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hosmer is my nightmare scenario. horsefeathers that guy. i'd deal with it if it meant getting one of SD's top guys, but imagining hosmer on the cubs is gross I'd assume a haul from SD in that scenario, but right now I'm so pessimistic I just assume Horner is bad at baseball, is there more to him then I'm aware of? Is he wife beater? Is his contract an albatross? just a total meathead. lots of small stuff over the years. hates analytics, is/was one of SD's last guys to get vaccinated, etc.
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i always see that dom guy sympathizing with the ricketts and telling everyone to support the organization even though this is happening
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hosmer is my nightmare scenario. horsefeathers that guy. i'd deal with it if it meant getting one of SD's top guys, but imagining hosmer on the cubs is gross
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Counterpoint: Jason Hammel came back after we traded him to Oakland. Hammel hadn't publicly turned down a perceived lowball extension. I'd be pretty stunned if Rizzo came back. That said, someone will have to play first base for this group next year, so who knows. hosmer
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damn
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thanks for the comp derwood
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it started with a trade for a vizcaino, and it ends with a trade for a vizcaino
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While the Cubs are trading away their generational stars…. generational is a stretch imo, especially for rizzo
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rizzo is a rental and kind of stinks
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am i the only one who doesn't really feel sentimental about this? it's all just meh to me. maybe it's because this has been coming for so long, or maybe because of the vaccine stuff. i don't know. i'm just not really feeling sad at the moment, and i was pretty sad the day len left.
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so baez will be the token extension
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So why didn’t they bat then? had to get kyle ryan that 2nd inning down 3 runs
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makes me think they're 100% gone and they were never getting in
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bummer they ross didn't get kb or rizzo in there to pinch hit for ryan. would have been a nice sendoff
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eloy already got hurt again
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and the hawks havent been trying to unload seabrook for years? you keep talking about how terrible the move is but you havent explained how Seabrook's ltir benefits outweigh getting an actual player and a pick. everything I've read suggests this is a great trade for the lightning and a fine one for the blackhawks.
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now this is a great signing. theres our new hjalmarsson.
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but tyler johnson isn't nothing. i think he could good. He’s old and was available for free. but they wouldn't have gotten the cap space if not for this particular trade anyways. did the ltir benefits outweigh that? it feels like we traded an abomination of cap hit for a meh cap hit that will actually provide value to the team, while getting a second.
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How long is Johnson's contract? 3 more years, same as Seabrook. So unless he preretires as well they’ve just given away usable net cap space to a little old guy. for a solid forward and a 2nd
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Cap room isn't nothing to be fair. The money could have been used on non-declining players. you aren't wrong, but i have to point out that one of those declining players just won the vezina 1 month ago. the direction of the organization is dumb, but the MAF trade is good.
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but they got actual cap space for it. isn't that better? the ltir stuff is very confusing to me. the problem would be that it had to be used on tyler johnson and a not-great contract. His cap hit is ~1.8m less than Seabrooks but his is actually real while Seabrooks doesn’t count. They made their cap situation worse. but tyler johnson isn't nothing. i think he could good.
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