poppysox

A huge contributor many years ago.

Doesn't sound unreasonable when you consider the whole 5 year home/work experience.

Your place of preferred residence does matter if money between two places of employment are equal. I would choose Chicago or Midwest over East Coast if all else was equal.

I'm leaning toward Ryu as well. More potential upside at a lower $ commitment.

True but irrational.

Bum has a 3.90 ERA with 207+ innings and 1.9 BB/9. Not Sandy Koufax but not doo-doo. Ryu is OK as well for the right price. Both are good additions if the $ and years are reasonable. Doesn't seem like our FO is trying to be cheap...just prudent.

14-12 games are fun to watch but very hard on the nerves.

Don't forget the bullpen. With our offence we will be scoring a lot. Pitching whether from starters or bullpen needs to keep us in the game. We won't be out of very many games.

We will probably have something to cheer us up by end of business tonight.

The offseason just started. Let the next couple of weeks play out before we panic.

Yep!

Monster offensive squad and monster bullpen.

Might be a blessing in disguise. Just need to see how the money is now used.

I hate Wheeler.

Wheeler would have been great at 5 years 100 million. I don't blame the FO for setting max value on potential candidates. 23+ million per year is above what most of us were thinking it would take. We will have to see the offseason play out before making judgements. I wouldn't mind getting serious about building the best bullpen with some of those extra dollars we didn't spend.

Yeah...what a relief. Lots of better fish in the sea.?

Yep!

We are overdue for a huge win.

Yep!

Working on it.

I think Gio and McCann are on the same wavelength. McCann puts down the sign and Gio throws the ball. Gio has confidence in how McCann calls the game.

You could be right.?

1 year = good...18 million = bad

I like having Greg and his contrarian views. If we all agree on everything...there is nothing to talk about.

This is sensible.