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Re: Cubs in '19
« Reply #1245 on: December 20, 2018, 08:08:35 pm »
Win a gold glove and hit 20 HRs and all will be forgiven Addison.
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« Reply #1246 on: December 20, 2018, 09:54:27 pm »
Quote from: DUSTY on December 20, 2018, 08:08:35 pm
Win a gold glove and hit 20 HRs and all will be forgiven Addison.

It won't be forgiven by the ex, who is determined to gig him to the maximum extent possible, and in the current social climate she has a lot of people who want to make her a celebrity for doing so, the truth or falsity of her claims having no relevance in the matter.
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« Reply #1247 on: December 20, 2018, 10:54:33 pm »
Quote from: JeffH on December 20, 2018, 06:15:23 pm
When Tulo signs, will he pay taxes based on Toronto law or on the laws of his new home city?

Years ago there was an article about the taxes that Sammy Sosa had to pay.  The upshot of it was that anyone getting paid that much money is almost certain to have to pay income tax in almost every state he plays in, based upon the number of games he plays in that state as a percentage of the number of games he plays in the entire season.  So a player on a team based in Florida would not have to pay state income tax on the games he plays in Florida (about half his income) but if he played 16 games in California, he would have to pay California state income tax (and appropriate city and local income taxes if they exist) on 16/162 of his annual income, and so on for other states he plays in during the year.  According to the article, almost every state, as well as Canada, goes after, at the very least, the higher paid sports figures.
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« Reply #1248 on: December 21, 2018, 09:08:40 am »
On Tulo, it's been argued that he'd not have opportunity to start for the Cubs.  I don't think that's true, apart from merit.

The Cubs have only Baez as a starting middle-infielder.  If Tulo was worth starting, he could hypothetically win the other spot.  Obviously Baez and Russell are better than Tulo defensively, whether at 2B or SS.  But a Baez/Tulo combo, in either configuration, might be as good or better defensively than anything short of Baez/Russell. 

The larger question is merit.  Sure, Tulo hypothetically *could* win a starting job... *IF* he was healthy and *IF* he could hit.  But in his last four seasons at Toronto, he's been no-play in 18, and OPS/OPS+ of .678/80; .761/102; and .697/89 the previous three seasons.  So hitting-wise, he's been about as useless as Russell and Hayward.

Perhaps Tulo wouldn't want to try to compete with Bote, Descalzo, Zobrist, and Russell to win that job.   But I'd think that might be almost as accessible a starting job as their might be.   

I think that given that Russell is suspended for a chunk of the season; that he's been a bad bad hitter for several years; that he too is repeatedly injured; and that his personal-life garbage makes it unclear whether the Cubs will keep him; I think all of that makes it pretty obvious that the 2nd middle-infield starting spot is very wide-open. 
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« Reply #1249 on: December 21, 2018, 11:46:23 am »
1) Darvish
2) Lester
3) Hamels
4) Hendricks
5) Quintana
6) Montgomery
7) Chatwood
8) Strop
9) Cishek
10) Morrow
11) Edwards
12) Kintzler
13) Duensing
14) Contreras
15) Backup C/Caratini
16) Rizzo
17) Bryant
18) Baez
19) Descalso
20) Bolte/Russell
21) Zobrist
22) Schwarber
23) Heyward
24) Almora
25) Happ

Out of options- Mills

I wonder if the lack of activity has more to do with lack of roster space.  They really need to move Duensing and Kintzler out to make room in bullpen for upgrades.  Chatwood would be great as well, but I doubt that happens in the off season.  Maybe if he is throwing strikes in spring training, but he might be an interesting bullpen piece if that is happening.
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« Reply #1250 on: December 21, 2018, 12:01:11 pm »
You skipped #20. Maybe that’s Bote or Russell?

According to AZ Phil, Mills has an option for 2019.

Not hard to see Duensing getting released if not throwing well spring training. Probably going to bend over backwards to see what Chatwood can do, but if same problems he has no role.

Will be surprised if one or two (more?) of these guys aren’t traded off-season.
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« Reply #1251 on: December 21, 2018, 12:13:52 pm »
Good to know about Mills.  I though I read last year was his last option year. 

#20 would be Bote/Russell. 

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« Reply #1252 on: December 21, 2018, 12:30:58 pm »
If the Cubs end up trading for a reliever, I wouldn’t be surprised if Duensing is thrown in. He’s cheap enough that any team could afford him if it meant getting a slightly better prospect.

And I still think it makes a lot of sense for a team like the Tigers to try to catch lightning in a bottle by taking half of Chatwood’s contract rather than signing a $5-$10 million back end free agent that they’d plan to flip at the deadline.
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« Reply #1253 on: December 21, 2018, 12:31:16 pm »
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« Reply #1254 on: December 21, 2018, 12:32:48 pm »
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« Reply #1255 on: December 21, 2018, 05:18:54 pm »
Quote from: ticohans on December 20, 2018, 12:13:57 pm
*ducks to avoid the food fight in this thread*

JeffH, great questions.

For starters, I should say where I stand on Russell. Caveat: I'm basically at the tippy-top of the privilege totem pole, and my general philosophy is that in situations like these the expression of my opinion should take a backseat to the expression of the marginalized point of view.

Great, thoughtful post, tico. Thank you for sharing.


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« Reply #1256 on: December 21, 2018, 09:08:23 pm »
How do these private networks affect MLB.com.  I can get both Yankee games and Dodgers games on MLB.com.  Will I also get Cubs games there?
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« Reply #1257 on: December 22, 2018, 02:57:13 am »
Quote from: craig on December 21, 2018, 09:08:40 am
On Tulo, it's been argued that he'd not have opportunity to start for the Cubs.  I don't think that's true, apart from merit....   Sure, Tulo hypothetically *could* win a starting job... *IF* he was healthy and *IF* he could hit.  But in his last four seasons at Toronto, he's been no-play in 18, and OPS/OPS+ of .678/80; .761/102; and .697/89 the previous three seasons.  So hitting-wise, he's been about as useless as Russell and Hayward.


I know the time fans usually start imagining wildly rosy scenarios of an upcoming season is spring training, but this year, for me, it is right now.

Imagine a 2019 in which Darvish returns by about June and is actually healthy, Hendricks shows that his 2nd half was real, Quintana performs at his career averages, Lester performs no worse than his worst in his last five years, and Hamels performs not at the level he did after he cam to the Cubs last year, but just at his career average... and the Cubs have the best starting rotation in baseball. 

Then Bryant returns healthy and performs at his career averages, Baez continues to improve, Tulo signs for the league minimum and is healthy and performs not at his former stratospheric levels, but just at his career average, no one has any serious regression.... and Harper decides to sign a short term contract with the Cubs.  2019 could actually end up making the 2016 team relatively weak alongside it.
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« Reply #1258 on: December 22, 2018, 10:27:16 am »
On Bruce Levine’s radio show Matt Spiegel said a source told him that they new all about what Reidy said in the interview and that the Cubs didn’t care if it became public with regards on how the Cubs were going to handle Russell. Levine also said that at some point they believe Russell with speak with the media more in depth about what happened.
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« Reply #1259 on: December 22, 2018, 10:34:43 am »
It’s becoming increasingly difficult to support the Cubs.
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