Hairyducked Idiot
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But it got us Corey Black. A *prospect*! I'd spend $150m every day of the week if it meant we got a prospect 10 years later.
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That's because you place really bad valuations on the present season and on prospects. Really, really bad.
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I'd put it at like a 25% chance that Theo Epstein ends up with equal to or fewer Division Series appearances to Jim Hendry for their Cubs tenures.
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YOU JUST GAVE SOMEBODY [expletive] FOR BEING RESULTS ORIENTED If you don't see the difference between "Ha, you didn't like this personnel move because pitchers are risky but this pitcher is OK now" and taking a potshot at the front office, then I can't help you.
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That's a meaningless goal that they have no ability to reasonably carry out, and certainly no history of it. Even the Red Sox' run only lasted 7 years, plus one dead cat bounce a few years later. Saying "we want to be good for 10 years" is just picking a random large chunk of future that sounds impressive.
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But not the baseball games on the schedule right now. Just future baseball games where it's really easy to make big promises because there's no accountability until it becomes the present, at which point you can just start pointing to the new future.
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You're going to be very disappointed when the actual 2016 Cubs show up looking remarkably like the 2015 Cubs, give or take a starting pitcher.
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Higher than the probability that whatever rando prospects we trade will ever, ever make a meaningful diference in a baseball season in terms of how far the team gets. I don't care about what makes you feel "hope." I care about what wins baseball games. And it's not Scrooge McDucking prospects in the middle of a playoff race just because the narrative that 2016 will be magical if you are virtuous and patient has taken a grip.
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Tim is reading this thread and getting the itch to try again with his Sporcle ripoff.
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What they've done over the years is prove they can lose a whole lot of baseball games. http://cdn3.teen.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/james-franco-realization.gif Is that the face Theo makes when he realizes he's in danger of going his 7th straight year without winning a singe playoff game?
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You honestly don't know what you're talking about. Having a few really elite prospects does technically make you top-heavy because they're all that matter, but the system was and remains extremely deep on the kinda mid-tier prospects that goober fans love to pine for.
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What they've done over the years is prove they can lose a whole lot of baseball games.
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I'm sure as hell not giving up David Kelton, Bobbie Brownlie *and* Ryan Harvey in the same deal. That'd be destroying the future.
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I don't care what the front office "prefers." I care about what's best for the organization. I'm not always convinced the two align.
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It's an indication of what is possible. There's not point in puting down a blanket "This is what they would/won't do." There are only probabilties. That's not actually true.
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Because God forbid they actually dare to move any of their precious, precious prospects when they don't have a 15 game-lead at the top of the division. Why do you want to go back to the Jim Hendry Way so badly?
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Unless the Cardinals or Pirates are too good next year too. Or if we have some players we want to try to generate trade value from so we can't sit them. Or if we have some young hitters and they struggle. Then it was always meant to be 2017.
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I'm guessing the money.
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In a five or seven game series? Yes, please. Check where the Royals' offense was about mid-July last year.
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Because there's no way a couple of wild-card teams who were meh in the regular season could ever go through to the pennant in the coin-flip-like baseball playoffs...
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So does the commish have to overturn that or is there like an 'approve' button on the league page on Yahoo! Fantasy.
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Given the choice, I'd rather dip into our considerable trade resources to try to find an amazing prime age starter over spending a billion dollars on yet another older one. If it's a choice between a Price or a Hamels and nothing at all, I'll take them, but I don't think it's an optimal situation.
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Not really though yarly
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#wearegood
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We're about to go on a run that will make the last week of mediocrity seem like a distant memory.