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Based on what?
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You still thought they might sign Hoskins?
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What's the most excruciatingly boring Cubs offseason?
We Got The Whole 9 replied to Stratos's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
There was one year where we signed Jacque Jones and that was about it -
Does anyone care about the Bulls season enough to discuss?
We Got The Whole 9 replied to UMFan83's topic in Other Sports
Rough loss. Tale of 2 halves, couldn't close the deal. -
FTR, I do not believe players are greedy. I think some of them are slightly delusional.
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So Feinsand says that only one of the colluding owners has authorized an offer to Snell. 6/150 and he turned it down. Thinks he's earned a 200M contract reportedly. Sounds very familiar.
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I'm sure i'm not alone here, but my 3 sports idols growing up were Jordan, Payton, and Ryno. Payton's death leveled me. This is a really tough one to beat but some have! Really hard news to swallow 😥 Feeling my own mortality way too much lately...
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I hope they didn't need to see that to see that.
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Good players are not sitting because the owners are crying poor. They are sitting because their demands are not in line with reality. Blame analytics if anything.
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There's absolutely no way a team is going to give him an 8 year deal. Jed will go with Tauchman and PCA unless he dramatically drops his price.
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Why? The players and (some) agents need to wise up. Front offices are just using more pertinent data than ever before and they understand a player's potential worth better than the players do. They are projecting future production while the players and agents are going by the resume. Front Offices are also more apt to look at alternative trade options and internal options vs what's on the market, and unless it's a major upgrade, they're not gonna break the bank and their principles to chase a win. It's up to the players and (some) agents to adapt. This is the new norm.
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Does/do Waldron and co. know Eberflus?
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LHB who can mash LHP are a rare commodity these days. This would be huge if his game translates like that.
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But Orange County tho
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If you pared off a 1st and a 2nd I would still do that deal easy
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You came in hot. Receipts are kept.
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Sign who? If you want to argue that they should have traded for Chapman before the Yankees did, I won't disagree. But failing that, who would you have signed that you think would have closed games in the playoffs for them?
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Ah, so what about 2017 and 2018? Soler gave the Royals 30 games in 2017 and was so bad he almost accrued -1 war in that short time. In 2018 he gave them 60 games and barely provided a half of a win in value. When they signed Heyward, RF was taken, and it was a decision between Soler and Schwarber for who would get LF. They chose Soler. He was valuable enough to get one year of a top-end closer. That was a good use of resources IMO. You can't just cherry-pick the one good season he had. You would have had to have lived with the 2 seasons of horsefeathers before it.
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Chapman was so good he earned an 85M contract. Jorge Soler had nowhere to play on the Cubs because of the colossal blunder of the Jason Heyward contract.
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Who? Strop and Rondon pitched 4 combined innings in the WS.
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I would really not be opposed to Urshela for like 2-3M
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Minor League Musings
We Got The Whole 9 replied to Little Slide Rooter's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
I don't see it for Mervis, which is interesting. -
It sucks that we didn't get Suter. I think it would have been awesome to have them both, have some game where Kyle pitches 5 and Suter cleans up the rest and at the end of the shutout the average fb would be like 87 and that would be higher than the average EV against them. Great article! From my own personal observation, for a couple years there it had seemed as if Kyle was trying to enforce "high heat" and got his ass handed to him quite a bit.
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To be fair, I don't believe he said the Cubs are in the 4th or 5th inning; just that the offseason is. And he's right. Now, I think they will end up with Bellinger and another RP, but it would not surprise me if they don't make a move for a 3B. As much as you want ol boy from MIN, he's been a sub-2 win player for 2 straight truncated years and you have to ask, how much more value would he provide over what we would put out there from our own roster? We all want awesome offense at every position but value is value and Hoyer understands that. The difference might be negligible or just not enough to prompt a move. If they don't get Chapman, I bet they stand still for 2024. Possibly they revisit the situation at the TDL for a short term answer, but I don't think they have nearly the impetus to improve that position as you hope that they would. The organization might also be really high on Murray for all we know. He has had a steady linear progression and has a teriffic approach with visibly burgeoning power. He should probably be getting more industry respect TBH.
