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    You just never know.
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    About where all projections had him in terms of AAV. Interesting that the Cubs couldn't get it done for that price. Either they like someone better or he just wasn't interested in Chicago.
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    It’s a Bellinger article but apparently Seiya is mentioned. Ugh
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    MLBTR has him at 2/$20m and Crowd Source has him at 2/$16m. He had a rough finish to last year
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    Agreed - I've had that thought in the back of my mind.
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    If I'm trading significant assets for a 25 year old SP with only 2 years of control left, I'm typically looking to extend him. Just a personal preference I would have when dealing prospects/assets of this magnitude. Steele is a completely different situation and to me, not comparable when you factor in age, team control, assets used to acquire, etc.
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    Kind of apples to oranges here with two different situations. The huge Steele fan in me is yes we should extend the guy who has been one of the lone bright spots over the past few years and really carried us. The strictly transactional/business side of me is probably a no - ride out his age 29, 30, and 31 seasons and go from there.
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    I feel like Wicks would be going back in a trade like this, unless he just has no market. IF the Cubs swing this trade, are we expecting an extension? I'm torn on this. I'm typically always in favor of immediately extending a player like this when the trade is going to require this much prospect capital. However, I can't deny the injury/durability concerns. Do we like extending him an additional 4 years on top of his 2 Arb years, or do we just ride out the two years and go from there?
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    MLBTR had Sev signing for 3/$51m and Crowd Source had him at 3/$48m. Yea, pitching isn't cheap. Starting to see why Jed locked up Boyd early.
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    What the
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    Just throwing this here for discussion purposes as I don’t know how reliable this level of information is coming from Jacob.
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    They'll have room. He'll be on a pitch limit of some sort and you can't count on Boyd for a full season. They're going to add another SP regardless of Sasaki.
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    Agreed. If the trade piece doesn't happen this off-season we have to hope the plan is to sign an Eovaldi level SP, address catcher/BP/bench bat with the idea being "improving the margins" enough to have us in the division hunt and then swing a significant trade for a cost controlled arm at the TDL. I'd rather the trade happen now opposed to waiting, but I guess there can be some positives for waiting until the deadline IF that ultimately becomes Jed's plan.
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    Good call @1908_Cubs
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    The Red Sox desperately need a 2b (Maybe SS). You would have to add a 3rd team to the equation, however if pitching is the target for our return.
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    Appreciate you adding an example/doing the math. That's kind of where my mind was at, but at work and can't dig very deep into it. I could get on board with that. Anything less, I'm out.
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    Yea that's something I've been struggling with. It's kind of a loaded scenario and I would need to see what the return is for Hoerner. e.g. Does including Hoerner in a deal with the Mariners get us Gilbert/Kirby when they were otherwise off the table? If so, is Gilbert/Kirby + Shaw + decent IF bench acquisition that can play 2b if Shaw struggles better than the alternative of keeping Hoerner + trading for a lower tier SP? I could probably get there with trading Hoerner in a few scenarios, but they would have to really knock it out of the park.
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    It's more so he's 34 coming off a career year. If it's Kikuchi + a trade for a cost controlled SP, sign me up. If he's our only major SP acquisition, then yea I'm extremely disappointed.
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