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  1. champaignchris
    Compromise and just play double headers. Every day. 365 days a year. Perpetual baseball.
  2. champaignchris
    Rusty Staub passed away. He was one of my favorite non-Cubs when I was a kid. Bright red hair. Smooth lefty swing. Played for the Tigers some, which was my grandpa’s team. The guy lived a pretty amazing life off the field too, summed up well in this nice obit from ESPN: http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/22953337/long-new-york-mets-hitter-rusty-staub-dies-73
  3. champaignchris
    Looking at the Nats’ situation, they’re really in a tough spot in 2019. Strasburg, Scherzer and Zimmerman will be combining to make about $96M. All told, in terms of guaranteed contracts and arbitration estimates, with no options picked up, the Nats will be on the hook for about $145M for 12 players. It’s tough to see how they can afford to bring Harper back and put any sort of team around him without going way, way, way over the LT. If they don’t make the WS this year, it’s tough to argue why they should spend so much money to try again with basically the same cast of characters (minus Gio Gonzalez, Murphy, and pretty much their entire bullpen).
  4. champaignchris
    I’ve read “late May” as target date for his return. I was being bold.
  5. champaignchris
    Kyle Hendricks goes “next level” and becomes generally recognized as the ace of the Cubs staff and one of the elite pitchers in the game. Heyward is out of the regular starting lineup by July. Some Cubs A-ball prospect has a bust out year and “suddenly” the Cubs have a farm system again. Immediately members of the media demand the Cubs trade said prospect for whatever relief pitcher has a hot trade market at the time. The members of the media conveniently forget they demanded the same of Kyle Schwarber as he hits 45 HRs and posts a 4.5 WAR season. Zach Britton is pitching for the Orioles by June and for the Cubs by the non-waiver deadline. Victor Caratini is involved in the trade.
  6. champaignchris
    Ian Happ hits 54 HR.
  7. champaignchris
    Cubs handed out guaranteed contracts totaling $216.45M. The Phillies paid out the second most at $169.25M. The Pirates get all that competitive balance money and didn’t spend a dime in free agency.
  8. champaignchris
    Odd observation. Every team could spend more in theory. It’s not like there’s a salary cap. But weren’t the Cubs by far the biggest spenders in free agency this year?
  9. champaignchris
    Why the hell would the Brewers want Ubaldo Jimenez pitching for them? He's not an upgrade over the crap they are already throwing out there. Can’t tell if you’re joking about not getting the joke or don’t actually get the joke. It’s sarcasm inception! I’m trapped! How many levels away from reality am I?!?!?
  10. champaignchris
    This market has played out perfectly for the Brewers. Ubaldo Jimenez is going to have no choice but to take pennies on the dollar to pitch for the Brewers.
  11. champaignchris
    He has a plus fastball and a plus curve and seemed to have very little idea how to use those pitches to get people out.
  12. champaignchris
    Boras client that didn’t take it to FA. Wonder if that’s Boras switching up strategies.
  13. champaignchris
    You get 500 bonus points for the ‘Mats reference. :good:
  14. champaignchris
    How far into Spring Training do we have to be before we can declare Heyward even more broken than usual and that extreme measures must be taken?
  15. champaignchris
    By bWAR, at least, it’s closer to mid-60s for Sandberg and high-50s for Sosa. When taking Steop into account and not giving Baltimore any credit for Feldman after he departed for free agency, that trade is a lot closer to the Rizzo and Aramis trades in net value than I would have thought. All in the 20s at this point. The Rizzo trade, obviously will blow by that over the next four years.
  16. champaignchris
    So that leaves Cobb and Holland as the last prominent free agents left.
  17. champaignchris
    Right. That article referred to left field as his “natural position” and I almost shot Diet Coke out my nose laughing.
  18. champaignchris
    The Reds starting pitching the last couple of years has been like the Mets, but with a lot less talent and Schadenfreude.
  19. champaignchris
    In 2014 - the third year of Theo - a lot of fans were starting to get antsy about the rebuild. Not me. That was when I started thinking this horsefeathers might actually work. Arrieta was a huge part of that. When he got off the DL about 40 games into the season, the team started playing really well until the Shark/Hammel trade. They bottomed out for a few weeks until Hendricks started pitching really well and Javy came up. Had another really good stretch of baseball until Rizzo and Castro both got hurt. That 2014 team was actually pretty good during the two chunks of the season when they had an actual MLB team on the field.
  20. champaignchris
    Hendricks and Christian Villanueva came in the Dempster trade. Edwards, Olt, Grimm and Neil Ramirez came in the Garza trade.
  21. champaignchris
    So if Arrieta is as good as he thinks he is, he'll get real paid. Good for him. I'm rooting for him. (Except when he plays the Cubs.)
  22. champaignchris
    I agree. Their offseason makes it seem like they want to look like they're competing more than actually compete. Some of the other "middle tier" teams had far better off seasons. The Blue Jays, for example.
  23. champaignchris
    He had a few of those 5 inning, 100 pitch Rich Harden-esque starts that were absolutely torture to watch.
  24. champaignchris
    If he has to go to an NL team, the Phillies are fine in that it won’t affect the Cubs WS chances and I can still root for Jake when he doesn’t play the Cubs.
  25. champaignchris
    The Nationals have both Scherzer and Strasbourg escalate to make $40M next year. They already pretty much have to let Murphy, Gio Gonzalez, Doolittle and Madson walk in order to sign Harper and stay anywhere close to the luxury tax. I don’t think they can sign Arrieta to a multi-year contract for $15M+ a year and have any hope of signing Harper without vaulting way over the cap.
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