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  1. 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.
  2. champaignchris
    Boras client that didn’t take it to FA. Wonder if that’s Boras switching up strategies.
  3. champaignchris
    You get 500 bonus points for the ‘Mats reference. :good:
  4. 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?
  5. 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.
  6. champaignchris
    So that leaves Cobb and Holland as the last prominent free agents left.
  7. champaignchris
    Right. That article referred to left field as his “natural position” and I almost shot Diet Coke out my nose laughing.
  8. champaignchris
    The Reds starting pitching the last couple of years has been like the Mets, but with a lot less talent and Schadenfreude.
  9. 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.
  10. champaignchris
    Hendricks and Christian Villanueva came in the Dempster trade. Edwards, Olt, Grimm and Neil Ramirez came in the Garza trade.
  11. 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.)
  12. 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.
  13. champaignchris
    He had a few of those 5 inning, 100 pitch Rich Harden-esque starts that were absolutely torture to watch.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. champaignchris
    So, the Cubs’ shenanigans are cheeky and fun, while other teams’ shenanigans are cruel and tragic. Which makes them not really shenanigans at all. Evil shenanigans.
  17. champaignchris
    Or the Yankees. Makes the Mets look like they really overpaid for Frazier.
  18. champaignchris
    I like living in a world where a Cubs season with 90 wins, a division title, and a League Championship Series appearance is considered a disappointment.
  19. champaignchris
    So you don’t think last year’s .368 babip is sustainable?
  20. champaignchris
    Diamondbacks and Brewers would work for Walker, too.
  21. champaignchris
    DeJong will make more money this year than Corey Seager, Francisco Lindor, Carlos Correa and Trea Turner combined. So, it was clearly a move they had to make. Maybe I give the Cards’ front office too much credit.
  22. champaignchris
    Addison Russell is 4 or 5 months younger. DeJong was a 4th round pick, never ranked as a top 100 prospect, and had a .780-ish OPS in his only full year of minor league play. Only 12 months ago, Diaz was as the Cardinals’ SS of the future and DeJong wasn’t on anyone’s radar. I’m fully prepared to be proven wrong about this, but I strongly suspect that DeJong doesn’t amount to much.
  23. champaignchris
    The Cardinals have so many regression candidates... basically, their entire lineup either significantly outperformed their career numbers last year or are getting old. Pham, Wong, Gyorko, Ozuna, and DeJong aren't all going to repeat what they did last year. Probably not close. This may be the year that Fowler (32), Carpenter (32), and Molina (36) start showing their age. They might be a very good offense. They also might completely fall off the table. They're low floor/high ceiling both on the mound and at the plate.
  24. champaignchris
    It’s amazing how this off-season continues to drag on with unsigned players. Using the powers granted to me by me, I’ve decided to apportion the remaining free agents in the way that makes the most sense so we can get on with the baseball season. Luccroy to Nats. Walker to D-Backs. Moustakas to Yankees. Arrieta to Twins. Cobb to Brewers. Lynn to Mariners. Holland to Angels. Was that so hard?
  25. champaignchris
    Since the Rays seem intent on trading anyone who got an extra base hit for them last year, any chance the Cubs can kick the tires on Ramos or Kiermeier? Kiermeier would probably be pretty pricey, but Ramos would be an upgrade at backup catcher and might not cost much more than money to get.
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