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Going somewhere, Soto? Yes, to the Yankees
ToolDRT replied to Bobson Dugnutt's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
I’m sure that’s it for some people, I’ve just had concerns with how his bat would translate to an everyday starting role. And would I trade him for a year of Soto? No. Soto with an extension? Yes. And I’ll gladly drive him to the airport as well. Soto is a monster and only 25 years old. I can safely say I’d rather build a core around Juan Soto than PCA. -
Going somewhere, Soto? Yes, to the Yankees
ToolDRT replied to Bobson Dugnutt's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Damn. I don’t think I could get myself to trade Horton for Soto even with an extension. I think I would do PCA though. That obp is 🤤 -
Yeah, I’m with the group that doesn’t see this as much (if any) of a needle mover. It seems the area Ross took the most criticism was his bullpen usage. But that wasn’t a good bullpen and I don’t think any manager could have done substantially better with it. Also, while I know this move doesn’t impact payroll, the extra money spent on Counsell is coming from some portion of the baseball ops budget. Do we really want to be setting the record for managerial salaries when we have an owner willing to toss away Yu Darvish due to his salary? Just makes me nervous.
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Not to always be the pessimist, but what really scares me about this offseason (even more so after reading the MLBTR free agent predictions) is how little depth there is. More on the position player side. It’s almost like you hit on a big free agent like Ohtani, Yamamoto, Bellinger, etc or you go the trade route. Cause I seriously don’t want us overpaying for freaking Matt Chapman. I like Ohtani. A lot. If I could pick one piece for this offseason he’d be it. But I also don’t want to get stuck waiting for him and everything else dries up.
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Does Craig now make more per year than his boss?
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I think they’re just a better team. They were good enough to get in and make it to the World Series. Based on projections I’d say we either overachieved or were right in line with the most optimistic guesses. We certainly didn’t underachieve. Which says more about roster construction than management. I get it though. Hoyer wants to be Theo really bad though and wanted to duplicate the Joe move.
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I’m just not sure I see enough variance in manage to manger to make this change and spend all that extra money (which better damn well not be taken from payroll). David Ross didn’t sign Trey Mancini to a two year contract. David Ross didn’t sign Tucker Barnhart to a contract any normal person hated instantly when it was announced. Eric Hosmer being another. And the worst, Tallion who were both stuck with and sucks. Honestly, to me, it just feels like another desperate attempt for Jed to act like Theo and duplicate the Maddon/Renteria move. Having said that, I’m going to admit to being extremely biased here as I like David Ross and cannot stand Jed Hoyer as a baseball ops leader. I will shut up now.
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I don’t recall ever being this disgusted with a cubs team before. This is so gross.
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I hate everything about this team right now. We don’t deserve the third wild card.
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God were awful
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This might be the season here. 6-0 lead and we’re blowing it.
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God almighty
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We can’t cough this one up.
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At its core this team really does suck.
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Really happy with how the giants series went. We do seem to bounce back after occasional disappointing play. Really need this one too. Let’s go!
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Because we know who’s on the mound for us
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Yeah, he’s just never been that good. I just wish we could have outbid the Mets on Senga instead.
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I’ll never get over having a president of baseball ops that thought singing Jameson was a good idea.
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Sometimes this team is gross. This one of those times. We’ve done a great job handing the brewers the division though.
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Feels like our luck is about to run out in this series. The brewers are just better.
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This team is rough lately.
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Marlin?!
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That’s huge
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Dang.
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Jeimer!
