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  1. Splendid Splinter
    Either of those are rather, um, optimistic. Wow. That’s a 4-5+ win player and top ~5 CF in MLB. If the defense and base running graded out positively that’s borderline Acuna value from last year. Which yeah I’ll take the under. Yeah... that's basically Ohtani the past 2 years with less SLG although he did this in ~100 games each season.
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    Pretty much how I feel as far as 2B options go. Zo will sign with the Angels if he does. I'm assuming that both Ben and Julianna still live in Chicago. Did they finalized on the divorce or still working on being together? I haven't seen/heard any updates on that front. Would he really move across country and be away from his kids (if he is divorced) after what he went through this season? For what most likely be a 1 yr deal?
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    Other than Holt I’d take him back over any of these other names out there. Pretty much how I feel as far as 2B options go.
  4. Splendid Splinter
    I wonder if Zobrist is going to come back on a 1 yr deal.
  5. Splendid Splinter
    There have been some bad/horrible playcalling from Nagy in his HC career, but that set of downs on the 5 yd line was the worst and it's not even close imo.
  6. Splendid Splinter
    The only trade package that I can think of that will be close to what you want where it's not much of a drop off in 2020 is probably something like Ender Inciarte, Ian Anderson, and a prospect (most likely a SP) in the 8-15 range of their prospects list from the Braves. You upgrade at CF who's signed for 2 more years on a team friendly deal plus an club option at 9 mil in 2022 and downgrade at 3B. You can let Anderson take the 5th SP spot or you got another SP with upside in AAA ready to take that spot anytime in the season. Then you get a 3rd piece that could end up doing something down the road. I think Braves would be willing to do this deal as they still have the SP prospects left over and Pache/Waters can replace Inciarte at some point. Just not sure if Theo would take this type of package. Still have to figure out what you want to do at 3B for 2020 and down the road, but you could squint at this package and be like, "ok, this helps us now to compete and down the road with the rest of the core". Not saying I would do this deal, just was trying to come up with a package where you're not hurting yourself next season if you do trade Bryant. I'm sure there are other packages where you could do this, but I'm just not sure how realistic it is like this one.
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    Yeah. This thread would be better having options like 3-4 fWAR, 4-5, 5-6, etc. All this is thread asking is if KB will be healthy or not to get to ~650+ PAs. With all of that said, you think that if he's healthy, he gets above. Do you think he gets above? No I don't personally, but I'm like Sofa here in that he'll be in the 4-5 range. I think he'll miss enough games and assuming his defense doesn't bounce back as well to get over 5 fWAR.
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    Well, do you think he ends up with more than 5 fWAR or less than 5 fWAR? That was the whole question. Right around there so as not to make a significant difference. Does it really matter if it's 4.9 vs 5.1 fWAR? No one inside MLB teams and a modern FO cares about that small a difference. They always predict within a range or have projections showing a range. Yeah. This thread would be better having options like 3-4 fWAR, 4-5, 5-6, etc. All this is thread asking is if KB will be healthy or not to get to ~650+ PAs.
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    Last one is Casey Mize. It's ize, not ire.
  10. Splendid Splinter
    Maddux was coming off 3 seasons of 5.1, 5.8, and 7 fWAR when he hit free agency at age 26. And, since he wasn't a high strikeout guy, I'll throw in that his bWAR in 92 was a Trout-ian 9.1. What really made letting him walk after 92 extra egregious, though, was the fact that he came back to the Cubs at the end, telling them he wanted to stay if they'd match his offer, and Himes was like, "Nah, we're good with Dan Plesac and Jose Guzman." Oh I agree it was insane what Himes did and should've kept Maddux. I know how good he really was with the advanced metrics as a Cubs, but those stats weren't available or didn't exist back then like they are now so you can really compare or evaluate players these days. I was more curious on how he viewed in those days since all you went by were the numbers/stats which doesn't tell the whole story as we all know. If people (scouts/reporters/players/etc) were saying like what jersey said, then yeah it looked as bad as it did. I was just curious if anybody threw out the whole "contract year", "he wasn't as good as what '92 suggested", etc like I was saying at the end of my post.
