cubs-extend-netting-at-wrigley-field/c-266398882 Some behind the scenes photos of what's going on in the article along with some new info. More at the link Should be interesting to see if the camera angles look noticeably different with the new camera well locations. I'm sure it'll be mentioned more than once in the game threads. -
Some good pics from Boys of Spring here - http://boysofspring.com/yu-got-that-right/
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people i know who interact with him say he's a bag. matt spiegel has alluded to it too in conversations on the score. that said, it's one thing for athletes to be a jerk to grown ass men who pester them...he's a well liked teammate and he's great with kids. that's all that actually matters.
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Zero. I was pretty young though. The first Cubs acquisition I remember being excited over was Delino Deshields in 2001 (lol wtf- I think i just thought it was a cool name). Anyways Nomo went on to average almost 3 war/yr over the next 5 years, so lol cobs. first acquisition i was excited about was todd zeile lol. my brother told me he was good. man i was SUPER excited about those randy johnson rumors in 98. and mike piazza. what a shitty GM lynch was. that era could've been crazy different. a few months later we trade noel and garland anyway for trash. i think there were also sheffield rumors in 96 for a bit. and bobby bonilla was rumored all the time. oh and idk if anyone is here from the old AOL boards in the 90s, but i remember falling for some insane barry bonds rumor from a message board insider that involved chad meyers, robin jennings, orie, kieschnick or some other trash like that...it had to be 96 or 97
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Not at all. he was with us in spring training in 99. i was super excited. then we released him bc he didn't want to stay at AAA. http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1999-04-24/sports/9904240154_1_nomo-agent-general-manager-ed-lynch-hideo-nomo
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do you guys remember when we had hideo nomo
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win total bets are out and the cubs are set at 94.5 (by whoever they're citing on this site) https://www.oddsshark.com/mlb/mlb-season-win-totals
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Forgot about Davenport Projections... http://claydavenport.com/projections/PROJHOME.shtml NL Cent Won Lost Runs Runs A CHC 95 67 804 673 MIL 87 75 812 749 STL 86 76 754 711 PIT 75 87 691 752 CIN 73 89 729 815 moved it to keep it from getting lost at the bottom of the page
