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I'm assuming this is misinformation, but can anyone illuminate Heyward's 2020 contract status?
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That's what happens when you take a rest in the middle of a race while the other runners keep running. Yeah, but this race had a finish line in the middle.
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WIth a profile like Maples', I think the line between "effectively wild" and "control issues" is a fine one. Once he is "feared," I think major leaguers swing at those. But until he's proven that they could be strikes, there's no motivation to offer at them.
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Why is this not a bigger deal? The prophecy is fulfilled!
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Paul Goldschmidt does not strike me as the type of player who loses all baseball talent in his early thirties. There are some players who baffle me. Guys who seemingly fall off a cliff in the middle of their prime years. Goldschmidt has always been great. A good batting eye doesn't go away with age and he seems like he's got the physicality to maintain his strengths without losing a step well into his mid 30's. I think he remains his usual productive self for the majority of this contract. Because of this, I'm upset he's on the Cardinals. If what you say is true, the answer is it makes them happy then. ETA: Although Cubs fans who now are cheering against the Cubs probably still hate the Cardinals, too. Hating the current state of the cubs, the pathetic offseason and the shortcomings of management, and recognizing that Cardinals are dirty birds that defecate in their children’s mouths and are awful, are not mutually exclusive.
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I am convinced the entire strategy of the offseason was to make this happen.
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Broadcast said Maples was scheduled to pitch the bottom of the 9th, but since there was to be no bottom to the ninth, they had to get maples in the 8th.
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Sounds like some flights I've been on. ? Because the plane crashed, or because you flew into Sanford instead of Orlando Int’l. Because I’ve done that and it was annoying. Especially since my rental car was paid for and waiting for me at Orlando Int’l.
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It really is, it fundamentally changes things. LOOGY’s will become extinct. willy-wonka-stop-dont.gif To be clear. LOOGYs “fundamentally changed” baseball. This fundamentally changes them back. Let’s not pretend Babe Ruth and Ted Williams faced LOOGYs. I still (mildly) don’t like it. But to be fair, I’m 40 and I hate change and my daughter is now dating and I hate everything, especially change.
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Did he give you the finger or something? Not like he would have missed it. Nope. Badger is Indigo Montoya.
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gifsthatendedtoosoon where's the bat flip?
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Think more personal. Its all about Theo's hairline.
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I have been here since 2003 and somehow missed all this. The price you pay for avoiding the social forum like the plague. But now it’s ALL social Forum. Can we get a baseball forum back? Also, I’m still confused with all the name changes, some of which are several years old. (TBS is IMB! ?)
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Now think about what Russell is making Chatwood + Duensing + Descalso + Russell + Kintzler = $25.9M. That's 5 guys that will have pretty negligible value this year and you could still have Hamels. (BTW, I will cop to being all in favor of signing Chatwood, although it quickly became apparent over last offseason that the Cubs could have waited and signed him or someone very like him for quite a bit less.) I like this better because without Hamels you're still paying smyly 7 million. But when I say I like this better, be sure you understand that only means I hate it less, because I hate everything and always will beginning today.
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If it is the giants, it theoretically gets them two decent players at a discount, adds to their farm AND keeps Harper out of LA. All theorectical though. Totally not happening.
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Tangent: even if that’s true it still sucks Corollary: it’s sucks because it’s true. Extrapolation: everything sucks Application: we should all buy needles. And heroin.
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The Cubs won 95 games last year with way more going wrong than right. I’d ask you to pick a new schtick but I know you don’t have it in you to avoid bad faith arguments. Could go back to the three way trade schtick. That one was at least fun. Having to hope the “old timers stay ‘young’” is pretty easily offset by the players that are going to start costing money soon developing normally (ie without having to hope them into it). As TT said is the same team that won 95 games last year. The division is improved, but there’s little chance things go so wrong for the Cubs this year. It’s a wash. Still the team to beat. It’s a disappointment they didn’t improve on it to put them over the top, but hopefully there’s trade deadline room for that. I like this team.
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So ive never done heroin but #1 im pretty sure all heroin is injectable #2 "forehead heroin" doesnt exist any more than arm heroin does #3 I dunno, maybe ask a friend who is a drug dealer if you are expecting a friendly discount on drugs This guy heroins.
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No, I'm saying its' a stupid ask. And therefore easy to concede.
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It’s definitely not. Now you can’t trade him.
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I can't believe pitchers and catchers report next week, and neither of these guys has signed.
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A dramatic recreation of this dude's reporting process: Is he the stuffed lion?
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More likely they had an extensive phone call that someone hearing about it second hand would abbreviate to 'met'. Much more likely the whole rumor is BS. Ive been a believer, but I think I’m done. The only way Bryce comes to the Cubs now is the way Andre Dawson did.
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Which is why it makes the most sense that rookie deals are cut down. Rookie contracts should be down to 3-4 years (though I think they'll likely only be able to cut it down to 5), and you should have to first bring up a player within 3 years (at the very most) instead of 5. Exactly. I’m not saying do one without the other. I’m also not proposing any specific plan. I’m just saying arenado making 26 million this year makes more sense to me than pujols making 28 million this year. If owners are going to pretend this a free market, then make it a free market. Or whatever.