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Cubs trade Eloy, Cease, others for Quintana
WrigleyField 22 replied to Transmogrified Tiger's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/cubs-accurately-rate-underrated-jose-quintana/ Lester is also 6.5 years older. Compare his 2009-2011 stats with Quintana Lester won a World series for the Cubs in 2009-11? Damn that makes last year much more anticlimatic. -
Cubs trade Eloy, Cease, others for Quintana
WrigleyField 22 replied to Transmogrified Tiger's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
I know the Rays are still competitive but I wonder how much more expensive Archer would have been. http://i3.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/006/759/both.png http://i1.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/facebook/000/622/795/777.jpg -
Cubs trade Eloy, Cease, others for Quintana
WrigleyField 22 replied to Transmogrified Tiger's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Like the player, love the contract? -
Cash?
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Didn't really want him at 4 years, but that's a good deal. Hopefully front load it as much as possible.
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GW RBI went to Zobrist, even though Cleveland scored a run in the bottom of the 10th. In hockey, what you said would be true for the GW goal. Might gets the "Go ahead" Zobrist the GW.
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The Bears had good lines with the good lovie teams, they were just patched together with 29 year old free agents and they ignored the line in the draft so it fell apart quickly. I think a strong line can go a long way to help a less talented team stay competitive. You still need your skill guys to win you games, but the line can cover for some of your weaknesses. Yup. Plus I'm not sure the adage about strong lines is inaccurate. The Bears had injury along both those lines, particularly D-Line, and solid line play can only do so much to overcome Hoyer/Barkley QB play for 72% of your snaps.
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Sucks dating a vampire in June in the Northern Hemisphere. You want to see a movie at what time? That's practically my bedtime.
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I've heard Michael cares way more about the Bulls than Sox. It's just a different structure overall though. Reinsdorf is one of many minority owners, but the sole general partner for the limited partners. So he has complete control of the investment, but carries a fiduciary responsibility to those LP's, and likely the partnership would contain provisions that the LPs could vote to remove the general partner. Not sure if I've ever heard that the succession plan is definitely that Michael would inherit the businesses. Maybe Jerry will realize his investments and cash out and and dissolve the partnership before he dies.
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Michael Reinsdorf is apparently Gar's biggest advocate, so...
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I don't think their leash really got shorter, they just got a three year free pass.
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Because nobody wants him or his horrendous contract. Gonna have to throw in some picks.
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Would you have done Butler for no 3?
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Plus I'm totally prepped for the return on any such deal to be a former mid lotto PG instead of a pick and the Bulls to throw in a future second.
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Its hard enough getting a max guy to come to Chicago, if the Bulls are already good. I don't think you're getting them with a 25 win roster. I think its definitely a few years of high picks and hoping to draft a star before you're in the picture of any max guys considering them. Any cap space the Bulls have should be used for absorbing bad contracts in exchange for lottery picks. Its a reasonable request from a fan perspective, but with the rising cap and less years on deals, there's a lot less opportunity than there used to be. There's really only a handful of teams with long term cap issues and at least a third of the league probably wouldn't need a cost saving deal like Rondo as a quick fix for immediate cap space.
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Its hard enough getting a max guy to come to Chicago, if the Bulls are already good. I don't think you're getting them with a 25 win roster. I think its definitely a few years of high picks and hoping to draft a star before you're in the picture of any max guys considering them. I'm not trying to sell it as "the plan" or anything, but bottom line is within the next three off seasons the Bulls would need to hand out 130-150 in total commitments (including their own FA) just to meet the salary floor over that period, without even trying to clear space. But they'll have some flexibility how they want to approach it... spread it out each year, or go for a big splash year in 18 or 19.
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If you don't sell Rondo as an expiring by taking on a longer term contract, you could easily be looking at 50m+ in 2018 cap space without even getting rid of Lopez (or worthless bit pieces like Payne). Eta - that would be with a max of anywhere from 24 to 36 depending on where the cap falls and the player in question.
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Fwiw, based on my calcs Room under salary cap/floor : With no holds on current FA, and Rondo option picked up; 25.9/16 With holds for Felicio and Mirotic, and Rondo option picked up; 12.4/2.5 With Rondo option declined and cap holds for Mirotic/Felicio; 22.8/12.9 So, try and salary dump Rondo as an expiring? Buy out Wade. Offer 2 or 3 year deals at average salary (~6.5m/per) to Felicio and Mirotoc, but don't fret if someone else overpays (probably will for Mirotic). Round out roster with low level FAs. Who cares if you even meet salary floor. Grant-Dunn-Payne (Lavine)-Valentine-Canaan Zipser Markkanen-Portis Lopez-Felicio Plus any Rondo trade salary dump returm and low level FAs. That's a good tank team right?
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Re: having a good drafter, did Lloyd end up getting the Orlando GM job? He was always given a lot of credit for the mid aughts draft hits. Can he be brought back?
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Well he is probably still recovering from the extended coma he lapsed into while joining the board.
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This trade adds up now http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseball/whitesox/ct-jake-burger-draft-white-sox-20170621-story.html
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I can't not be a Bulls fan but this is the closest I could probably get to disowning one of my favorite teams. There is no excuse for what occurred tonight. I mean just in the past three trades we've basically just thrown away 3 picks.
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Oh and that pick was from the Deng trade which was made just to avoid the luxury tax. Rofl, we're so good at saving money, guys.
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Seriously, why am I even posting about this rebuilding team who trades away picks for cash instead of the other way around.
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For the defending Champs There's our lost Playoff revenue for 2018, thank goodness.
