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The Blue Jays are going to be so unbelievably average with no real goal they seem to be working toward and I think that might make them harder to watch than the early 2000s teams that had fun players sucking poo poo game after game.
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Jan 5, 2024 21:40
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I bet the replies on that tweet are very funny.
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Jan 5, 2024 21:40
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the Chicago Cubs have signed a major league baseball player
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Jan 5, 2024 21:42
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Sydin posted:Yeah if you want premium job security without being a superstar then be a defensive backup catcher who's built a reputation for working well with pitchers. The one year deals will never stop flowing until your knees turn to dust. And then you can go manage a minor league team.
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Jed... DO SOMETHING! Guuuhhh...
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Sydin posted:Yeah if you want premium job security without being a superstar then be a defensive backup catcher who's built a reputation for working well with pitchers. The one year deals will never stop flowing until your knees turn to dust. I just read a book about this and it seems that job security means having to move every few months and never knowing if you will have a job.
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Jan 5, 2024 21:47
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lmao nothing like burning a roster spot to grab the guy the Colorado Rockies DFA'd to make way for Jacob Stallings.
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R.D. Mangles posted:I just read a book about this and it seems that job security means having to move every few months and never knowing if you will have a job. I mean, in 2024 America, yes.
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Jan 5, 2024 21:48
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Miguel Amaya make way for this guy
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Jan 5, 2024 21:53
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Sydin posted:lmao nothing like burning a roster spot to grab the guy the Colorado Rockies DFA'd to make way for Jacob Stallings. look, when you can get a 29 year old backup catcher with a career .500 ops you have to pull the trigger
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Jan 5, 2024 22:31
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The move in a vacuum is fine: Gomes is 36 and Amaya can't spend five seconds without tripping and falling onto the IL, so why not grab a backup catcher off waivers who has minor league options that you can hold as depth. Within the context of the rest of the Cubs' offseason though, it's extremely dire. This is their first addition involving a major-league player.
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Jan 5, 2024 22:59
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https://twitter.com/katiejwoo/status/1743395341905674465 I don't know who any of these people are, but okay.
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MrMidnight posted:Yordan sheds a tear. I'm glad we got him a ring but wish he had been able to play
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Sydin posted:https://twitter.com/katiejwoo/status/1743395341905674465 Kittredge is really good but always hurt. Too rich for the Cubs ($2 million) but I think worth the flyer.
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https://twitter.com/AlertasMundial/status/1743382142753599871 quote:"My girl, if my team realizes this it could cause problems for me, it is a rule in all teams not to talk to minors and, nevertheless, I took the risk and I loved it," Franco expressed in a screenshot of a conversation on the WhatsApp platform with the teenager, who appears on page 569 of the 595 of the request for coercive measures against Franco and the minor's mother, Martha Vanessa Chevalier.
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Jan 6, 2024 00:27
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Sydin posted:The move in a vacuum is fine: Gomes is 36 and Amaya can't spend five seconds without tripping and falling onto the IL, so why not grab a backup catcher off waivers who has minor league options that you can hold as depth. It's the crack in the dam. Soon the Cubs will be flush with FA signings.
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Jan 6, 2024 00:37
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Good lord. Story somehow continues to get worse.
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I saw this from the ESPN article about the Franco casequote:A judge on Friday ordered the conditional release of Tampa Bay Rays shortstop Wander Franco while he is investigated for allegations he had a relationship with a 14-year-old girl and gave her mother a car and thousands of dollars in exchange for her consent, according to court documents obtained by The Associated Press.
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Jan 6, 2024 00:49
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lol robbie ray won the cy young.
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https://twitter.com/yakyucosmo/status/1743434877872267354?t=C23XRuSZeK6mJ7ECIPCkgA&s=19 Cubs please sign Imanaga. And banish Bauer to the phantom zone. And I am glad there is a hard time line on him. He has until the 11th to sign. ScottyJSno fucked around with this message at 02:01 on Jan 6, 2024 |
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I can't help but feel that part of the reason that Bauer is the way he is comes from how he was bullied since he went about training as a pitcher so differently (like the shoulder tube and long toss). Coaches and teammates (like fellow cheater Gerrit Cole) were lovely to him because he was different. That doesn't excuse him from being the piece of poo poo he is now. Just another example that bullying and abuse just breeds more bullies and abusers. Also, MLB should lifetime ban Wander Franco. Yikes.
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I think it's prrrrrrobably safe to say Wander Franco won't be seen in MLB anymore.
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mcmagic posted:lol robbie ray won the cy young. He fuckin rocked it that season
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Bogus Adventure posted:I can't help but feel that part of the reason that Bauer is the way he is comes from how he was bullied since he went about training as a pitcher so differently (like the shoulder tube and long toss). Coaches and teammates (like fellow cheater Gerrit Cole) were lovely to him because he was different. That doesn't excuse him from being the piece of poo poo he is now. Just another example that bullying and abuse just breeds more bullies and abusers. They bullied him cause he's an rear end in a top hat
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Like Trevor Bauer didn't turn into an abuser cause people were mean to him in a locker room come the gently caress on
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Sydin posted:https://twitter.com/katiejwoo/status/1743395341905674465 I’m pretty stoked about this actually. Palacios would have been buried behind the presumptive starters and the corpse of Dylan Carlson is still there too. First move the cards have made this off-season that I’m fully excited by tbh. Nothing against Sonny
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Inspector_666 posted:Truly wonder how Haniger feels about this. he's into it 
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Darude - Adam Sandstorm posted:They bullied him cause he's an rear end in a top hat It started off when he was a kid. Baseball Doesn't Exist released a pretty good breakdown of Bauer after 2021 https://youtu.be/Kcne0vP4NNE?si=rKlJBkxe3fZ1SUk5 He might have been an rear end in a top hat as a kid, but him getting bullied probably made it worse.
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Which lovely pitcher winning the cy young was stupider? robbie ray or rick porcello?
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Porcelllo basically stole his Cy Young from a far more deserving verlander because "wins", Robbie Ray had a career year, and either deserved the Cy young outright (bbref war) or was at least within 1.5 WAR of the top pitcher in his league (fangraphs) it's not really close
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2 actual major league journeymen, lenny russel and thad bosley put music out together under the name "ball players" it's pretty servicable funk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mrrkt5G8gfI
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R.D. Mangles posted:why would they trade yoshida, wasn't he good? He was okay? 109 OPS+ isn't really cutting it for a LF/DH though.
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R.D. Mangles posted:why would they trade yoshida, wasn't he good? I thought he was okay as well until I looked at his stats. He was signed for 5yrs/$90m and provided 0.6 fWAR in his first year. https://www.fangraphs.com/players/masataka-yoshida/31837/stats?position=DH/OF He's projected to do a bit better next year (1.6 fWAR), but that's not what you'd hope for from your OF/DH.
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