Giants offered 168

He'll get more than Lester per year for and probably overall

What is the Scherzer market?? NYY BOS LAD? DET says they're out?

I can't see 200M+ ether.

This guy has a lot of Shark in him for sure.

I can't believe some team will give him 8 years guaranteed at $26-$27 (or more) per. He was just a guy before the last two seasons. He hasn't proven enough. Scherzer has about a flat 3.00 ERA since April 2013.

Arrieta has a 3.10 ERA since July 2013.

Is Arrieta just as proven as Scherzer? Should the Cubs lock up Arrieta now for $23 a season before he gets close to an open market?

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Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.

Im not signing him, bro. Im just saying what he'll get.

Arrieta appears to be the crown jewel of the sign/flip acquisitions from this front office.

Now with Travis Wood/Castillo/Valbuena as trade chips, they can really get this roster built now.

That's why Lester was so huge.

I just don't see who is going to give it to him. But Boras has been great in the past at getting a single team to negotiate against itself.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Matthew, Tulsi, and Don

Nobody wants the bums you don't want. I know it's easy for you to see that with the White Sox (Viciedo, Danks). You should be able to see it with the Cubs too.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Matthew, Tulsi, and Don

Get baseball dummy Billy Beane on the phone!

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

Viciedo has value but not Danks unless they eat 2/3 of that contract.

Castillo & Valbuena have good value and Wood decent value as a 5th starter. Couple these guys with the Vogelbach's of the world, and they can do some business.

JORR thinks Beane is the best GM in baseball

He certainly has been. But I think his desperation to win the big prize last season caused him to make a couple huge mistakes and now he seems to have gone off the deep end.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Matthew, Tulsi, and Don

Beane is a masochist.

I dont know why everyone is saying that. Seems to me he's doing what he always does.

Donaldson is going to need a payday. Moss might have peaked in the first half this year and they had 0 chance of re signing Samardzija

The Donaldson deal was okay. If you can keep Lawrie on the field he might be as good plus he got the pitchers.

I don't like the Samardzija deals from the Oakland standpoint. It reminds me of what Kenny did in overpaying for Swisher and then giving him away for nothing.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Matthew, Tulsi, and Don

The only way the Samardzija deal with the Cubs was going to turn out as a Beane positive was if Oakland had won the World Series.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Matthew, Tulsi, and Don

Or if he traded for prospects that ended up outperforming Russell and McKinney could have been a wash

Maybe that will happen. I just don't see it though.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Matthew, Tulsi, and Don

It will be hard to outplay Barry Larkin with more power and a young Willie Mays

Bob Nightengale ‏@BNightengale 8h8 hours ago
The #Cubs get their man in Jon Lester, and Joe Maddon says: "We won the lottery.'' They now expect to make playoffs http://usat.ly/1D7Pc8Y


Expect? Alright

And I expect them to fail miserably. Now, if only our players would stop dying off.

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I expect them to keep dying off

I'm not sure if you're criticizing the view, but I wouldn't have it any other way. I don't want to say the rebuild is fully complete...but we're almost at the precipice of the large mountain that the Cubs had to climb.

Results were always expected. And we're getting to the point where they are to be expected in the near future.

If the Cubs don't make the playoffs this year, I'll understand. But they better be competing for one.

Maybe they'll surprise and pick up a strong bat.

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Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.

They aren't done.

Shit gets real now.

Not criticizing at all. Im happy. I like the change in expectation.

I'm surprised Beane didn't opt for law enforcement.

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Proud member of the white guy grievance committee

It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

I don't think Lester will ever win more than 15 games for the Cubs.

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Proud member of the white guy grievance committee

It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

Maybe Hendry's had enough time to poison the ear of Cashman by now.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

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Jon Lester ‏@JLester31 1m1 minute ago

Extremely difficult decision for me and my family but we love the outcome and couldn't be more excited to join the Cubs organization! #NVRQT

#NVRSVWLS

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