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  1. Cuzi
    Probably because you cut out context and dont know the definition of dead weight - a heavy or oppressive burden. Bellinger is absolutely a burden. Again, if we wasn't, he, and most certainly Boras, would have opted out. And Jed wouldnt have been reportedly offering Bellinger up to any and all takers at the GM meetings.
  2. Cuzi
    I'm willing to bet the plan for RF was either going back to Suzuki or one of the rookies. Acting like throwing a $32.5M wrench in the middle of that is no big deal is laughable. Bellinger opting in eliminated pretty much every option for shaking the lineup up.
  3. Cuzi
    You would have to ask Jed those questions. I wasn't the one campaigning for Bellinger to opt out. I am not the one scratching off all of the best FAs from the offseason plan. He absolutely is dead weight. Is he still a valuable player? Yes. At a certain price. That price being about half of what he is making. Why do you think Jed was publicly wishing for him to opt out? $50M isn't horsefeathers when you are trying to build an entire new bench, 2-3 relievers with at least one potential closer, and a TOR SP. If Bellinger wasn't dead weight, he would have opted out.
  4. Cuzi
    The Cubs are already ruling out the top tier of the market for batters and pitchers. This team is looking at Kikuchi's. Bellinger not opting out scrapped Jed's entire off-season plan. Any significant move is likely coming only through trade and it's not going to include Bellinger.
  5. Cuzi
    Because Alec Bohm has way more trade value than either one of Bellinger and Castillo. No one takes the perspective of the other teams when thinking of trades for their team. They only look at what is good for the Cubs. Sure, you can sit there and say "add whatever prospects to make it work." But I'm pretty sure we've already discussed how the Cubs aren't going to be adding prospects to a Bellinger deal just to get rid of him.
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    I would still take him. But the Mariners arent going to take Bellinger in return for him. Castillo has one year left on his NTC. He gets to choose where he is going if he were willing to waive it. The Mariners are up against the ropes in terms of what they are willing to spend. The only reason for them to want to trade Castillo now when they have absolutely no leverage would be to dump his salary. They aren't taking back someone who has a larger salary. And Bellinger doesnt even fit their needs. Nico Hoerner would be more what the Mariners need. Something like Hoerner for Castillo + ???.
  7. Cuzi
    Never said they would trade him for Stroman. There's a reason why every time trading Bellinger is brought up by Cubs insiders they also mention the struggle in making that happen. They aren't going to get an offer of Clarke Schmidt for a $32M 2.5 fWAR player. Saying that the Cubs aren't just going to dump his salary is just foolish, though. The rumor is the Cubs are wanting to trade him. It's not that he is available in trade, they WANT to trade him. They are telling you that they want out of his salary. Now, maybe things have changed since the tender deadline and they have just accepted the fact that there is no way out of his contract, thus the non-tender for Tauchman and they would need plan A in place before discussing Bellinger again, but that doesn't change their desire to get out from underneath that pile of wasted money.
  8. Cuzi
    A team like the Yankees does worry about the dollars. Every team in baseball except the Mets does and the Mets only ignored the cost for a single year before they started dumping everyone they signed. If the Yankees want Bellinger, the Cubs are taking back a Stroman. The Cubs would save about $14M, get out from under the uncertainty of 2026, and the Yankees would get the better player at a larger financial commitment while using Stroman to effectively eat a little over half of Bellingers 2025 money. It's a classic bad contract for bad contract trade when the teams benefit more from the player they are getting in the deal. No team trades legit pieces for a bad contract.
  9. Cuzi
    Doesn't matter if he is useful with a $32.5M price tag on his head. He would need to be a 4 fWAR player just to break even on his dollars. He would need to be much more than a 4 fWAR player to get someone like Clarke Schmidt. No team is going to value Bellinger at 4 fWAR. His value is completely under water. If the Cubs are moving him, it's simply a salary dump, or they are attaching a prospect to him in which case the Cubs are hurting the value of the prospect. Bellinger isn't returning horsefeathers. It's no different than the deadline when everyone was saying the Cubs are about to get a haul for Taillon. The money owed to the players nullifies any potential value in trade.
  10. Cuzi
    Yankees can't have him for someone they are basically trying to dump, but we are basically trying to dump Bellinger and we somehow get their #3 pitcher in year 1 arbitration? The whole idea behind trading Bellinger is getting out from under his $32.5 guarantee for next year. We aren't trading him because we have someone ready to take his spot and match his production.
  11. Cuzi
    Ya. He was DFA'd on a roster that had O'Hoppe and dArnaud. The Cubs have Amaya and nothing. I would love to think the Cubs made this move to attempt to DFA him and stash him in AAA, but they were a day away from being able to let the Angels do that and then trade for him.
  12. Cuzi
    Bellinger aint getting you Castillo.
  13. Cuzi
    Think we are at about 51% now. Want to keep going? Do you want to continue racking up post count?
  14. Cuzi
    Add 1% for every time you post count the same question.
  15. Cuzi
    A non zero number. Which is higher than it should be.
  16. Cuzi
    I hope its not high, but I'm not putting anything passed this FO. We are talking about guys that thought the dynamic duo of Hosmer and Mancini was winning baseball.
  17. Cuzi
    This is slightly different than signing a catcher to a non guaranteed minor league contract. Again, Thaiss was on day 6 of DFA assignment. We are about to tender him a contract for ~1.3M plus whatever cash was sent. For what? It's these types of nickel and dime deals that add up to going over the CBT by $200k. Like what is the harm in letting him ride out the DFA assignment, get outrighted, potentially refuse the outright and become a FA and then sign him to one of those December to February deals?
  18. Cuzi
    About as tiring as the Cubs thinking they needed to make a trade for a catcher a team was willing to take cash for a day before he's removed from the 40 man roster. Instead we are a day away from tendering him a contract and offering him a 26 man roster spot. Do I think he'll be on the opening day roster? I certainly hope not. But I'm not going to pretend that this deal isn't god awful timing and grade it against how Jed has shown he operates.
  19. Cuzi
    It's not a 40 spot. It's a 26 man spot. He has no options left.
  20. Cuzi
    Cant wait to trade him to the Yankees for Stroman. Unsurprising that a $30M+ guarantee per year contract for the first 2 years on Bellinger is biting Jed's plans in the ass. Guess he should have been more adamant that Bellinger was going to opt out to save him face.
  21. Cuzi
    Perfect description of Cubs management currently.
  22. Cuzi
    "Overqualified" Thaiss has career -0.3 fWAR since 2019. Thaiss is like applying for a job that requires a Bachelor's Degree when you have a GED.
  23. Cuzi
    My thinking on this is supported by the teams refusal to even meet with Soto.
  24. Cuzi
    This has nothing to do with NFLization. Thaiss provides nothing. This isn't some special team move on a NFL roster. A guy like Thaiss would struggle to stick on a practice squad. If Thaiss is not DFA'd before the 22nd this is a garbage move. It only ever makes a sprinkle of sense if they bought him for one dollar to have the chance to throw him in AAA after they waive him. Also, Thaiss can simply reject the outright assignment and elect FA, like Bethancourt did.
  25. Cuzi
    Begs the question of why?
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