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39 players are on the MLB RESERVE LIST (one slot is open), plus two players are on the 60-DAY IL and one player has been DESIGNATED FOR ASSIGNMENT (DFA)   

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PITCHERS: 13
Yency Almonte
Adbert Alzolay 
Javier Assad
Colten Brewer
Ben Brown
* Shota Imanaga
Mark Leiter Jr
* Luke Little
Hector Neris 
Jameson Taillon 
Keegan Thompson
Hayden Wesneski 
* Jordan Wicks

CATCHERS: 2
Miguel Amaya
Yan Gomes

INFIELDERS: 7
* Michael Busch 
Nico Hoerner
Nick Madrigal
Christopher Morel
* Matt Mervis
Dansby Swanson
Patrick Wisdom

OUTFIELDERS: 4
* Cody Bellinger 
# Ian Happ
Seiya Suzuki
* Mike Tauchman 

OPTIONED: 9 
Kevin Alcantara, OF 
Michael Arias, P 
Pete Crow-Armstrong, OF 
Jose Cuas, P 
Brennen Davis, OF 
Porter Hodge, P 
* Miles Mastrobuoni, INF
Daniel Palencia, P 
Luis Vazquez, INF 

10-DAY IL: 1 
Seiya Suzuki, OF

15-DAY IL: 3
Kyle Hendricks, P 
* Drew Smyly, P 
* Justin Steele, P   

60-DAY IL: 2 
Caleb Kilian, P 
Julian Merryweather, P

DFA: 1 
Garrett Cooper, 1B 
 




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Free Agent Predictions

Submitted by CTSteve on

Now that we all have an extra 3 hours in the day, it's time to play everyone's favorite game: predicting where the free agents will land. I've listed 15 and added a separate category that allows you to pick which of the Cubs will be traded. 

I've started a Google Sheet, which y'll can add to just by clicking on that link. We'll make the deadline midnight Dec. 5, the day before the Winter Meetings. UPDATE: Wieters agreed with the Orioles, so we're closing it early.

The winner gets bragging rights and all the personal glory you can muster, which of course is the only thing that really matters around here. Good luck!

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Submitted by crunch on Mon, 11/02/2015 - 11:09 pm

"Sports Hochi in Japan reports that Tsuyoshi Wada will sign with the Softbank Hawks." seems he had a near 0% chance of being a cub in 2016 on any level, anyway.

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Submitted by crunch on Tue, 11/03/2015 - 11:52 am

the players are busy self-destructing their own clubhouse...probably doesn't matter who's leading them unless they can fix that hypersensitive ego-inflated locker room. b.harper, j.werth, s.strasburg, j.papelbon...bunch of guys who assume because they work hard and bust their asses they can do/say whatever they want to whoever they want. last year's NL MOY needs a job, maybe they should call matt williams...wait.

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Submitted by Ryno on Tue, 11/03/2015 - 11:36 pm

I always thought Mark Prior had great pitching mechanics, a good textbook example. This view changed after hearing a recent interview with Theo... or was it Jed? Who said that his delivery (the W style) put a lot of stress on his shoulders and clavicle. I didn't totally understand it, but it definitely put my prior beliefs into question.

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Submitted by crunch on Tue, 11/03/2015 - 11:41 pm

a lot of people bought tom house's propaganda, and unfortunate his blame game when it was all crumbling, too. last i heard he's now trying to make failed and "comeback" NFL quarterbacks throw better through his...whatever something technique of good football'n. house isn't totally full of shit, but he dragged a lot of people down with accusations when prior's career didn't fall in line because prior ripped up his shoulder. at the time he was trying to build something out of his work with nolan ryan and mark prior. http://www.chrisoleary.com/projects/PitchingMechanics101/Essays/MarkPri… chris oleary isn't some god of awesomeness, himself, but he's butted enough heads with t.house and house's devotees to write a little piece on him.

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Submitted by Rob Richardson on Tue, 11/03/2015 - 11:39 pm

I certainly never bought the "Prior will never get hurt because his mechanics are perfect" line, and while I am sure it wasn't just one thing, can't we attribute some of his problems to the collision while running from first to second and getting hit on the elbow by a line drive. Neither of which having anything to do with his mechanics.

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Submitted by crunch on Tue, 11/03/2015 - 11:52 pm

*shrug* i've always thought of pitcher injury as that thing that happens. some are predictable because of how obviously violent and out of whack their mechanics are (d.willis) and some just happen out of nowhere...some never happen or haven't happened even though it seems like it should have long ago (j.verlander). all i trust is elbow injuries can be lingering or long-time-off things, but it's mostly the shoulder that ends careers. guys like strasburg get developed "by the (safest known) rules" with innings + pitch counts + arm tweaks to reduce stress...and still ends up snapping his elbow apart and tweaking his shoulder. that said, for everyone that likes his mechanics there's someone else who hates it.

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Submitted by Old and Blue on Wed, 11/04/2015 - 11:48 am

I have no doubt I'm alone in this thinking - but I actually think Dusty is an ok choice for that team. I lived in SF when Bonds was around and he did a pretty good job of clubhouse management at that time. Sometimes the managing of the game is less important than the managing of the people. Strasburg will need to go to another team, though.

