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  1. KCCub
    They’re not though. Flaherty is going into his age 29 season, Taillon age 33 season. Flaherty has a 33% K% this season vs Taillon’s 18.5%. If you want to hold Flaherty’s injury ridden seasons against him, that’s fine I won’t argue against that. But a healthy Flaherty is in a completely different tier than Taillon plus being 4 years younger. Flaherty just misses more bats, which I think will be extremely valuable next season. https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/savant-player/jack-flaherty-656427?stats=statcast-r-pitching-mlb
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    We have a 1000+ innings on Jamo, we know what he is at this point. He wasn't as bad as he was last year and he isn't as good as he's been so far this year. I'm very much on the move Belli & Taillon train for financial freedom and build around the rest of the team. As to your question, there's two avenues. Which avenue is best is dependent on what they do at hitter. 1. If they spend big on a bat(s), go the cost controlled SP trade route. It's time to spend prospect capital. 2. If they miss on Soto for example and go the route of trading for a bat or spending less on a bat in FA, swim in the waters of the high end SP FA market - Burnes/Flaherty/etc. As much as I appreciate how solid Jamo has been this year, I don't believe his performance will be repeatable next year. I fully expect the MLB to make changes to the ball again in favor of offense after this disaster of a season league wide and I expect that to pile on to Jamo's looming regression next season. It's not the end of the world if we keep Jamo, but we're more than likely paying $17m aav for a low 4 ERA the next two seasons. Next season is fixable, but it's going to take Jed moving some chess pieces around and getting aggressive this offseason in FA and with moving prospect capital.
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    Just a nice easy swing to the back of the bleachers on a hanging breaking ball.
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    His original contract is going to be in the neighborhood of $70-$80m surplus value. Such a good signing by them.
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    He's listed on the Iowa roster, which I believe is what has sparked the speculation - https://www.milb.com/iowa/roster
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    The funny thing is, we pretty much could have had this exact team the Phillies built.
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    Exactly. The goal should be gaining financial and positional flexibility while not moving two of your best assets that could help you compete next year. Belli and Taillon make too much sense to move, as both help financially and are redundancies. Then, sign or trade for a big bat and do the opposite for a SP this off-season. Plenty of cap space left to fix BP, catcher, and possibly 3b.
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    Flipping Jamo and Belli would open up a ton of flexibility for next year. It's just a matter of is next off-season the season that Jed pulls the trigger or would we be in for more of the same conservative Jed.
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    Receiving good value in trades is one of the few things I have faith Jed will do well in. However, the bad news is, it usually means we're on the selling end of said trade.
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    I would lose all faith in management if they move Nico for an underwhelming haul. He's under control for 2.5 years at $11.6m AAV (age 27), playing with a fractured hand, and still on pace for 3.4 fWAR per 150 games. Their return value should be that of a cost controlled cheap player, in his prime, who will probably get you around 10 fWAR from this point forwards to the end of his contract.
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    I know Polanco has struggled so far this year, but them making a trade for an OFer seems to make a lot more sense to me then them making a splash for Nico.
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    I’ve been outside mowing, but seen Steele’s blowup. Been waiting for someone to show some emotion. Hopefully it lights a fire under the boys because it’s almost too late. Cards have went 26-16 after Oli had the big blowup on the umps.
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    That thing was a rocket
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    The question becomes how valuable is it to the Cubs to move him and have the guranteed financial freedom it would create over the next two seasons? I hate that we're at this point, but he's on a 2.6 fWAR pace per 162 games this season (2.3ish at his true pace of around 145 games). Not horrible, but not the type of value you want to be paying $26.6m AAV for. Which scenario would you guys prefer if the Cubs are sellers/non-buyers? - Move him for a package that's most likely going to be underwhelming, but it guarantee's the Cubs have $26mish extra next offseason to plug other holes - Hold onto him because he is a useful/versatile player and hope if he opts in, that he can have a season closer to the 2023 season.
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    O/U PCA 60 SB next year, what say you?
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    "We'll see how it goes." - Sounds like a manager who has little confidence in this move.
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    Hahaha
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    Some hard contact off of Shota to start. Hopefully that trend doesn't continue.
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