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  1. David
    i will lose my horsefeathers if we trade soler for this guy
  2. David
    ughh please NO NO NO NO NO
  3. David
    I believe he meant that out of 4 "can't miss"' type guys, you might get one actual star. Yeah that's what I figured, but deals with 4 "can't miss" prospects don't exist. if you're using a reasonable probability cutoff for "can't miss" you're talking about top 10, maybe top 5 guys. Or even extend it out to top 25 and you're rarely ever getting 3 of those in a deal. So is he saying only 1 in 4 "can't miss" guys turn into a star so we have to get a bunch more in the deal? If that's the case, then you're not showing much faith in your prospect evaluators. Seems like in this case they got a real "can't miss" guy. I'd say odds of Moncada being a star are well over 25%. To clarify...I don't think he was talking about getting 4 cant miss guys in one deal. He was just trying to make a point of the crapshoot nature of even the best prospects.
  4. David
    I believe he meant that out of 4 "can't miss"' type guys, you might get one actual star.
  5. David
    I certainly think it's *possible* that Javy takes a step forward and becomes an offensive/defensive 5+ win monster of a player at some point in the next few years...but I also think it's far far more likely than not that 2016 is pretty much his peak season (or a close top 2-3 of his career). He's got some fatal flaws (both his lack of discipline in terms of the strike zone and in terms of how out of control his swing can be even when he's swinging at strikes) and what you saw in 2016 was a result of very selective and advantageous use by Maddon. I love Javy and I would be happy to keep him around and see what happens (we're going to be really good for a long time even if he's just Jose Hernandez), but I wouldn't be heartbroken if we sold high on him either.
  6. David
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  7. David
    So someone tweeted a Kopech instagram link t hat I clicked, and first thing I saw was this comment lmaooo
  8. David
    Is that how the contract works? Lump sum? It was a signing bonus of ~$31 million plus ~$31 million penalty, all paid when Moncada signed. You no longer can make Cespedes or Soler-like signings for international prospects who fall under the international signing restrictions. Duh...I actually knew that.
  9. David
    Is that how the contract works? Lump sum?
  10. David
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  11. David
    The Tweet TT posted looks pretty damn definitive.
  12. David

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    David replied to David's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk

    Half the park would be pretty damn high. It's actually a little under 10k. And that's after they added a bunch 4-5 years ago. http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20161205/BLOGS04/161129995/chicago-cubs-raise-2017-ticket-prices That's 8000 accounts, not seats. Probably at least 95% of accounts have at least two seats with some, of course, having more. So likely closer to 20,000. Good catch. Could be poor wording, though. I'd still be a bit shocked if half the park were filled with season tickets, but who knows. Like you said, the vast majority of accounts will have 2, plenty will have more too...I just didn't think that much of the park would be STH, but I guess it's possible. Just seems like a lot (not that it's even close to not possible - given the size of the list they could pretty much sell the whole park if they wanted to)
  13. David
    MLB is so horsefeathering dumb
  14. David

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    David replied to David's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk

    I wonder how limited they are on the allotment of bleacher season tickets anyway. I read somewhere yesterday that the overall STH base is about 10k. Where'd you see that? I was always under the impression that there were ~20,000 seats occupied by STH. Half the park would be pretty damn high. It's actually a little under 10k. And that's after they added a bunch 4-5 years ago. http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20161205/BLOGS04/161129995/chicago-cubs-raise-2017-ticket-prices
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  16. David
    I'd just rather not draft a QB in the 1st round anyway. So volatile. horsefeathers pitchers...I mean first round QBs.
  17. David

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    David replied to David's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk

    You can't got back to nights and weekends from full season, either. Weird. Not that weird. They know they have you by the balls. I was shocked when they let me "downgrade" (I moved from the back of the field boxes on the 1B side to the front of the terrace boxes on the 3B side) a couple years ago. But that was still before 2015 happened...who knows if they still even allow that.
  18. David
    I mean going into training camp, not the season. But I'd want two vets as a buffer to prevent them from putting a rookie out with these teammates. To protect the rookie? He thinks the line is terrible and the rest of the offense (especially if and when Alshon leaves) IS terrible and I think he doesn't want to ruin the rookie with that.
  19. David

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    David replied to David's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk

    I wonder how limited they are on the allotment of bleacher season tickets anyway. I read somewhere yesterday that the overall STH base is about 10k.
  20. David
    A Heyman tweet just now reminded me that I kind of like DeSclafani...I wonder what he'd cost.
  21. David

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    David replied to David's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk

    I'm in the very front 200s and I struggled to get back face (after fees) for most of the first half of the season. In the second half it picked up and I was profiting nicely on weekend games, at least. Weeknights were still nothing to write home about. Nevermind that the seats are basically the same as the back field boxes. People just don't realize it.
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  23. David
    I'm a little jealous (of Moncada only, I mean)...imagine if we had convinced him to wait for us.
  24. David
    You say that like goony's the one suffering I can only feel empathy for Cub fans and liberals. Yeah but there's no empathy to be felt. He loves the horsefeathers out of that.
  25. David
    So glad he stayed in the AL
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