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  1. Stratos
    Yes I'm making it up LOL. Ohtani, Tucker, Betts. Freeman, Yamamoto, Diaz etc signed with the Royals. The Pirates are buying rings. You're a man-child, grow up. I never said it was. Maybe they can. Nobody has offered evidence though, which I'd like to see. If it changes the way money is spent why isn't it required to be in the CBA? Show your work.
  2. Stratos
    You can't fire Bruce Levine in the same way you couldn't fire Harry Caray. I mean you could, but who would want to? In fact i want to read his unhinged op-eds.
  3. Stratos
    I dunno. Bruce and Craig have a clear Bromance that's entertaining to watch. A great pair. Anyways, Bruce doesn't have much to cover the next few days so he probably got into the wine for dinner and mixed up his technology. And if anyone doesn't love Bruce Levine there's something terribly wrong with you.
  4. Stratos
    Talk about Cubs thoughts/tidbits that don't belong in another thread here until the next game thread starts post-ASB.
  5. Stratos
    His career ERA isn't good but I want this guy to succeed, at least have a good year for us. Love his competitive fire.
  6. Stratos
    It's a minor miracle given our pitching. The pen full of JAGs has been living off pixie dust. PCA not just exceeding expectations but blowing them away and making up for multiple guys on down years.
  7. Stratos
    Not that I'm smarter than you or anyone, but i just looked in FG at his other numbers and since May 9 he's pulling the ball a bit less than last year, but literally everything else is virtually the same. It really seems like bad luck. Just hitting it at people. Last year his xBA, xSLG, xWOBA matched his real results extremely closely. Since May 9 his BA is .204 vs .280 xBA and .259 SLG vs .342 xSLG.
  8. Stratos
    Money is a problem for a lot of other teams, and a huge advantage for one in particular. The Angels aren't due to a systemic problem, the Dodgers and over 25% of the league spending payroll under 120m is a systemic problem for the fans in those cities. People have stated this about revenue sharing, where are they getting this info? Whether the owners themselves do it or the CBA does it what does it even matter? You still need 1. revenue sharing and you need some kind of system to force them to spend it, and 2. to force teams in general to spend competitively to some minimum level. #1 is already in place in the CBA but clearly it doesn't go far enough if a bunch of teams can still just horsefeathers the bed and spend under 100m. The players would probably be fine with deepening that system. But that doesn't solve the 2nd issue, or the Dodgers issue, and do the players even think the Dodgers are an issue anyways if they're paying out the big contracts?
  9. Stratos
    Good couple of games to go into the break with.
  10. Stratos
    I wonder what's up with Happ and the big increase in K% and whiffs. I wonder if he's trying to hit more HR , or is into some bad habits. Hitting more like he did closer to the beginning of his career.
  11. Stratos
    It's been hot and humid, maybe a little sweat on his hands. I think it was the last series Seiya rifled one about 40 ft off target on a throw home.
  12. Stratos
    Worst qualified mlb hitter since May 9. Negative fWAR. Around 5th worst since June 1. He'll get rest over the ASB. Glad Seiya isn't going, his legs still seemed banged up, I think it was leg cramps he was pulled for the other day. He could use a rest too.
  13. Stratos
    Solid picks day 1, day 2 don't really GAF. go Cubs.
  14. 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?
  15. Stratos
    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.
  16. Stratos
    4.0 WAR since June 1 too.
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. Stratos
    😮
  20. Stratos
    Wtf. That's crazy
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
  23. Stratos
    Best sucky pitcher in Cubs history?
  24. 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.
  25. Stratos
    Yesterday he passed his fWAR total from last season.
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