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  1. Hairyducked Idiot
    How sure are you that our current approach avoided that fate?
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    I'm not going to go through three years of alternative offseasons. That'd be lunacy. I know I put out a few in the past (not for this past offseason, but the ones before). It involves a tremendous amount of hindsight, though. For example, Puig. As you've noted, it inevitably ends with the person who asked for it going "Well, I don't like that as much as you do because (wrong WAR/too much hindsight/not enough hindsight/butterflies flapping wings/whatever)." and you've wasted all that work.
  3. Hairyducked Idiot
    I was thinking of "team" as what we have on paper right now, "results" being what we did in 2012-2014. If the team hadn't been losing so much, the payroll would have been less suppressed. And they've admitted to underspending their means.
  4. Hairyducked Idiot
    I'm not going to go through three years of alternative offseasons. That'd be lunacy.
  5. Hairyducked Idiot
    Yep. If you gave me a chance to do-over with an unnamed, generic, saber-savvy young GM who was interested in a true parallel fronts approach, I'd take it. If the Cubs miss the playoffs this year, and at worst that's an even-money proposition, they're 0-for-4. Coming back from 0-for-4 to a respectable ratio is not at all a gimme putt even with the kind of young talent this team has. A good GM could have had this team humming along with a solid team, a solid farm system and some solid results the last three years (with a non-zero chance of a WS title in one of them) instead of going nutso on 1 of the 3 and now finally starting to see it bubble up in the other two.
  6. Hairyducked Idiot
    Kris Bryant is tied for the team lead in position-player fWAR.
  7. Hairyducked Idiot
    It has definitely crossed my mind before. If Bryant goes to LF eventually, it makes wonderful sense as a starter.
  8. Hairyducked Idiot
    We're all very impressed you took the time to write down all their names, Ash.
  9. Hairyducked Idiot
    I would be just fine with any of those lines and plus defense at 2b. That'd be at least a league-average player, probably a shade better. Guys who can do that at 21 are pretty rare.
  10. Hairyducked Idiot
    http://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.aspx?pos=all&stats=pit&lg=all&qual=0&type=8&season=2015&month=0&season1=2015&ind=0&team=0,ts&rost=0&age=0&filter=&players=0&sort=16,a I really, really hope FIP is right and there's nothing wrong with how Lester is pitching.
  11. Hairyducked Idiot
    I'm just trollingemploying hilarious satire. Real talk though: Our pitching is scary and iffy and we haven't done anything yet but be 2 games over .500. We can enjoy Addison Russell Day without throwing down handies for our GM Team President.
  12. Hairyducked Idiot
    It's the game thread, I don't have to be rational. I'm gonna claim that Bryant and Russell fell into his lap and was all luck.
  13. Hairyducked Idiot
    It was probably all McLeod anyway.
  14. Hairyducked Idiot
    @#$! Theo for blowing off three full seasons to do it. And all it would have taken was for the Astros to take Bryant and leave us with Appel and Beane not going nutso and we'd still be talking about how he hasn't had enough time to fully implement his plan. I'm going to enjoy every second of this *and* refuse to give Theo any credit, and all ya'll can just deal with it. refuse to give theo ANY credit lmfao you [expletive] idiot I'm going to give him negative credit just to spite you.
  15. Hairyducked Idiot
    @#$! Theo for blowing off three full seasons to do it. And all it would have taken was for the Astros to take Bryant and leave us with Appel and Beane not going nutso and we'd still be talking about how he hasn't had enough time to fully implement his plan. I'm going to enjoy every second of this *and* refuse to give Theo any credit, and all ya'll can just deal with it.
  16. Hairyducked Idiot
    theo always said this [expletive] was going to happen @#%# Theo. This is fun, but he still doesn't get to take a bow for being awful and passive for three years. Liriano is good and all, but I still like that Soler, Bryant and Russell get to see a lefty tomorrow.
  17. Hairyducked Idiot
    Fowler Soler Rizzo Bryant Coghlan Castro Montero Pitcher Russell
  18. Hairyducked Idiot
    It feels like they are putting their foot on the gas and just accelerating now. Next week trade Almora for an awesome young pitcher, please.
  19. Hairyducked Idiot
    The first time I ever saw a top-100 prospects list was in a pre-season magazine I bought in like 1995. In the 20 years that followed, the Cubs debuted three top-4 prospects total (Wood, Patterson, Prior). This makes two in a week.
  20. Hairyducked Idiot
    #wearegood
  21. Hairyducked Idiot
    I figure by the time BABIP remembers Soler and Bryant exist, Lester will be awesome and the bullpen will be healthier.
  22. Hairyducked Idiot
    Maybe he really will BABIP .400 his whole professional career.
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  24. Hairyducked Idiot
    I'll love it until the first time someone important Corey Patterson's his knee on a play where he's out by 20 feet.
  25. Hairyducked Idiot
    Bryant's going to be at 0.4 fWAR through four games, all against tough righties.
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