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Niwrad posted:So Cubs get a 1st round pick from the Cards? New CBA wouldn't count yet. They get a pick after the first round and the Cardinals lose their pick.
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I would have thought he'd be playing in Japan or Korea.
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Darude - Adam Sandstorm posted:The Jays payroll hasn't gone down though. Standing still in payroll is basically going down though. Not to mention the jays signings so far are all pretty much big downgrades yet still cost money.
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Every report has the Jays payroll climbing by about 10 million over last year to between 160-165 million.
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Darude - Adam Sandstorm posted:Every report has the Jays payroll climbing by about 10 million over last year to between 160-165 million. And yet we have gone from Encarnacion -> Morales .. Bautista -> Upton Jr .... Saunders -> Carerra ... Cecil -> Loup . I guess Pearce is an ok pickup? We are a huge market. One of the top 5 or so in the entire league. We just had a giant increase of revenue in the past two years with attendance and TV viewership skyrocketting. They have somewhere between 300-600 million new money over past year or two. And that might be way too conservative (its likely much higher since the Jays tv deal is with their own media network, so the advertising dollars are direct and not double dipped). Spend some of it. More of it. Right now we are going to be the 2nd or 3rd best team in the division.
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R.D. Mangles posted:I will forever treasure heyward and his $180 million pep talk and he can hit .150 for the rest of his cubs career and i will never ever complain He has an 80 speech tool for sure. But I find it funny how he had probably his very worst AB of the year immediately afterwards. Good lord was that a brutal AB. Also dangit. Now I have to hate Dex and I don't want to. Good luck, Dex. As much luck as you can have to where it doesn't negatively affect the Cubs. You are my least hated Cardinal.
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patonthebach posted:And yet we have gone from Encarnacion -> Morales .. Bautista -> Upton Jr .... Saunders -> Carerra ... Cecil -> Loup . The offseason isn't over my dude.
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R.D. Mangles posted:i just hope dex doesn't go Full Theriot You never go Full Theriot
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Rand alPaul posted:I would have thought he'd be playing in Japan or Korea. He had disc issues in his back.
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Reading this thread, I just wonder what it's like to have your team do anything meaningful in the offseason. It must be neat 
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If the deal is final I wish Fowler great personal success and even greater professional failure.
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Mexican Radio posted:Reading this thread, I just wonder what it's like to have your team do anything meaningful in the offseason. It must be neat My team just made a panic move to get Adam Eaton and it feels bad, in fact
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Nationals should have just paid Fowler that money and kept their prospects.
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It's a shame the Cubs wouldn't pay Fowler because I'd love to have him back. On the other hand though in 2017 the Cubs lose Arrieta, Lackey, Strop, Davis, and Uehara, and Hendricks, Bryant, Russell, and Baez all enter arb. There's just no goddamn room for any major signings. The 2017-2018 off season spending spree is going to be a sight to behold.
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Dec 9, 2016 06:58
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Fowler is a cool player and I hope he makes the Cardinals less uncool.
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Niwrad posted:Nationals should have just paid Fowler that money and kept their prospects. Yeah I really don't get how he only had the supposed 2 offers from the Cards/Jays. I figured he was one of the bigger gets this offseason.
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howe_sam posted:Treat Koji well Chicago, he is a cool dude. I am excited to have one of my fav RPs on my team!
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AsInHowe posted:He had disc issues in his back. Oh yeah I forgot about that.
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R.D. Mangles posted:i was also being completely sincere, i don't give a poo poo if the cubs ever win another baseball game for the rest of my life The monkey paw closes
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Darude - Adam Sandstorm posted:The offseason isn't over my dude. Ah yes, we will still probably add Revere and a pitcher missing three fingers as reclamation projects.
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Niwrad posted:Nationals should have just paid Fowler that money and kept their prospects. Yeah but then they would have had an offensively talented but defensively challenged centerfielder instead of ... 
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CubsWoo posted:If the deal is final I wish Fowler great personal success and even greater professional failure. It just sucks I have to hate him now. Dex is a good guy who sold his soul to the devil.
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Sydin posted:It's a shame the Cubs wouldn't pay Fowler because I'd love to have him back. On the other hand though in 2017 the Cubs lose Arrieta, Lackey, Strop, Davis, and Uehara, and Hendricks, Bryant, Russell, and Baez all enter arb. There's just no goddamn room for any major signings. Do you think we let Davis walk?
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CubsWoo posted:If the deal is final I wish Fowler great personal success and even greater professional failure. Yeah
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Your Taint posted:It just sucks I have to hate him now. Dex is a good guy who sold his soul to the devil. You don't have to hate him. He can just be someone whose team you want to see losing often.
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May he stay as good of a player as he was for us. While his team sucks and loses a bunch of games. See Mike Trout.
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I will cheer for him every time I see him, idgaf He's gonna look really weird in red though.
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Your Taint posted:Do you think we let Davis walk? If he wants the kind of money he'd get in the current market, they would be smart to let him walk to save that money for Bryce Harper.
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I think Fowler is A Cool Dude, but I'm not that high on him to be honest. I'm glad the Cardinals paid a bunch of money instead of dishing out prospects for say, Charlie Blackmon, though.
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patonthebach posted:Ah yes, we will still probably add Revere and a pitcher missing three fingers as reclamation projects. Fewer fingers makes you a better pitcher, as evidenced by comparing the careers of Mordecai Brown and Antonio Alfonseca.
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The first batter of the 2016 Cubs season was Dexter Fowler, and he could be the first batter we face in 2017.
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Kevlar v2.0 posted:Fewer fingers makes you a better pitcher, as evidenced by comparing the careers of Mordecai Brown and Antonio Alfonseca. And Jim Abbott
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It warms my heart so much to see that the Cardinals have to overpay players to go play for them nowadays.
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I'm content that Dex got paid. Now may Kyle Hendricks doom him to weak contact for all eternity amen.
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