Hairyducked Idiot
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Top 5 position player prospects >>>> getting three or four lesser top-100 types
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No crap at all. I mean, if they like a trade then they should absolutely make one. But I don't see that they *need* to make one. We've got a million holes in our MLB lineup and we're not close to filling them all with prospects.
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If Soler isn't up for at least 2.5 more years, something has gone very wrong. Not the least among them that he's cleared waivers, because he's out of options after 2015.
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Oh, I bet they can find alternatives. We're going to get some starters, but it doesn't have to be any one guy.
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Now I'm thinking this doesn't really move the needle on 2015 that much. Russell could be a late-2015 guy, but 2016 seems more likely. Straily has some real problems and it's too early to tell whether he's a Volstad or an Arrieta. Which isn't a problem, I'm still super-psyched about the return. I'd just like to point out that we *again* didn't get the near-ready TOR prospect to be plugged into the next-year projection, just like Garza, the 2013 draft and the 2014 draft.
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Well, when I say "an OF", I pretty much just mean Stanton. You can't buy that with money. That's reasonable. I just hate talking about offseason plans that require going after one super specific player. There's a chance the Marlins don't even trade him, and then there's an even bigger chance they just like someone else's prospects better than ours and it's all moot.
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I want an outfielder, but I don't see the point in trading a bunch of prospects for one when we've got all this money just sitting around waiting to be spent.
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The prospects aren't really excess until we start running out of holes at the MLB level. I won't complain if we go after a big trade, but I'm not expecting it.
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Because if you spend on the best you can pitching in 2014 they are probably going to be old and hurt and bad in 2016 and taking up half your payroll space. And you don't need to, because the second tier of pitching will do just fine.
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Supposed to be a 3b long-term, I think. By the way, disagree completely on this. Definitely think he's a SS all the way, and could be better defensively than Castro. (I realize this was super early in the talks so you might have posted something different later.) Yeah, I was remembering old reports.
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You want us to prove a negative? Elite starting pitching can win in the playoffs. So can elite offenses. So can elite bullpens. There are no magic formulas.
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[expletive] it, I'll go full meatball here. How'd we do in the playoffs again? Honestly, I get what you're saying, but I've always had it in my head that pitching wins in the playoffs. Cold weather, elite stuff, keeps bats at bay. Time to go to bed.
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I wouldn't turn one down but I don't want to pay what it takes to get one, either. But we're talking about "huh, that might be the reason we miss the playoffs by five games" kind of problems and not "start making fecal league jokes in the third week of April" problems.
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I love Bosio but we can't just count on him to fix everyone. We can count on him to fix enough. Plus we have tons of relievers. Give me a version of your realistic rotation next year..... Maeda Arrieta Wood Jackson Straily/Hendricks Basically add any one or two FA SPs from the not-Scherzer/Lester pile. It's not ZOMG no-doubt awesome, but it's good enough.
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I love Bosio but we can't just count on him to fix everyone. We can count on him to fix enough. Plus we have tons of relievers.
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2014 NSBB Cubs Top 50 Prospects
Hairyducked Idiot replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
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We don't need to trade any of them for pitching prospects. Screw pitching prospects.
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JJ Cooper @jjcoop36 Follow @jonathanganz don't think there is any one minor lg pitcher in game right now worth Bryant or Baez or Russell.
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Eventually we have to start graduating some of these guys :(
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I still don't think we will get any TOR, to be honest. Bad value is bad value to this organization, and elite FA pitchers are bad value.
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Yes, yes I agree. But it's a two-year window before stuff starts possibly hitting the fan a bit if we are going to be cheap. Agreed. I'm not expecting them to go nuts deep and blow all this flexibility in one offseason. We *might* get one big move, but we'll probably just sign mid-tier guys to short-term deals. And that could be enough.
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If you added Stanton and two TOR pitchers to what we have for 2015 you'd have a chance to win 100 games.
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Yeah. I'm saying you could give Scherzer the Robinson Cano deal, add a veteran outfielder and *still* lower payroll by another $12m or so.
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I got about $55m if they fill out the roster with minimum guys. And that's with an entire infield, probably some outfielders, starting catcher, three pitchers (four if you like Hendricks or Straily) and the entire bullpen already in place. They can afford anything they want this offseason. whether they *will* or not is a different question.
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Straily's fangraphs page is just *crying* to have some Bosio administered. He should contribute in 2015.