thawv
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I'd prefer that they sign the best player(s) available. Not the best value available. It just so happens that the best players cost more. It's not about wanting them to just spend money because they have it. It's about trying to win the WS and sign the best players out there.
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I think the Imai, Ranger and Valdez are needle movers. Gallen will just move Rea to the pen, but I don't consider him a big signing. Maybe he becomes a guy again? But I see him as a tier 2 guy right now. I'm in the minority as usual with this, but the fact that we would have to give something up in a trade to add pitching is pretty sad. We are a major market team. We should sign who we want and keep our young guys. But that's just me.
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Any guesses on a needle moving signing? There's only a handful of "top" FA's available. The top 3 pitchers, Bregman, Tucker, and MAYBE Cody. Then there's a drop off. But unless they are a "value signing," I don't see us landing any of the needle movers. I wish I was wrong. I just don't have the faith in Jed as you do to make an impact move.
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I agree. But I'm starting to think there won't be one needle moving signing all off season. In the end, I think it will just be roster filling moves. Nothing impactful.
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Yeah, I don't know what a lot of money is to fill a pen. I'd guess that the Cubs have spent more money on the pen this off season than just about every team in the league.
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I don't know how to find what you are referring to. I only see crowd source on the page. Is there another place to find predictions?
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I never said no interest. YOU are the person who turned me on to roster resource, as I've never heard of it before. I trusted it because you've sited it as a source.
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Has it been on the cheap? I have no idea what's considered cheap for a bullpen anymore. They spent 22.5 million all off season. All of it on the pen. Maybe that's a little? I honestly don't know.
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My guess is there's not much interest from teams, like Imai has said himself. I think what interest he does have is a much lesser contract that Boras is looking for. Roster Resource has him at 4/64, so maybe all this 150-175 talk is just crap leaked by Boras? I can see a Shota type of deal, but what do I know about what they're thinking.
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You and every Cub fan expects this.
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If we get "outbid" by the Sox, it's safe to say we were never going to sign him.
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Interesting. Thanks.
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Nicely said. Ok, in the event a team makes him an offer 5 days after he's posted, I would want a deadline much sooner that the posting expiration so that I can move on to another option instead of having to wait an additional 40 days. But after giving it some more thought, there's probably not a written contract offer until there's a verbal agreement in place. Kind of an, "ok, put it in writing and we'll sign it" type of deal.
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Keep reading the posts that followed.
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That actually makes more sense than just making a written offer without a verbal agreement in place. Unless they have a dollar range nailed down, and the team writes something up for them to sign. In that case, it may not be the amount they are willing to sign for, or they may be fine with that.
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In the beginning for sure. But there's always an official contract offer to sign the player after they've done their talking or negotiating. They may have a verbal agreement in place, and then they draw it up which will eliminate the "deadline date." And that may actually be how it usually works.
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I'm assuming that a baseball contract is like every other contract in the business world. I've written many contracts, and signed many contracts, and in no case was there ever not a time to accept the contract. What this tpye of time frame is, is something that I don't know. It could be 7 days. It could be 30 days. But not putting a deadline on accepting lets the player search for as long as he wants meanwhile the team making the offer is held hostage until they hear back from him. Are they just going to wait 5 months to hear an answer?
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Because no team makes any open-ended contract offer. They all have a timeline to accept the offer. Even with a posting deadline.
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I would assume any contract offer has a deadline to accept. They aren't going to make an offer with no deadline to sign. That's a terrible idea for more than just one reason.
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Do You Consider 2025 to Be a Successful Season?
thawv replied to Outshined_One's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Your first sentence doesn't make any sense. How is actually doing something have anything to do with setting expectations low? -
wow
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Very true.
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When healthy, he's quite good! But his injury history is too much to ignore. EDIT: The injury in I posted was inaccurate do I deleted it.
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Rea is in the rotation as of today.
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Do You Consider 2025 to Be a Successful Season?
thawv replied to Outshined_One's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
I have high expectations. There's no reason at all that the only major market team in a small market division shouldn't dominate every single year.
