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  1. Hairyducked Idiot
    Mexico-Brazil will be fun
  2. Hairyducked Idiot
    lol, this offseason is fun from a non-Cubs perspective. I never understood why baseball offseasons seemed to drag out free agency forever compared to other sports.
  3. Hairyducked Idiot
    Feldman to Astros for 3/$30m, apparently
  4. Hairyducked Idiot
    I enjoy schadenfreude at a free agent/player overplaying his hand, but you'd think we'd have all learned by now not to engage in it until it's *absolutely* overwith.
  5. Hairyducked Idiot
    Jon Heyman says now deal is "close" for Cano and Mariners. Old Hoss Radbourn ‏@OldHossRadbourn 45s Oh no, it seems scribes once again mistook negotiation for a black guy being uppity.
  6. Hairyducked Idiot
    The fact that he's about to turn 29 and we don't think we're likely to compete in 2014 and probably 2015 is what's getting him dealt.
  7. Hairyducked Idiot
    If Starlin Castro had been hit by a bus before he signed his extension, he had just barely made his first million.
  8. Hairyducked Idiot
    Huh? His initial contract wasn't actually all that huge. He got $1m, with a bonus for giving up football, but they actually ripped up that contract and signed a new one the next season when he actually did give up football. There was no "five years later deal" other than the series of one year deals he's been on under Theo's regime. Derp, I meant the five-year deal he signed one year later. But the bonus was an extra $6.25m for giving up football, and when they tore that up he got $7.8m in guaranteed money.
  9. Hairyducked Idiot
    I always forget exactly how huge Samardzija's initial contract and the one he signed for five-years a year later was. The idea that the Cubs never spent in the draft back in the day is colored by a couple of high-profile busts, mostly Simpson. Edit: Numbers are not as interchangeable as they seem
  10. Hairyducked Idiot
    You say it as if it is obvious, but some insisted that if the Cubs are still bad at Theo's run, it must have been due to outside circumstances beyond his control.
  11. Hairyducked Idiot
    Well, I mean the surplus value is there (or at least they are hoping so). Just not in a linear, generic $/WAR sense.
  12. Hairyducked Idiot
    If I'm Samardzija, I consider that pretty lowball. You want to buy out my three most lucrative FA years? Go bigger.
  13. Hairyducked Idiot
    Having a conversation based on a hypothetical isn't the same as assuming it will be true.
  14. Hairyducked Idiot
    I'm really starting to think we might have something in this bullpen. The difference between last year's pen and the 10th-best in MLB last year by net WPA was eight wins.
  15. Hairyducked Idiot
    Shannon Drayer ‏@shannondrayer 5m Traslated ESPN Deportes article claims Cano is in Seattle and a source says the offer is 10yrs 230-240
  16. Hairyducked Idiot
    http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8syetgh7g1qeiocm.gif
  17. Hairyducked Idiot
    The perceived scale of the hindrances is proportional to how much rope Epstein needs to have his lack of MLB success explained away. In two years we'll have been an expansion team.
  18. Hairyducked Idiot
    More noise about them possibly not posting him here: http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/10084018/masahiro-tanaka-not-made-available-mlb-teams-rakuten-golden-eagles Out of curiosity, if they don't post him what's stopping Tanaka from officially "retiring" from NPB and then entering MLB as a free agent? I'm pretty sure MLB and NPB closed that loophole like a decade ago when some guys did it. Was Soriano one of them?
  19. Hairyducked Idiot
    I don't think that's true at all. Major changes off the top of my head Out or significantly lost talent: Soto, Castro, Garza, Dempster, Marshall In or significantly gained talent: Jackson, Rizzo, Schierholtz, Castillo, Samardzija Pretty close to a wash, imo. Could make a case either way.
  20. Hairyducked Idiot
    The organization exists to help the MLB team win.
  21. Hairyducked Idiot
    You didn't even have to mention Orioleshangout. It was pretty easy to see which team he's a fan of just from the trade.
  22. Hairyducked Idiot
    I've been burned enough believing in Theo's charming confidence in the past. Especially right now when he's trying to help hte team sell those TV rights.
  23. Hairyducked Idiot
    Indulging in the fantasy briefly: Samardzija/Tanaka/Jackson/Wood/Arrieta Strop/Wright/whomever That's a really not-upsetting pitching staff
  24. Hairyducked Idiot
    Like misevaluating the state of the team and the city when they took the job? Overplaying their hand with Garza? Letting DeJesus go for nothing when he still had value? Misreading the market for IFA pool money and being stuck over the limit without the financial ability to fully exploit their over-the-limit status? Heck, we're one Soler bust away from a pretty bad IFA track record. Hiring Dale Sveum Screwing with Starlin Castro
  25. Hairyducked Idiot
    There's value in not being completely results-oriented, but it also reaches a point where "the process is good" becomes an article of faith and not a reasoned evaluation.
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