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The Winter Meetings Thread
Hairyducked Idiot replied to ctcf's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
Francisco Rodriguez accepts arbitration from the Brewers. They really didn't want that to happen. -
Ryan Howard's contract or Ryan Howard's real worth?
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Meh, it seems that everyone on the Score thinks that Ricketts is flat broke and the Cubs should end up with a 90 mil payroll. To be trollingfair, we're 3/5ths of the way through the winter meetings and that hasn't been refuted by any activity.
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The Winter Meetings Thread
Hairyducked Idiot replied to ctcf's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
It's described in detail here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_system Four-days to submit a sealed bid, Japanese team has the right to accept or reject the highest bid but they don't know who it comes from. After they accept the bid, you have 30 days to come to an agreement with the player. Once you do, you pay the entirety of the posting fee immediately. -
The rational Cards fans I have talked to today are saying exactly this. This is the Cardinals. Pujols will take the big deal for ego purposes, then retire after five years just as his skills start to erode, taking them off the hook.
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I think its glorious. think of how cardinal fans are viewing this. GRB was fantastic when there seemed to be some Marlins momentum yesterday.
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Two others? Lozano's right middle finger and his left middle finger, as he tries to extract more from the Cardinals.
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You know what, screw it. Whether it's a good idea or not, whether he's declining or not, screw it. I'm bored and this would be fun as hell. 10/$275. Do it.
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The Winter Meetings Thread
Hairyducked Idiot replied to ctcf's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
Under the old CBA, the limit this year would be 2 or as many as the team loses. I have no idea if that rule carried over. -
The Winter Meetings Thread
Hairyducked Idiot replied to ctcf's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
How exactly? Defensively? .243 .333 .379 .276 .313 .353 When you throw in defense, if Ramirez was better, it can't be by much. -
Apparently nobody is interested in Fielder and he'll likely sign a 1/1.5 deal with the A's, Fielder shockingly settles for 6/$120 from the Brewers. Pujols takes 10/$225 from the Cardinals. The Cubs get a rock.
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Probably not everyday. He hasn't played there since 2009, and he wasn't that good there. But he could play there from time-to-time. I don't want Stewart as the everyday 3B for any reason, but I'd be fine if he got the ABs that DeWitt got last year. And like DeWitt, he is serviceable at 2B, 3B, and corner OF (LF). Why not? Other than Headley, I don't see a realistic 3B option that's guaranteed to outperform Stewart. Wouldn't suprise me too much if he had a higher OPS than Headley, actually. Because he's mediocre defensively, had his numbers inflated by a hitters park before last season, and is coming off both a horrific season and a major wrist injury.
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It really varies too much between different types of players to be useful to generalize, but player peaks are much younger than most people realize. 27-32 is far too old.
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If we really want Ian Stewart and they want to save us the extra paperwork of cutting Tyler Colvin, fine.
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The Winter Meetings Thread
Hairyducked Idiot replied to ctcf's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
Winter meetings are half over. No Cubs news. -
Cubs got -1.1 fWAR out of the Fukudome/Colvin collective suckfest. Replace that with DeJesus, have Soriano's BABIP bounceback, and suddenly I think you've gained about 4 WAR in the OF even before Jackson shows up. Even with that, Prince, and Headley "coming close" to replicating Ramirez, the offense still wouldn't be good enough to sustain a hit from losing Garza from an already below average pitching staff. How about we sign a lesser pitcher to replace Garza, then we don't waste Zambrano for the third year in a row. Even assuming we don't get any pitching back in the Garza hypothetical trade, that's already sounding like some improvement.
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Colvin sucked balls, Fukudome wasn't any worse than you could expect Dejesus to be. ?? I'd expect DeJesus (2.2 WAR) to do what he did last year and Fukudome (-.2 WAR) was way worse than that. A 2.4 WAR difference between the two is significant. Jersey is going to respond that Fukudome's WAR is dragged down by the RNG that is fielding stats.
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Cubs got -1.1 fWAR out of the Fukudome/Colvin collective suckfest. Replace that with DeJesus, have Soriano's BABIP bounceback, and suddenly I think you've gained about 4 WAR in the OF even before Jackson shows up.
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And sports journalists wonder why people don't take them seriously anymore.
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I'm not him, but I believe this team can contend in 2012 and I'm willing to trade Garza for a big return of 2-3 near MLB ready prospects. Assuming you then spend your $45 million or so on market-value replacements at 1b, 3b and P, I think that hypothetical team is a lot better than last year's. I think last year's underperformed by quite a bit.
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edit: Nevermind. It's the Reyes announcement. :( I am seriously ready for some GRB misery porn.
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The only conversation 4/120 keeps us in is "Hey, are you sure you don't want to make a serious offer?"
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I think that's really underestimating the value of what we might get for him in a trade and the ability of Hoystein to find a good replacement in two offseasons.
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That's not true at all. Teams do it all the time. I can think of at least 3 teams that have won the World Series in the 00's that got by with less than what the Cubs could go out and get. The Diamondbacks, White Sox and Marlins. Cardinals. If we stretch to 2011, then Cardinals twice.