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  1. JD94
    Well Happ has crushed LHP in the month of July. He has a 138 wRC+ against them. Morel is a reverse split guy. He’s absolutely brutal against LHP. I disagree that it’s a good day for Happ to have an off day because it’s a LHP on the mound. I do, however, understand that people need off days and you can only play what you have. If todays game has no bearing on what happens at the deadline, then fine. Jed’s words were specifically that he’s waiting until “the 11th hour.” Presumably that could have changed and he’s buying regardless, but I had that in mind with my post.
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    Morel in LF. No Happ even though he’s pretty hot right now. Odd day for an off day imo.
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    Great points, and great article! I think we are all guilty of being to strict on prospect development. As you said, development is not linear. Look at Whit Merrifield… it took him until he was 28 to start having success in the majors after grinding through the minors for 6-7 years. You just never know. Brennan has shown the ability to adapt and produce.
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    Which is why I think they should make a trade to help the big league team for the future. Go get Pete Alonso for example.
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    I’m saying give me more. That’s more opportunities for a prospect to hit, more opportunities for trade bait, etc. CJ Cron is just an example… as in that sort of player. Not being literal.
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    Why? Ty France, Carlos Santana, and Josh Naylor are all shorter than 6’ and grade out positively defensively at 1B. Whatever though. DH him. I don’t care. I’m more worried about seeing if the bat translates. You can find a way to get him in the lineup if it does.
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    No shock here but keeping the rumors updated as I see them
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    I’ll die on this hill… Yonathan Perlaza deserves a chance. Even if it’s DH. See if the bat translates. He’s earned it. Hitting .300, 15 homers, walking 13% of the time, striking out only 21% of the time, 131 wRC+ coming into tonight and that obviously went up, wish the FB% was higher than 30%, but man he just keeps hitting. Give him a shot, even if it’s just to DH. If the bat translates, and he’s really truly unplayable in the OF, see if he can play 1B… something. You have to find out if the bat plays at this level. If it does, you find a way to keep the bat in the lineup. If it don’t, then okay… now you know and you can move on. The kid has earned it.
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    Agreed. But in my eyes, give me all the intriguing prospects and the ones I don’t need, I’ll trade for what I do need and buy the stars in free agency. I know it’s easier said than done, but it doesn’t feel like we are doing either. Jed shouldn’t have to wait until the “11th hour” to know what he has. If you want to go for it, then get somebody worth a **** that actually makes a difference. If you want to sell, then tear it down and trade everybody that isn’t a part of the future as in Stroman, Bellinger (can still resign him), Gomes, Hendricks/Smyly (if you’re lucky), Fulmer, Merryweather. Don’t stand pat and add CJ Cron and some off the wall middle reliever and call yourself a “buyer” which is what I’m scared is going to happen.
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    I mean they are prospects still developing. Not many are finished products in A/AA. I can see why both are intriguing prospects. Acuna is never going to be a big power hitter, but he will hit, takes his walks, doesn’t strike out much, has 10-15 HR power, will steal 40 bases and play above average defense. Not a bad return for a 39 year old pitcher who is declining fast and owed 43 million next year. You could find something negative about most every prospect if you look hard enough. Selling is for the birds. If I had faith in this FO to act like the Chicago Cubs and spend real money, then my tone would be different. I don’t trust them to spend like a big market team, so selling is more intriguing to me than it should be.
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    I would give them a headliner of any prospect not named PCA or Horton.
  13. JD94
    Certainly seems like a sellers market.
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    Again, go Cubs. That one post told me you aren’t rational and I’m not wasting any more of my time on it.
  16. JD94
    Okay… this post told me all I need to know. I’m wasting my time going back and forth with you. Go Cubs.
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    It was a hypothetical to go along with the hypothetical I replied to. Obviously I don’t know that for sure. I do know I trust Jed in these trades. We’ve gotten extremely intriguing prospects back for rentals recently such as PCA, Wesneski, Alcantara, Ben Brown, etc. Our future basically lies in the hands of these prospects working out. So why stop trusting Jed now? It seems like a sellers market to this point. Giolito got a 50 FV back. The Mets are about to get a 50 FV top 40 prospect back for a very expensive and relatively bad 39 year old Max Scherzer who is set to make $43M next year also. So yeah… it’s basically me trusting Jed because he’s done very well in trades to this point and it appears to be a sellers market.
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    Looks like Luisangel Acuna (Ronald’s baby bro) is in the deal. Good get for the Mets if true.
