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can i negotiate with vance in an attempt to buy his ryan harvey autographed baseball in this thread or should i use a different one
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why? don't people who get lupus generally live?
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vomit times a million. you're not wrong, it's just that GOD i hate remembering that is our opening day lineup. especially that 3-5.
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You'll be back tearing up Cubby Bear come this summer. watching css on the prowl at the cubby bear will undoubtedly be the highlight of the meetup
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also, i was pretty lukewarm on the deal initially, but i've come around on the idea that this would be a very good thing for the cubs (just not the massively good thing i thought we'd have a chance to get). let's hope this is all just us pretending to not have a deal to stay out of trouble. -
treebeard is dead but trey can hook you up and how. i even have the extra big plungers needed for breaking through the outside of the skull.
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That's how I understand it, but honestly, my grasp of baseball contract structure is not too hot. if this is the contract, i don't know why we're posting happy gifs. the absolute best case scenario is that we pay 28 million dollars for two full seasons in the major leagues to a guy who is 21 and 22 in those seasons. and that the contract is completely frontloaded so we can pay him like 2M for his 23 and quickly escalating from there. that'd get us two or three seasons of good value (assuming he is good, of course). if the contract is backloaded, we're looking at basically no seasons of really good value unless he's a hall of famer and starts dropping 5+ war a year at age 23 (or sooner, i guess). i'm certainly willing to change my mind on this, though. someone smart convince me. EDIT in my original thing, i pushed his mlb debut in 14 back so i could give us another year of control, then i forgot to include it (which ssr caught on the last page). that obviously makes things moderately better, but not enormously so. it really, really is all about how the money is spread out.
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so is this how this is going to go? 12- some portion of 27.5 million (and absolutely in the minors all year) 13- some portion of 27.5 million (and almost certainly in the minors all year) 14- some portion of 27.5 million (and hopefully in the majors, but not on opening day) 15- some portion of 27.5 million (in the majors all year from now on) 16- third year of mlb service, cubs set salary, must be at least 80% of 2015 salary 17- first year arbitration, must be at least 80% of 2016 salary 18- second year arbitration, must be at least 80% of 2017 salary 19- third year arbitration, must be at least 80% of 2018 salary 20- free agent
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Go to page 3, it's talked about on there. excellent, i missed that. (as long as that really means he's not getting 18 million dollars to play in the minors the next two years)
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someone explain to me how this contract is going to work, because in my head, if this is 3/27, we're paying him 9 million a year to play in the minor leagues the next two seasons. that can't be right, can it?
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I'd rather not sign anybody. It's ridiculous how much money professional baseball players get, it is way too risky. A lot of teams are making bad decisions right now. Really, really [expletive] bad ones. Ones which I would be [expletive] PISSED if the Cubs had made. Not speaking to Cespedes so much as Pujols and to a much larger extent, Fielder. Well, I won't lie and say I'd have been mad if we signed Pujols...but I would've been well aware that it was a pretty stupid decision. You don't know these are crippling decisions until you know what kind of budget these teams are working with going forward. I just know we're working on year 3 of every free agent signing (except CJ Wilson) being derided as moronic, and there haven't been many teams that have been torpedoed because of them. i heard that for every player on your team who makes more than 5 million dollars per WAR, the commissioner knocks 20 wins off your season total
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Well, see you next year! Just kidding. I'm surprised that I was finding myself ecstatic about the Rizzo acquisition, and I'm hoping that he can be a big impact and the next young superstar in the game. rizzo was a great pickup because he seems like a good bet to provide above-average production at first base while earning only the league minimum, but i think you'll be very disappointed if you're expecting him to be a superstar or anything close. you have to really destroy to be an elite first baseman, and i really don't think he's got that in him. if we get a run of seasons in the 260/350/480 range (with good defense), i don't think we'll be able to complain in the slightest, but we also won't have a superstar on our hands.
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why is spear censored? also sulley should stop being racist
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Fangraphs did a piece on that when Miami was rumored to make a huge offer to Pujols. The conclusion was that it was a marginal difference at best for a monster contract like Pujols, so for a contract that may not be 25% of the total value, I have to figure it's a non-entity. Don't professional athletes get their game checks taxed based on what city they are "working in" that day? So a Marlins player only gets the income tax advantage of living in FL for half of his games, and then gets taxed accordingly based on whatever state they are in when playing on the road, right? yeah, that's pretty much it. http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/pujolsian-tax-implications/
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Considering the Marlins were hoping to add a Pujols contract to their payroll this offseason, I'm not so sure a couple million will deter them let's not be naive, they were never signing pujols
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yet another american company sending jobs overseas (overgulfs?)
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pretty sure that's not going to be possible, the only thing thicker than the way you laid that on is derwood's skull BOOM
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well that doesn't make much sense in light of how far big 10 alums are up their own asses about the academics Perhaps you haven't heard GR's treatise on the value of a Big 10 education. heard? is he doing a lecture circuit? i've only read his article in the journal of higher education
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it's not that you were excited, it's just that no one cares about a and m when they're good. when SSR is talking to himself, he's amusing, when you do it, it's shakespeare, but not in a good way. falstaff in da house
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SECOND i vote that his name start with d and rhyme with mingus and be dingus
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or they actually hit free agency and we scream bloody murder and thank god that we stayed away when they sign contracts that suggest they may get more than five million dollars per WAR.
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haha inviteinviteinvite
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Edwin Jackson
treebird replied to Lefty's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
twitter says edwin jackson has signed with the nationals, pending physical. no details yet. rob neyer's interpretation: -
Cubs announce LED board and patio in RF bleachers for 2012
treebird replied to David's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
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he basically did two of those things already last year (36 doubles, 9 triples). i'll be pretty surprised if he doubles his homers, though. I'll take the over on 20. you can't even pitch in 10 dollars for a wedding gift, i'm really excited to hear about the 17 cents you win on this wager