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    I don't believe I've ever heard a "Maddux wasn't that good on the Cubs" take before. He was young and consistently good and getting better in the process. Everybody thought he'd have an amazing career. Nobody predicted he'd pitch for 16 more seasons, but he was already well on pace for greatness and worth every penny. I was only 7-8 at that time and didn't really get into the Cubs until a couple years later after he left so I had no idea on how he was viewed as a Cubs and was curious. Thanks.
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    Was Maddux really being treated as HOF talent when he was a FA? I was too young that I don't remember much about he was viewed at that time. Also would Maddux still have one of the greatest 6 year stretch ever as a pitcher (only behind Pedro imo) if he stayed with the Cubs? I mean he really did step it up in '92 and won a CY, but you can't assume that he would keep that going. He could've easily reverted back to what he was the previous 2 years before which is still good, don't get me wrong, but it's nowhere close as great.
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    He’s at $16.5 on the option years, is that really “grossly underpaid” from an AAV perspective for a 1B on the other side of 30? What kind of deal would you think Rizzo would get this offseason if Cubs declined the option and made him a FA? Mind you... Jose Abreu got 3 yr 50 mil this offseason which is basically what Rizzo options are $$/yr wise.
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    Yeah... Woof! That was pretty bad. I just need to follow a different school instead of Arkansas and Purdue when it comes to football. Not a good time to be a fan of either one atm.
  15. Splendid Splinter
    Lawyers are the one profession who procrastinate more than Baseball Executives It's insane. On a case like this, you think you would want this done ASAP so every team knows the ruling. They had YEARS since his rookie season to figured this out and now they're just getting to it? Just mindboggling to me is all.
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    I don't understand why this ruling is taking this long? Like what's making this being dragged out?
  17. Splendid Splinter
    Something like Newcomb, Pache, and Wright doesn’t make me feel all that warm and fuzzy, but it would be a good combination of underlying talent, unrealized upside, and MLB ready contributions. It almost certainly makes them worse in 2020, and when you combine it with the fact that Braves fans would probably howl in anger at that package, makes me feel it’s in the ballpark. If we’re truly punting on 2020, you need to consolidate. Reunite him with Maddon and get Jo Adell. I had similar thoughts as well. I was thinking Newcomb, Waters, Wright, and a lottery type guy (Greg Cullen maybe?). You could talk me into Kyle Muller or Patrick Weigel instead of Newcomb to get more of younger/prospects type package. Saw this on a Braves fan website who threw out this package for Bryant: Austin Riley, Kyle Wright, Kyle Muller, and maybe a low-level prospect. They would have to throw in the low level prospect in this package and it would be someone in the 11-20 range in their system. I'm not a fan of Riley, but can see why this guy would throw him in there.
  18. Splendid Splinter
    Lets say the Braves are legit interested in trading for Bryant. What kind of package would it take at a minimum in order to be "ok" with trading Bryant? Not asking what the ideal perfect world trade package, but something that you're comfortable with.
  19. Splendid Splinter
    The first half of the Saints/49ers game is nuts. 55 pts and like 550+ yards combined offensive yds.
  20. Splendid Splinter
    Still see that Nagy wants to punch Cohen up the gut 3-4 times a game.
  21. Splendid Splinter
    Wow... that's one hell of a throw there.
  22. Splendid Splinter
    Yeah the backup LBs have been stepping up. I also like what I see from Toliver tonight stepping in for Prince.
  23. Splendid Splinter
    I'm getting a Steve Young vibe from Mitch tonight. Let's hope he can turn into him.
  24. Splendid Splinter
    Meanwhile Dak looks like bad Trubisky right now.
  25. Splendid Splinter
    This is what I was envisioning for Nagy's offense. Super up tempo and a lot of movement/personnel. Also helps that Mitch is running again.
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