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2023 Team - rok - 12-22-2022
Could be worse I suppose like Perez or Casali.
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RE: 2023 Team - Butcher - 12-22-2022
Sigh.
RE: 2023 Team - 1060Ivy - 12-22-2022
Adding Tucker doesn’t improve the catching position over last year but he does improve the current roster now that Willson is a Cardinal.
Guessing that the front office is either planning to win a bunch of 3-1 and 2-1 games or doesn’t plan to win this season.
RE: 2023 Team - Butcher - 12-22-2022
This feels like a transition year, still.
RE: 2023 Team - mrfelina - 12-23-2022
(12-22-2022, 08:33 AM)Butcher Wrote: I love what the Mets are doing. Nearly every owner in baseball could spend like this if they wanted to and still turn a profit. Owning a sports franchise should be considered a sacred trust. Millions of people are emotionally invested in these teams and they shouldn’t be run like a business. If you don’t want to spend on your team you should sell it to another billionaire who will.
Yeah, I'd definitely love it if Cohen owned the Cubs.
2023 Team - rok - 12-23-2022
Conforto to the Giants on a 2-year deal. Not sure how I feel about Mancini at 1B....
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RE: 2023 Team - funkster - 12-24-2022
What the hell is going on with him?
https://theathletic.com/4033222/2022/12/24/mets-correa-physical-concerns/
RE: 2023 Team - MrSheps - 12-24-2022
I love how the baseball media, on the word of Boris, just assumed the Giants, who aren't far removed from winning 3 WS in 6 years, got buyer's remorse and chickened out of their deal, as opposed to having genuine concerns. Now they'll totally believe it because the Mets, who are poorly run and genuinely suck, and simply lucked into a drunk rich owner, have the same concerns? Give me a break.
2023 Team - rok - 01-04-2023
I suppose the Hosmer signing was telegraphed years ago when the Padres were first trying to unload his dumb contract, but at this point I don’t really feel strongly about it one way or another.
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RE: 2023 Team - Butcher - 01-04-2023
This isn’t a signing a team with playoff aspirations makes. That’s my primary complaint with it. But whatever.
RE: 2023 Team - 1060Ivy - 01-04-2023
Hosmer should produce at an avg MLB level which improves the Cubs roster. Oh boy!
RE: 2023 Team - MrSheps - 01-04-2023
I think it's a fine signing, assuming they're not paying much more than league min. Not sure what the downside is, unless it ends up blocking Mervis. But I doubt it.
RE: 2023 Team - 1060Ivy - 01-04-2023
He should improve the quality of the Cubs roster at a bare minimum cost. The signing shouldn’t excite Cub fans nor upset them. It’s yeah ‘we’re having oatmeal for breakfast tomorrow, again’ - type signing.
2023 Team - funkster - 01-04-2023
Wtf is it with the fucking Bleacher Nation guys and whining about extensions like Devers? The guy wasn’t a fucking free agent and it’s out of the Cubs control so what’s the point?
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RE: 2023 Team - MrSheps - 01-04-2023
Plus, an 11 year deal at 320 or whatever it is probably wasn't ever happening for us anyway, if the lack of an offer for Correa is any indication.