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  1. Stratos
    What if Cabrera is acquired for Caissie or Conrad but Tucker is resigned. Like the calls for Bichette here, we can dream...
  2. Stratos
    Sure but some aren't actively having elbow issues with 3 years left until FA. This could be Soroka redux. But again, Jed is stuck in a corner. Even with Soroka I imagine the other deals on the table just weren't worth the costs.
  3. Stratos
    Honestly this is a great guess.
  4. Stratos
    Well I'd rather spend significant money on a bat than a SP due to the injury prone nature of SP. We'll see who is dealt first to fully judge the deal. I agree that spending significant cash on players age 33+ is problematic. But then so is dealing away your young prospects. Again, Jed is stuck in a corner with this ownership.
  5. Stratos
    They don't want to pay for a FA bat + FA SP.
  6. Stratos
    Yes.
  7. Stratos
    Well the good news is we probably land one of these big FA bats. Unless Tommy just pockets the money again, which would likely result in a boycott of the 2026 season from me. Go Jays!
  8. Stratos
    Some fair points, but they don't need 10 yr megadeals to sign a good SP. And if they won't sign huge FA deals then they're dumb as rocks to trade talented hitting prospects like Cam Smith. Jed is stuck between a rock and a hard place. This trade is only about saving money.
  9. Stratos
    Given Cabrera's elbow is about to explode I'm not that keen on this deal. Final judgment when the prospects we're sending are announced. 2nd offseason in a row we're sending good prospects away for players because Tom is too cheap to pay for them in FA. What a joke
  10. Stratos
    Top guy they'd be most likely to sign would be the guy whose market ends up the weakest per their va.lue My best guess is could be anyone except the top 2 guys Bichette and Tucker, since Dodgers and/or Jays should be in on them.
  11. Stratos
    Every team with some money to spend should be "checking in on" every quality FA who has any chance to be useful to them. I mean it takes just 1 phone call to Boras to check on the price of a bunch of guys.
  12. Stratos
    Ya Horton's K/9 doesn't jive with the results last year. He probably had some BABIP luck with great defense behind him, plus a pitchers ballpark. There may obviously be some things xFIP and Steamer aren't factoring. These projection systems should be generating the most likely outcomes with room for variance that's better or worse. A 4.34 ERA projection seems a bit high though, but we fans might also be biased.
  13. Stratos
    0.5% chance the Cubs sign Bichette. His market would have to fall flat and with his age and the Jays interest I don't see them winning a bid. The most likely FA's the Cubs sign will be the guys who are most undervalued by this year's market according to the Cubs and it's impossible to say who that will be because we don't know what other teams are willing to bid on players. Last year it was guys like Boyd and Rea, and before that it was guys like Swanson, Suzuki, Imanaga etc. Bellinger was an exception because they didn't have a CF and he was the only good one on the market at the time.
  14. Stratos
    Yeah probably. Which is why this org sucks
  15. Stratos
    I like Caissie and Mo but at the end of the day one is a corner OF and the other is a DH who is a below average catcher/1b. Those are the easiest positions to replace so a trade doesn't kill us. Shaw is harder to replace. But a SP shouldn't be hard to acquire in FA either especially this offseason but here we are. I just want this crappy ownership to spend some of the money we give them on the product we pay for. Grab a big bat and big arm in FA, keep the prospects and go win.
  16. Stratos
    If it's Gallen then they need to add a big bat also, which is probably fine.
  17. Stratos
    I say strap in for another long offseason of waiting.
  18. Stratos
    Maybe this is where I tap out on the offseason until ST and only check the transactions once every few days.
  19. Stratos
    I bet Tucker gets some oot outs. Womp womp
  20. Stratos
    I got u mixed up with squally. I apologize
  21. Stratos
    Why are you freaking out over losing out on a guy you saw as a 16m AAV pitcher? This deal might even make him about as good as Gallen in the eyes of MLB FO's.
  22. Stratos
    Boras is the most annoying human being in MLB history.
  23. Stratos
    Losing Shota, Taillon, Boyd, Rea next offseason plus potentially Imai plus Nico/Happ/Seiya/Kelly would be insane.
  24. Stratos
    At the end of the day the Cubs lost out on a pitcher the market evaluated at 3/63 with opt-outs. Not a huge deal. It's another offseason waiting around on Scott Boras games. No reason to panic, same when we held out for Bellinger. There's still several very good FA from different positions on the table plus the ability to trade for a SP too. Not Hoyers first rodeo.
  25. Stratos
    Lance did a breakdown of him where his slider is very unique and actually has armside run so almost nothing to compare that pitch to in the MLB, so question marks on how it will play. Imanaga also came in under what we thought he'd get and had lots of protection for the Cubs built in the contract, but also incentives if he did well. Unless you're a Yamamoto type obvious TORP seems teams are weary of the unknowns of these guys.
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