My Projected 2019 Cubs

Jntg4

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  2. Chicago Cubs
  1. Chicago Fire
  1. Chicago Bulls
  1. Chicago Bears
  1. Chicago Blackhawks
  1. Chicago State Cougars
  2. DePaul Blue Demons
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LF: Tyler Colvin
CF: Brett Jackson
RF: Kyler Burke
1B: Ryan Flaherty or D.J. LeMahieu (moved from 2b, other one traded)
2B: Starlin Castro
SS: Hak-Ju Lee
3B: Josh Vitters
C: Geovany Soto
SP: Chris Carpenter
SP: Andrew Cashner
SP: Randy Wells
SP: Tom Gorzelanny
SP: John Gaub
 

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John Gaub's future in the majors is as a left-handed specialist, not a starter. And this is the assumption that all of these players pan out, which is very unlikely.
 

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You really think Gorzelanny is going to be pitching until he's 36 and had a 15-year career?
 

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I didn't say they'd all pan out. I just had to pick some people to use, I couldn't just make up people.
 

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LOL Soriano is going to resign for ANOTHER 7 years/ $136 million
 

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The players you listed will have an average age of 32 in 2019, and the average age of your starting rotation is 34. :rolleyes:

Maybe set your sights on the nearer future rather than 2019 for no reason.
 

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I hope the NL has a DH by then

Yeah, I do too. But it's really weird how much foot-dragging you get from baseball purists when this topic is brought up. And by weird I mean "stupid to the point of funny"
 

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I hope the NL doesn't get a DH, it just makes managers jobs easier by putting a fat slob who can't play defense into the lineup. Having the pitcher bat and making double switches makes NL managers jobs a lot harder. Charlie Manuel even said himself that managing in the NL is tougher because of the adjustment of learning to double switch and having the pitcher bat.
 

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I hope the NL doesn't get a DH, it just makes managers jobs easier by putting a fat slob who can't play defense into the lineup.

:rolleyes: Yeah, because ALL DH's in the MLB are fat slobs. You make it sound as though they are barely MLB-worthy. Please.

Having the pitcher bat and making double switches makes NL managers jobs a lot harder. Charlie Manuel even said himself that managing in the NL is tougher because of the adjustment of learning to double switch and having the pitcher bat.

Please. It's not "harder", just "different" because the NL is making you bat a specialist in the order for some reason. And double switches aren't hard. They're only made to seem hard by half-wit managers that are incapable of comprehending anything that's not happening exactly three feet in front of their face.

Besides, people seem to think that double switches just disappear in the AL because of the DH. They don't. What about defensive replacements later in games? Injuries? Platoon matchups?

People have fallen in love with pitchers batting simply because it has been happening for a long time, and they try to distort the importance of "strategy" in feeble and ignorant attempts to justify it. There's no point in making the pitchers bat. None. They are almost always automatic outs in the lineup, and suppress the thing that turned baseball into a multi-billion dollar business in the late 80's and early 90's: scoring runs.
 

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Not that Chris Carpenter. I post on a Cubs blog and I thought the same thing
 

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It very well could be THAT Chris Carpenter. Leave it to the Cubs to get an elite player...except an elite player thats five years past his prime.
 

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wow. who cares what team will be in 9 years. all i care is that we have a WORLD SERIES by then
 

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lol 2019.
 

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Like Lefty said, you should set it for a near future, not 9 years in the future. Half those players won't be around by then, at least not in the majors.
 

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Like Lefty said, you should set it for a near future, not 9 years in the future. Half those players won't be around by then, at least not in the majors.

Not to mention that 5 or 6 of the players he has on that list will be eligible for 10-5 protection at that point.
 

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