  19. JD94
    We will just agree to disagree. If you tell me I can keep Stroman, Bellinger, and Gomes and have a 25% chance to make the playoffs this year with them, or you can trade them and get 2 guys under control for the next 7 years that are perennial 4 fWAR type players, I’m taking the 2nd option all day. Especially when I have a top 10 prospect in baseball that’s almost ready. I can just go and pay Cody Bellinger the most money to come back. I have a load of pitching prospects almost ready and a MLB ace already on the roster. And I also have plenty of money to spend in free agency. I’m hedging my bets on the next 7 years rather than my minuscule chance of sneaking into the Wild Card this year. I want winning baseball as bad as you and anybody else. I’m sick of selling and rebuilding. I also know the next 5-7 years are more important than this one year. If we were a lock to make the playoffs, but weren’t a very good team, I would agree. Don’t sell. I’m willing to give up on one year of hopes and maybes if it greatly increases my odds the next 5-7 years. I would consider 2 perennial 4 fWAR type players greatly increasing my odds for the future.
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    Trade is official. Scherzer to the Rangers. He waived his NTC. Still sorting out financials which will determine the prospect return. I imagine Cohen is trying to eat all the money for a better return.
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    I couldn’t care less what talking heads have to say about us selling. They don’t have the Cubs best interest in mind. They are just…. talking heads. What players would turn? Will they be disappointed? Sure. Dansby is the only one that has a huge financial commitment and he’s a vet. He will understand. Everybody will be disappointed, but what are they going to do… suck on purpose because they are mad and kill all their value for when they are free agents? Absolutely not. Free agents don’t care. Offer them the most money and they will come here. Dansby didn’t care that we traded Rizzo, Baez, Darvish, and Bryant when all the outside people you mentioned earlier thought the Cubs were crazy for doing. At the end of the day, this is a business. You have to do what’s best for it. You can’t worry about hurt feelings and mean words. If we make 3 trades and get 8 players back and 6 of them bust, but 2 of them work out and play a major role as we enter our next competitive window, I’d say it was more than worth it. That’s 2 young controllable assets playing a major part in sustained long term winning as opposed to hoping a praying a pretty mediocre team can sneak into the Wild Card one year.
  22. JD94
    Yep. It’s unfortunate in a way that this long stretch of 3 of the worst teams in baseball (Cardinals, WS, Nats) were all in a row 13 games leading up to the deadline. It’s done nothing but give this fanbase false hope. I get it. Everybody is ready to win again. As you said though, things are nowhere near as good as they are now. A week from now when the good teams start popping back up on our schedule and the loses pile up, reality will set back in. People are worried about Stroman being bad lately, but he’s the same pitcher he’s been literally his whole career. It all evens out over the course of a season. We can criticize Jed all day long, I’ll join, but what you can’t criticize is how remarkably well he’s done in trade returns for players a lot less talented than Stroman. Some of those guys are some of our top prospects right now today that we can’t wait to join the big league team. I trust Jed to get a pretty dang good return on all of our assets. He’s gained that level of trust in that aspect of his job. I’m having fun watching this team win. I jumped out of my chair fist pumping when Tauchman made that catch last night. I’m also still not fooled by who this team truly is. Which is a flawed team. Jed should sell, or really buy, and I’m not talking about CJ Cron and the Royals 8th inning reliever buy.
  23. JD94
    Can we post all rumors (not just Cubs related) in one thread rather than having to look through multiple threads? I’ll start: https://twitter.com/jonheyman/status/1685403077078093825?s=46&t=iRdezfuJVGBU0wPvMftX0w
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    On top of that, it’s a different ownership so none of that matters anyways… outside of Harper.
  25. JD94
    I don’t think the Cubs will sign him. I just find it interesting. I do have a small slither of hope after reading this that Bruce would say Ricketts won’t back down from his price. The Cubs absolutely can afford a contract like this though. They absolutely should be in on the top tier free agents. Maybe they are just more selective on who they give these too. It would have been easy to give $300M to Turner, Bogaerts, or Correa in the offseason instead of going the cheaper shorter route for Swanson, but now it looks like they made the right choice. I’m not willing to say at this point the Cubs won’t spend that type of money just because they haven’t yet. I think they would if the timing was right and the player was right. You have to remember that $300M contracts weren’t even a thing until like 5 years ago and we’ve been “rebuilding” for 3 of those years, so in their eyes, giving out that type of money probably didn’t make a whole lot of sense. Obviously Ohtani will cruise well past $300M, but the point still stands. I don’t believe it will happen, but I also don’t buy that the Cubs will never sign a player to $300M+ just because they haven’t yet.
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