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I know this is putting the cart before the horse until they can figure out the financials, but are they really going to try to play an 82-game season in about 86 days?

Re: Floyd. That was an incredibly weak draft. Only 2 of the next 10 picks after Floyd were starters for the team that drafted them in 2019. The guys that were clearly much better picks than Floyd - Prescott, Michael Thomas, Tyreek Hill, etc - were picked so far after Floyd, it’s hard to blame the Be...

1. Maddux 2. Hendricks Yes, I have a “type.” 3. Javy 4. Aramis 5 and rising fast. Yu So many others... Rick Reuschel - maybe the first Cub I remember, Jody, Lee Arthur Smith, Hawk, Sutcliffe, Kerry, GlenAllen Hill for the random monster bombs, Big Z, Bryzzo, Schwarbs, God-mode Jake, Wade Davis. Rand...

Ding Dong Johnson wrote:

I got to Ty Cobb in 7. In only about 10 minutes of trying. Could probably get down to 6 with some research.

Ty Cobb 1928 A's > Jimmie Foxx 1944 Cubs > Andy Pafko 1959 Braves > Spahn > Niekro > Henderson > Jackson

JudasIscariotTheBird wrote:

TomtheBombadil wrote:There goes my Mike Evans dream...Brady being on that roster might get Evans the HOF notice he should be getting...Oh man and OJ Howard is dirty too

Lukewarm take: the Bucs pass for less yards and TDs under Brady than under Winston.

But turn over the ball 25 fewer times and have a winning record.

BigbadB wrote:So Dalton likely to the Patriots? Cam likely to the Chargers. Winston to ? I don't know. Who else is shopping QB's now? Denver or the Redskins?

I think Winston is now the front runner for the 2021 XFL MVP.

Bertz wrote:If Maples can even get his walk rate down to a Marmol-ian 15% without giving up the whiffs and ground balls he'll be playable. If he can do 10-12% he's closer-caliber.

“Marmol-ian” is an adjective that needs to be used more often.

There's defense but there's also Coors. I'll take the over on 1.000 OPS for KB as a Rockie. i hate how Nolan starts to make me feel ok about losing Bryant. Then I think about Bryant providing many many bombs in CO, and I hate it even more I think the whole point for Colorado is to flip Bryant for p...

So apparently the 'hope the Rockies get brain poisoning' plan for the offseason is still alive? https://www.bleachernation.com/cubs/2020/02/13/cubs-reportedly-are-absolutely-motivated-to-try-to-acquire-nolan-arenado/ I was on the phone with somebody in Colorado last night who covers the Rockies, an...

Backtobanks wrote:I know the only trade the Cubs seem to be interested in is Bryant and we're broke, but any (or all) of those guys from the Dodgers (Pederson, Stripling, Maeda, and Verdugo) certainly would make nice additions to our roster.

Verdugo and Maeda for Bryant and Heyward?

I know what I hate and I don’t hate this.

I don’t like the DH. I don’t like that the two leagues play by different rules even less. It was easier to ignore before inter-league play. I think a designated pinch hitter hybrid approach would be more fun and interesting, but I don’t think baseball’s top people are creative enough to make that wo...

Brian wrote:

What’s he going to say? “My boss ambushed me?”

But then, if the financial handcuffs were a surprise, I don’t see why Theo wouldn’t just walk.

CubinNY wrote:

TomtheBombadil wrote:The Astros owe Yu say $40 million

Turns out he wasn't actually tipping his pitches.

He was tipping his pitches in that he was nodding when he agreed with the catcher’s signal.

nothing seems more inevitable than him to the Cardinals for a couple of, to quote Blake Snell, slapdick prospects Hopefully their tight assness keeps them from adding him. They’re paying $103MM to six players all over 31 years old this year. I don’t think it’s their tight-assedness that is going to...

The_Achiever wrote:

Old Style wrote:Jesus, the state of Chicago sports is depressing right now.

The Cubs are doing a solid impression of the Hawks trajectory, minus two championships.

The highlight of my sports year was the 6-7 Illini Football team.

The basketball is 10-5 and has a solid chance of making the NIT.

A little more foresight by ownership/Theo would've been nice, specifically before inking those Chatwood and Kimbrel deals. Like if this isn't just about Marquee being a flop, how was this not handled better before ending up with the plan of trading Bryant. Exactly, the CBA has been in place for 3 y...

Wait, are we trading Bryant to some non-MLB entity? Is there an agreement to have no one offer him a contract in two years when his team control is up? Trading him now so that they don't have to look cheap for not paying him in 2 years. Also some nonsense about how they tried really hard to get him...

there's really no reason to believe they're going to create a giant hole at one position to address another, i'm very confident in saying Robles simply isn't available here idk...the heyman tweet makes it seem like the door might at least be somewhat open (he mentioned him for a reason) if the nati...

A Robles centric package skews towards an acceptable deal to me vs some of the more pitching/prospect ones that have been thrown around. https://twitter.com/jonheyman/status/1205228326392086529?s=21 You can almost squint and see a way in which a Robles-centered deal makes some sort of baseball sense.

Maddux was coming off 3 seasons of 5.1, 5.8, and 7 fWAR when he hit free agency at age 26. And, since he wasn't a high strikeout guy, I'll throw in that his bWAR in 92 was a Trout-ian 9.1. What really made letting him walk after 92 extra egregious, though, was the fact that he came back to the Cubs...

Maddon was shocked to discover Albert Almora wasn't the answer for leadoff......or much else of use, really. Was it Maddon making the best roster he could? Or was it Maddon making a “You put this crap on my roster” type of statement by leading off the position player with the worst OBP on the team?...

I love that the owners are able to create an artificial spending ceiling, but that's capitalism... Uhm... That's not capitalism. That's the opposite of capitalism. That's why baseball needs the Federal anti-trust exemption in order to get away with it. When Tech companies - Apple, Google, Intel and...

stitchface wrote:"I'm more just upset that we gave away a huge piece of our team," Snell said. "He was the swag of our team. He lifted a lot of our position players up with just his presence and made other guys more swaggy."

Do the statheads on this site prefer fSWAG or bSWAG?

Effingham is rough but it does have a big ass cross on the highway to remind you you're horsefeathers. Effingham also has a fantastic record store called America’s Groove. It’s in the middle of an otherwise abandoned shopping mall. It’s surreal it’s like you’re in the middle of a post-apocalyptic z...