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  1. No Cubs fan has any business being this optimistic. Time to lower your Xanax dosage.
  2. Not a HOF name. A BobsonDugnutt SNES name.
  3. The difference between a top 50 prospect and a prospect outside the top 100. Jed knows what their return will be if they wait until next year, and that he has to beat it. They want him to beat it by a lot, he wants to beat it by as little as possible.
  4. Ok, so maybe we aren't saying the same thing. I think Soroka is in the rotation for the foreseeable future. Even if there is a TOR starter added. Rotation becomes Shota, Boyd, TOR, Soroka, Rea. (Horton gets a rest) Then its Shota, Boyd, TOR, Taillon, Soroka (Horton builds back up) Then it's Shota, TOR, Taillon, Horton, Soroka (Boyd gets innings limited. Assad to bullpen) If there is no TOR guy added today, that puts Rea back in and delays hortons rest until Taillon and/or Assad return.
  5. Aha. What I was calling the Brown spot, you were calling the Flexen spot. (I never mentally had Flexen in the rotation)
  6. Who bumps Brown? Unless and until they acquire a TOR starter the rotation is Boyd, Shota, Horton, Rea, Soroka.
  7. yup. perfect stabilizing option that makes us look a lot less desperate. A playoff rotation of Shota, Boyd, Taillon, Horton is not the end of the world. Soroka is a nice 4th once Taillon comes back and a nice 5th once Horton comes back from the rest/benching he gets once Taillon comes back. Now get a number 2 and make that last paragraph obsolete.
  8. I like this trade. I also believe this is just the start.
  9. Why not put our CF Albino Soriano in the leadoff spot.
  10. I thought you were talking about Hoyer there for a minute.
  11. Someone on this board recently noted something like: "No top 100 player has been traded for a rental position player in the last 4 years" While that *could* change this year, it wont change enough that two top 100 players will be traded for a 33 year old rental having a career year on pace for 5 WAR.
  12. You can’t script this high drama. Two best records in baseball (Toronto doesn’t exist), tied for first in the division heading into the trade deadline at a park the visiting team’s fans call Wrigley North. This is perfect and beautiful.
  13. Call it 7 different players, because Taillon is a big part of the reason they are on a 94 win pace. But your point stands.
  14. Agreed. We get 3 from this list Starting pitcher that pitches in a playoff series and makes sure we don't see Ben Brown until next year. Starting pitcher that barely bumps Rea or rests Horton when Taillon comes back. Closer middle inning reliever First division infield bat. You get three. If everything goes well.
  15. There has to be SOMETHING done by Sunday. You can't punt a game against the White Sox. You can't risk losing this series because you are pitching Brown on Sunday. You also don't want to "waste" Boyd on the White Sox. As of right now, who pitches Sunday? Brown? Call up Birdsell for a spot? You have to make a trade by then.
  16. Yeah, I have no problem with the decision. Seiya makes that catch 9 times out of 10. A real outfielder makes it 99 times out of 100. Win this game and feel justified that Seiya gets very little time in the field.
  17. Apparently Brujan is getting slower. I wonder if moving Happ to DH and giving Seiya more time in LF would benefit everyone.
  18. For sure. Still hate it. Would rather call up Little and jettison Roberts even if for one game/series then back to Assad/Taillon or if neither is ready, Wicks or Neely. Its not like Roberts is serving a function, Or just keep Little up. He's killing in Iowa and has even been used as an opener there as of late.
  19. I don't understand opening a righty reliever for a righty Brown. Any chance they follow braisher with Theilbar to face Caglione and Frazier and then back to Brown for the bottom of the order and then face the whole order twice?
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