David
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Everything posted by David
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Remember what Stone used to call Morandini?
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Nope, this makes the Correa contract look like an absolute steal. People need to stop being trained to care about years on a contract. You'll never sign anyone good anymore if you care. Huh? Swanson: 7/177 = $25M AAV Correa: 13/350 - $27M AAV Basically the same per year, but half the commitment. Why is that horrible? Because Correa is a lot better?
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For anyone who wants to hear the Kenney interview
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Chicago Bears Offseason Thread (the tank must payoff)
David replied to jersey cubs fan's topic in Other Sports
I am firmly in team trade down just because I think having more spins at the wheel is your best chance at some semblance of certainty when acquiring talent, but if I were drafting there and he's available (and were taking defense), I'd rather have Carter. Just seems interior guys like that are harder to find than good edge guys and would make a huge impact on this defense. Nothing like a guy who can wreck shop and generate pressure from the interior. Fully willing to admit that I don't follow college whatsoever, though, so all I know is what I've seen on Twitter and draft scouting reports. -
I think part of the answer to the above (albeit not a great reason) is that fellow players are less likely to cast aside players of his caliber even after a couple of (really) down years than we as fans are. It's just kind of the nature of him being one of them and having been really good. But maybe I'm way off.
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It's probably enough to sell to enough dopes making a bus trip from Iowa every year to see a middling 78-82 win team this summer. Sorry, it just reminds me of the 80's and 90s Cubs I really really want it to be Correa, like really, really, but this is an absolutely bonkers [expletive] insane way to characterize a Dansby Swanson signing. That's nothing like the 80s/90s Cubs.
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If Gordo, of all people, is the one banging the drum that the Cubs are in hard on a major free agent who wants a horsefeathers ton of money, that is probably more meaningful to me than national guys just having them in the mix but casting doubt probably due to Hoyer's "intelligent spending" comments. That said, who the horsefeathers knows. It's a lot of horsefeathering money and nobody really has any idea what is going on.
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i'm not sure what the hell they "fixed" but there was also edmonds lol
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Clearly they have decided that he's not what they want at C. We know what his strengths/weaknesses are at this point and the league is trending toward catchers who are good at catcher things and it seems he is not. That's entirely reasonable. They should have gotten something for him, though. I'm not sure what the hell happened at the deadline, but it might just be that the Astros pulled out at the last second (which, well, should've had a backup plan, Jed). I don't think it's a coincidence that we had a few pitchers (very good ones, even!) who essentially refused to pitch to him, too. Maybe wait until next year's roster is put together before calling anything a travesty, tho, IDK. What the horsefeathers happened to you? Reboot time. I love him and I hope he gets paid, and I hope he doesn't let the horsefeathers fans get to him like they tried to do with Dexter, but I'm fine with moving on from him. Hopefully we can get one of the Oakland guys.
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You'll feel better when he loses any concept of the strike zone, swings out of his shoes, and strikes out every PA because of how badly he spazzes out wanting to do damage against them. Not really. It's a travesty that they are letting him go. It would be different if Amaya was raking in AAA. Clearly they have decided that he's not what they want at C. We know what his strengths/weaknesses are at this point and the league is trending toward catchers who are good at catcher things and it seems he is not. That's entirely reasonable. They should have gotten something for him, though. I'm not sure what the hell happened at the deadline, but it might just be that the Astros pulled out at the last second (which, well, should've had a backup plan, Jed). I don't think it's a coincidence that we had a few pitchers (very good ones, even!) who essentially refused to pitch to him, too. Maybe wait until next year's roster is put together before calling anything a travesty, tho, IDK.
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You'll feel better when he loses any concept of the strike zone, swings out of his shoes, and strikes out every PA because of how badly he spazzes out wanting to do damage against them.
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https://www.yahoo.com/now/carlos-correa-still-focus-cubs-081012381.html
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https://theathletic.com/3977499/2022/12/07/cubs-cody-bellinger-defense-moves/?redirected=1
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https://blogs.fangraphs.com/2023-top-50-free-agents/
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One would hope the Cubs 1st move of an off-season (premised on loose purse strings) would not consist of a rebound year to justify a contract. what the horsefeathers does it matter if it's the first move or the tenth
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Barstool sucks but this dude knows people
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He was "worth" 13.5 in like 140g last year despite being abysmal at the plate (standard disclaimer about using $/WAR on low WAR guys but yeah it's not a lot of money)
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good thing it's not gonna be that
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No shift should help him if he stops trying so hard to hit the ball in the air
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Translation -"The Cubs represent the primary threat to the Red Sox for Xander Bogaerts. They're looking for a poster (star) SS and have open wallets."
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That infield defense might be better than 2016.
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The flip side to that is they've had a chance to win most games late, thanks to how good Fields is. If they can do that with marginal NFL talent all over the roster, it's not hard to see how much they can improve just by solidifying some of those areas. That's an easy upgrade. And there are lots of places they can and will do that. There is a lot of easily identifiable room for improvement. They have the QB and the rest isn't hard. And it's even less difficult with the assets (super high pick that they'll hopefully trade out of)/cap space they should have.
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or maybe it's just greenberg (or fowler) pulling words out of his ass
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of course they beat the celtics who had won 9 in a row lol
