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  1. Hairyducked Idiot
    Sort of. I'm really not sure about Cespedes, but I'm totally sold on Darvish. A 25-year-old who throws in the mid-90s with movement? I'll take my chances. Stuff plays, and he's got the stuff. I don't think the roster we have right now is that bad, and I absolutely have faith in the brain trust to build a competitive team immediately, with or without Pujielder.
  2. Hairyducked Idiot
    He's only under contract for two more years. You can't really include years 3 and 4 in his value to the team.
  3. Hairyducked Idiot
    I don't think anyone has a clue about it unless they have access to the financials. Just going by the few times an MLB team has released full financials, I'd guess between $35 and $65 million. Which is of course a humongous range and thus worthless.
  4. Hairyducked Idiot
    Okay, you're right, the compensation thing doesn't make sense, unless Epstein is just being really, really callous about a guy like Flaherty.
  5. Hairyducked Idiot
    The Red Sox have a bit of a 40-man roster crunch. A player who has to be protected is significantly less valuable to them. So Epstein says "Okay, you can have A or B." Cherington says "We prefer A, but he's Rule 5 eligible and we don't have a spot for him. Can you wait until after the draft? If he clears, we'll take him, otherwise B will do." But if A gets taken when otherwise the Cubs would have rostered him, suddenly they've lost A and B. Would they take that gamble just to pacify Boston? If they are offering him to Boston, then presumably they don't like him enough to roster him.
  6. Hairyducked Idiot
    The Red Sox have a bit of a 40-man roster crunch. A player who has to be protected is significantly less valuable to them. So Epstein says "Okay, you can have A or B." Cherington says "We prefer A, but he's Rule 5 eligible and we don't have a spot for him. Can you wait until after the draft? If he clears, we'll take him, otherwise B will do."
  7. Hairyducked Idiot
    That seems very possible to me.
  8. Hairyducked Idiot
    And the amount of time spent talking about it is orders of magnitude worse than the amount it costs the team.
  9. Hairyducked Idiot
    A question is not a conclusion.
  10. Hairyducked Idiot
    The suggestion that putting in "110%" effort and "going all out" all the time would be a net negative is just, well I guess it perfectly exemplifies what I'm so shocked by. Do you want the batters to swing from their heels, as hard as they possibly can, every time out? Do you want the pitchers to overthrow their fastballs?
  11. Hairyducked Idiot
    Did you watch the games?
  12. Hairyducked Idiot
    If you wanted to change the uniforms, why would you plan it 2 or 3 years in advance?
  13. Hairyducked Idiot
    If the Cubs sign a really good free agent, they don't get any more draft picks for the next five years. True story.
  14. Hairyducked Idiot
    There's a huge difference between "The Cubs have some players who don't hustle enough" and "The Cubs are in fifth place because they have some players who don't hustle enough."
  15. Hairyducked Idiot
    So how much is too much, then?
  16. Hairyducked Idiot
    It's not strictly comparable because he wasn't a free agent, but Bryce Harper got a total of $9.9 million.
  17. Hairyducked Idiot
    Hence the need for extensively scouting his workouts. He's an international FA that has been compared to Chapman the whole time, is this a surprise to you? FWIW, he was 3 for 7 with a 3B, BB, and 2 K against Japan in the 2009 WBC. Cuba never played the US or any other strong baseball country like the DR or Venezuela. It's not a surprise to me that he's being compared to Chapman. It's a surprise to me that the asking price has shot from $30 million to $50 million.
  18. Hairyducked Idiot
    I don't believe that's in evidence at this point. If that's what Epstein believes, I'll trust him, but a flash video and a Cuban HR record do not convince me of that.
  19. Hairyducked Idiot
    He's a 26-year-old who has never played in a league that comps to better than High A ball. I am not at all confident in his abilities. He is a prospect, not a MLB commodity, at this point.
  20. Hairyducked Idiot
    Egads. If the brain trust likes him that much, I'll accept their wisdom, but that seems like way too much to me.
  21. Hairyducked Idiot
    Wow, that's a serious step up from McLeod doing it. I guess we are serious about this guy.
  22. Hairyducked Idiot
    I'm actually a little annoyed that Baseball Reference doesn't let you do an event finder for fielding so I can look up how many times a runner advanced on a Soriano throw. B-R has spoiled me for so long.
  23. Hairyducked Idiot
    Finally, gets into "attention to detail" on defense, talks about guys having to listen when their infield coach tells them to play in the hole. Says you can win extra games each year with that sort of thing.
  24. Hairyducked Idiot
    Mr. Sveum, KyleJRM, Williston Herald. How do you feel about fun?
  25. Hairyducked Idiot
    I hate the Chicago media so much. I'd love to hear about his philosophies on lineup construction. I'd love to hear more about his reputation for being aggressive with defensive shifts. I'd love to hear his response to those who say he was a terrible third-base coach. I'd love to hear him talk about his philosophy on managing a pitching staff, especially given his background as a hitters' guy. Instead, we get crossing enemy lines...har har...culture change derp derp ... nickname "nuts" tsss.
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