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  1. Hairyducked Idiot
    That fits with the Twitter rumors that the Blue Jays went past $60 million.
  2. Hairyducked Idiot
    LA Times reporter confirms Angels did not bid.
  3. Hairyducked Idiot
    That wasn't credible. This time it is.
  4. Hairyducked Idiot
    Phil Rogers @ChiTribRogers 2m Details The #Cubs did put in a bid on Yu Darvish, according to a ML source. He fits profile of how Epstein wants to build.
  5. Hairyducked Idiot
    Red Sox did not submit a bid, according to Cafardo.
  6. Hairyducked Idiot
    Time.gov says it was 4 p.m. a full minute ago where is the news guys?
  7. Hairyducked Idiot
    All the general media idiots seem to be assuming that's the case based on vague reports of Ricketts' debt or something. The only definitive statement from an actual named source has been Ricketts saying "The baseball budget will be the same as last year, about $200 million." This apparently covers MLB payroll, minor league payroll, amateur-talent signing bonuses, front office staff and a bunch of other little stuff.
  8. Hairyducked Idiot
    The fact that the baseball budget will remain the same and it appears we can't spend as much on IFA or the draft would seem to suggest so. We just blew a huge chunk of the baseball budget on a McDonald's.
  9. Hairyducked Idiot
    Didn't rumor have it that Seibu was threatening to send Matsuzaka back down to the minors if he didn't sign? Apparently they can keep guys down there pretty much indefinitely without them reaching FA status. Of course, Boras would file infinity bajillion lawsuits... but Darvish would still end up getting hurt in the long run most likely. I'm guessing Ricketts will draw on his Theo Compensation experience and just stare down Darvish's agent until he comes here for pennies.
  10. Hairyducked Idiot
    Darvish is a free agent after next season, right? Completely free? I can see this getting ugly with whatever team wins.
  11. Hairyducked Idiot
    Hard to have already won the bidding when it doesn't close for another hour.
  12. Hairyducked Idiot
    That makes a ton of sense and hope it is the case.
  13. Hairyducked Idiot
    It could, but that would be pretty nonsensical. So would having a $135 million payroll with $101 committed and deciding you can't afford Fielder. At some point, reality has to start matching up to our assumptions, or we have to change our assumptions.
  14. Hairyducked Idiot
    That spending came at the cost of MLB payroll. It's not as if it was just his being generous.
  15. Hairyducked Idiot
    Same baseball budget as last year, plus the draft and IFA budget will basically be cut in half. That adds back ... $8 million or so? There have been whispers since last summer that the Cubs intend to significantly lower MLB payroll. We've brushed them off as nonsensical. Now we're two months into the offseason, and everything the Cubs have actually done (including making an offer to Pujols that he was never seriously going to consider) support that hypothesis. They also support other possibilities, like the team going stealth on Fielder or really preferring Darvish or something, but the "Cubs are going to get cheap under Ricketts" hypothesis has yet to be disproven. Except when Ricketts said the budget would remain the same. We have no real idea what exactly going into that budget. "Baseball budget remains the same" could mean "We intend to divert XX million of it toward Wrigley renovations."
  16. Hairyducked Idiot
    Same baseball budget as last year, plus the draft and IFA budget will basically be cut in half. That adds back ... $8 million or so? There have been whispers since last summer that the Cubs intend to significantly lower MLB payroll. We've brushed them off as nonsensical. Now we're two months into the offseason, and everything the Cubs have actually done (including making an offer to Pujols that he was never seriously going to consider) support that hypothesis. They also support other possibilities, like the team going stealth on Fielder or really preferring Darvish or something, but the "Cubs are going to get cheap under Ricketts" hypothesis has yet to be disproven.
  17. Hairyducked Idiot
    More money on executives + counting Pena's deferred money this year + intending to cut payroll by another $10 million?
  18. Hairyducked Idiot
    It's okay to overpay for Fielder because we want to get our FAs now before the Yankees and Red Sox come along and force us to overpay.
  19. Hairyducked Idiot
    So we're big-market enough to not be worried about the downside of expensive free agents, but not big market enough to hang with the Yankees and Red Sox?
  20. Hairyducked Idiot
    But there will be better times to sign FAs.
  21. Hairyducked Idiot
    Really? I don't recall that at all. That may just be how I remember it. If the Cubs don't win this bid, I'm pretty much giving up on 2012. Well, not really, but it goes from "Sure, we can compete" to "Well, I guess it's not the most improbable thing ever."
  22. Hairyducked Idiot
    His age 24 season is every bit as close to the statistical prime of most players as his age 30 season will be.
  23. Hairyducked Idiot
    And it's not like he was a raging bust. He was a little overpaid while being a solid player on a couple of playoff teams. Big whoop.
  24. Hairyducked Idiot
    We only know the first part in hindsight. And Zambrano was freshly turned 26 and coming off 4 straight seasons of 4 WAR, two of which were 5. Yes, he was having a bit of a down year in 07, but to say that at age 26 it was clear that he was on the decline is wrong. 2008-2011, Zambrano was paid $72.5 million for 13.9 fWAR, for a total cost of $5.22 million per WAR. Considering that they wasted parts of two seasons with their own petulance, I'd say he would have easily been a market-value or better deal for those years.
  25. Hairyducked Idiot
    "Similar" is an awfully convenient and vague word in this case. We are getting DeJesus at a rather extreme discount because he's 32 and coming off a terrible year. If we assume that neither of those two things have any effect on his 2012, then yes, he provides us similar value to what Fukudome did during his contract. As for Zambrano, "decline" isn't the same as "wasn't worth the contract." He was easily worth the contract until the last two seasons, when Cubs management needed a scapegoat and refused to utilize his value.
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