I mean , if .250 career hitters who strike out 150 times per year get you to FUCK YEAH !! Cant wait to see him play !!! We’re lucky to get him for only 20 million per !! Im not going to stop you but thats a hard pass for me .

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Happ & Suzuki are just ok players. Hardly the 2 superstar corner outfielders I envisioned that could lead a team hopefully coming out of a tank transitioning to a perennial playoff team.

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Happ is a solid defender with moderate power, a decent on base percentage and (other than. 21) a somewhat respectable batting average. I'd give him 12 per for 4.

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Like I said, he had huge holes in his swing. He figured it out last year. You're paying him for the player he is now.

20 mil per is nothing now in this sport, especially at 3 years.

Don't come at me with his career batting average. You can easily find me hating on Happ on this board early on but he has become a hell of a ball player and now you have him in his prime on a short contract.

Like what the fuck do you guys want? We let the dumbass go to the Cardinals and the other dumbass go to Detroit.
We all agree those two were idiots you don't want to pay, right?

You just signed a guy for only 3 years at 20 mil per who is in his prime and does everything well.

Maybe i was a little off base with being "Fuck yes" but I'm just happy to see this guy here in his prime who does everything very good at this point. Its refreshing to see after the dumbass catcher we had that so many Cubs fans had a boner for.

Interesting hg comes back the same time I come back on these forums. Like clockwork. Clark Kent and Superman. Almost like a mult!

Anyway he's right in this post. Happy for Happ. He would have got more on the market imo but this is still good. and ya fuck that dumbfuck Contreras. Gonna be great to see him ruin the cards.

and that year he got sent down the minors FOR THE ENTIRE YEAR - was it because he was the one fucking Zobrist's wife? I remember they said it was a player on the roster but then suddenly become her pastor or something like that.

The Score/Marquee tends to exaggerate Ian Happ's emergence.

'17-'20 248 344 481 825 115
'21-'23 252 .337 438 775 114

Happ would have been offered a QO this off-season, and probably would have taken it. That's $19.5M for 2024 either way. So it's only two extra years and both Canario and Davis have had significant injuries. I probably would have tried to make the NTC for 2026 somewhat limited (like have an open period for a month if the team is below .500 on July 1 of that year) but it's not the end of the world.

If Happ is a productive player and is still relegated to a platoon OF/DH/1B type in 2026, that is a good problem to have.

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Maybe keeping their own players is less expensive long-term.
They could have kept Baez for $140m. They replaced him by spending $177m on Swanson.

Thank fucking christ they didnt keep Baez

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Absolutely. He's hitting .122 this year, CONEtreras .199 , Bryant is over .300 with no HR's, Rizzo .320 with 3 HR. Not signing any of these guys was the right move

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Baez got pulled from a game this week for not hustling on two plays in the same inning.

My guess is that his contract will end up worse than Hosmer's original deal with SD or Heyward's Cub contract.

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I saw he got pulled from one game for not knowing how many outs there were while he was on second base. Someone hit a fly ball and he started jogging from second to third thinking there were two outs and got doubled off as he wandered into third.

yeah and then put his hands up like "hey wtf? how is this my fault?"

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The lack of hustle and game awareness that our beloved Latino players exhibit that sometimes costs their teams wins is what makes the bat flips that the kids want to see that much sweeter.

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Baez is exactly what I thought he would be. And predicted. many on this board predicted success for this guy.

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he was successful for 2-3 years.

the only guy who i would take back from that group is Rizzo. He's lost a lot of weight and banning the shift will probably help him the most.

but when he was on the cubs after 2016 it was easy sailing and none of those guys had any motivation.

btw what's going on w Hendricks? is his career over due to these latest injuries?