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This is obviously made more difficult by the Cubs keeping mum, but for the moment let's assume $130 million is the payroll again. We have 72.85 million committed right now. We had it confirmed today that there is a $5 million hit to this year's budget based on Pena's deferral. Using the same arbitration estimates from earlier in the thread, plus $2.5 for Stewart, I've got us at $101.1 million for 14 players. We've still got some room, but we're creeping up fast. Assume 500k as a baseline for the remaining 11 roster spots, and we've got 24 million extra to spend. The nickel-and-dime stuff adds up fast.
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On the dim side, if Stewart continues to be bad or his wrist injury causes lingering problems, we've just blown a couple of million, playing time and a roster spot on a terrible player. I'm beginning to wonder if Epstein's idea of "parallel fronts" is to just buy a bunch of lightning-in-a-bottle lottery ticket players and hope they all have career years at the same time.
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So does Ian Stewart. So does Tyler Colvin. LeMaheiu probably does too, to be honest.
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So does Ian Stewart. So we either are going to pay too much money for a backup infielder or we're going to have a lottery ticket starter who is probably bad. *grumble grumble grumble*
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Re: Darvish
Hairyducked Idiot replied to SouthSideRyan's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
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Re: Darvish
Hairyducked Idiot replied to SouthSideRyan's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
Head: There are going to be like a dozen teams in on this and the Cubs don't seem like the type to have a bunch of up-front cash just sitting around. Heart: Screw you, there are only like two players left to make this a good offseason and it just has to happen!!!! -
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Hairyducked Idiot replied to imb's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
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RF DeJesus SS Castro 1b LaHair 3b Stewart C Soto LF Soriano CF Byrd 2b Barney Dempster Zambrano Wells Mediocre replacement we get in return for Garza Cashner/Samardzija/whoever Marmol (DL) Wood Russell Samardzija/Cashner/whoever Mateo Castillo (rule 5 guy)
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I don't think they realize that a salary cap and severe revenue sharing would have hurt them even more.
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Seems like Ramirez and Perez are pretty close...both spent some time in AAA this year. Most of the season for Ramirez. I'd be ready to slot Ramirez into the rotation immediately. Perez looks like he's been pushed way too quickly. He's only 20, he's never really dominated any level except half a year of mid-A, and he got jacked around hard at AAA last year. I'd be tempted to send him back to AA more than I would be to put him on the MLB roster.
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That's a very, very nice haul, but two of the three are a couple years away. That's not the "2-3 near-ready prospects" we've been sold on. That's a rebuilding move.
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Allegedly Musial once got a ridiculously large offer from the Mexican league and turned it down.
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I'm whining because the Cubs really need good players on good contracts and it doesn't appear like that will be an option because apparently the whole league got rich when we weren't looking. Thanks again for wasting the 2000s, MacPhail and Hendry. I hate you guys so much.
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Not after they give in and let us have Feldman for Garza.
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We don't have the money for him because we are spending it all on Yu Darvish.
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Oh. No.
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I wish we were the Marrrrrrrrrrlinnnnnnnnns! But that is all I would want as far as being a Marlin. I still wish I could breathe underwater. How do you know you can't if you haven't given it a good try?
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Re: Darvish
Hairyducked Idiot replied to SouthSideRyan's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
That makes it sound like the whole "gyroball" thing just started when some Japanese pitcher hung a slider and played it off like he did it on purpose. -
Shut up Jed, you promised us lots of stuff at the Winter Meetings. You've lost all your credibility, Jed "Hendry" Hoyer.
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Nightengale reports that the Marlins were offering 10/$275 but the lack of a NTC held it up.
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Last year, we had a $200 million baseball total budget. We spent, what, $135 million on salaries? I think a total of $24 million on the combined draft/IFA market. That leaves generic baseball operations at about $40 million. This year, we are spending at least $5 million extra on fresh baseball staff, but we can't spend more than about $15 million on the draft and IFAs. So I come up with $200 million minus $15 million minus $45 million = $145 million leftover. Unless there are some kind of big baseball projects we don't know about being planned, like overhauling some minor league facilities or something, that should almost all be payroll.
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Re: Darvish
Hairyducked Idiot replied to SouthSideRyan's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
He's better than Matsuzaka, didn't throw 200 innings at 18 like Matsuzaka, and he's bigger than Matsuzaka with a traditional pitcher's build. $100 million wouldn't make me flinch at all. $125 million and I start to get iffy. -
Re: Darvish
Hairyducked Idiot replied to SouthSideRyan's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
Four days after officially posted, bidding is closed. Three days after that, Japanese team must decide whether to accept the bid. At that point, the winning team becomes public knowledge and has 30 days to negotiate a contract. -
We don't have the cash because we are going to spend it all on Darvish, right?
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Maybe MLB teams really do think he's not as good as his numbers the last two years.