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I can’t feel my legs
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Thanksgiving is over. Time to get down to business with the offseason! Feels like Ohtani could happen at any time now. I’m obsessed.
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Hmm, I don’t think it had to do with us “driving up the price”. I think Heyman just meant that we’re a real option to win this. Heyman, I feel, has been mentioning the cubs and Ohtani consistently.
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Yeah, I gotcha. My question was I thought the cubs currently had more money committed to next years roster. So my concern would be while we might be able to do Ohtani and lesser pieces, the dodgers might go for Ohtani and Yamamoto. This is all speculative of course. I’m just not super concerned about teams outside of LA (maybe Texas) and am kinda sizing them up compared to us.
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Don’t they also have less money on the books as of now too? Or have I made that up…
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No, I understand. And I’m basing this off a gut feeling only. It’s just that the dodgers have a more established roster right now. They enter every season projected to win their division and not just because the other teams suck. They’re just really well built. My concern is Ohtani couldn’t even win with Mike Trout. I don’t believe he’s seen playoffs in the major leagues. Is he gonna want a more sure thing? Cause, to me, that’s the dodgers and not us.
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It’s just not always true though, as you even said. There’s been instances of players taking less to play with their preferred team. Unfortunately for us, Heyward was even one of those cases. Just this week Nola was. With multiple instances of people saying Ohtani isn’t strictly money motivated I think he might have a preferred destination he’s willing to take less to play for. Of course, if someone just blows the field out of the water with an offer that’s one thing. But as we can all agree, there’s a general price it’s going to take to play poker here.
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I’m concerned Ohtani isn’t going to see our current team as much better than what he’s already been playing with and take the dodgers. That’s why it would nice to add a piece or two upfront. Unfortunately, that becomes hard when you aren’t sure if you’re gonna need to keep a hefty amount of payroll or Ohtani. Note: this isn’t me downplaying our prospects or saying we’re the Angels moving forward. I’m just worried he’s gonna see immediate World Series contenders with the dodgers and we’re gonna be left empty handed.
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Again, nothing specific here. I don’t know exactly why it keeps coming up when it sounds more like a speculative fit. Gonna share it anyway.
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I’m very interested and very scared of the possible return
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Cards fans are not liking the last two days of their off-season 😬
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Ohtani to Dodgers for an ungodly amount of money
ToolDRT replied to JD94's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
It was an example given with a direct quote. Whether you believe Scott Boras or not is one thing. I highly doubt anything like that is the deciding factor. The fact that it was mentioned at all shows that players take notice of it though. -
Ohtani to Dodgers for an ungodly amount of money
ToolDRT replied to JD94's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Having followed along maybe he worded it that way in his initial Harper post, - but soon clarified that as well - but I never took it to mean that was the implication for Ohtani. At all. Just seems like you wanted to overreact to something today. -
Yeah, what I meant was I don’t really want Moncada if Ohtani happens. He feels like a huge waste of what will be limited resources at that point. Assuming, Ohtani doesn’t happen, I’d love to do all in on Yamamoto due to him being a money purchase and not involving prospects at all. Im just having a hard time convincing myself to throw the money away on Moncada for the year. Also, because I feel like the Sox see Cease as one of their bigger pieces and I’m not sure they’ll want to anchor his trade value with a bad contract.
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It felt like with some of his gif replies to people he was almost alluding to knowing something. Having said that, I think he might just want attention 🤣
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I don’t know, Moncada is pretty expensive for how meh-to-sucky he’s been. If Ohtani doesn’t work I’d rather just go all in on Yamamoto and trade for a 3rd baseman.
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Ohtani to Dodgers for an ungodly amount of money
ToolDRT replied to JD94's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Wow, that’s blown way out of proportion. The thought was simply made that it might be something he would consider as a positive about Chicago. No one suggested it was a big deal or something that would factor in heavily. An example from Bryce Harper and Scott Boras was given with a direct quote as well. Quite a bit of mental gymnastics used to actually turn that into an argument. -
I’m sad I missed the Roberts saga! I do recall the Peavy stuff on our old board and even specifically remember the “go cubs go” thing! I was so excited that night as I wanted Peavy badly. The letdown on the last day of the winter meetings when Hendry announced they weren’t trading for him…good times! 🤣
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Oh I see your points and the last thing I’d want to do is come in as a new poster and start rattling off changes I’d like to see. Again, knowing nothing about how site traffic works either, it’s just been a jarring switch. But I’m a nerd in the sense that if I wasn’t able to stay up to date during the day due to work (or other personal business) I’d simply come home and read from where the thread left off and it was like I was learning about things in real time and watching it play out as it would have happened if I were home. And I miss that idea. I don’t know the answer to be honest. I feel like if this Nola thread were put in the larger mlb forum it wouldn’t have gathered any responses or views. So I guess I’m wondering how putting it in a different portion of the site (where it would gather less traffic) helps the site.
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I’ll pay the tab myself if Ohtani agrees to come here 🤣
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Man everything that happened that offseason was a “precursor to Peavy”. I wasn’t around during the Roberts days.
