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I think there was one if you go back to the 7/30 thread. Not going to call them out specifically. But think most of us want to hang on to Seiya.
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Shaw should be at AAA right now, would assume he spends more time there than AA the rest of the year.
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Underrated piece of that was Dansby getting to second base on his hit. Would be easy to dog it a little, watch Nico score, be instinctively cautious about getting thrown out before the run crossed, etc. But gets to second on a close play and then Tauchman hits a ball that bounces up into the crowd and would have kept Dansby at third if he had stayed at first.
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In-Season Trades and Transactions
squally1313 replied to Post Count Padder's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Prospects break all the time. It's why we shouldn't be 'keeping spots open' for Shaw or Caissie (or Horton in the rotation, who is kinda looking at a lost season at this point). Mervis got a couple shots, Canario has some pretty glaring issues in AAA. -
Yeah I'm fine with being overly cautious in the rotation. We have depth there, but you aren't going to be able to easily make up for a Steele or Shota injury. But the schedule is going to help with that, getting a couple extra relievers in September can shorten outings, etc. Beyond that, play to win. Soto probably is just going to sign the biggest contract in front of him, but I'd rather our offer come from a team that won 80 games this year, not 71.
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What does Motorola even do anymore? I'm sure they're still a massive company, but it's hard for me to imagine the benefit of this kind of advertising. People aren't like....buying Motorola products at Best Buy anymore, right?
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Hold on. Confused. I watched him yesterday, for the first time, and concluded he sucks at hitting baseballs. Now I don’t know what to believe.
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Kyle Schwarber. Majestic dongs.
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People here apparently carved out a ton of time to watch the 54-52 Rays huh
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Like, if you want to take a swing at bringing in new players with a wider bell curve of potential success, higher ceiling, etc. Sure, I could probably get behind it. Think the current roster is pretty capped on high end success and taking somewhat known quantities and turning them into a lottery ticket of sorts has some merit. But trading 2+ years of control for, as far as I can tell, the potential to just replace him and then upgrading your 26th man spot? What's the upside here?
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Yeah but we also no longer have MLJr, the guy who's been a reliable bullpen piece for 2.5 years and was controlled for the next 2.
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He's come back from losing his feel on the splitter multiple times and done it quickly enough that his overall performance has been more than solid, and he's bringing in new pitches that have been effective and reduce his reliance on the splitter. 33 isn't old, but he's not relying on 98 mph to be effective. Just seems dumb to pull the trigger for....this package.
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Somehow just realized Leiter has two more years of control left? Everyone else seems to be fine with this, so whatever, but seems dumb to me.
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Agree on the stats here, but also these two were unranked by FG back in December and 22nd and 29th on the MLB list that came out midseason. Jed usually does pretty good here, but was hoping for a little more from what is probably our best reliever to be traded.
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Not sure how your 2025 solution of 'trading a top 10 second baseman for prospects' is somehow better than 'running it back'. But the fun thing is you don't have to blindly hope that something will change. We turned a big problem into what should be pretty solid production just a couple days ago. The $40+m coming off the books this year will also spur change we don't have to click any slippers for. The farm system we've been building up for the past couple years will continue to develop. We, in theory, won't be running a -1.4 fWAR at the catchers position (though I guess that's 'hoping').
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Is it? Who is our opening day second baseman next year? One of the two guys who haven't gotten to AAA yet? Top free agent second baseman is Gleyber Torres, who was worse than Nico last year, worse than him this year, six months older, and absolutely going to command more than $12m given that he's making $14m this year in arbitration. Or are we going some stop gap measure, a second base Eric Hosmer, and hoping on Shaw and Triantos? Resign David Bote? How does that help make us better next year? Teel won't be ready.
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Then don't trade him. He's not an expiring contract. He has two more incredibly affordable years in his 20s. The guys in the system aren't ready. 'Something needs to change' sounds a ton like 'trading him for the sake of trading him'. Just because there's a trade deadline doesn't mean you have to make trades.
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I'm getting very tired of this argument. The collective organization isn't performing up to par, so we should trade the productive pieces away. The team isn't getting it done because Chris Morel sucks at defense and isn't good enough offensively, the catchers are a dumpster fire, Cody Bellinger is down 140 OPS points (and defensive value. and baserunning value) from last year, and the bullpen fell apart. It's not Nico Hoerner on pace for another 3 win season. Removing what's pretty close to certain production that we are significantly underpaying for, without a long term commitment, to receive prospects, just creates another 2025 hole to fill. Where are we going to find 3 wins for $12m next year? People made this decision that Happ/Dansby/Nico are The Core and therefore responsible for the record being where it is. None of them are paid like studs, all of them are outperforming their contract either this year or in the aggregate. If you want to make trades for the sake of making trades and don't care about nuking your 2025 chances, then go get a haul for Steele.
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Yep. The premise went sideways when you created this false reality that right field is somehow locked in even though you've got Bellinger and PCA both capable of playing center field. Trading a very good player making all of $11m and then attempting to find a premium bat to play second base when right field, and all the options it brings, is sitting right there waiting to be filled. Shaw or Triantos is wRCing 150 next May in AAA? Sure, revisit the conversation and I guess bemoan the hypothetical loss in prospect value by not exploring trading Hoerner until then. Ultimately for me, if it's this time next year and none of the Shaw/Triantos/Caissie/Alcantara/maybe Ballesteros group has established themselves as legitimate MLB htiters, we probably have a bigger problem. But I can't say with any real certaintly who's going to emerge from that group, and right now we've got a good amount of flexibility to let them figure it out. Or just sign Soto. That eliminates most of the uncertainty.
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Can I interest you in 299/366/551, 387 wOBA, 150 wRC since August 1 of last year?
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In-Season Trades and Transactions
squally1313 replied to Post Count Padder's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
*Looks at Cortes' FG page for 3 seconds* Sure, add him to the stable of starters. -
You don't have to remove players from "The Core" to add players to it. Keep the good players, get more good players at the spots you don't have good players. Baby, bath water, etc.
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For whatever can help us in the next two years. I see an argument that Hoerner is maybe redundant with Dansby, but paying him $12m for his age 28 and 29 years when he's 8th in 2B fWAR this year and 6th since last year doesn't seem high on the list of problems to address.
