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Hasn't happened yet.
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Wild Pitch! Wild Pitch! Wild Pitch!
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I don't understand what just happened.
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RIP 2B Davey Lopes. Best remembered as a Dodger but had 2 pretty nice seasons as a back up for the Cubs in the mid 80's.
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Cassie had a day today.
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Conforto looks like me rounding the bases.
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That was a really good jump by Dansby.
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Any professional sport long term contract is life changing money, many of the short term ones as well. $130 million is generational wealth. Again the point isn't "more", it's the suggestion that there was $40+ million more. I agree that Hoerner may have said he wanted to stay in Chicago and maybe Hoerner even threw out a number. An agent is still going to negotiate for as high a number as he can get - that's what his pay is based on and that's his job and how he performs builds his reputation and his ability to sign more clients. If the agent left $40 million on the table (25% of the contract) then he's a bad agent. He doesn't need to actually test free agency. Hoerner's not going to complain and send the money back to the Rickett's if the agent negotiates a better number. Would he have gotten more - maybe, but I don't think the more equates anywhere close to $40million more.
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Seems like a good spot for a Bregman Dong.
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Valuing one thing over another and "poo-pooing" aren't really the same thing though.
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I don't think the Cubs signed Hoerner expecting his production to drop by equivalent of 1 WAR for next year or for his production to decline to the equivalent of 2 WAR in 2 years. If they did they don't make this deal. I'd certainly expect him to be better than that and I think the Cubs do as well. There were certainly posts suggesting his contract would be in $30 million range - he did not take a 25% home town discount, he just didn't. The Union would be raging. In any case I think Hoerner is very good player, I think its a fair contract and I'm not upset at all that he is back. I might not have done it but it is in no way egregious.
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I think a fair amount of people are aware of that. Is everybody? No. Last year was his 4th full year - it's not like he's been in the league for 10 years. He does most things well - somethings very well. He could take a few more walks as well - but he's a very good player. After last year - now moving into his 5th full year I think his reputation is much more established.
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Hey, maybe it was. I just don't think so. I just don't think he and Bregman are in same the same level pay wise. In fairness Bregman got a sizable amount more than I thought he would so what do I know.
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It means the agent is bad. Nico may very well want to stay and may have said the Cubs are the only team he is willing to play for and has communicated that to his agent - who presumably would NOT communicate that to the Cubs. However if a contract of $42 million more is that much of a sure thing then he has to get closer. That's his job. There was no pressure to sign now. I just don't think a $30 million was out there.
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Then he'd have to have a pretty bad agent. I don't think an agent leaves 42 million dollars sitting on the table.
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Seems reasonable. Not to split hairs - although it's not even really doing that - but defense, running and contact skill isn't EVERYTHING.
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That's not the reason at all.
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I think the difference between PCA and Hoerner is that with PCA you are not simply buying out the arb years you are hoping to lock him in before an offensive maturation that takes him to elite status. They are expecting him to continue to improve. There is a gambling element to PCA's contract where as Hoerner is more of a known quantity and I think they would be ecstatic if he repeated his 2025 stats for the next few years. I don't think all Wins are the same. I think defensive wins are paid less. I'd be stunned if he gets 30M. It's not my money so I don't care, but I'd be stunned. As others have said I'm not sure I'd have done this. I like Hoerner - I think he is a very very good player and I'm not disappointed he's going to remain a Cub but I don't know if I would have pulled the trigger on this.
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That was a ...circuitous route.
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I think this is a good summation. The actual win totals are nonsense. You are dealing with a pretty small universe of potential outcomes. A stopped clock is right twice a day and you certainly can filter in some advanced stats but all these offseason projections really are is something to banter about while waiting for the real action to start.
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Don't know if I've ever seen Hoerner hit a HR to mostly CF before.
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Is that an intentional altering? LOL.
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Apropos of nothing, Jamieson Taillon was a 2nd overall pick. If you were gifted with the knowledge of how his career would turn out to this point (and not any of the other players) would you take him as the 2nd pick in a draft? Again not his draft specifically but would the certainty of his career vs the lottery picks the other players would be, be enough to justify his selection as a number 2 pick?
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Isn't it now also a plane rather than using the entire depth of the plate or were umpires calling that way anyway?
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Thank God for wild pitches.
