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Someone will come in and scoop up the pieces similar to what happened to hostess. Have to save the Twinkie! SI swimsuit issue is the Twinkie of sports journalism.
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SI is somehow getting worse. This Brad Wakai guy is writing articles three days late or that have no content whatsoever. His grammar is awful and everything is sourced from what real writers post on twitter three days before. He said that the Imanaga signing and Busch trade were “ a solid stretch for the franchise that had one of the most disappointing offseasons out of any team in Major League Baseball.” Does he think the offseason is over or does he just not know how to write in the pluperfect tense? Just awful.
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Cubs trading for Michael Busch & Yency Almonte (for Ferris & Hope)
Bull replied to gocubs218's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
I’m having a hard time figuring out how that’s your takeaway from what we both just read. -
The new board format with quotes only going one deep makes it very difficult to follow context in mega threads. Unless I’m reading multiple pages at a time it is hard remember what what was responding to. The last few days (snow days) I’ve been coming here multiple times a day and have to re-read a page to follow the flow. Board moderators should either allow nested quotes or kill the mega threads if they want these forums to be enjoyable to visit multiple times a day, maximizing ad revenue.
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Cubs trading for Michael Busch & Yency Almonte (for Ferris & Hope)
Bull replied to gocubs218's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Highlighting Mervis’ undrafted status is disingenuous and you know it. he isn’t the pedigree Busch is, and I agree Busch is likely the better player going forward, but acting like the 2020 draft was anything resembling normal is odd. Mervis is drafted any other year. -
Cubs trading for Michael Busch & Yency Almonte (for Ferris & Hope)
Bull replied to gocubs218's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
I agree. I'm not saying he's Rizzo, but he's more Rizzo that 4A. His fielding problems aren't glove, they are arm. He's a 1B long term solution. -
Not the reason. But I maintain it is a reason. And really that wasn't my point. My response was to a poster who said "it's not that deep." There is a depth to these things that a typical fan doesn't understand. I'm not arrogant/naive enough to think I understand as much as people like you, Cali, and 1908 do. My point was less about the QO and more about the collusion-iness. Ricketts want the QO to have a role in suppressing value, so to him it does. He's the far end of the spectrum as management. Boras is at the far end of the spectrum as Labor. He refuses to believe that it has/should have any effect on the values of the players he represents. ITs significant that these are Cubs targets. It's significant that these are Boras clients. Ricketts and Boras are the strangest of bedfellows especially regarding any topic debated in the CBA, such as luxury tax and QO.
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Yes, but if not for QO these guys would get what Boras is “seeking”. QO’s depress a free agent’s value, especially to a team losing picks. It’s what they’re designed to do. I think labor fights to have them eliminated in the next CBA. It’s a lot “deeper” than the average fan can grasp. The Cubs ownership is one of the leaders in pushing for luxury tax and any mechanism they can find to depress player value/cost. It isn’t that PTR is actually poor. You understand that, right? It’s that he is colluding. And it’s why he doesn’t spit on the tax, or the QO.
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The only QO player they might sign is Bellinger, and I honestly think that’s the biggest holdup on him. They want to gain that pick, and they don’t want to lose any others.
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Loved me some Andy Sisco. I thought he was going to be the best of them.
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So uhhhh who's going to sign all these free agents?
Bull replied to Bertz's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
When does the Dodgers’ ridiculous, never-repeatable tv deal expire? Until then the answer is Dodgers. As in “the Dodgers will sign all these free agents.” -
I'll see your TINSTAPP and raise you a TOOTBLAN. PCA is a nincompoop.
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You hope the cubs don’t win the WS for the next 10 years?
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He is also a nincompoop.
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Appropriate that David gave the history lesson. He is our resident robot. He’s basically a database at this point.
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PCA is a nincompoop.
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And Woody
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Way to go out on a limb there.
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Team wins in pitcher starts are almost as meaningless as pitcher wins. This is actually a great example of that. If the team was below .500 in his starts, but Stroman was a 113 ERA+, (good enough for 27th if he pitched enough innings to qualify) that shows you that he did enough to put the team above .500 and THE REST OF THE TEAM let him down in those starts. Stroman was good when he pitched and his production will take much more than a warm body to replace. What is so hard to understand about this?
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Pitcher wins are meaningless. He produced 1.6 bWar. And a 113 era+, which would be good for 27th in MLB among qualifiers. With his 147 ERA+ last year Assad stands a half-decent chance of replacing those numbers, but I expect a significant regression. And who replaces Assad's numbers?
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Did you miss that every time he threw to first, he had to run halfway across the diamond before he threw? If he was a plus defender at third, it was because of his range. Making him an option at 2B.
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Madrigal in particular does not have the arm for third.
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It’s not creating another need if you like madrigal and morel at 2B. to reiterate. I don’t think it happens. Although Hoerner will never have more value than he has right now.. I don’t think it happens.
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I don’t think it happens. But I don’t think they’d be looking at him for second. They’d want him at third. The Jays would want a major league ready SS in return and would ask for Hoerner. The Cubs wouldn’t do that…UNLESS….they like Morel/Madrigal at 2B more than they like them at 3B. They then use Hoerner to lower the prospect cost on Bichette. That’s the only way the Cubs trade for Bichette. I don’t think it happens. (also, free agents get to say they won’t move off of SS, players acquired in trades don’t get that authority)
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I don’t want Bichette because I think Hoerner would be involved. There’s no way Toronto moves Bichette without a right now replacement for him. Morel would man second. I don’t think that improves the team.
