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Is it fair to say this guy has been an average or below average pitcher each season of his career except for one good year? If it's not, I'll easily take the statement back.

She makes me long for someone like that in the White House again.

Man, this world feels normal again, if only for just a few moments.

Brian wrote:

Just have them play home run derby instead.

Yeah, I'm pretty confident this was leaked to Passan by Scott Boras. He is a fan of this. Not only is it probably going to be too dangerous, not only will it be difficult to coordinate this all, but if Covid doesn't make some of the players sick, playing in 110-degrees every day for two or three mon...

I welcome baseball being back because it will mean our country, hopefully, has turned the corner. But is it OK that I won't care about what happens this season because it will sort of be a sham one? I just won't really recognize the World Series winner the way I normally would. Please feel free to t...

Bull wrote:Every time I see a new post in this thread I think there’s been a trade. /s

Really? I just assume it's people responding to the voices in Tom's head.

Honestly, if you give me 10 minutes to go back and watch highlights...give me Game 6 against the Dodgers every day. Outside of the fact that it ended with Chapman on the mound, it's pretty much perfect. My favorite thing (other than the obvious WS stuff) to watch from that run is the comeback in SF...

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...

Boooooo. I wanted Scooter, but I also don't know the inner workings of what is going on there, so there is that.

I would very much like this to not happen.

Yeahno. This actually got trending on Twitter last night, and actual reporters addressed it not being real. I've really started to worry about the serious gullibility of people in our society. Although, based on current world events, I guess i should not be. For every 20 MLBIntel’s there’s a WetBut...

https://twitter.com/MLBintel/status/1225557269728911360 *grain of salt* Yeahno. This actually got trending on Twitter last night, and actual reporters addressed it not being real. I've really started to worry about the serious gullibility of people in our society. Although, based on current world e...

Im sure Len and JD are thrilled. I think Len is doing more Saturday Fox games so I wonder who will take pbp when he’s gone. Chris Myers (the dude sideline reporter last night, if you're unfamiliar with the name). They announced it at Cubs Convention. Thanks. I think Len does a much better job when ...

So with this, is KB still a Cub by the end of the week?

Brian wrote:probably still would have done the trade and still was worth it, but come on no one can honestly say the wouldn't want Vogey mashing monster dongs as a DH for the Cubs

I was reading along with this totally thinking it was going to say Eloy.

Would this be allowed to skirt the LT..... Lester has a LT hit of $25 million currently. He’s owed $20 million this year and has a $10 mil buyout/$25 mil option next year. Could we sign him to like 2/35 so his LT hit comes down ~$8 million? I don't see why not, Lester gets a guaranteed 2021 and mor...

horsefeathers, well glad he didn’t go back to the Cardinals on that. Castellanos shouldn’t get more than that on an AAV basis. Does Castellanos take more than 3/30-40 right now? Ozuna has had higher highs and is only 1.5 years older. If he gets 3 for 30, the Cubs better figure out a way to be all o...

Brian wrote:MLB was able to put this all together in like 2 months and we can't even get an arbitrator to read the CBA and say everything is kosher here for a 5 year old issue.

In conclusion award the Cubs the Astros' draft picks.

This.........is an excellent observation.

Recent talks between the Cubs and Nationals regarding Kris Bryant have “gone nowhere,” reports Ken Rosenthal of the Athletic (via Twitter). Negotiations seemed to hit an impasse a few weeks ago, when the Cubs reportedly insisted upon the inclusion of promising center fielder Víctor Robles in any Br...

I like these moves. Between Eloy and Robert, they’ve committed $100M. Very likely they get at least that much value in return, with a high probability of getting value that far exceeds that amount. I still think I'd rather go cheap for three years and see what I have, but the rewards certainly can ...

Neither one of those What are you saying? In this case that the media didn't make up a narrative so much as ran with the most click-baity one available and the Cubs both entertained and discussed trading Kris Bryant with other teams OK, fair. I do disagree with this though: What I'm saying is that ...

TomtheBombadil wrote:

Bryant's Disco Ball wrote:Are you saying you don't think the Cubs have entertained trading KB and/or haven't had any discussions with other teams and it's just been a made up narrative by the media?

Neither one of those

What are you saying?

So basically they're not trading Bryant...Could have told you this in June 2013....How many days until ST? No, that’s not what I’m saying. I’d still lean we are trading Bryant in the next 45-60 days. I think trading KB and then trading for Arenado seems rather far fetched/a lot of moving parts and ...

For a team with no money, they sure have wasted money on all of these ridiculous signings. They've spent maaaaaaybe $6-7 million give or take on like a dozen players and most of that is non-guaranteed. It's not wasted in a few ways: so much $/WAR potential, more MiL options, and all that non-guaran...