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  1. Geographyhater8888
    When your roster is a coin flip fringe playoff contender predicated on complimentary pieces who’d be bottom of the order hitters on league heavy weights, strategically you look to sell these expendable pieces to acquire farm talent at the deadline and not rely on a bunch of Kirk Cousins as your core. who on this team couldn’t be replaced in the offseason by players of similar value? jed is sacrificing the future to skate around 500 <5> games. Directionless garbage.
  2. Geographyhater8888
    Hendricks is the only player on the current roster you could justify dropping $ on. He started and likely will end his career with the Cubs and was a blue chip rotation piece that’ll never go out of style. what a great proxy for the current state of our rosters lack of star power and talent
  3. Geographyhater8888
    I don’t wear jerseys. For those who do I’m genuinely curious if there’s a single player worth the investment.
  4. Geographyhater8888
    A 1-2-3 9th. Wow. And it’s a game they won. Miracles do happen, look at the Sox the last couple days.
  5. Geographyhater8888
    Heart attack Hector time. Jed’s only off season pen acquisition.
  6. Geographyhater8888
    Anyone know which current player is our top selling jersey? For the jersey wearers have or will any of you drop $100+ on anyone on this roster?
  7. Geographyhater8888
    The offense is incapable of scoring insurance runs.
  8. Geographyhater8888
    He’ll be nearby in a Dodger uniform in the next half decade thankfully. Skeenes too. Hopefully by then we’ll be winning instead of talking about “the plan”.
  9. Geographyhater8888
    If the asking price is cash considerations or a career AAAA player there’s nothing to lose. That’s all I’d be willing to give up for a team that’s many pieces away and playing at .37 win clip since may.
  10. Geographyhater8888
    The conclusion to draw from this is Jed is no Friedman or Theo and his qualifications are being Theos right hand man. the 2021 sell off was very needed. Now he’s building his own roster and has spent $240 million on an aspirational mediocre roster with a little give and take a manager who people are treating as a 7 WAR player based off last season because of Ross’s pen management. im open to critique. I don’t take it personally. He’s just built a directionless team while likely copying Theos format and that’s really the only way to make sense of it.
  11. Geographyhater8888
    Difference between Jed and Theo is Theo was all or nothing. Instead of half a$$ing a roster full of r complimentary players in an effort to skate mediocrity Theo would use the Taillons Stromans Happs and Bellinger as trade bait to add farm at talent at the deadline. It’s an awful roster building strategy. $240 million spent on mediocrity (really bad as of now) needs serious explanation.
  12. Geographyhater8888
    Everything was supposed to be fine. If only Jeds assumption those pesky Brewers forgot they were supposed to stink in the absence of Counsell and the Pirates Reds and Cardinals would turn back the clock to 2023 improving this roster in the offseason wouldn’t have been necessary.. too bad our 7 WAR manager is coaching a team that’s fundamentally flawed, and a the antithesis of those Brewers managed teams.
  13. Geographyhater8888
    That’s the only path that logically makes sense. Difference is those Dodgers teams still had elite players outsourced from other organizations like Adrian Gonzalez, Greinkies and previously Hanley Ramirez, sort of win now players mixed in with young farm talent. They were built for now and the future. difference between Theo and Jed is Jed loves holding on to his expensive role players while Theo would flip the Taillons, Stromans, Happs and Bellingers for farm talent while Jed tries building around these guys instead building around elite bats with these complimentary pieces. This half a$$ed approach accomplishes nothing but mediocrity while doing nothing to help with the future fetching prospects for these expendable pieces.
  14. Geographyhater8888
    How does their farm system look?
  15. Geographyhater8888
    They’ll stay this way for years unless Shaw Horton and Cassie can be our next Brizzo and our next Lester/Arrietta and or Jed stops buying Nissans and Dodge Charger free agents and start purchasing a Mercedes or Rolls Royce, like Reinsdorf’s Whitesox.
  16. Geographyhater8888
    Last night was the Cubbie special. Game is tied in the in the middle innings, offense or starting rotation finds a way to keep the game competitive (never in unison), pen immediately coughs up the lead and can’t seem to hold one, bats go silent in the waning innings and we have our 2024 Chicago Cubs. At this point there’s no reason to consider being buyers until the bats and pen can make big strides. The rotation is expectedly regressing to their mean. Until Jed stops assembling a Jerry Reinsdorf esque roster full of guys ranked in the low to mid 80’s on the Show expect mediocrity.
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  18. Geographyhater8888
    What you described is the best case scenario long term plan. I agree that these medium length contracts seem like a stop gap approach to skate the lines of contention. Only difference between Jed and Theos approach was Theo was all or nothing. Either tank or contend. does Jed have the willingness to scurried a Soto caliber bat for $599 million in the future. Everything else is what I’ve suspected. It’s just a roster building strategy no team besides the mid 2000’s Sox have really deployed.
  19. Geographyhater8888
    Where do you even begin with fixing this team? There’s one gaping hole after another on this horribly constructed roster.
  20. Geographyhater8888
    5-0, games over. It’ll take them 27 innings to match that insurmountable deficit.
  21. Geographyhater8888
    Despicable.
  22. Geographyhater8888
    Seiya is making $17 million/year off his production in Japan, Happ and Dansby making another $46 off of a 4.2 and 5.5 WAR with a previous track record of of slightly above average production over the course of their first 5+ seasons in the league and because we’re in a situation with no big time bat in this lineup you end up giving Cody $80 million with the hopes last season wasn’t a fluke after falling off a cliff after 2029. Best case scenario is he’s productive enough to opt out. The point is building your roster and investing payroll around players to add an extra win or 2 best case scenario is an inefficient way to contend for a championship. You’re paying them off 1 season hoping it becomes a new trend. would you trade Swanson and Happ/Suzuki for Seager? Less AAV and more wins. what Is Jed’s strategy here?
  23. Geographyhater8888
    $93 million cumulative AAV split between Swanson, Happ, Cody and Suzuki. A career 162 game 12 combined WAR/season, essentially 4 wins above average. For $30 million/year you can have Mookie Betts for around a 6 WAR. Terrible roster construction and value from a $230 million payroll.
  24. Geographyhater8888
    Wouldn’t be a bad idea either to DH for Amaya and bat the pitchers 9th.
  25. Geographyhater8888
    $230 million well spent.
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