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  1. Hairyducked Idiot
    Two plays and I've decided I like Alcantara's defense at 2b
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    RizzOMG
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    Someone put up a Craigslist ad for a jersey unburning service
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    It may be hard to tell, assuming that the Reds put everything close in play given his complete lack of stuff.
  5. Hairyducked Idiot
    Wait, Tennessee is off today? That makes the Soler/Russell double day off even weirder.
  6. Hairyducked Idiot
    Rebuild confirmed failure.
  7. Hairyducked Idiot
    Alcantara PA final referendum on rebuild. Calling it now.
  8. Hairyducked Idiot
    Must have been alright, batted later.
  9. Hairyducked Idiot
    You better hope he plays. The NHL is going to be stingy as crap about waivers on contracts like that, and the recapture penalties are ugly.
  10. Hairyducked Idiot
    Sometimes I even make it a point to click on an ad every day for a week or so before I forget to care for six months.
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    I pirate stuff all day long but I feel like a thief if I visit sites and adblock.
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    Work?
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    l2mutetabs
  14. Hairyducked Idiot
    Watching Iowa on gameday Javy grounds out. "Injury delay."
  15. Hairyducked Idiot
    I have a hard time seeing a deal. I feel the opposite. I think the only reason a deal can't get done is because either the Cubs are content with what they have (which wouldn't upset me, I like what we got here) or the Marlins, for whatever reason, want to hold onto him until the trade deadline and pray they can work out an extension before moving him, but it's pretty obvious Stanton has no interest in staying in Miami, and I think he'll let that be known to the team this offseason and then he'll hit the market. And if/when that happens I think the Cubs go shopping. And if other teams do, they won't be able to match what the Cubs can offer. There are fans of at least 15 teams writing the same thing right now, I guarantee it.
  16. Hairyducked Idiot
    And also mitigating the benefit of trading for Stanton. I don't see the difference. The Cubs need their prospects to fill in all the massive holes on the MLB team just as much as other teams need their young MLB players to stay and not create Cubs-sized holes on the roster.
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    It's anticlimactic for some of us because we want to see these guys impacting the Cubs, either via trades or playing on the team, as quickly as possible. Knowing that the rest of this season and the first few weeks of next year are just playing the waiting game is frustrating. I'm not begrudging anyone for loving minor league ball and I'm not looking to clutter up the rest of the minor league forum, but stuff like "Core Fore" and "Future Five," just emphasizes, to me, how much waiting is still left and how it's been a pretty [expletive] run to get there. I can't wait to see some of these guys kick ass or be traded for players that kick ass, but wait we must. I'm not going to slurp Epstein for taking four years to get to that point, but the waiting is getting pretty close to done. Unless they go into full-on super-villain sabotage mode, 2015 will be a solid team.
  18. Hairyducked Idiot
    I assume other teams have young MLB assets to trade for Stanton. You aren't limited to trading guys who are still eligible for the prospect lists.
  19. Hairyducked Idiot
    Works for me. I'll take anything that makes me feel better. Notice Springer had the same insane BABIPs all through the minors and is at .309 in the majors. His .235/342/466 line is very much in the vicinity of what I expect from Bryant in his rookie year.
  20. Hairyducked Idiot
    Well, sure, Almora is a better prospect than Vitters or McNutt and about the same as Jackson, and he gets less hype because we're busy hyping the five better guys we have now.
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    Equally true for like 20 other teams, though
  22. Hairyducked Idiot
    When Castro was Almora's age, wasn't he raking in the majors and not just getting hot mid-season in A+?
  23. Hairyducked Idiot
    Seriously, screw pitchers.
  24. Hairyducked Idiot
    I can't find the link now, but it's something like $30k or $40k for your first year on the 40-man and it doubles in your second year or if you have at least one day of MLB service time. That's a lot more than you make off the 40-man, where it's like $2500/month for AAA and only when the season is in session.
  25. Hairyducked Idiot
    Hot takes/real talk combo: I'm terrified of Bryant and Baez's K-rates, but trying not to think about it because everything else is so awesome. Seriously, though, the list of people who strike out this much in the minors and become awesome is really, really thin. I think that when you normalize Bryant's BABIP and factor in the brutal AAA>MLB transition for a high-K guy, he becomes pretty ordinary in the short-term. But ordinary at 22 isn't the worst thing in the world and he can go up from there. I assume Addison Russell is going to be solid no matter what. I'm meh on Almora. I think the prospect hipsters have gone way too far in ignoring stats but as long he's not too much of a minor-league defense being overhyped guy, he'll have some sort of MLB career. You don't usually get superstars at No. 6 overall anyway. I don't think Alcantara's going to hit a lot in the majors. Other than a higher BABIP, he's not doing anything to AAA that Brett Jackson or Josh Vitters or Junior Lake didn't do in their first go-around at Iowa. If he's got plus defense at 2b or CF, then he'll be a useful player, but who knows what a guy's defense really looks like until he gets to the majors. Too early to tell anything on Schwarber.
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