Comments on: Cubs Add to Cadre of Aces, Nab Darvish http://wrigleyville.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2018/02/10/cubs-add-to-cadre-of-aces-nab-darvish/ Just another Baseball Prospectus Local Sites site Sat, 16 Feb 2019 21:04:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1 By: sectorelectricidad http://wrigleyville.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2018/02/10/cubs-add-to-cadre-of-aces-nab-darvish/#comment-21695 Wed, 14 Feb 2018 13:22:38 +0000 http://wrigleyville.locals.baseballprospectus.com/?p=22908#comment-21695 When I was musing about a “reasonable” contract for Darvish, I sort of felt 5/$125 was fine. To get the 6th year at $1 million is reasonble – it will be Darvish”s age-36 season and at the point he”ll almost certainly be a 5th starter or bullpen arm. If the Cubs win the 2018 and/or 2019 World Series, absolutely no reasonable Cubs fan will give a shit about the $21 million albatross in the Cubs rotation in 2022/2023. Yu Darvish was either #1A or #1B in the free agency wishlist depending on your thoughts about Jake Arrieta. I think I leaned towards Arrieta with injuries as the tiebreaker (Arrieta is hurt much less often), but Darvish is the slightly better projection going forward. Pretty difficult to watch Darvish annihilate the Cubs in the NLCS last year and not come away impressed.

]]> By: The CHI Sports Fan (@TheCHISportsFan) http://wrigleyville.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2018/02/10/cubs-add-to-cadre-of-aces-nab-darvish/#comment-21681 Sat, 10 Feb 2018 22:12:21 +0000 http://wrigleyville.locals.baseballprospectus.com/?p=22908#comment-21681 If Heyward, Schwarber, Russell all perform at 3+ WAR or better as they are capable of, Contreras puts up similar pre-injury stats from last year and the Justin Wilson plays to his pre-Chicago performance standard – no joke – this team could be one of the best teams of all time even before you factor in Happ and Bert.

I’m excited.

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