No one **** their legs over Trout, over Stanton, over Harper, or anyone else. Boras is the only ******* reason this thing is a story.
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No one **** their legs over Trout, over Stanton, over Harper, or anyone else. Boras is the only ******* reason this thing is a story.
They were talking about this on Murph and Andy yesterday. Of course Andy, the Cardinal fan thought it was dumb of the Cubs not to put their best team on the field for opening day.
They also had "Cubs fans" call in and say they were disappointed that the Cubs aren't doing everything they can to "WIN NOW".
Holy crap, it's two weeks of a 162 game season.
The Cubs historically have done stupid crap like bringing guys up early, or giving guys huge deals who haven't earned it (Felix Pie). On top of the terrible free agent signings.
The Cubs are doing the ABSOLUTE right thing and preserving and entire year of club control for 2 weeks of games this year. If they did the opposite then any fan with a brain would be ticked as hell.
I'm not positive that the pitching rotation is good enough to win a ton of games this year anyways. The bats are talented but still very young and will need to learn to play together and learn how to be big leaguers.
I am super pumped for the season but people are crapping their pants a little too much about each little move.
People that have huge expectations for the team this year are setting themselves up for disappointment anyway. The future is near, but I'm not sure that this year is the year.
Just keep progressing and I'll be happy. Flirting with, and or making the playoffs would be pretty nice though.
If we are able to point back at the first two weeks of the season and say, "if Bryant would have been playing we could have made the playoffs" I'll be content with how the season went.
First two weeks are often a crap shoot anyways. A lot depends on which players struggle out of the gate in usually crappy weather.
Bryant will get to start the season with less of a spotlight on him than on opening day with the big club. Then he can come up hopefully with a hot bat.
he's not leaving 20 million on the table anyway, that's not how this works. He'll be super-2 arbitration eligible. Check out what some other big name players got in their final year of arbitration. He'll get his 20 million if he lives up to the hype.
The difference is the money isn't guaranteed
Pretty big difference. Still a bad rule. Bad for the teams and players. MLB and the union need to take a look at this one.
I completely agree here. A
lso adding that Theo doesn't like to break rookies into an opening day lineup or while the team is at home to help their transition. I trust Theo's development approach vs the past flinging against the wall from previous management.
I don't know here. I thought the pitching was the one bright spot last year and they have four talented starters. The issue will be run support as usual, however should be improved from last year.
The Cardinals started last year 5-4 and won the division. The Angels started 4-5, and they finished with the best record in baseball. The Royals were 4-5 and reached the World Series.
The first nine games aren't going to make or break a damn thing. The only way they could is if the Cubs go 0-9. And if they do that, then they probably weren't going to contend, anyway.
The first nine games aren't going to make or break a damn thing. The only way they could is if the Cubs go 0-9. And if they do that, then they probably weren't going to contend, anyway.
Why is it a bad rule? Because a few guys don't get to be Free Agents as soon as they otherwise would? It's not like they are indentured servants like baseball players in the early 1900s.
The agreement between the union and MLB is very complicated. This is one of the rules that helps teams to keep around younger players longer. If they were forced to bring up every young player sooner it would hurt baseball and a lot of those players would flame out because they were brought up too soon.
This is just one example of where a few weeks makes a big difference. A lot of teams make decisions like this all the time but it's usually not such a small amount of games.
I've seen/heard a lot of Cardinal comments on this situation.
To that, I ask why Yadier Molina wasn't on the Opening Day roster his opening year.
I also ask why the late, potential GREAT outfielder Tarveras was called up May 30th last year when he was MLB ready during Spring Training.
To that, I ask why Yadier Molina wasn't on the Opening Day roster his opening year.
I also ask why the late, potential GREAT outfielder Tarveras was called up May 30th last year when he was MLB ready during Spring Training.
Some photos of the new Video Board & Bleachers construction at Wrigley taken from today:
Link to full gallery: http://www.chicagotribune.com/sport...eld-rehab-underway-20140925-photogallery.html
Link to full gallery: http://www.chicagotribune.com/sport...eld-rehab-underway-20140925-photogallery.html
I think that's the point. Stay out of a Cubs thread if you aren't a Cubs fan. Not too hard
