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Strasburgs UCL posted:Wait how did I miss that the Padres signed Ha-Seong Kim today too? That is going to be a crazy fun team. I was legit excited for the Padres next year before they took one of my favorite players in the past 10 years from my own team haha. Well I bet I watch waaay more Padres games next year for sure now.
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At least win the division Padres, I believe in you.
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Like why even include Zach Davies? 1 year of him pitching even decently well makes no difference when you're actively tanking. I know the answer is "he costs less" but drat, you could have at least picked up one decent prospect out of this. It's slap dicks all the way down
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Dec 29, 2020 05:31
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I find it hard to believe other teams could not beat that package so Hoyer probably targetted those players.
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Popete posted:Like why even include Zach Davies? 1 year of him pitching even decently well makes no difference when you're actively tanking. I know the answer is "he costs less" but drat, you could have at least picked up one decent prospect out of this. I mean they are all the kind of young high upside guys who turn in to decent prospects. Eventually. Maybe.
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I live 10 minutes from the stadium and I now have zero interest in the Cubs.
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Cleveland and the Cubs being reflections of each other in how they both would have taken the exact paths that they did no matter who had won in 2016. Both see their window starting to close, so they actively slam it shut themselves early for cost savings.
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Popete posted:At least win the division Padres, I believe in you. There is a whole new world of baseball agony awaiting Padres fans now 
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Darude - Adam Sandstorm posted:I find it hard to believe other teams could not beat that package so Hoyer probably targetted those players.
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Harder to get a bidding war going when only three teams are actively trying to win
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I'll probably never not root for the laundry, and if I can go back to wrigley in 2021 I'm gonna openly weep when I get up the ramp and see the field, but I can't see myself getting invested in the team on a day to day basis. Even the last couple years I probably couldn't have named most of the bullpen guys. I can't watch on TV legally, and I wouldn't want to anyway. Pat and Ron are great to have on doing something else, but yeah, I might be turning the Sox game on a lot more if I want something to watch.
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Shiroc posted:Cleveland and the Cubs being reflections of each other in how they both would have taken the exact paths that they did no matter who had won in 2016. Both see their window starting to close, so they actively slam it shut themselves early for cost savings. During game 7 the cubs window had been "open" for about 15 months
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bawfuls posted:This is always the head scratcher when a lopsided deal like this goes down We also have 0 insight into how players progressed over the summer. I imagine there's a ton of video floating between front offices in that sort of thing.
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Darude - Adam Sandstorm posted:We also have 0 insight into how players progressed over the summer. I imagine there's a ton of video floating between front offices in that sort of thing. Or the Cubs just suck and are assholes.
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xbilkis posted:Harder to get a bidding war going when only three teams are actively trying to win There are going to be a handful of articles about how baseball is dying because no one is trying to win while the other sports are doing just fine under Covid and I'm here for it.
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Homeybeef posted:I don't post here too much (in the off-season) but I just felt compelled to come in and say I loving hate The Cubs right now and I want to go leave a flaming bag of poop on Riketts doorstep
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The Cubs walking in like a three stooges bit makes me feel better about the Rays lovely ownership
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Chicago people feel free to join us on the South Side for the good baseball times. You know at least our manager likes to party.
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marioinblack posted:The Cubs walking in like a three stooges bit makes me feel better about the Rays lovely ownership I would too if I were you. Tampa sucks, but in a very specific way that encourages a degree of competitiveness. Just don't get too attached to anyone. The Cubs are using the excuse of a global pandemic to finish closing the window they've been ignoring for the last 3 years. ScumLord69 posted:Chicago people feel free to join us on the South Side for the good baseball times. You know at least our manager likes to party. As long as you party "the right way".
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R.D. Mangles posted:I was all in on the sox but TLR is a bridge too far, I despise that guy. He's gonna nuke all the fun of what is statistically* the most fun team in the league. Like, I'm a Twins fan and I was actually getting pumped about heading down Red Line when things calmed down. But nope. Let's just take all that youthful energy and squander it. *This is a fact and I will not debate it.
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The Fangraphs analysis of the Cubs return is up. https://blogs.fangraphs.com/scouting-the-cubs-return-for-yu-darvish/
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I tire a bit of the media and blogosphere lining up to poo poo on the Rays. You can criticize their methods, but they pretty consistently field a competitive team. You can't ask for much more than that. Maybe save the venom for the myriad of teams that are both cheap and incompetent. If my team could expand the playoff window for 4-5 years at the cost of the chance for a ring in the immediate future, I'd probably support that.
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Cheap and incompetent teams deserve the beatings they take, but at least you can make the argument they’re mostly staffed by mediocre to bad players who haven’t earned big contracts. What damns the Rays, to me, is they get incredible production out of guys and don’t pay them close to what they’d make on most other teams.
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General Dog posted:I tire a bit of the media and blogosphere lining up to poo poo on the Rays. You can criticize their methods, but they pretty consistently field a competitive team. You can't ask for much more than that. Maybe save the venom for the myriad of teams that are both cheap and incompetent. If my team could expand the playoff window for 4-5 years at the cost of the chance for a ring in the immediate future, I'd probably support that. the problem is that they're easily the most cynical team in the game right now. They extended Snell purely to boost his trade value. Who wants to root for a competitive window in the future as opposed to right now?
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Penisaurus Sex posted:You could all just become temporary Mariners fans. I mean I know I’m a Cubs fan but that’s a special brand of masochism.
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Not to woe is me too much, but it's dumb whiplash being a Tampa Bay sports fan. Rays: "Players are not humans, they are only assets that need to be built up to be turned into more assets." Bucs: "gently caress it we're signing everyone. What's that about moral character? That just makes the price cheaper!" Bolts: "Hey let's actually put some effort into scouting and build up a strong core and add on a few key pieces to round out a roster so that we're competitive for a decade. Hey look, all that effort led us to a championship and all those franchise players you love are still on the team!"
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ScumLord69 posted:Chicago people feel free to join us on the South Side for the good baseball times. You know at least our manager likes to party. gently caress TLR’s racist DUI rear end. Guess it’s another year of pining for the Trop unless they throw him in the dumpster. marioinblack posted:Not to woe is me too much, but it's dumb whiplash being a Tampa Bay sports fan. I love the Bucs but feel very dirty rooting for Touchdown Tom. I love JPP’s dumb four-finger rear end though. Luigi Thirty fucked around with this message at 20:42 on Dec 29, 2020 |
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