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bdutts
Warren Carter Fanclub said:
The Marlins traded Arraez at the beginning of May last year. They can make that May trade again this year with Alcantara for Alacantara and we'll throw in Ballesteros. (Is that enough?....Rojas/Cruz?)

If this is a make or break year for Hoyer he's on the phone to Miami right now.
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I’d guess it’s make or break for Hoyer. He’s been middling for three years.
 
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champaignchris
jsmoke2215 said:
1. Imanaga
2. Boyd
3. Taillon
4. Ben Brown
5. Colin Rea

Yeah, I know our division is pathetic, but this is troubling. Small market level rotation with what the Cubs make in revenue is embarrassing.
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Assad is making his first minor league start on Tuesday. He’s probably a week or two from coming back. I’d assume he’ll bump Rea back to the pen.
 
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Second place is 1st loser
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Emerson Bigguns said:
By the tone of this thread, you’d think the Cubs went 3-6 against the Padres, Rangers, and Dodgers, rather than 6-3.
Ya’ll should try enjoying things… it’s been awhile since we’ve had anything to enjoy.
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If they make it out of April in first place, I think it's going to be fairly smooth sailing. They definitely got the short end of the straw when it came to the March/April scheduling. Good grief.

I do think they need to act like a major market team and make a trade for a headline starter. They also need to bite the bullet with Tucker.

Unfortunately, I think that Rickett's is planning for a strike and work stoppage in 2027, which is going to be a doozy.
 
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Grandpa
Second place is 1st loser said:
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If they make it out of April in first place, I think it's going to be fairly smooth sailing. They definitely got the short end of the straw when it came to the March/April scheduling. Good grief.

I do think they need to act like a major market team and make a trade for a headline starter. They also need to bite the bullet with Tucker.

Unfortunately, I think that Rickett's is planning for a strike and work stoppage in 2027, which is going to be a doozy.
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Can't blame the players with the starvation wages. Most qualify for food stamps.
Can't blame the owners. They are lucky to already be billionaires with all the money they are losing.
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#309      
Lee
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IanKEvans2
Grandpa said:
Can't blame the players with the starvation wages. Most qualify for food stamps.
Can't blame the owners. They are lucky to already be billionaires with all the money they are losing.
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The difference between someone with a couple million dollars like the players and a billion dollars like the owners is about...a billion dollars. Another way to frame it, a million seconds is about 12 days, whereas a billion seconds is 31 years.

I hope the players strike and get paid.
 
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champaignchris
IanKEvans2 said:
The difference between someone with a couple million dollars like the players and a billion dollars like the owners is about...a billion dollars. Another way to frame it, a million seconds is about 12 days, whereas a billion seconds is 31 years.

I hope the players strike and get paid.
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Most players are not millionaires. Most players make a nice 6-figure salary for the 4 or 5 years of their MLB career.
 
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bdutts
IanKEvans2 said:
The difference between someone with a couple million dollars like the players and a billion dollars like the owners is about...a billion dollars. Another way to frame it, a million seconds is about 12 days, whereas a billion seconds is 31 years.

I hope the players strike and get paid.
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And the players have zero risk in all of this, especially with guaranteed contracts. Think Justin Steele is going to give back a prorated amount of his 6.55M since he's out for the year after four starts?

In the interest of full disclosure, I really don't care who "wins", because in a work stoppage, fans lose. I will have no problem finding other things to do if/when there is a work stoppage.
 
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jsmoke2215
Emerson Bigguns said:
By the tone of this thread, you’d think the Cubs went 3-6 against the Padres, Rangers, and Dodgers, rather than 6-3.
Ya’ll should try enjoying things… it’s been awhile since we’ve had anything to enjoy.
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We are not a poverty franchise. World Series aspirations should be the name of the game. You can't win a world series with this pitching staff.
 
#317      
jsmoke2215
We won't be in first place for long if Counsell doesn't realize Justin Turner is a PH bat once or twice a week and not a plug and play in the 3 hole hitter.

Also, it's pretty obvious this team is poorly constructed. Pearson is a guy a good team takes a flyer on and pitches him in blowouts or in the minors until he learns his control. We're throwing him into a 3-3 game on the road. Just one of almost a dozen glaring failures on this roster.

Ah well, blow out loss coming. Pearson into a 3-3 game. Literally only a poverty team would do that.
 
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jsmoke2215
Definitely love playing games like we're the Pirates or A's... 3-1 game turned into throwing a 10 ERA guy who has pitched worse than that into a winnable game. Teams in our revenue wheelhouse like the Padres and Dodgers just stacking 1-2 ERA relievers while we stack Nate Pearsons and Caleb Thielbars.
 
#319      
Grandpa
I hope the Bears reconstruct last year's weak O-line better than the Cubs reconstructed last year's weak bullpen.
 
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KBLEE
jsmoke2215 said:
We won't be in first place for long if Counsell doesn't realize Justin Turner is a PH bat once or twice a week and not a plug and play in the 3 hole hitter.
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Seiya Suzuki is injured. Who else is he gonna play? This is not a deep team
 
#324      
jjv0004
With Steele gone and the bullpen showing they are not very good, Hoyer needs to get Alcantara and go get an actual closer.
 
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jsmoke2215
KBLEE said:
Seiya Suzuki is injured. Who else is he gonna play? This is not a deep team
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Playing Turner and hitting him 3rd are different things. I think it's debatable whether Turner should be playing with Suzuki hurt. It's clear Turner is the 2nd worst hitter on this team behind Shaw at the moment though, so hitting him 3rd because people should slide into their usual lineup spots is really dumb. In fact, Ross doing that for 3 months that one year when Suzuki was hitting like a relief pitcher is why they missed the playoffs.

I don't blame Counsell for any of the bullpen mess though. Half of the relief pitchers on this team are just as likely to give up 7 runs in an inning as they are to pitch a scoreless frame. Which is why I didn't get why everyone was so optimistic in this thread. This bullpen is one of the worst in the league.
 
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