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CurtOne

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Re: Around Baseball
« Reply #20070 on: December 10, 2022, 11:06:56 pm »
Andy Martino is saying 5/$75
That seems low.
  The Chicago Cubs could not or would not beat 15 a year?  Time to get our heads out the sand.

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« Reply #20071 on: December 10, 2022, 11:09:53 pm »
"Correa" is trending on twitter, but not for any actual reason that I can make out.

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« Reply #20072 on: December 10, 2022, 11:11:07 pm »
  The Chicago Cubs could not or would not beat 15 a year?  Time to get our heads out the sand.

In their defense, maybe they did and he picked the Mets because he wanted to win.  If we didn't top that offer it's pretty much criminal negligence on our part.

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« Reply #20073 on: December 10, 2022, 11:16:33 pm »
Oh bummer.  I come home from a late night, check to see if there's some fun news, and this.  Disappointed. 

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« Reply #20074 on: December 10, 2022, 11:52:26 pm »
Remind me - why are the Cubs "not a fit" for Rodon, again?

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« Reply #20075 on: December 11, 2022, 12:32:36 am »
Remind me - why are the Cubs "not a fit" for Rodon, again?

Because they'd have to pay him a lot of money.
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« Reply #20076 on: December 11, 2022, 07:17:10 am »
Probably a dodged bullet.

On to the next one.
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« Reply #20077 on: December 11, 2022, 08:20:49 am »
I bet Chris Bassitt will be better than Senga anyway and we're apparently after him.

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« Reply #20078 on: December 11, 2022, 09:44:28 am »
Intelligent spending.

What is going to be the higher number at the end of the season, the Mets tax bill or the Cubs payroll?  I’m leaning the Mets tax bill.

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« Reply #20079 on: December 11, 2022, 09:53:55 am »
I bet Chris Bassitt will be better than Senga anyway and we're apparently after him.
Poor planning willl better pitchers than Bassitt at AAA.  We have some real promise there.

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« Reply #20080 on: December 11, 2022, 10:05:14 am »
I bet Chris Bassitt will be better than Senga anyway and we're apparently after him.

Bassett is going into his age 34 season.
He is a contact manager.
He has a QO.
The Cubs have a **** offense.
Why the **** does he make any sense for the Cubs?

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« Reply #20081 on: December 11, 2022, 10:13:26 am »
CBJ, I'm not sure Taillon makes any sense either.  If we aren't looking to honestly contend and spend wisely, we've got some kids who showed real promise second half.  They need to stick to a plan.

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« Reply #20082 on: December 11, 2022, 10:48:21 am »
Found this on Senga FWIW but remember that Dusty's a stupid racist...

Perhaps more concerning is Senga’s extensive injury history. While he hasn’t had a severe arm injury since he missed a year with shoulder problems early in his career, every season has been riddled with minor issues that knock him out for a few starts at a time. This season he missed several starts with elbow soreness and about a month with COVID. The year before, he twisted his ankle fielding a ball and missed three months. That list goes on and on, and once you go back more than a couple years it also extends to scarier places like his occasionally-troublesome right shoulder. Senga has a high-effort short-armed delivery and a relatively slight frame for a starter at 6-foot, 178 pounds, and that long injury history raises concerns about how he’d transition from starting once per week to once every five to six days. Senga has only exceeded 150 innings in a season twice, and only once since 2017. There are multiple ways to view that: either he can’t stay healthy as a starter or his arm is more fresh than usual for his age. Time will tell how MLB teams view that potential red flag.


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« Reply #20083 on: December 11, 2022, 10:53:33 am »
Intelligent spending.

What is going to be the higher number at the end of the season, the Mets tax bill or the Cubs payroll?  I’m leaning the Mets tax bill.

Just a tad of an exaggeration there, since the tax for the Mets is apparently going to be a little under $80 million.  I get your point, but what Cohen is doing is out of this world.

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Re: Around Baseball
« Reply #20084 on: December 11, 2022, 12:58:31 pm »
senga to the Mets is official