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  1. Stratos
    Throw out your Bellinger jerseys and ask for a Hoskins jersey for Xmas.
  2. Stratos
    The best team in baseball is paying the best player in baseball 2 million next year so they can afford to go out and also sign someone like Yamamoto. I don't see how that's good for the fans of most of the other 29 teams who would rather the sport not return to the days of the 2000's Yankees just buying up rings as much as that's possible with playoff randomness.
  3. Stratos
    More like Ohtani didn't think the Cubs ownership was serious enough about winning and spending what it takes to remain a top team in the MLB. Cubs can make all the presentations they want, past spending behaviour speaks for itself.
  4. Stratos
    What if most the other owners are super PO'd at this? They're his boss. No sooner did they sign the new collective agreement that teams doing cartwheels trying to circumvent it, including last offseason. They have to stop this, it's bad for baseball. Maybe add a clause next agreement that players need to be paid in the season they perform.
  5. Stratos
    Cubs didn't have a chance. The Dodgers are the better team, better org, and have a proven commitment to spending and winning. For any player who wants to win over the next 10 years like Ohtani does, LA is the place to sing. Cubs were outclassed again by the Dodgers. What sucks even more is the Dodgers now have a whole bunch of extra money to spend this offseason from what they're saving by the Ohtani money deferral. That's probably going to cost us Glasnow or Yamamoto or someone else significant. At least Ricketts will get us LA's sloppy leftovers LOL.
  6. Stratos
    The terms of the contract are insane. Ohtani as a man and a competitor is a freaking legend, regardless of what he does on the diamond from this point forward. No other player is going to defer being mega-wealthy in order to win. This is a league filled with players who risked their longterm health and life expectancy for more money via PED's.
  7. Stratos
    Corporate baseball is the best baseball. Or maybe the better product is played on high school diamonds. When I was in the 8th grade, my friends and I loved playing baseball at lunch on the crummy school diamond. Some of the high school seniors had spare periods at the same time so every day over our lunch we played against them. We played hard, both sides were super competitive, which is funny since we were so much younger and smaller than them. During COVID I went back to the old that old diamond, and almost the entire once-gravel infield was grown over in grass because clearly hardly anyone had played on it since we graduated. Some of the best memories of my entire life were on that diamond with my friends. We played there from the 8th grade through the 12th grade, pretty much every day over our lunch hour and often after school.
  8. Stratos
    Don't worry, it's being rolled over every year and we'll have a 500 million payroll next offseason.
  9. Stratos
    Color me not shocked whatsoever (but annoyed...at Cubs carelessness): https://www.bleachernation.com/cubs/2023/12/13/the-brewers-apparently-knew-what-pitches-the-cubs-were-throwing-in-2018/ I don't particularly like how the Brewers operate, but you can't argue with the results. If this is how the sport is played then I guess if you can't beat them, hire them.
  10. Stratos
    At risk of rehashing Mervis debate # 4284, Mervis looked clearly frustrated and getting into his own head. Jared Young looked about as nervous as me shopping for a bread at the grocery store. I think it was more logic than compassion. PCA looked out of sorts also in his stint, trying to impress the world. Different types of personalities. They're super nervous and super keen, it's all good hopefully they just need a reset.
  11. Stratos
    Extend Mervis. Jk
  12. Stratos
    The Cubs have a ton of prospects on the verge of the MLB. Filling most every position with established players on contract, most with no-trade clauses, would be a weird if not ridiculous move. At some point you have to take a risk and play the kids. Some young players, like Morel, come up and hit right away and the pitchers adjust. Others don't hit to their potential right away and need some time to adjust to the pitchers. A lot of fans have already written off Mervis after 100 PAs. He's the exact same player he was a year ago when most wanted him as the OD 1B. We have a hole in CF. Trading PCA doesn't make a lot of sense. The # of positions where we have holes is dwindling and we have a loaded farm system with good prospects in the upper minors at literally every single position. The position we need the least longterm is DH. Sign all the short term guys we can and then reap the coming surplus. Bellinger did his job for us.
  13. Stratos
    Gotta say, there's been no whiff of the Cubs being linked to Yamamoto.
  14. Stratos
    Now that Ohtani is signed We'd probably be better off signing a FA TORP and using prospects to acquire a player at a position not readily available in FA or someone with control.
  15. Stratos
    Fun fact: statistically speaking, Rey Sanchez is one of the best defensive SS of all-time.
  16. Stratos
    I don't think Jed operates much differently than Theo did in FA. I think if a 25-26 year old 5 WAR player like Heyward came along again Jed would have no issues signing him to a longterm deal just like he did Swanson if it was a good price. Swanson was 4 years older than Heyward when he signed for 7 years. The Cubs must have something around 60 million in payroll still left under the LT and I expect they'll likely spend it like last year. Yamamoto seems quite talented but comes with more risk than Heyward IMO because he has never pitched in the MLB, so we'll see I guess what Jed does there. I'll be satisfied if they acquire any TORP. I'm not convinced Imanaga is a TORP.
  17. Stratos
    Putting one of our best athletes at 1B longterm seems like a bit of a waste, and they're not going to block PCA. It's totally possible that Hoskins can put up as good offensive numbers at 1B next year as Bellinger will. Note that I like Bellinger a lot as a player. 5 tool guy. I also like the idea of Hoskins in order to give Mervis another shot.
  18. Stratos
    Oh man, another bottleneck.
  19. Stratos
    Sounds like he was in the city, probably for contract talks. I doubt the Cubs resign him, the fit isn't great.
  20. Stratos
    Fun fact: the Cubs had the 11th best WAR in the MLB out of the 3B position last season. This was shocking. Madrigal had a 98 wRC+ while he played 3B., Candelario only had about 98 PA as a 3B for us.
  21. Stratos
    Guess it depends where they plan to play Morel and what they do at 1b and DH. Don't really want Madrigal or Wisdom at 3b either.
  22. Stratos
    I don't really see Polanco as an upgrade to Morel at 3b overall. Unless Morel just plays DH or 1B. I'm interested to see what they do at DH. Belt seems a bit old for Jed. Maybe Mitch Garver? He might get a multi-year deal though.
  23. Stratos
    Now Ohtani has enough money to buy the Dodgers
  24. Stratos
    100 Mancini's is -80 WAR haha
  25. Stratos
    They're not paying for just baseball skills, but revenue he'll bring into the team. But that's a lot of money lol
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