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  1. champaignchris
    I don’t understand what the Reds have done with Cozart at all. He’s a plus fielder at shortstop with a career average bat who was having a break out season offensively. I heard no noise around him regarding trades. He was gimpy at the non-waiver deadline, but he’s absolutely the type that could have been moved during the waiver period. Now they don’t offer a QO for him and won’t even get a draft pick? Maybe there’s something i’m Not understanding here, but this seems like a master stroke in turning a decent asset into nothing.
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    And looking at that list... I have a really hard time seeing the Cubs paying Darvish for 6 years at $160 and then trading an MLB player for another starter, if instead they can sign Cobb for 4 years at $48 AND get Chatwood for 3 years at $20 or Jaime Garcia for 2 years at $16 or Chacin for 2 years at $14 without giving up any MLB players.
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    Yeah. The Cubs should be all over four more years of Jake. Hell, 4 years and a couple team options with reasonable buy outs wouldn't be bad. They just need to make sure they're not paying $25 million to a 38 year old who can't pitch. That said, I don't think it will happen. Someone will offer Arrieta 6 years. He'll take it. He's earned it. God bless him. I wish him success when he's not pitching against the Cubs.
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    Sure. When a player gets way overpaid and then keeps doing what he’s always done or has a fairly reasonable rate of decline due to age, getting pissed at the player doesn’t make much sense. Alfonso Soriano, for example. In Heyward’s case, there’s a pretty extreme regression coinciding exactly with signing the big contract and no age or injury related reasons to explain it. I think getting pissed at Heyward isn’t an extreme reaction. He’s been spared grief due to the team playing well and the fact that he’s a good guy that’s owned up to his (lack of) performance. That won’t last.
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    I’m not enthralled with Shark. At this point we know what to expect with him. 200 innings, league average ERA/FIP, 2 WAR. He’s a younger, less charming old John Lackey without the playoff clutch thing. (To the extent such a thing exists.) Trading Almora or Happ for him at 3 years/$59 million versus signing Lynn or Cobb at 4 years/$80 million is a no brainer to go the free agent route. Unless Lynn and Cobb are going to fetch way more than I think they will, trading for Shark only makes sense if Heyward is included in the deal. Add Almora/Happ and get a bullpen arm. Add whatever money and prospects to whichever side to balance out. If we’re going after a failed Giants closer, I’d rather Dyson over Melancon, contracts, age and etc. taken into account. But I think I’d ask about Hunter Strickland first.
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    That takes SF out of the QB hunt cone draft-time. He’s a FA after the end of this year. I’m sure the plan is to extend or franchise. But if he sucks out loud for the last half of the year, they could cut bait at no cost and draft a qb.
  7. champaignchris
    As part of the package that brings Stanton to the Cubs?
  8. champaignchris
    [Michael Scott gif]"That's what she said!"[/Michael Scott gif]
  9. champaignchris
    Is Mike Minor a viable candidate for a swing type of pick up? Become the Mike Montgomery if Montgomery starts full time.
  10. champaignchris
    No I think they’re sharpening their knives for Terry Francona. He’s a great coach, but pitching Bauer on short rest may have been a firable offense.
  11. champaignchris
    Sometimes it makes sense to go on short rest. Like last year when the Dodgers pitched Kershaw on short rest because all of their other pitchers were dead. But Cleveland? With their starting pitching depth? They could have used Tomlin, Clevenger or Salazar. All of whom are going to pitch this game anyway. This made no sense.
  12. champaignchris
    As nerve-racking as this must be to the D-Backs and Rocks fans, I can’t imagine any neutral observer complaining about the format while watching tonight’s game. Just some fantastic baseball going on tonight.
  13. champaignchris
    Someone might be able to convince me that the divisional series should be 7 games instead of 5. Otherwise, I think the playoff format as it exists now is perfect.
  14. champaignchris
    Cardinal’s GM kept his job after one of his employees hacked into a competing team’s scouting database. What could be so much worse than that, that the Brave’s GM resigned?
  15. champaignchris
    Donaldson has 5 WAR in only 111 games. yeah he's really good. But they will likely have to pay a hefty sum for 1 year and then feel obligated to sign him to a long term deal into his late 30's I would far rather they do one year of Donaldson than multiple years of Moustakas or Machado.
  16. champaignchris
    Hosmer and Moustakas are only 27 and 28 years old. That sucks for Royals fans.
  17. champaignchris
    The Cardinals should sign/trade for as many 32+ year old sluggers as they can find. Over-the-hill power bats are clearly the new market inefficiency.
  18. champaignchris
    Cubs MLB rank since the ASB (pre ASB rank in parenthesis) #1 in runs (20) #3 in hits (28) #3 in total bases (23) #1 in batting average (28) #1 in on base percentage (18) #1 in slugging (19) #2 in walks (3)
  19. champaignchris
    '04 was similar. The Astros went 36-10 to pass the Cubs who went a perfectly respectable 26-20 over the same period. Of course, the Giants also passed the Cubs going 28-16 over the same period. But what the Astros did, making up 10 games in the standings over a 46 game stretch when the team they were chasing was posting a .565 winning percentage... That sucked.
  20. champaignchris
    I don’t feel like the Cubs are going to make any trades in the offseason that will substantially change the make up of their core position players. Maybe heading into 2019 and that monster free agent class, but I feel this year they’ll keep the position core intact and use free agency to fill in the holes in the pitching staff. I feel like they’ll buy a starter on the Lance Lynn/Alex Cobb/Tyler Chatwood level. Not sexy but with the potential to be effective for a number of years. I think they’ll bring Wade Davis back. They aren’t riding him the way they did Chapman. Makes me think they want to consider bringing him back. And I think they’ll get a prominent lefty reliever like Abad or McGee so that they can feel Confident in moving Monty into the rotation. Bring in a cheap Jon Jay replacement (Austin Jackson? Or maybe just bring Jay back? Or maybe Martin is already their Jay replacement?) and sign a Rene Rivera-ish backup catcher on a minor league contract for insurance and call it an off season.
  21. champaignchris
    It amazes me the number of people who want to focus on a 35-ish game stretch in April and May while ignoring the entire rest of his career when evaluating Schwarber's bat.
  22. champaignchris
    There aren't any Sox fans, just Chicagoans (suburbanites, really) That hate the Cubs. Heh. Your namesake, Larry Biiitttner was on those late 70s teams. Had a negative WAR over a 13 year career because he hit .270, Billy Beane was in high school, and no one had ever heard of Bill James yet.
  23. champaignchris
    I dimly remember my dad yelling at those Bruce Sutter, Rick Reuschel, Dave Kingman teams from the late 70s. I think "June swoon" may have been my first words. I grew up in central Illinois. The White Sox weren't on tv or the radio where I grew up. They may as well have been playing on the moon. I saw the scores of their games in he morning paper the same way I saw the Mets or Padres scores. That didn't change until the early 90s. I think I met my first Sox fans in college. I couldn't understand why they was so mad at me for being a Cubs fan.
  24. champaignchris
    Man, if it's 1969 all over again, forget this baseball thing and let's go catch Led Zeppelin at the arena. I hear James Gang is opening for them.
  25. champaignchris
    Weren't they trying to adjust his delivery to alleviate the back problems that had plagued him his whole career? Is that what he's complaining about?
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