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DelMarFan

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Re: Cubs in '18
« Reply #1470 on: January 19, 2018, 06:35:10 pm »
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Clearly one of the 20-25 best starters in baseball over the last 3-4 years

Number 12 according to Bill James, but what does he know.

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Any pitcher can regress, flame out, or get hurt. 
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Re: Cubs in '18
« Reply #1471 on: January 19, 2018, 06:39:17 pm »
If Hendricks is as good at his position as Molina has been at his position, for as long as Molina has been, I will be greatly satisfied, and will go to his HOF induction.
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Re: Cubs in '18
« Reply #1472 on: January 19, 2018, 07:15:57 pm »
I remember when this board didn’t think Hendricks could be a fifth starter or go more than 5 innings. I’ve liked Hendricks for a long time. Being worried about how he ages isn’t the same thing as disliking him. It isn’t a velocity.

This isn’t a velocity issue either. I didn’t want to sign Arrieta either because the Cubs got what are likely to be his best years in arbritratio.  The same goes for Hendricks.
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Re: Cubs in '18
« Reply #1473 on: January 19, 2018, 07:27:23 pm »
My post wasn't aimed at any one poster.  And I wasn't complaining about noting his decline in velocity.  Glad so many of you are his supporters, but some of the negativity sometimes comes across almost as glee.  It's probably just me.  I apologize.

Jes Beard

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« Reply #1474 on: January 19, 2018, 08:46:47 pm »
It remains to be seen how long Hendricks will remain to be one of the better starting pitchers in baseball (which by some measures I gather he has been the last couple of years).  But I do wonder what it will take for him to earn the respect he's earned with his actual performance.

Either a 95 MPH fastball, or more brighter fans.

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Re: Cubs in '18
« Reply #1475 on: January 21, 2018, 03:26:26 pm »
It sounds like Cashman took the Yankees out of the mix for Darvish, though it could be a negotiating ploy. If it really is down to the Cubs and Twins you’d have to think we have a pretty good chance.

I wonder if we might actually have more competition for Cobb than Yu, since he fits realistically into the financial picture for more teams.

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Re: Cubs in '18
« Reply #1476 on: January 21, 2018, 07:23:00 pm »
Now the Brewers have reportedly made an offer (seemingly confirmed by Yu himself), though how serious it is who can say.  That would be kind of a worst-case scenario for the Cubs.

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Re: Cubs in '18
« Reply #1477 on: January 21, 2018, 08:28:41 pm »
Darvish just responded to the Brewers offer with an emoji, which could've been interpreted different ways. But this probably confirms a Brewers offer:

Ken Rosenthal @Ken_Rosenthal
Source confirms: #Brewers have made offer to Darvish. First reported: Yahoo Japan.

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Re: Cubs in '18
« Reply #1478 on: January 21, 2018, 10:30:13 pm »
Darvish is an interesting fellow...

Ron

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Re: Cubs in '18
« Reply #1479 on: January 21, 2018, 11:02:54 pm »
Darvish is an interesting fellow...

As in "tease?"

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Re: Cubs in '18
« Reply #1480 on: January 21, 2018, 11:39:49 pm »
As in "tease?"

Well, more just generally quirky and mischievous, I would say.  He seems to enjoy messing with people a little bit.

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Re: Cubs in '18
« Reply #1481 on: January 22, 2018, 12:14:32 pm »
I would rather have Darvish on the Brewers than the Dodgers. 

The Brewers had pretty much everything go right for them and a number of Cubs underperformed.  With that the Brewers still finished 6 games back. 

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Re: Cubs in '18
« Reply #1482 on: January 22, 2018, 12:19:49 pm »
I'm finding it hard to believe that the Brewers can offer more than Texas, the Twinkies, or the Cubs.  Of the Dodgers.

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Re: Cubs in '18
« Reply #1483 on: January 22, 2018, 12:28:44 pm »
The Brewers payroll is pretty low so they could fit in a large contract and the same goes for the Twins.

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Re: Cubs in '18
« Reply #1484 on: January 22, 2018, 12:29:30 pm »
I've mentioned this before, but I don't understand why St. Louis, which had enough $$$ to acquire Stanton, and has Lynn coming off their rotation + books, wouldn't be making offers to these pitchers who are supposedly either getting no offers at all or only getting sub-market offers from Yankees/Dodgers/Houston/Texas; and who are presumably getting only below-market offers from the Cubs.  Unless Cardinals scouting doesn't like any of the starters, why wouldn't they at least be making offers?