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pretty cheap, i guess we can't do 6 year deals either
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but wembanyama won't be available then
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can the cubs realistically get to even 81 projected wins without swanson?
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they're like the blackhawks but somehow 2 years behind
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but why? even if Lonzo miraculously comes back, they are a 45-50 win team with no hopes of a championship, and demar is going to start falling off a cliff here pretty soon. Well mainly based off my belief this FO isnt a tanking type. So treading for a year is better than trying to fix it (potentially having to use up more assets) If they wanted to blow it up, it's mainly for the tank. I doubt they can get a lot of high quality picks back. It would just be setting up for losses. i don't think they are either. i think reinsdorf told them to build a quick playoff-ish team and that it doesn't matter if they're contenders. they'll probably do whatever they can to re-tool and try to get back to 45 wins
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really it doesn't matter., because every path they can take right now sucks
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but why? even if Lonzo miraculously comes back, they are a 45-50 win team with no hopes of a championship, and demar is going to start falling off a cliff here pretty soon.
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i don't think anyone wants busted ass zach lavine, but it would be nice to unload him
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If Lonzo can't come back this year, trade dero trade him now regardless. we're delaying the inevitable here
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Yes, but did something new happen on this front? he went from being okay last year to bad this year. it was bad regardless, but now we don't even get a decent player out of it
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couldn't offer 3/36, need that money for longoria
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seth jones is one of the worst trades/signings in chicago sports history
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Tbf since you’re into narrative: neither one of these guys, or any good player, is interested in an actively losing org these days. So a non-Swanson Plan better be more than Noah Syndergaard and worse, otherwise yeah totally will keep (at min Ohtani) them out Devers has had seasons of .7, 1, and .7 fWAR and is being painted as some uber mensch in comparison…What be the rules? those were his age 20-21 seasons plus 2020. the last 3 non-pandemic seasons he was at 6.7, 4.2, and 4.9
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let's just get javy back
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Correa to the Giants 13/350 (Deal Nixed Due to Medicals)
17 Seconds replied to mias_tisg's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
i basically just checked the box score to see what seiya and hoerner did -
- Swanson’s career BB% is league average or better - K rate a little abv league (career, 24% v lg 23%) - Others are covering the BABIP issue Descriptors like ordinary and special are boring and empty noise! The Cubs aren’t even good and we out here talkin’ about being special?! Get good and all that extra stuff opens up (unless/until we run out another coredation for aging and wanting some more money) He was almost 1.5% below league average in BB% this past year and around league average most of his career. His Ks are above and likely continue to trend up with age. He is the definition of boring and not special and not a guy I’d tie up 10-15% of my yearly payroll in because he moves no needles in the position we’re in and when we are good again he’s a sunk cost/liability/declining asset at that point. might as well not even try right i obviously get the pessimism, but if we are even going to pretend to go after guys like ohtani and devers, we need to be improving the team right now
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The farm system is most definitely better than average, whatever average even is. I’m the low guy on the mainstream coverage too, but it’s as deep and talented as anyone’s To use Fangraphs' rankings for ease of use, the Cubs are 5th in overall value, 5th in number of 50 FV or greater prospects, and 9th in average value of ranked prospects. nuh uh
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it's funny that we did that huge sell off and our farm system is still average. jed has done nothing for this organization
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Correa to the Giants 13/350 (Deal Nixed Due to Medicals)
17 Seconds replied to mias_tisg's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
guys sometimes things just don't fall your way. it takes 2 to tango. we're confident we have enough. -
it seems much lower than 50/50 that the cubs will even get swanson taillon was our splurge Honestly, the "best" move they can make at this point is just sitting out. next season's free agent position players suck, they need to start adding them immediately
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it seems much lower than 50/50 that the cubs will even get swanson taillon was our splurge
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Correa to the Giants 13/350 (Deal Nixed Due to Medicals)
17 Seconds replied to mias_tisg's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
man what a disaster