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Third time's the charm! Correa to the Twins (6/$200m)
Bull replied to UMFan83's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
"pending physical"...so it's just like the other contracts at this time. Yes…but The expectations of that physical are very different given that, A. He’s been with the Twins and their doctors have some familiarity here, B. Everyone now knows there’s a problem C. The numbers are very different than they were with the other two deals. -
I wish I could be that optimistic. In that they weren’t supposed to win in 2015. The wild card was a surprise. I would say a wild card berth would be equally surprising this year.
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I like staying under this year. They going over for one 5 war player takes you from a 79 win team to an 84 win team if things break right. And if they don’t you have to pay larger penalties next year to stay decent. This way you weather Heywards final year and have a big chunk to spend next year, the farm reaches maturity - or at least you know what you have in Davis, the pitchers, and Amaya heading into ‘24 - and you can spend big next year. There are so many question marks on this roster that even if things go reeeeally well and you are in the wild card or division drivers seat come July, there no way to forecast WHICH things went well and which things needs addressed at the deadline. Not to mention that a decent run this year makes you more attractive to FA next year. Lets be honest this wasn’t an attractive destination this off-season. In many ways this is 2015 all over again. Don’t expect this to be the year. Compete this year. Window really opens next year.
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Third time's the charm! Correa to the Twins (6/$200m)
Bull replied to UMFan83's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Can’t see it being the Cubs. Too close to the LT now I think As has been mentioned a lot, I don’t think they’d be against going over the LT this year for the right guy/moves. With all the money falling off after the year they could easily reset next year while having room to add. The only reason not to be in on Correa would be if this medical issue is really that big of a worry, which don’t blame them, or if they truly think they can get Ohtani next year and will wait until then to go over the LT. Nobody has said they are adverse to going over the LT, they try and not be repeaters but I’d be surprised if they aren’t over the LT in the next 3 years. Next year will be their year to be over. They will stay under this year unless the team **significantly** over performs as they approach the trade deadline. -
Happ and Dansby with similar OPS last year. So…three almost big bats?? A few years ago here someone was arguing that multiple 3-4 win players were better than the same WAR concentrated in one player surrounded by 1 win players. Not sure if they were right, but we will have the opportunity to see.
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How does another team’s acquisition of a player make the position less of a priority? I think the implication was that they were going to get a significant bat, and if Abreu was available, he would be that bat. With him gone somewhere else, there's no one else available at 1B that they feel fills that need, so they will find the bat at another position. I don't agree, but I think that's what is implied.
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There’s been so much noise and smoke about us doing a big addition or two for literal months, idk how that can be your expectation. Literally everyone from Jed to Ross to beat guys to national guys say we’re gonna be doing some significant additions. Didn’t Jed basically come out and say we weren’t signing a top tier guy? I’ll say it again: there won’t be long term contracts until Heyward’s is off the books.
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Yeah, I believe that was Rizzo Bryant money coming off. I think they’ll be able to spend what comes off this year, but the next big signing will be when Heywards comes off.
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What counts as a major signing for you? They added a 5/100 and 3/71 contract last offseason, and not too many had longer than 5 years or higher than 24 AAV(and even fewer had both). Should have said “top tier.” They will replace Heyward’s contract with a Heyward level contract when it’s gone but not before.
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No, he has been a very insightful poster in the past. One of the first and really educated a lot of us here. Account is clearly hacked.
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This has been my unpopular opinion for awhile now, but I don’t see any major signings until Heyward is off the books. Look forward to another year of throwing things at the wall and seeing if they stick.
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https://www.nj.com/sports/2022/07/mets-face-trade-deadline-bidding-war-for-cubs-willson-contreras-with-al-contender.html?outputType=amp Are we still afraid of Astros pitchers?
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paul kilgus was the first cub as a kid who i thought "this guy sucks." Doug Dascenzo, and Harry horsefeathering loved that dude. “Ya know, Steve, if you spelled Da-sinzo backwards it would be, Oz-nik-zode”
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the earth is flat actually so you can't really circle back to anything Its a disc, so you can still circle back to it technically. Sphere back?
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This post did not age well.
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Heywards contract comes off after 2023. That’s the timeline for prospects as well. As in many will be given a chance to prove themselves in 2023 looking towards “seeing what we have in x” for 2024. Expect big spending once jHeys contract is off the books and they are confident what the holes are going forward.
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I think this holds true for most people, but some people certainly know they're evil and what they're doing is evil. Putin knows he's an horsefeathers, the "bad guy" and he simply doesn't care. Same thing with Trump. Nah, these dudes are narcissists. They know that they’re doing wrong, but in their mind, it’s for the greater good and one day they’ll get the praise they deserve. Bauer’s just a creep, along the lines of Armie Hammer, who thinks that since there’s no law against sexual deviance, so long as it’s consensual-ish, he must be in the right. It’s the Nietzchean ubermench. It’s the inevitable modernist/rationalist resolution of the relativist morality we experienced in the late 20th century. If right and wrong is in the eye of the beholder then I am good to impose my will in society. It’s the clash of modernist and postmodern ideas desperately seeking resolution.
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Pirates announcers are always awful. Today not so bad. Mostly silence.
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4/16 Cubs(Leiter Jr) vs Rockies(Senzatela)
Bull replied to itisallpartoftheplan's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
Willy special -
Leave poor Derwood alone!
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Or if you’re embarrassed by it… I mean it will be obvious the first time he plays (or doesn’t play) in a city with a mandate.
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Yeah, the owners didn't get to the power side of the arrangement just through the last CBA, they got there through several of them. The players took a step back in the right direction this time and they'll just have to keep it up in 2026. They should bargain for scraping the CBT and go for revenue-sharing and a salary cap/floor. To me, it's the fairest way to divide the spoils. It also seems to work in other sports pretty well. Players would never agree to anything involving a hard cap. They want the dodgers and Yankees to be able to go crazy every other year.
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Yeah, I feel like if anything there's a slightly favorable view toward some sort of shift limitations, but as someone who's on your side of hating it I might just be mentally cataloging all the positive views as a defense mechanism. I don't like the shift but to me, the hitters themselves could make it a less frequent occurrence by sacrificing a little off the power numbers and bunt down the 3rd base line, or if they can simply adjust their swing and slap the ball through the infield against the shift. I'd rather have it taken care of on its own rather than establishing rules. I'm probably way out there on this one, but that's my thought on it anyway. It's not like I'm going to flip out if they do a rule change. I feel the same, but a little stronger. The shift works only because hitters pull everything for power. If you can take a few bases away from them as payment by shifting, do it.
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That would be difficult if he wasn’t tipping the cutter so bad. Whatever you think you are seeing, I'm not. The only way he could tip one of those two pitches enough for me to get a jump on it is if he yelled what the pitch would be before his wind up. I don't see anything that gives it away Sorry, I didn’t think the reference was obscure.
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have you ever tried to hit a slider before? If it was the only pitch you saw maybe you can say that, but if its sandwiched between two Darvish fastballs I guarantee that you would swing at it, only to watch it fall away from you as you wildly try to correct in the follow-through That would be difficult if he wasn’t tipping the cutter so bad.