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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
Justin Upton's bat at 4 would win as many games for us as Heywards glove in RF would.
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Or he will strike out at Reynolds levels and kill rallies.
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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
Theo has pulled his Red Sox tricks - he's driven the price up on Heyward to a level far beyond what is sane. **** it - let him have him.
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Baseball salaries are getting really stupid. It's not going to level out anytime soon. They are just going to keep going up. What are we supposed to do then? Just sit out this era? Whine and moan that we can't compete? We have $115 million more coming in that will allow us to maintain a top 10-12 payroll. Thats close enough to the top to allow us to remain competitive.
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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
Theo has pulled his Red Sox tricks - he's driven the price up on Heyward to a level far beyond what is sane. **** it - let him have him. The Cardinals are not in a position to play this game. They have to be smarter than other clubs, they can't just outspend them.
To this point, the Cubs can outspend the Cards AND they've been smarter. We're going to reap what we've sown over the last 5 years and there's just no avoiding that. Time to get a hell of a lot smarter and hope to get a little bit lucky.
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Mo is one of the best GM's in baseball. You know this or should.
The Cubs have been drafting at the top of the draft for years. It's a helluva lot easier to get high upside picks there than at the bottom of the draft order where we usually pick.