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  1. Hairyducked Idiot
    Torreyes was doing better at AA at the same age.
  2. Hairyducked Idiot
    Considering that underslot has been the rule for picks this high, "sign for slot" is a little misleading. Makes it sound routine.
  3. Hairyducked Idiot
    I don't see how it's great news. It's bad news, if true, because I expect him to sign and to sign for less than that. Lower is better in practical terms, I can't deny that. But I like the fact that we gave out the biggest bonus under the new system. Thumb in the eye of the underslot theorists.
  4. Hairyducked Idiot
    Yeah, blocking Vitters isn't a thing. valbuena's OPS will be under .700 by the end of the year. i'd just like to see a former prospect see if he can turn it around, there's absolutely no harm in giving him time instead of cody [expletive] ransom. Valbuena is a former prospect, too.
  5. Hairyducked Idiot
    They'll try him as a starter first. He's projected as a reliever by many, but he's still got a chance to start.
  6. Hairyducked Idiot
    yep! But then again, it isn't my money. Primarily, I'm looking at this in comparison to spending $30M on a single, older pitcher (prospect) like Gonzalez. The double money you're paying in this market is still better invested than the totally unconstrained spending on the age 23+ guys from Cuba. However, it is one of the few available avenues to inject talent into the system with no other cost but money. If Gonzalez is actually ready to step in and pitch (I'm not sure he is), then I'm not really sure that he's a worse investment in the general sense. You look at the lists of IFA classes each year, and 95% of this money might as well be piled up in a hotel room and burned. The failure rate for these prospects is huge.
  7. Hairyducked Idiot
    Horsehockey, but the charade must be enacted.
  8. Hairyducked Idiot
    I keep hearing that theory floated, and I'm just going to flat-out say it: That's a really stupid idea. Nobody's going to pay more for IFA space just because we paid more for it this year.
  9. Hairyducked Idiot
    The fact that we've had some budget-saving trades could also fit in with that theory.
  10. Hairyducked Idiot
    No, Torreyes was not rule 5 eligible. 2014 or 2015, I'm fairly sure.
  11. Hairyducked Idiot
    Could the Cubs have actually gotten any money? Maybe. Probably not. Could they have handled the negotiations better from day one and not ended up in a multi-year morass? Absolutely.
  12. Hairyducked Idiot
    I think this is ridiculous. He may well have been taken advantage of by Zell, but it certainly wasn't due to naivety. I'm much more inclined to believe it was due to the fact that he was the only one that wanted the Cubs badly enough to agree to the deal as it's structured. Data point No. 2 is how naively he's handled the renovations. That conclusion is based on someone thinking something like they should have just thrown a bunch of dirty money at a bunch of fat guys wearing monocles and smoking big cigars because that's totally totally how these things get done because LULZ CHICAGO POLITICS AMIRITE. Getting talked down from asking for $300m to buying several million worth of stuff is an all-time great failure in negotiating.
  13. Hairyducked Idiot
    New CBA nixed those.
  14. Hairyducked Idiot
    And a useful piece for 2014 is gone :(
  15. Hairyducked Idiot
    I think this is ridiculous. He may well have been taken advantage of by Zell, but it certainly wasn't due to naivety. I'm much more inclined to believe it was due to the fact that he was the only one that wanted the Cubs badly enough to agree to the deal as it's structured. Data point No. 2 is how naively he's handled the renovations.
  16. Hairyducked Idiot
    No. 1 prospect
  17. Hairyducked Idiot
    Turns out we and the prospect rankings were maybe overestimating Vizcaino's ability to stay healthy.
  18. Hairyducked Idiot
    If he is even within shouting distance of acceptable, then the love should explode.
  19. Hairyducked Idiot
    Insanely conservatively.
  20. Hairyducked Idiot
    Good question and I have wondered that myself. I have sent that question to BA twice and it had yet to be answered. One of the pundits on Twitter said maybe supplemental first for Torres at best, later for Jimenez.
  21. Hairyducked Idiot
    It just keeps looking to me like the Cubs misread the market for acquiring IFA money.
  22. Hairyducked Idiot
    How many teams are out there that both have our extreme lack of SP depth and our need to keep payroll at least somewhat under control, but are also in the race? And how many of those teams have something to offer that we need more than we need Wood? And how many of *those* teams aren't going to use either scouting reports or advanced statistics to decide he's not necessarily a guy you need for a stretch run?
  23. Hairyducked Idiot
    Dunno, but they don't look very comparable to me.
  24. Hairyducked Idiot
    No. If you get time, could you expand on this further? No, as in Profar can't be the piece coming back because the Rangers wouldn't give him up? Or no that we need pitching more so it wouldn't be him? Profar isn't coming back from the Rangers for Garza.
  25. Hairyducked Idiot
    Our FO gets off on being withholding.
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