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Jed heating up haha
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Seeing Jesse Rogers being pessimistic over the past couple days that the Cubs will sign Belli has made me realize I need to not think it's a for sure thing (Similar hopes for the Glasnow trade). So, if Jed does end up passing on both Belli and Chapman, what does a realistic rest of the offseason look like that could salvage it? Would we be at the point where a major trade is needed or it's otherwise a bust in terms of truly competiting in 2024?
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The new KC ownership group is sticking to their word of saying they were going to spend and try to lock up young stars. They've desparately needed to lock up talent to help sell the folks here in KC on building them a new stadium.
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Wish the Cubs could of swung Caleb Ferguson in the Busch trade.
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Does Baltimore’s new ownership work on extending Burnes now?
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I thought so as well. Looks like they get the 34th pick as well -
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Brewers are going to be much easier to deal with
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Looks like 1/$13m with a chance for $1.5m in bonuses.
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Considering Polanco was discussed here multiple times as a possible trade target, why yes, it was a good spot for it.
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He was really bad in only 7 starts there. He's a 1b/DH at this point in his career who can play 3b/2b if absolutely needed. His games played last year were DH - 98, 1b 41 (-1 OAA), 2b 10, and 3b 7.
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His 10 IP in 2020?? He's been solid over his career 347 IP (3.45 ERA/4.14 FIP). I would say he's solid actually as opposed to "not very good". His velo is holding up as well.
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Michael Busch - 2.5 WAR Zips Projection Seiya Suzuki - 2.4 WAR Zips Projection Put me on the skeptical side that Busch will be more valuable than Suzuki year 1.
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I also dislike the idea of waiting around for the deadline for immediate needs. However, I don't consider a TORP to pair with Steele an immediate need. They need to add bats and BP help now. The rotation is good enough to give you competitive outings 1-5 and get you to the deadline in contention. But like I said in my original post, I'm fully on board with making a trade now to satisfy a TORP, but I can buy into the idea of not doing that until the trade deadline where players (Cease, etc) will be somewhat cheaper and new names might become available.
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This is the direction I wish they would go. I could also buy into the plan of this rotation getting us to the trade deadline and then going out and swinging a large trade for a controlled arm.
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We got him
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Hmm I took it as the 4 listed plus 1 mystery team. You could be right that it's two.
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Hmm...
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I just don’t think it’s as black and white as “oh horsefeathers, we paid Bellinger CF money and now we’re stuck with him at 1b because PCA proved that he’s ready to take over in 2025”. You’re paying for a damn good, versatile player who is going into his age 28 season. If the Cubs believe in his bat and believe they unlocked something with the way he hit last year, I’m on board if they sign him. He won a gold glove in right field in 2019 - maybe the future move is to move him to RF and Suzuki to DH? Regardless, this day and age versatility is highly valued and Bellinger is on the high end of that scale with his overall defense, age, speed, LH bat, etc.
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Agreed. With the DH and Bellinger’s flexibility, PCA alone should not be a reason against signing Bellinger.
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People are bitching because Jed is what he is at this point. He’s yet to make a non trade deadline savvy trade to help this ball club. Having a reserved nature is fine, but at some point he has to take a leap and make a move that hurts. He’s yet to do that. Imagine if he would have been proactive and landed a Olson/Murphy/etc level trade and already had a nice middle of the order bat to build around. It’s not just this off-season, we now have multiple years of evidence of his reversed “sit back and wait” style. My patience has already been thin with Jed, but I’ll once again wait for the unexpected off season move that probably won’t happen.
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