javy knows my name

You're only saying that cause we already have Chris Archer. Dick

I think he'll come back as long as we promise there won't be any more scary storms

Wow. I hope the Tigers FO turned around and filed a police report right after

Mike Leake is who I was thinking of. Turns out I didn't know a damned thing about Mike Trout.

Oh [expletive] it. Who's the pitcher? Steve Trout? The guy who retired 20 years ago? Yes, I too think I'd hold on to Soto hahahaha [expletive] you

No. We have Chris Archer in two years What does Chris Archer have to do with Justin Upton and Mike Trout? Soto is more valuable than Mike Trout to us because we have really high-end pitching prospects that could match Trout's production in two years without having to give up anything. The upgrade from Soto to Upton is marginal, again, to us, and not worth downgrading a huge area of strength for our club. What does Mike Trout have to do with Justin Upton? Trout's an outfielder Oh [expletive] it. Who's the pitcher?

No. We have Chris Archer in two years What does Chris Archer have to do with Justin Upton and Mike Trout? Soto is more valuable than Mike Trout to us because we have really high-end pitching prospects that could match Trout's production in two years without having to give up anything. The upgrade from Soto to Upton is marginal, again, to us, and not worth downgrading a huge area of strength for our club. What does Mike Trout have to do with Justin Upton?

That would never happen but it would be awesome

Victory Field in Indianapolis can only hold about 15,000 (that's maybe squeezing a few in as well- the highest I've seen is probably a shy over 14,000 on 4th of July a couple years ago and it was pretty packed)... If they move there, Cubs would surely suck as their fielding dimensions is HUGE compared to Wrigley IMO. LF 320 ft/LCF 418 ft/CF 402 ft/RCF 362/RF 320. It's a pitchers park for sure. Don't get me wrong here... Victory Field is a great ballpark. The best minor league park I've been to so far. There's seriously not a bad seat in that stadium. I just don't think there's enough seating (unless they renovate it to add some more seating adding to the 2nd level down the 1B/3B lines to make it to 20,000+ ppl or make seating in the OF area where they add a lot of seats, but I like the lawn as it is great for families to come and watch the Pirates AAA team) and it might too far from Chicago. Plus I don't know how the clubhouses and everything else are within in the stadium that you can't see... Also if they went with this route, they might found out if Indianapolis is a suitable host for a MLB team or not in the future (due to expansion/contraction/team moving/etc...). If they do well with the attendance and everything, then I can see Indy being at the top of the list for the next city to have a MLB team. Those are Minute Maid Park dimensions. That is incredibly shallow down both lines. CF is the same as at Wrigley. This field must look like it has a gigantic tumor in the LF power alley

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Oh yes, Alex Gordon, definitely. Can you provide some examples of their similarities as players/hitters? Chris Davis career wOBA (minors and majors together): .325 Alex Gordon career wOBA (minors and majors together): .323 Gordon has twice as good a K/BB ratio, but they've been similarly productive thus far in the majors. I like Gordon more because of the peripherals, but I can see the comparison. I'd like more of a comparison to Jeff Francoeur, myself

Oh yes, Alex Gordon, definitely. Can you provide some examples of their similarities as players/hitters?

If Adam Dunn goes to the south side, and we acquire Chris Davis, I'm going to kill myself

No. We have Chris Archer in two years

So, you're advocating signing more mediocre players who make little money over stars who make big money. Mediocre players take up roster space, for one. We have a ton of young guys (most notably pitchers) who can fill in spots and match reasonably expected projections for guys like Westbrook, Milwood, etc as has been said earlier. Secondly, and most importantly, we aren't a small market team who needs to budget and roll the dice on guys who, while they will only make 1-2 million/year, may underperform our young guys. With our payroll, we should be a team of either elite (and necessarily, highly-paid) talent or young, productive guys with the chance to get better in the long or short-term. We should be targeting guys like Lee, A-Gon, etc and if we can't get them, we play cheap, replacement level talent and bide our time. The Brewers, not the Cubs, should be looking at guys like Kevin [expletive] Milwood et. al. Also, I have a real problem with you comparing Lee's hypothetical contract with those of Soriano, Zito and even Z. He's not going to get signed for more than probably four years, and he has as good chance as any pitcher to maintain $20M worth of production into his mid-late 30s.

I've read this post twice and my first suspicions were correct; literally everything you said here is wrong Actually, its not but thanks for taking the time to contribute absolutely nothing to a thread. Hang on

I'd be curious to see how/if that could work out for the Cubs. On the one hand you lose the tourist/visiting fan factor. On the other hand you gain a huge suburban market of people who don't want to trek downtown. On the other hand, as soon as you start getting out of the city you start finding more and more fans of neither the White Sox or the Cubs. I'd be more curious to see what it would do to the neighborhood. I imagine it would go to hell, but it could also become more edgy/less douchey like a Bucktown or Lincoln Square maybe. But it would probably go to hell

If he ends up playing the majority of games in LF for an AL team... I will laugh

I think I'm more fed up with capitalism than I am with politics. And when the two coincide, as they so often do... BARF

I don't see Auburn getting into legal trouble over this. They'll be in trouble if/when they lose Cam, but they appear to have kept their noses clean on this.

Or they should kill themselves, because he's about the bright spot on the big-league team for the near future

You can almost say they "Ryan Field'd" Wrigley. Northwestern will feel right at home. What, are 40,000 Iowa fans going to be there? Awesome

Nope. There is a chance Castro can do with the bat at SS what Upton does (minus HR power) while poorly fielding RF.

Oh man, that would be great if they sold low on Upton. I'd start the talks with BJax and 2 second tier prospects and cap it at Jackson and Archer/McNutt

7pm on ABC And from what I've heard, Herbie & Mushmouth will be calling our game. I think it's being pre-empted in Chicago for some old episodes of It's Like...You Know hahahaha