CP_414
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I believe there is an organizational philosophy to rebuild without tanking and that’s what they are trying to do. They are trying to be mediocre...

No

Yeah, obviously. Nobody is arguing that this cubs strategy is smart or is designed to build the best roster possible. They will sign some players...

Not a lot obviously, but by that point presale ticket sales are done and their player expenses would be moving backwards. I think they are going...

I don’t think they are inept. I don’t think they spent the money well for the goal of winning with this roster, but the idea of spending more money...

Even “how they look” in ST doesn’t mean anything most of the time. Whatever they think the best roster is today is probably the same team they should...

Same thing really. I think they wanted to build a very mediocre team that has a chance to overachieve and compete and a high enough floor to not be a...

The Dodgers were blocking Lux with Corey Seager and then Trea Turner at SS and Max Muncy at 2b. I don’t know. I don’t think the Cubs FO is dumb...

What’s the parallel with the Dodgers though? Which 25 year old prospect who dominated AAA did they block with Hosmer/Mancini quality players and...

Doesn’t sound like that’s what happened. The athletic article today said the plan is for Hosmer to be the primary 1b with Mancini floating and...

Sergio Alcantara? Amaya needs a lot of time catching in the minors. He’s barely caught in years. Canario won’t be healthy for a while and then...

Nope. Spring stats aren’t predictive. Davis needs AAA success. Strumpf is who he is. I’d make Slaughter prove it in AAA for a while first too. ...

This will eventually lead to the end of the blackouts. Blackouts exist because the teams get so much money from RSN’s that they need to force people...

This Bally’s bankruptcy/RSN meltdown happening right now is a pretty huge story for the future of mlb finances. If the Ricketts told the truth about...

Yeah, he’s got a chance of joining PCA as a top 25ish prospect this time next year.

Hopefully there is some mega trade out of the blue, but I’d imagine any hitter they add at this point won’t move the needle much on the 2023 roster. ...

Not much to say. Roster feels almost done and pretty weak to mediocre. Maybe a bullpen arm addition or a Madrigal trade still to come, but it’s...

I guess we’re all wrong and a 7 year, $177 million deal doesn’t qualify as “big name” or “long term.”

They signed a deal this winter that is very close to being the biggest in franchise history.

Seems like it’s working. To be generous the plan seems to be to add a lot of short term depth of mediocre players to replace some of the black...

I feel like I’m in a bizarro world reading cubs fans reactions to this move and this offseason on Twitter. I hope they are all right and I’m wrong,...

Haha. I just saw that as well. I have no idea what Jed Hoyer is doing.

I did no such thing. If a team crosses into the tax it would mean they’d start to have to pay a small additional fee. I made no comment about...

Lol. Indeed.

Cap and tax have the same number of letters. I don’t think we all do know what it means and I do think the meaning gets lost over time if it’s always...

Depends on how far beyond it they go and how often. None of that is the point however. The point is that there is no cap. There is a tax and for a...

I know I’m nitpicking and I know you know this, but we should stop using the term “cap.” There’s no salary cap in baseball. There is a luxury tax...

It’s not a cap, it’s a tax. Deferred money doesn’t really matter for the tax. It’s based on the AAV of the length of the deal.

Lol.

And if instead of firing them you constantly praised them, well you’d be pretty incompetent, right? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk