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and I'm not confident in this FO being able to adequately address the perpetual pitching issues they're going to have through the next two seasons without trying something/someone new. They seem to very much be trying something(s) and someone(s) new going back ~2 years now with the changes made int...

I don't think the strategy to just pile up arms in rounds 2-10 is a bad one. I think the incredibly conservative profile they used to do it for the first x years was the bigger issue.

Are we giving no credit to the Cubs for all the bullpen finds from 2019? They've taken guys that had (at best) iffy results elsewhere and developed them into solid contributors: Rowan Wick Kyle Ryan Alec Mills Brad Wieck Not to mention that Underwood actually looks like he maybe perhaps could final...

Are we giving no credit to the Cubs for all the bullpen finds from 2019? They've taken guys that had (at best) iffy results elsewhere and developed them into solid contributors: Rowan Wick Kyle Ryan Alec Mills Brad Wieck Not to mention that Underwood actually looks like he maybe perhaps could finall...

I don't remember Sulley as being that much of a hump. In fact, he was "Mr. react to everything in the moment" guy, not "Mr. let's slow down and take the long view" guy Really? I think he still believes the Bears have an elite running game. speaking of which, he still owes me $20

Old Style wrote:It’s amazing how much better Mitch’s throws are when he actually sets his feet and steps into the throw.

I also feel like they should just go hurry up all the time instead of giving him time to think.

Danny Salazar and Julio Teheran have been added to the FA market. If the money is right, either could be a #5 starter. Are you looking for the Cubs to corner the market on #5’s? Seems like they have enough. They can't afford a #1-4 and don't have a #5 sure thing right now. Can you point to a team w...

Forgotmyoldlogin wrote:Why can’t the Cubs have one guy as cool as Doolittle? I know that when the team went to go see Trump in 2017 some players skipped but I don’t remember anyone making the kind of statements Doolittle has.

Carl going to see dinosaurs instead was awesome

They basically can't properly value him for trade until his service time dispute is resolved. They can't wait for that to happen to decide what to do this off-season. That makes it highly unlikely that he's traded.

scarey wrote:

NOLA wrote:https://twitter.com/briantylercohen/status/1187526107878133760?s=21

This needs to be standard operating procedure for McConnell in any public setting. It sounds dramatic, but that guy has done more to try to destroy our democracy than any American in our history.

Does Murdoch count?

Shut up and be cival, morans!

cival

Marte is a good player, but he's a tough fit on this team. He has a severe and consistent platoon split. Over the last three years, he has a 76 wRC+ against lefties, and a 121 against righties. For reference, Schwarber is at 85 and 120. He was also a really bad CF last year defensively. That doesn'...

This movie is slated for 2021, 9 years after the last standalone Batman. That's bigger than the gap between the last Clooney movie and the first Bale one. Yeah, but you've also had the two Snyder movies with Batman. For the Batman world, there was a standalone Joker movie, plus two Suicide Squad mo...

Rizzo might have benefited from a couple opposite field shots that would have been warning track in previous years.

jersey cubs fan wrote:9.6m option. 1.5 dead weight

1.5 dead weight it is, then.

Apologies in advance for the political statement in this thread...

Now let's get the rich white owners to care and speak out about the tens of thousands of immigrants imprisoned by our own government.

squally1313 wrote:Is McGee just for salary purposes? Because he hasn't been good in two years. If you want to pick up salary, just grab Ian Desmond and let him crush lefties in left field.

Pitchers have hope of improving when they leave Colorado, plus he only has a one year commit.

Transmogrified Tiger wrote:

ConstableRabbit wrote:That would be cool but how is that a low cost offseason? lol

Yeah that stretches past the realm of likely limitations the team is going to have, by at least 10 million, I'd say.

It seemed low(ish) cost compared to my last plan with Cole and Donaldson.

Note the many ishes

Low(ish) Cost offseason 1) If they can't be traded, non-Tender Russell & Almora to save $5M 2) Move on from: Cishek, Hamels, Strop, Kintzler, Zobrist, Phelps, Cedeno, Barnette, Lucroy, Morrow, Holland 3) Sign Will Smith 4) Sign Castellanos 5) Sign Gennett (should be a low-ish cost signing after ...

Brian wrote:

If he was using binders, he wasn't as analytics friendly as he thinks.

My guess is that we wanted him to commit full time and the reds were willing to let him continue at driveline.

We also have to fill 13 position player positions with guys who won't make claw our eyes out when they play

Unlimited Cash Offseason - rev 1.0 1) Sign Gerritt Cole 2) Sign Josh Donaldson 3) Sign Scooter Gennett 3) Trade Almora for whatever / non-tender him 4) Shoot Russell into the sun 5) Exercise options on Rizzo, Q, Graveman 6) Trade Q for a reliever 7) Sign Will Smith C) Contreras 1B) Rizzo 2B) Gennett...