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Brian wrote:I'm not sure the Padres were going to finish last even before Manny, the Diamondbacks exist and have given up.

The Giants will be worse than the Diamondbacks.

padres are gonna cycle out their current horsefeathers uniforms after this season and go brown again in 2020, so not only will the team be relevant but they will look good too are they gonna cycle out their 8000 stupid different camo uniforms though If it isn’t vintage Dave Winfield-era brown and b...

How could be have possibly made less money by not signing this deal? Even if he got hurt. Time to strike on a Hendricks extension? The number of very good pitchers who hit arbitration and don't end up making 40+ million is...substantial. Pitching is fleeting, take the money. So if Nola is the bench...

How could be have possibly made less money by not signing this deal?

Even if he got hurt.

Time to strike on a Hendricks extension?

How many games do they project to win this year? Fangraphs have them at 88 wins, two games ahead of the Cardinals for the division lead, and with only the Dodgers (93) and Nationals (91) ahead of them in the NL. The failure to do anything this offseason is less about the Cubs being bad and more abo...

Poor Starlin...

He doesn’t deserve this.

Lot of mentions of Game 6 against the Dodgers in 2016... Game 1 against Washington in 2017 was almost as good, and in some ways it was more the prototype of an ideal Hendricks start... weak ground ball after weak ground ball after weak ground ball.

Up to now, this offseason had been like the bar scene in A Beautiful Mind where all the mathematicians decide that they’d all be better off not hitting on the hot chick and hitting on her plainer friends instead. Except in this version, they’ve all decided that they’d be even better off than that by...

Hairyducked Idiot wrote:Honestly if this happens again next offseason, players should strike

The current CBA is up after 2020. If the owners don’t make some concessions in the bargaining of the next CBA, there will be a strike.

I just don’t understand... The Cubs have nearly $60M in contracts coming off the book next year between Hamels, Zobrist, Morrow (I’m assuming they’ll decline his option), Strop, Cishek and Kintzler. They could free up another ~$22M if they were to decline Rizzo’s or Quintana’s options. (Unlikely in ...

JennieGarthAlgar wrote:I blame AOC for all this

I bet she’s a Mets fan. Blech!

Right. Baseball is excluded from the anti-trust laws. The logic is that if you want actual competitive baseball games, you have to have some restraints on competition at the business level. So you can’t hire other teams’ players away from them in the middle of the season, for example.

David wrote:There's still like 5% of me that wishfully thinks we swoop in and get him in the end.

Picture how horsefeathering awesome it would be to actually see that play out and have him show up at spring training in a couple weeks.

All it would take is for Tom Ricketts to say, "Yes."

Rivera is 5th all-time in Win Probability Added behind only Clemens, Lefty Grove, Maddux and Warren Spahn. WPA probably inflates relievers' value a bit, but still... And anyway, Rivera could have never pitched in the regular season at all and his 0.70 ERA over 141 IP in the post-season probably woul...

I think the rosiest outcome for Chatwood would be pitching relatively effectively for a month of Spring training such that he’s a reasonable trade target for a team that loses a starting pitcher for the year in March.

On one hand I understand the logic of saying that spending more on a free agent doesn’t raise revenue so there’s no economic incentive for them to do so. And I’d respect them if they were out there Billy Beane-ing it, arguing that they’ll be a better team if they improve on the margins by bringing i...

Huh? He said he didn’t like Tunney, which should be pretty obvious. What else did you read into his comments? another republican whining about taxes, in a year when he already got a YUUUUGE tax cut. I didn’t realize the federal government cut the Chicago city amusement tax, which is what Ricketts w...

Collusion requires some behind the scenes agreement. I don’t think there is that. It’s all right there in the CBA. The players got took at the negotiating table. The owners’s greed Is a given. The players’ representatives’ incompetence isn’t. I think the players are going to have to bite the bullet ...

I would let KB announce the Harper signing at the Convention. And then have Harper announce the Machado signing a little later in the day. But that's just me. I'm crazy like that. That must be why Rizzo isn’t going. Too jealous of watching the KB and Harper bromance Not our fault he doesn’t have an...

Annoying people from Chicago by calling parts of Illinois “basically Chicago” is always good fun, though. Just casually, like telling a story about that time you were in “Chicago, well technically Evanston.” Then work your way out. By the end of the night you refer to Peoria or Springfield as part ...

Free agent relief pitchers still available: Greg Holland Cody Allen Adam Ottavino Sergio Romo Brad Brach Justin Wilson Alex Wilson Hunter Strickland A.J. Ramos Jake Diekman Sam Howard Can we afford any of these guys? Probably not. Did I miss Craig Kimbrell signing? Or are we just assuming there’s n...

The front office having the rug pulled out from under them by ownership would make some sort of sense out of what we've seen (or not seen, rather) this off season. As has been said a number of times in this thread, there are several transactions the Cubs front office should obviously not have done i...

This offseason is so weird. Obviously not done yet, but we’re only about 5 weeks to Spring Training. So what’s really going on? I see three options... 1. The front office is blowing smoke up the media’s ass, and they sign Harper and/or make some other “go for it” moves in the last few weeks before t...

Wilson A2000 wrote:Don’t forget Bob Tewksbury as mental coach

There’s an alternate universe where Steve Trout for Bob Tewksbury is considered one of the greatest trades in Cubs history.

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Ding Dong Johnson wrote:Gregg Williams is available

yeah, he's a piece of horsefeathers but his defenses perform. worth a look

There’s a Saints connection with Pace, but I don’t know if Pace would call that a plus or minus considering how Williams’ Saints tenure ended.