A's Acquire Smardjiza and Hammel

[gsro]

Exact deal: Russell, McKinney and Straily to #Cubs for Samardzija, Hammel. According to Rosenthal


unreal..that team

 

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Exact deal: Russell, McKinney and Straily to #Cubs for Samardzija, Hammel.

 

[gsro]

Gray
Kazmir
Shark
Hammel
Chavez/Milone

 

[Fondybadger]

Love the deal for Oakland

 

[P-Unit]

Wow Oakland made out well on that deal.

 

[KJ]

Best run differential in the majors and upgrade the rotation?

I'm buying, they are brilliant in that organization

 

[MusicCityGambler]

Both should pitch great in Oakland. Great deal for them.

 

[Schrute]

Oakland Dodgers World Series and every total gonna be 5.5

 

[JumpOnBoard]

I don't get the cubs

 

[BadAngel]

Great deal for Oak. Wow. Both will pitch great in that Stadium.

 

[spiderman]

What don't you get? They are loading on up prospects? They have 3 of the top 6 or 7 guys on most lists now, plus a whole bunch more. They probably have the #1 farm system in the majors after this deal.

Signing the Shark didn't make sense from a Cubs perspective. He is 30 years old right now and the Cubs are probably 2 years away from being a team that is expected to be in any sort of race. Giving him a 4 or 5 year deal when the Cubs are expected to be bad through at least next year is bad money, especially when they can land a top prospect in MLB.

From a hitting perspective, they are ridiculous in the minors, not so much on the pitching side. It's now a matter of time before they flip a prospect or two for a front line pitching prospect(s), but I don't think there's much doubt that there's a ridiculous wave of talent that will be coming over the next year to Wrigley.

 

[JumpOnBoard]

They have 19 shortstops lol

 

[az1538]

I don't get the cubs

The Shark is 29 years old. By the time the Cubs are relevant, he's going to be old and worthless. What's not to get? There was no better time to sell him than now. Cubs made a smart move.

 

[guaranteeed]

They have 19 shortstops lol

If all of their guys work out

move Baez to 3rd, Bryant to RF, trade Castro

 

[gsro]

What don't you get? They are loading on up prospects? They have 3 of the top 6 or 7 guys on most lists now, plus a whole bunch more. They probably have the #1 farm system in the majors after this deal.

Signing the Shark didn't make sense from a Cubs perspective. He is 30 years old right now and the Cubs are probably 2 years away from being a team that is expected to be in any sort of race. Giving him a 4 or 5 year deal when the Cubs are expected to be bad through at least next year is bad money, especially when they can land a top prospect in MLB.

From a hitting perspective, they are ridiculous in the minors, not so much on the pitching side. It's now a matter of time before they flip a prospect or two for a front line pitching prospect(s), but I don't think there's much doubt that there's a ridiculous wave of talent that will be coming over the next year to Wrigley.

while I agree with a lot of what you said, the whole "the cubs are only x amount of years away" seems to be the norm when it comes to evaluating this team year in year out..they had the best minor league farm prior to this trade and it did bolster them...sooner or later you have to bring up these top prospects to give them a shot; look at how the Rays did it tiered and brought up them accordingly...the cubs have been in a rebuild for years now and every time I hear the "only couple of years away" I laugh cause that's what was said in sharks 2nd year with the chubbies

great move for both sides, I just want Bean to get the elusive W

 

[HUNT]

You trade for proven talent. Not for unproven talent. Jmo. You might get some fish that work out though.

Shark woulda had tommy john if he stayed anyways. That organization is cursed. 30 is not that old lol.

 

[az1538]

30 is not that old lol.

that's relative. Pitchers peak at 29/30. He would have been past his prime and possibly irrelevant by the time the Cubs became contenders.

 

[B.A.R.]

We'll still beat them in a deciding game where JV breaks out the form of past...