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  1. Stratos
    Under that floor/cap, in 2025 there would have been 106m less spending by the 3 teams that went over 300m and around 230m more spending by the 8 teams that spent under 120m.. do net 124m in payroll spending. That doesn't factor deferrals. If they ban deferrals then maybe you raise the cap over 300m? The argument is always "the owners should spend more". Sure but how do we make them do that? One solution is a floor. That only works for low payroll teams, which makes payrolls overall more equitable, but how do you make a team like the Cubs spend more?
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    But it would mean that just being incompetent is more of the reason for a team being bad than being outspent. Whatever the ideal system is I don't know, but a situation where some teams spend under 100m and one team spends 515m after the tax hit and just brute buys rings ridiculous.
  3. Stratos
    4.0 WAR since June 1 too.
  4. Stratos
    That's not exactly my view, but that's exactly what the owners and players do. As i said, i want a fair deal for players. We're all paying customers and most of us are on working class incomes. Who is looking out for our interests? The owners and players aren't. The status quo is screwing over fans of 29 teams so I don't see the point of losing a year of baseball to uphold that system.
  5. Stratos
    Don't make me tap the sign....
  6. Stratos
    Cry harder.
  7. Stratos
    This is exactly right. The fans should be interested in their own interests. Which means what is good for their team and the game (their product). A work stoppage is bad for the fans and the game. The Dodgers buying championships is bad for every fan of every other team, including Cubs fans. The system needs some reform, i couldn't care less who that hurts or benefits between players or owners. Ideally a fair deal is reached where players don't lose any piece of the pie but the pie is more evenly distributed between players on different teams.
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    😮
  9. Stratos
    Wtf. That's crazy
  10. Stratos
    Last year nobody was selling their SP. I don't think any of the quality names changed hands. We got Soroka. RP prices could get high too.
  11. Stratos
    Cabrera's fastball sucks, but one tweak there could really help him, like it did Brown. Brown, Boyd, Cabrera, Imanaga, Peterson. That rotation has potential to be at least be average to solid. With this offense that might be enough. Teams have won a WS that way. They add another SP and it could be above-average if mostly healthy. The key is to keep guys like Taillon and Rea from starting as much as possible, which comes from guys being healthy. They could use another arm or 2 in the pen. They could use another guy with shutdown stuff like Palencia. We saw how huge the pen is in the 1st 2 rounds last year. If we had a good pen the rotation wouldn't even be as much an issue.
  12. Stratos
    Best sucky pitcher in Cubs history?
  13. Stratos
    We do have a surplus of prospects to deal from. The MLB infield is locked up for several years. We need 2 corner OF next year and one of them could be Shaw. I suspect Shaw might remain a supersub. .Rojas/Ramirez could move to the OF or 1 of them to the bench, but we also have Kepley, Conrad, Hartshorn for OF longterm, plus Alcantara. Ramirez, Shaw, Alcantara, and maybe Kepley could compete for the OF spots next spring. They could also sign a vet like Conforto on a short term for depth. We also a bunch of have other prospects below any of those guys we can deal, like the Cole Mathis variety. I think they keep Mo because he could catch next year.
  14. Stratos
    Yesterday he passed his fWAR total from last season.
  15. Stratos
    Must also suck being an ump in that stretch of weather. They might get a couple of mins break between innings.
  16. Stratos
    That's a good question. He might take a while to get going. Not enough MLB data yet to conclude anything.
  17. Stratos
    Given our budgets, Id much, much rather we spend our big money on position guys than pitchers. If your 4 WAR 30 million AAV SP goes down to major injury it can sink a teams' season. That's too many wins on the IL. I also would avoid first round picks on pitchers unless the pick is too good to pass up. I have issues with Theo and Jed's philosophy there. You can use rounds after the first for pitching. Get some interesting arms and spend money to build the best pitching development system possible. I can.nitpick but don't really have much of an issue with how Jed runs the org, including FA, or the draft We've run into some really bad injury luck on the pitching side this year. If Horton didn't go down and Steele was close to returning and overall injury rate was average elsewhere we'd have a darn good team.
  18. Stratos
    Wouldn't pitchers just want more and more Ks? I don't see that working.
  19. Stratos
    Well it would either decrease injuries or increase them. The has to be a point where the costs of making out velo outweigh the costs. As it is now, many SP still don't try to throw as hard as they would as a reliever.
  20. Stratos
    I think the pitch clock has likely had an affect on injuries too due to less recovery time between pitches and innings. Agree with @Bertzwhere roster limits or other rules might have to come into play. Something like 11 pitcher roster limit would help lengthen SP outings, but not sure if it would help relievers much. The fix is probably coming from systemic aka rule changes rather than players or teams. Players will always search for an advantage and take risks, like with PEDs. I feel bad for the pitchers who feel the need to do this. At a certain point it becomes a bit of a workplace health and safety issue if you're being asked to slowly rip your tendons apart.
  21. Stratos
    The explanation for the glut of Cubs pitcher injuries this year is " this is just the reality in 2026". That's likely very true, but is it an acceptable excuse? If we're doing something the rest of the league is doing, and the result is better velo/stuff and lower ERAs from pitchers but they're unable to stay off IL, then maybe it's time to reevaluate the wisdom of that entire strategy. At what point do the benefits not outweigh the costs? Improving a pitcher's ERA by e.g half a run or a full run is great, but it's not useful if they aren't healthy and the roster is filled with replacement- level pitchers. Would we rather have Steele and Horton putting up e.g 3.80 ERAs instead of Cy Young. numbers but avoiding multiple elbow surgeries? It makes sense for the pitchers with borderline talent to take the risk, but what about everyone else? Will teams & players start taking the gas off the throttle a bit?
  22. Stratos
    "The mighty Caissie has struck out" (a lot)
  23. Stratos
    At this point I'm hitching my wagon to the idea that the Cubs should spend 90% of their payroll on position players and then build their pitching staff out off cheap replacement nobody's. Not really, but maybe teams get to that point soon.
  24. Stratos
    Oh yes, back when replacement players hit 30 bombs lol
  25. Stratos
    I checked and Kepley has 39 SBs in 68 games in high A this year.
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