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  1. Rcal10
    I agree with your entire post, but this interest me the most, especially coming directly from you. Why do you feel a Holmes extension is a very real possibility? I agree that is shouldn’t have anything to do with the trade, but what makes you think he has a real chance at staying without testing free agency?
  2. Rcal10
    I don’t think they will extend him but I do think they will offer him a QO. If he signs it then he is here another year. I would think they want at least a draft pick for him and would take that chance he didn’t sign the QO. And if he did sign it, I think they would be ok with that too.
  3. Rcal10
    Unless he shits the bed the rest of this season and the Dodgers decide they don’t want him, he will be a Dodger.
  4. Rcal10
    He will be a Dodger. I think that’s as sure a think as Ohtani was.
  5. Rcal10
    I think he has poor baseball instincts. Seem several baserunning blunders. More than anything I would say that is what annoys CC the most. But next year they either have to carry him on the team or giving him up for nothing. I don’t see them giving him up.
  6. Rcal10
    Tough to be the weak side platoon. I didn’t realize he was really as against right handed pitching. But maybe there is still a place for him.
  7. Rcal10
    I think the biggest surprise of the TDL was Alcantara is still on the team. I would love to know if that is because no team wanted him in a trade the Cubs deemed to be fair, or if the cubs really think there is a place for him next year. Honestly, if he can hit even .230 and hit 25 homers, even with the strikeouts, isn’t that someone playable? Maybe a guy like Morel who can actually field a position too. Sometimes the trades you don’t make turn out to be the best moves. Maybe Kevin will make us all happy he wasn’t traded.
  8. Rcal10
    I think they will absolutely offer Happ a QO as well. And he will probably decline.
  9. Rcal10
    Ok, I thought he was eligible. I would guess they offer it and wouldn’t be surprised if he took it. Which I am fine with.
  10. Rcal10
    Not that I know of.
  11. Rcal10
    If they offer Boyd a QO he might take it. So he might be in the rotation as well.
  12. Rcal10
    I think, right or wrong, fans feel like he couldn’t care less about the team. It was 100% his job and nothing more was given beyond that. He is probably just an introvert and a decent guy, but that is what I feel the perception of the fans. He just never fit in. Add that to actually not being very good the seasons half of the season, regardless of it was because he was injured, and you will get fans booing. I’m not saying I agree with it. But you said you don’t understand it. I am giving you what I think the reason is.
  13. Rcal10
    So 2 years in a row the cost was too high. So that should tell Jed not to expect to add controllable pitching at the deadline. Get guy before the TDL so you don’t need them again next year. I think he did a really good job this year. I agree with Bertz B+ grade. I’m not even terribly upset it was Holmes instead of Detmers. I do wonder what Detmers would have cost. But if you look at replacing Detmers by getting Holmes this year and then Garret the next two years, does that even the score? So they got those guys for Long and Rojas. I would guess Detmers would have cost more. Garrett might not be Detmers the next 2 years, but I do think Holmes is every bit as good, if not better, that Detmers this year.
  14. Rcal10
    Because Assad has options left I would say it would be Rea in the pen instead of Assad and Milner would be the first man in if one of the injured guys isn’t ready.
  15. Rcal10
    I doubt that. I don’t think you move a guy from SS to third base just so he can have some versatility so he can play 3rd if needed. If the guy can play SS he can play 3rd. Moving him to 3rd is more likely because they didn’t thjnk he could stick at SS.
  16. Rcal10
    What, exactly, is an overwhelming favorite in a 5 or 7 game series? Would you say they have an 80% chance of winning? Is that oveeehelming? Personally I think the chance any team beats them in a series is closer to 40%. And I wouldn’t put the Dodgers as a 60% favorite to win any series and overwhelming.
  17. Rcal10
    Along with this there were still people who were suggesting they would be underwhelmed by Jed’s TDL moves because he wouldn’t do much. And then after getting arguably the 2nd and 3rd best rental arms, a highly sought after pen arm with a lot of control left, a right handed platoon partner for Happ, and a possible controllable pitcher for the rotation the next few years, are still claiming to be right that Jed would underwhelm us. For some people no matter what Jed does will be wrong.
  18. Rcal10
    So I guess the next time I am challenged to give an example of a top 100 prospect being traded for a rental I can now name Rojas.
  19. Rcal10
    You are responding to the wrong person. I agree with you that they should have traded Ayers for Detmers. I was all for it. I am just saying the fact they didn’t and now they traded Mo does make it sound like they really like Ayers. I don’t say I like what the Cubs did, or actually didn’t do. I am just trying to make sense of why they did it.
  20. Rcal10
    This is true. And Amaya is fine. But maybe Ayers takes Kelly’s spot next year. Cubs must like him.
  21. Rcal10
    It’s a fine deal. Zeferjahn is a solid pen and and will be here a while. He doesn’t come cheaply.
  22. Rcal10
    Right now if nothing else happens it is a decent TDL. Good starting pitcher to pitch a playoff game and a solid pen arm. Better than last year. And maybe a piece for the rotation next year. But they need more done to call it a good TDL. Either Holmes or one of the ranger pitchers. Or make Detmers happen. Figure it out.
  23. Rcal10
    He is a pivot in that he is someone they can have next year with control. But the completion of the pivot has to be Holmes or one of the Ranger pitchers. I agree with you on that. And they did add one reliever already.
  24. Rcal10
    True.
  25. Rcal10
    Also probably means no Detmers. Nice reliever, though.
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