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Uhhh... Drew Smyly?
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That's generally how it works in the playoffs. But he's been as consistently bad in the playoffs as he's been good in the regular season.
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I'm not comfortable calling a guy an ace who's only standout trait is limiting hard contact while being league average in literally every other measure. There's a reason why he famously implodes in the playoffs.
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Max Fried's peak was 4.9 fWAR. Nathan Eovaldi's peak was 5.7 fWAR. Fried is a 3 WAR pitcher and he's going to be 31. He's no spring chicken.
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Dansby Swanson was arguably the best defensive SS in the game. He was the 6th best in fWAR over the span of the previous 2 seasons with only 1 SS being more than 1 WAR better. 3 of the SS's ahead of him were Trea Turner, Carlos Correa, and Xander Bogaerts. Outside of that FA and a rumored offer to Ohtani, the Cubs haven't been linked to QO FAs. There's also a handful of SP in this FA that was in the same tier of pitcher that Max Fried is and won't be offered a QO for varying reasons like Yusei Kikuchi, Nathan Eovaldi, and Jack Flaherty. Then you have guys that are better coming off TJS like Shane Bieber who happened to pitch for our lovely small market GMs team. Dansby Swanson was one of the best SS's in baseball. The Cubs already have 2 Max Fried's.
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You realize just a 2nd round pick has been a line in the sand, correct?
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Nico Hoerner underwent successful right flexor tendon surgery
Cuzi replied to KCCub's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
If the Padres can trade Juan Soto and get better, I'm pretty sure there are scenario's in which the Cubs could trade Nico Hoerner and get better. -
Max Fried isn't a big enough upgrade to tempt the Cubs to pull the trigger on a QO free agent, especially with the additional penalties this year. Outside of Soto and relief pitchers I dont really care. There's nothing besides catcher that the team can offer a spot to start, and I'd rather use some of these prospects to trade for one than go the FA route. AJ Minter and Jose Leclerc are a couple under the radar relievers I'd like the Cubs to go after.
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Nico Hoerner underwent successful right flexor tendon surgery
Cuzi replied to KCCub's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Whether or not the Cubs were looking at shaking up the lineup with a Hoerner deal, taking chips off the table isn't exactly something to celebrate. -
Want to point out where I said 6 or more years? Or are you just putting words in my mouth. I conceded to saying Seiya would qualify as long term, if you wanted to add him. That still doesn't eliminate the fact that there are 67 longer term contracts than 5 years in MLB currently with off the chart number of contracts matching 5 years. There's absolutely nothing long term about a 2 year contract with options or a 4 year deal in today's market. They are both below average terms for their tier. Top free agents defined by MLBTR A 4 year deal is like saying a 5'8 man is tall. I do wonder when the rest of the league will wake up, though. Jed is schooling them on what it takes to win by eliminating bad contracts. Fingers crossed we dont have a Dodgers vs Yankees World Series. Baseball is entering the LeBron James + Dwayne Wade + Chris Bosh era of basketball. Time to stop worrying about what the last 3 or 4 years of a deal will look like when you'll be out of a job 5 years before that time comes.
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We are sitting here celebrating Jed's "success" in avoiding "bad" contracts. I'm still waiting for the nickel and dime strategy to actually win something worthy of celebrating. It's time for Jed to learn how to putt.
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So let me get this straight. You bring up the 1 contract above 6 years he has given out. The one contract I acknowledged as what I would consider long. And then you think I'm moving goal posts? Clown.
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No goal posts are being moved. I dont consider 5 years a long contract when there are 67 other contracts in MLB that surpass it in length. But if you want to consider it long then go ahead. There's nothing long about Imanaga's contract or Taillon because neither one is going to show up on the list when you order by length. 4 years is below average length for top 20 or so FAs in a given year since the boon of these career contracts.
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Imanaga is on a 2 year deal with team options for the remainder and Taillon is a 4 year deal. Those are standard. Nothing long about them. If you want to throw Seiya in, fine. But acting like he did good when negotiating a Japanese contract is, lets say... generous.
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Deals? He's given out one. Singular. Jed is not embarrassing anyone but himself. He's built a $240M roster that's 10 games behind $112M roster.
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I never questioned Hoyer for not trading him for Jordan Westburg. I questioned him for not trading him at all. Westburg was simply "my guy." My dream. And I would have never guessed Westburg would turn out as good as he is today. He was simply the one guy that stood out as "this guy has the potential to solve our 3B woes and he's ready to come up the day after the trade, not 2 years from now"
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You want me to research what they are today vs how they were viewed at the time of the trade? I don't play that game, sorry. Do you believe the Rays think Morel was worth it today? Prospects succeed and prospects fail. That's the risk you take, but you are never going to celebrate the successes if you dont initially take the risk. The reality of why Stroman didn't get traded was because in the span of like 2 weeks the Cubs went from definite selling to buying for the slight chance of backing into the playoffs.
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The opt in question never really came up prior to the deadline. He had like 3 bad starts leading up the deadline. Still better than Montgomery and Lance Lynn who brought back pretty nice packages.
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Baez wasn't a Theo pick.
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What would you like me to get to? You bring up how bad Stroman was leading up to the deadline but fail to understand that Jordan Montgomery was worse and brought back the Cardinals #4 prospect.
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It was a discussion on PSD and I was really pushing the idea of going after Jordan Westburg who was just rotting away on the Orioles AAA roster with 700 or so PA's playing 3B. The prices teams were paying for rental starters last season at the deadline was pretty nuts. There was 2 or 3 pitchers you could put in the "Stroman" league where it just made too much sense to trade him, but people thought he was going to opt-in.
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You quote that like I ever said that.
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So did the other "Stromans" at the deadline. They all returned 50 FV prospects.
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You are the one that brought up Arrieta and Rizzo, not me. But at least you finally admit how dumb your argument is trying to prop up Hoyer.
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1 player in 4 years? Jed had an opportunity to pull off a Dempster for Hendricks trade but he chose not to trade Stroman when the market was setting a pretty damn high value on him.
