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Well that lead was short lived. Perhaps I should start focusing on putting together my argument for the guy the Cubs should target in the offseason.
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Barney with an extra base hit that probably would have been an out if Hart wasn't cheating in on him.
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sometimes its good to be a little MI lol...Barney doing well in 8 hole. My only gripe he still goes outside the zone and needs to learn when pitchers are pitching around him to get to SP
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I love Fielder, but if I can only have one high price free agent there is another name that isn't being mentioned much (I don't think at all at this forum) that I think would have a bigger impact on the team.
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I'm putting together the numbers to make my case for why he would have a bigger effect than Fielder or Pujols right now. If the kid goes down for the night in a half hour I should have it done in a couple of hours.
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i just started looking at FA list and here what i would do
Fielder 1B
CJ Wilson SP 1A
Chris Carpenter ( i would give him 2 yr deal) SP 1A
Keep A-Ram 3B
Nick Swisher RF
My lineup:
Jackson CF
Castro SS
A-Ram 3B
Fielder 1B
Swisher RF
Soto C
Soriano LF
Barney 2B
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SP 1: CJ Wilson
SP 2: Chris Carpenter
SP 3: Garza
SP 4: Dempster
SP 5: Zambrano
To me thats an impressive SP and nice lineup... Payroll be around 130 - 140 mil
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Going to have to check the DVR, and d3a my guy is high on your list.
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i just started looking at FA list and here what i would do
Fielder 1B
CJ Wilson SP 1A
Chris Carpenter ( i would give him 2 yr deal) SP 1A
Keep A-Ram 3B
Nick Swisher RF
My lineup:
Jackson CF
Castro SS
A-Ram 3B
Fielder 1B
Swisher RF
Soto C
Soriano LF
Barney 2B
P
SP 1: CJ Wilson
SP 2: Chris Carpenter
SP 3: Garza
SP 4: Dempster
SP 5: Zambrano
To me thats an impressive SP and nice lineup... Payroll be around 130 - 140 mil
Thoughts?
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no i did not
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after the SP this year i think those 2 guys in Wilson and Carpenter would be huge for next year. Cant count on Cashner and not fan of Wells
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I would love that team d3a, but the payroll for it would put us in Yankees payroll territory. I am running the numbers on salary to confirm that there is really enough to land one big free agent and a little left over to grab a mid range free agent.
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from research i have done with Arb guys they will be around 90 mil...if they keep around 130 they should have about 40 mil to spend...yea after i saw what each guy would want Payroll would have to go up and i dont see Ricketts doing that
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My figure was closer to 100 million when you factor in the deferred money for Pena which counts towards the payroll next year not this year and Aramis's buyout assuming you don't pick up the option, and I purposely overestimated the arbitration awards to make the figures safe. Anyone know what Samardzija's club option next year is worth. I am just curious because I have to imagine they try to bring him back.
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hopefully Pena is traded and wont have to pay the 5 mil
Samrdzija's option i believe is around 3 mil, i heard talks of declining it and go through ARB with him. https://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=tt7HjIernphaSrv4wMWdUYg&output=html
right now at 72 mil...Figured Garza be around 7.5 mil ARB (hopefully sign him to longer deal), Samardzija lets say 3 mil, Soto 4.5 mil, Baker 1.5 mil, Wells 1.5 mil, DeWitt, 1 mil, so adding those u get to around 78 mil...with A-Ram buyout looking at 80 mil, which i dont count against payroll personally....So to me around 80 mil as of right now so that should leave 50 mil to spend if they keep same payroll
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I think Garza gets more than 7.5 million. The other numbers are decent. I could see Baker getting close to 2 million. You also have to factor in the various guys make 500k and it depends on the Pena deferred money. There is some money to play with. My guess is that we could either bring back both Pena/Ramirez or go after one more big free agent and plug the other hole with kids.
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