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  1. Hairyducked Idiot
    We can't trade Bryant because everyone knows his shoulder is broken.
  2. Hairyducked Idiot
    You can 100% tell how things are going for the Cubs by how many pissing matches the board gets into.
  3. Hairyducked Idiot
    The important thing to remember is that every offseason report that contradicts anything we assumed we knew before the offseason is obviously wrong.
  4. Hairyducked Idiot
    So it was the old, player wasn’t listed as untouchable so they must be making him available click bait article. Not exactly. There were "sources" that the Cubs had expressed a willingness to trade Bryant, *then* when asked about it, Epstein gave the generic "nobody is untouchable" quote. How serious is that willingness? Nobody really knows either way.
  5. Hairyducked Idiot
    They would if they believe he's permanently broken and want to get KB level assets for a player who's never going to be KB again. If they don't think that, then there's absolutely no reason to trade a player of his caliber right now unless they're getting someone they believe to be better right this minute in return. Bryant for Yelich then? What are we adding to make that fair value?
  6. Hairyducked Idiot
    Counter-counterpoint: Why wouldn't the Cubs trade Kris Bryant?
  7. Hairyducked Idiot
    We're gonna trade him to whoever signs Harper so the buddies can be together. Probably the VB.
  8. Hairyducked Idiot
    We are so rebuilding soon.
  9. Hairyducked Idiot
    OK, this is exactly what I'm talking about, but whatever I'm not gonna spend all offseason having this argument. We need Bryce Harper because he's awesome and figuring out what he's worth or how we get him is for the nerds to deal with.
  10. Hairyducked Idiot
    Yes, I understand that giving a player is an opt-out is the same as giving him value in other ways. My stance is simply that fans *wildly* underestimate how much value that is when discussing it. If you need to give Bryce Harper an elite salary *and* 10+ years of commitment *and* opt-outs, it's probably time to walk away, no matter how badly this team needs his swagger.
  11. Hairyducked Idiot
    Wonder who Jason Heyward is signing with this off-season. Yeah that’s not the point though. Players who already have leverage (due to age positional scarcity or whatever) will always ask for opt outs. Once one team is willing to kick in, they all have to. You might as well be complaining about the per year dollar figure. “But why do we have to pay him $30 million?????” Because he asked for it and he could get it from someone else if not us. If you don’t want to do it, don’t, but you aren’t getting the player. Consider the absurdity of wanting Harper but griping about his opt outs. It’s the price of doing business baby That's fine, but if he wants the opt-outs, you better be getting a discount on the total money over what he would be getting from an opt-outless deal. If you're willing to pay him $30m with opt-outs, he better bet worth $50m without them. "Opt-outs are a way of giving more value" is a very different story from "Lol, who even cares about the total value because the opt-outs will invalidate it."
  12. Hairyducked Idiot
    Wonder who Jason Heyward is signing with this off-season. horsefeathers, just slap a "NEWSFLASH: Players Who Suck Don't Opt Out" headline on there and you'll be picked up by The Athletic in no time! I'd only be keeping a seat warm for Da Bum, tho
  13. Hairyducked Idiot
    That's still *really* not how opt-outs work. we're all aware of your wrong opinion of how opt-outs work, you don't need to bring it up every time it's mentioned Wonder who Jason Heyward is signing with this off-season.
  14. Hairyducked Idiot
    It doesn't matter what it's "set at." It could be 25/900. The thing is going to have so many opt outs that the length of the contract is meaningless. That's still *really* not how opt-outs work.
  15. Hairyducked Idiot
    I don't think it was 100% unavoidable. There's a world out there where someone had the nerve not to sign Seabrook to a long extension. And as good as Crawford is, there's a reason we got so much mileage out of bad goalies when we were good. But it was always going to be a very narrow path.
  16. Hairyducked Idiot
    They've got 3.5 more years of $33m in cap hits to players who are in total not close to worth $33m in cap hits. They can shuffle all the chairs around they want, it's over.
  17. Hairyducked Idiot
    That quote screams "laying the groundwork for the next rebuild." *shrug* that's where this was always headed. I'm not sure sustained success is truly possible in the current MLB, but tank-and-spank isn't how it happens.
  18. Hairyducked Idiot
    It's All A Smokescreen is the new making fun of the Brewers. Whatever, if it lets the offseason seem fun for a few more weeks, I'm in.
  19. Hairyducked Idiot
    When you phrase it like that, it gives me Pujols/Fielder flashbacks.
  20. Hairyducked Idiot
    What a time to be alive
  21. Hairyducked Idiot
    No. 3 point differential in NFL
  22. Hairyducked Idiot
    Okay, that one is gonna hurt the Vaunted PFF Grade
  23. Hairyducked Idiot
    ok I'll take the free win though.
  24. Hairyducked Idiot
    Ballgame
  25. Hairyducked Idiot
    Edit: n/m, should probably not call tim a turd
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