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  1. Hairyducked Idiot
    When you look at only ERA for one guy, only FIP for another guy, only win total for a third guy but not last year his other win totals, and assume their prospects are all good, their rotation is actually pretty good.
  2. Hairyducked Idiot
    Purely on paper going into the season, who ya got? 2016 Cubs or 2018 Cubs?
  3. Hairyducked Idiot
    I don't like calling out specific posts/threads, I think it's more fun in an "lol aren't we all dumb when we look back five years" sort of vibe. But that's the one I'm thinking of. I remember there being a chart with Harper vs. Castro surplus value comparison. Edit: Alright fine fun starts here. http://www.northsidebaseball.com/archive/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=61667&hilit=castro+harper&start=275 I'll even break my "no calling out specific posters" preference to point out that bukie wanted extra prospects thrown in on top of Kershaw to get Castro, only because bukie's always been kind of a dick.
  4. Hairyducked Idiot
    Baseball Prospectus just dropped an Albert Pujols comp on Brendan Harris
  5. Hairyducked Idiot
    Brooks Kieshnick might yet have 20 HRs and 20 saves in the same season.
  6. Hairyducked Idiot
    Wow. I'd have thought Boston would be an easy 2nd. Probably would have guessed Dodgers had more than 4 too. Dodgers I believe only have Kevin Brown and Zach Grienke. (Re-signing/extending Kershaw and Kemp don't count as "free agent signings" for this stat, I assume). Red Sox are David Price, Manny Ramirez and Carl Crawford. (Adrian Gonzalez was acquired with a year left and extended right as the season started). Cubs are Soriano, Lester, Heyward and Darvish.
  7. Hairyducked Idiot
    Just saw that this is the 4th nine-figure free agent contract in Cubs history, putting them second all-time behind the Yankees.
  8. Hairyducked Idiot
    The farm system thing is so weird and lame. The Cubs have 10 WAR worth of position players already in the big league lineup who are 25 or younger (and Kris Bryant just barely misses that line). We could have just held them all at AAA for an extra two years instead of winning the World Series and had the No. 1+++++++ ranked farm system if that matters, I guess.
  9. Hairyducked Idiot
    That is not a good look. I feel bad for him, but then again some team would've traded for him if he was a better player. He's just not that valuable anymore. Remember when he was supposed to be a comparable or perhaps better value than Bryce Harper?
  10. Hairyducked Idiot
    The Cubs signed the best player available this offseason; even though they didn’t really need him because they were the best team in the division without him, and I doubt it will impact their status as favorites to get the best player available next offseason. I wonder if Epstein misses having a Yankees in the division to jazz things up
  11. Hairyducked Idiot
    If you're the kind of person who really cares about getting efficiency out of your free agent dollars, I can see not liking this. Pitchers suck, six years for pitchers really sucks, and opt-outs are *really* bad. But if you're the kind of person who likes it when you add really good pitchers to a really good baseball team, who cares about that nerd stuff.
  12. Hairyducked Idiot
    The sad thing is this didn't fool me for a second, but I still get a little hopeful every time the Darvish thread hits a new page.
  13. Hairyducked Idiot
    It seems like a logical thing for them to do.
  14. Hairyducked Idiot
    I think if that's a question, the real answer is "neither."
  15. Hairyducked Idiot
    Go horsefeathers yourself, inexorable march of time
  16. Hairyducked Idiot
    It's been a nine-year run with 3 Stanley Cups. If this is the end of it, I'm pretty OK with how it turned out.
  17. Hairyducked Idiot
    Objectively, it's quite reasonable. A fifth year on a pitcher about to enter his age-32 season with a major arm injury and surgery in his past? Hell no. But I'm bored and I want a good pitcher right now so I wouldn't care if they gave him 8 years.
  18. Hairyducked Idiot
    Yeah, I'm bored with this and he's using the Cubs to try to squeeze out a better offer from the Dodgers or something. I hope he signs with the Brewers or something just so they get that much more disappointed by third place.
  19. Hairyducked Idiot
    damn it. this is the first time in over a month that i've had any real doubt about the cubs getting darvish. The problem is that "all signs point to team X" can sometimes mean the player is going to team X and sometimes means the player's agent thinks he benefits from appearing to want to go to team X. That thing about "other teams will have to *way* outbid the Cubs" sure felt like one of those. I'm still pretty sure it's happening.
  20. Hairyducked Idiot
    The actual hiring of Theo was pretty crazy.
  21. Hairyducked Idiot
    I'm not complaining but wow is that an early date for Opening Day.
  22. Hairyducked Idiot
    I'm still unreasonably sure this is happening but I do remember some Boston fans talking about how Theo loves drawing lines in the sand and walking away at the last minute.
  23. Hairyducked Idiot
    I might take the under on all 3
  24. Hairyducked Idiot
    Fine. Whatever. *reluctantly moves swaps them above Reds for 3rd in NL Central projections)
  25. Hairyducked Idiot
    I’ve already more or less pencilled him in in my mind. It makes too much sense plus the message board guy said it was happening.
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