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If Yu is unable to pitch again until 2020, would the Cubs have to eat the entire cost of his salary?

An insurance policy on a pitcher with a TJS would be really expensive.  The bigger question for me is if the Cubs have an insurance policy does his full salary count towards the CBT.

Stem cells injections haven't been proven to be effective, but I'd certainly try that before another TJS surgery.  *Not speaking as any sort of authority, just going off of the numbers of what a second TJS means, recovery time etc........

I was an Arrieta guy myself.

I suspect if Theo had it to do over again he would take Jake.

If he had it to do over again, he'd have gotten some of the Cardinals scouts input and signed Mikolas, that guy has been a great value, particular value-per-dollar.  Not that I'm jealous or anything of what they've gotten on a $15/2 deal on Mikolas, versus what Theo got on $38/3 Chatwood and $126/6 Darvish....

I believe they were after Mikolas, but he chose the Cardinals because his hometown is where they have spring training.

I suspect if Theo had it to do over again he would take Jake.

I doubt that...at least not at the price Arrieta was seeking for most of the offseason. If he'd been willing to take the creative deal he settled for with the Phillies in mid-January, then sure, maybe they would've preferred that. But at the time Darvish signed, he was still looking for more guaranteed money than Darvish got. That would've been an extremely risky signing given Arrieta's declining stuff.

I still think Darvish was by far the better choice at the time the deal was made, and I think there's still a better than 50/50 chance that he looks like the right choice over a similarly-priced Arrieta 3 years from now.

I just got more likes on a quote about Darvish's problem not being in his arm but in his heart than every tweet Ive ever tweeted before combined.

That tells me one of two things:
A) There are LOTS of stupid folks who use twitter;
B) Your prior tweets were, well, not at all likable.

Of course the two are not really mutually exclusive.

The idea that Darvish's problem is one of his arm but is one of lack of heart, is simply nonsense.

And the fact that you have previously insisted that your dislike for Japanese pitchers has nothing to do with bias toward the Japanese, but is instead a result of Japanese pitchers being overused and arriving in the U.S. with arms that are ticking timebombs, would seem to be clearly contrary to your current lack of heart claim.