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  1. Bertz
    Also, I don't know what the tiebreaker situation is, but with the Cowboys losing too I think we're reasonably locked into the #3 seed.
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    Not that it matters, but why did the clock stop on an offensive penalty? Also. Leonard Floyd is really good. It's very clear at this point that his early season struggles were because of the club on his hand.
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    Not a doctor, but I feel like non contact injuries are generally either really bad or fairly minor. Given that he walked to the locker room on his own, hopefully the latter. There's three weeks before we have another meaningful game afterall.
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    Oh no that might be really bad
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    I love Cohen, but my goodness does he make a lot of bad decisions. He's bizarro Javy
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    Conversely, this means Bakhtiari is active, which I believe was in question earlier in the week.
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    I think my no Harper offseason at this point would be: - Sign Tulo, catapult Russell out of town - Chatwood for Russell Martin - Sign Descalso for what Kinsler just got (2/8) - Grab Puig from the Dodgers - Use Almora and second tier prospects to bring in a high leverage reliever (lets say Kirby Yates) and dump Kintzler + Duensing. This is probably two separate deals That gives us: Zobrist KB Baez Rizzo Puig Schwarber Conteras Heyward BN: Descalso, Happ, Martin, Tulo, and sometimes Bote SP: Yu, Cole, Kyle, Lester, Q RP: Morrow, Yates, Strop, Carl, Cishek, Montgomery, and the Iowa Shuttle (which should actually be kinda fun this year) Payroll should be in the $235-240 range, so there's room to sign another reliever in February (or hold onto Duensing) and still have money for the trade deadline. And everyone besides Descalso and Yates is gone after this year, so next offseason there's a decent amount of financial flexibility next offseason. Roughly $50 or $60 million, depending on if we want to hold on to Morrow.
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    Tulo costs the league minimum and lets us fire Russell into the sun. He would be a phenomenal signing. Other than being able to get rid of Russell there’s nothing good about this move. Tulo is washed up, but I guess he’s a name who use to be good so will get fans excited when we don’t spend on Bryce or anyone else good. Other than being able to get rid of cancer, there is nothing good about chemotherapy. Tulo still projects as an above average player. Bring him to camp, hope that a Zobrist type workload keeps him vaguely healthy, and if it fails go grab a more typical backup SS like Adeiny Hechavarria in June. There's literally no downside here.
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    Tulo costs the league minimum and lets us fire Russell into the sun. He would be a phenomenal signing.
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    If they think he's still a viable backup SS, I quite like this. If they don't, I'm not sure he's much better than La Stella, certainly not enough to justify the increase in cost given that we're allegedly out of money. Considering he hasn't played SS regularly since 2016, I doubt they view him as more than an emergency option there.
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    Dombrowski mentioned adding an offseason deadline, and it's such a good idea I can't believe I've never heard it brought up before. It could probably only be a trade deadline, since there's almost no way you could do a FA deadline that didn't horsefeathers the players, but it would still help immensely.
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    Ummm
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    Jon Daniels is drunk
  15. Bertz
    I would not be too keen on moving Alzolay, because I think he can be a big part of the 2019-2020 Cubs, but I'm totally down for them using Amaya for this. He's a fun prospect but he's quite far away and also I tend to think a lot of TINSTAAP principles apply to catchers as well as pitchers.
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    Dodgers are apparently shopping Puig hard. If Bryce is not happening I want him real bad.
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    Not a ton beyond the benefits of winning. Most revenue from merch and other stuff like that goes into one big league-wide pot. Because the Cubs are actively negotiating a tv deal and Bryce is the only baseball player with a decent Q Score this situation might be an exception though.
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    The next rumor he gets right will be his first. Is everyone excited for Greg Maddux pitching coach though? I'm really enjoying how much all this attention he's getting is getting under your skin
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    [tweet] [/tweet] This is going to be a really good winter to build out a bullpen on the cheap
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    This is from Sharma's athletic article this morning, and reads like a mad libs of ways to make me hate this offseason
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    Wrong thread
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    The Vikings are not going into Seattle and winning a game. Win one more game and it's over, and it would be soooooooo sweet if it came next week against the Packers.
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    My mind went to Jed Lowrie or Brantley Gross, though admittedly a little less than my names. In my mind, if they can't get a star the plan should be to wait until February and grab the best guy left who will settle for a one year deal, probably someone like Kinsler or Dozier. I don't want to get locked into a 3-4 year deal for just a dude, some guy who we're all going to wish we can get off the books so we can go after Arenado or whoever next winter. Go big and bold or go austere and efficient, no half measures. The exception is someone who can backup shortstop. That lets us move on from Russell, so it's different.
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    I don't like the sounds of "professional hitter." Especially when coming from a guy like Ralph, that evokes some half measure horsefeathers like Lemahieu or McCutchen. Hard pass.
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