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  1. Stratos
    I don't remember Theo being irrational. The Phillies signed Bryce Harper, Cubs fans cried, and Theo signed zero-tool Daniel Descalso to a 2-year deal with a buyout for the 3rd year. This is what they do. IMO if most Cubs fans were the GM they would panic after every big signing and Boras would fleece them every winter. Then they'd take their salary as GM and lose it all in the stock market lol. Being a GM isn't much different than playing the stock market. Buying high, selling low, and making decisions based on emotion is a recipe for disaster. The Mets often buy high and they usually suck. The Braves didn't build their team in FA, they let Freeman and Swanson walk and used the money to extend all their good young players, and almost all their best players are still in their prime years. Craig Counsell is a smart dude and if he's sold on Jed's vision then i'll give Jed runway.
  2. Stratos
    If they want Bellinger it sounds like that will drag out anyways. We all just need to relax. The offseason is a 3-4 month long poker game. Fans were panicking when the big SS guys were flying off the board last year then Jed nabbed Swanson on a solid deal, and were panicking when all the good SP's were flying off the board right before the lockout the year before and we nabbed Stroman on a good deal at the last minute. Jed goes down to the wire at the trade deadline too.
  3. Stratos
    Buy low?
  4. Stratos
    On the bright side, whatever pitcher we do sign now might have a chance to actually throw 170 IP.
  5. Stratos
    I don't think that's it. He just fired Ross and hired Counsell. He was very aggressive there and that took a ton of balls.
  6. Stratos
    Checking for signing news more than once a day is psychologically unhealthy I have discovered.
  7. Stratos
    Maybe the Cubs will defer some of Wacha's contract in order to add more talent to the Cubs over the length of the deal.
  8. Stratos
    "Hey Craig, here's a crap roster now go do your thing that we're paying you to do".
  9. Stratos
    Hey good point you poo-poo head.
  10. Stratos
    EXECUTE OPERATION CHEAPNESS. Bulldoze 80% of Wrigley, replace with facsimile with expensive box suites and electronic billboard (scoreboard) and mascot for birthday parties. Fire good loyal dude and hire manager who knows how to cheat the best in order to make crappy rosters into playoff teams. Don't sign stars, instead pump Morel with steroids, create Sammy Sosa 2.0 to maximize jersey sales. Pocket the profits and sell slivers of hope to fans every spring and summer like Tribune-era by striving to slide into playoffs every year with an 88 win club and hope for the best with playoff randomness. Shove bobble-heads into the pie-hole of any fan that complains.
  11. Stratos
    Throw out your Bellinger jerseys and ask for a Hoskins jersey for Xmas.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. Stratos
    Don't worry, it's being rolled over every year and we'll have a 500 million payroll next offseason.
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
  21. Stratos
    Extend Mervis. Jk
  22. 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.
  23. Stratos
    Gotta say, there's been no whiff of the Cubs being linked to Yamamoto.
  24. 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.
  25. Stratos
    Fun fact: statistically speaking, Rey Sanchez is one of the best defensive SS of all-time.
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