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Re: Cubs in '19
DIR By: JeffH
Date: October 31, 2018, 6:57 pm
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What's your definition of a "big bargain"?
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Re: Cubs in '19
DIR By: Deeg
Date: October 31, 2018, 7:15 pm
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> What's your definition of a "big bargain"?
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2 years, 6.26 million.
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Re: Cubs in '19
DIR By: brjones
Date: October 31, 2018, 7:24 pm
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Going rate for pitchers in Strop’s class last year (Cishek,
Shaw, McGee, Reed, etc.) was 2-3 years at $7-$10 million per. So
a bargain would be somewhere significantly below that. I don’t
think Strop would accept that.
The reason to extend Hamels is because it’ll likely get his AAV
down to $15 million or so to help the luxury tax. Otherwise,
they’d just pick up the option. With Strop, I don’t think there
would be any AAV savings.
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Re: Cubs in '19
DIR By: Deeg
Date: October 31, 2018, 7:44 pm
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Something like 2/34 for Hamels seems semi-reasonable, since it
actually means 40 for Hamels. But I suspect he could do better
on the open market.
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Re: Cubs in '19
DIR By: brjones
Date: November 1, 2018, 4:42 pm
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Mark Gonzales @MDGonzales
Cubs pick up $6.25 million option on Pedro Strop.
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Re: Cubs in '19
DIR By: Ron
Date: November 1, 2018, 4:43 pm
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Patrick Mooney
@PJ_Mooney
As anticipated, the #Cubs have picked up their $6.25 million
option on bullpen leader Pedro Strop. Unclear if there will be
another "Dress Like Pedro Strop" themed road trip next season.
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Re: Cubs in '19
DIR By: Bennett
Date: November 1, 2018, 6:24 pm
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From ESPN
NEW YORK -- Chicago Cubs outfielder Jason Heyward and San
Francisco reliever Mark Melancon let the deadline pass for
exercising opt-out provisions in their contracts.
Doing the same were two Cuban outfielders who have been major
disappointments and spent all of this season in the minor
leagues: Boston's Rusney Castillo and Arizona's Yasmany Tomas.
Heyward keeps the $184 million, eight-year deal that pays him
$106 million in the next five seasons. The others all have two
years left in their contracts: Melancon is owed $28 million,
Tomas $32.5 million and Castillo $24.5 million.
They all had to make their decisions by Wednesday night.
The 29-year-old Heyward, who in 2016 helped the Cubs to their
first title in 108 years, hit .270 with eight homers and 58 RBI
in 127 games this season. He is owed $20 million in 2019, $21
million in each of the following two seasons and $22 million
apiece in the final two years. If he has 550 plate appearances
next year, he would again have the right to void the deal and
become a free agent.
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Re: Cubs in '19
DIR By: ben
Date: November 1, 2018, 7:56 pm
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Sure seems unlikely to me that Cubs would consider Machado.
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Re: Cubs in '19
DIR By: brjones
Date: November 1, 2018, 8:43 pm
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I really don't understand the complete shift on Machado over the
past few weeks. I expect the front office to have the same level
of interest in him that they would've had if his season had
ended a month ago and he hadn't had a couple bad PR days in the
last month. In other words, they'll (rightfully) have
considerable interest.
The guy is 26 years old and already has accumulated about 31
fWAR/34 rWAR. He just had arguably his best season, and he's
still in his prime. It's probably already more likely than not
that he's eventually going into the Hall of Fame. This front
office is too smart to change their minds about a player based
on one month of bad PR in a 6 1/2 year (HOF-pace) career.
Unless there is some new story that I haven't seen yet, I am
confident they'll be talking to his agent regularly this
offseason.
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Re: Cubs in '19
DIR By: guest61
Date: November 1, 2018, 9:20 pm
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Give me Machado over Harper.
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