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Submitted by crunch on Wed, 11/04/2015 - 11:23 am

unfortunately WAS seems to need a personality manager given the 3-4 known asshats on their roster...who knows what's lingering out of the public eye. it sucks they gotta go to a guy who seems to strongly believe in "speed leads" in the 1-slot and "contact or secondary speed" in the 2-slot. that drove me nuts about the dude. i guess we have to sit through more "dusty ruins arms" bullshit, too. if you ignore his long tenure in SF which only sent a reliever to surgery, pretend prior/wood were model examples of perfect mechanics who would never be injured except for blatant overuse, and pretend the weakest thing ever pinned on him (e.volquez) is his fault even though he gave him rest and only pitched him over 120 pitches once before his injuries set it...well, those 20 years of managing get put in a weird perspective...especially if you view it in a vacuum ignoring what other managers are doing. no one seems to care about what justin verlander's career use looks like for some reason. there's a lot to hate about dusty without jumping on the "arm ruiner" bandwagon, especially with how weak the whole thing is.

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Submitted by crunch on Wed, 11/04/2015 - 11:09 am

even if someone wants to place blame on an arm on dusty, you'd think he sent 1/2 dozen pitchers to surgery every few years or something. dude has 20 years under his belt... there was a horrible, fabricated "war" in the early to mid 00s that pitted "stats people" vs "traditionalists" as if that was such a huge thing...as if custom Stats Inc and in-house stat work never existed until the late 90s...as if the so-called sides can never mingle and there was a revolution going on in which you needed to pick sides in order to prepare to defend. guys like tom house and will "my daddy is a doctor" carroll spent a lot of time demonizing others and they became champions of their versions of non-traditional approaches to pitching...and defended it as if anyone who doesn't buy in 100% is stuck in 1885 telling roid ragers to get the hell off their lawn. things seem to be a bit more sane now, though history lingers.

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Submitted by crunch on Thu, 11/05/2015 - 11:55 am

verlander has been used in a lot of high workload situations over a large number of years, that's all. as much as he's been asked to throw a lot in the majors, and throw lot back-to-back...his college workload was even more frightening. it's wise to err on the side of caution, but he's gotten a lot more years of use out of his arm than some would have expected given his use. go figure. he had his first shoulder "tweak" since his minor league days just last year...before that it was just muscle injuries.

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Submitted by billybucks on Wed, 11/04/2015 - 11:05 pm

I think the "player management" thing is true if you have Barry Bonds in your lineup. When you bat Neifi Perez leadoff or 2nd -- despite having, literally, the worst OBP in the league -- you are a fool who isn't smart enough to understand what OBP means. Dusty is from the Joe Morgan school of baseball. They read "the book" in the 1960's and haven't learned a thing since. Seems like a nice guy, but I imagine him having a conversation with Theo and not understanding a thing Theo is saying.

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Submitted by Old and Blue on Thu, 11/05/2015 - 11:08 pm

Back then, it was still "okay" to not be a stats guy as a manager. I don't think it's ok these days. We'll see. He's pretty much got to pay attention to stats, doesn't he? I always liked Dusty but not for his managing. Just seemed like a good guy. I don't expect him to manage like Maddon, where every nuance is run through the computer, but I'll be surprised if he completely blows off stats like he did with the Cubs. But then, if he does, that's at least one less team the Cubs will need to worry about next year.

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Submitted by crunch on Thu, 11/05/2015 - 11:40 pm

his "speed leads" and "contact or 2nd speed hits 2nd" addiction needs to go. that said, KC just won the WS with a manager that let .257/.293/.320 a.escobar lead off almost every game and let .220/.234/.318 o.infante get 455PA. i'm not supporting doing things like this to get to a world championship, but that happened.

Submitted by crunch on Tue, 11/03/2015 - 11:00 pm

cubs AAA OF fodder, former STL world series champion, and sexual assault enthusiast adron chambers suspended 50 games for testing positive for a "substance of abuse"...his 2nd time caught. ...and nothing of value was lost.

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Submitted by Arizona Phil on Tue, 11/03/2015 - 11:44 pm

Adron Chambers will be a minor league free-agent at 5 PM (Eastern) on Friday, so the 50-game suspension has no impact on the Cubs. 

BTW, the first Rule 55 minor league 6YFA has been added to an MLB 40-man roster prior to Friday's deadline, as the Detroit Tigers have selected the contract of RHP Luis Cessa from AAA Toledo. 

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Submitted by Arizona Phil on Wed, 11/04/2015 - 11:46 pm

Two more players who would have been eligible to be a Rule 55 minor league 6YFA at 5 PM (Eastern) on Friday hav been added to an MLB 40-man roster, as the White Sox have selected the contract of LHRP Zach Phillips from AAA Charlotte, and the Yankees have selected the contract of RHSP Jose Vicente Campos from Hi-A Tampa.  

Also, the Cubs have re-signed RHP Jose Rosario to a 2016 minor league suiccessor contract. (Rosario was eligible to be a Rule 55 minor league 6YFA on Friday). Rosario is rehabbing from April 2015 elbow UCL transplant surgery (TJS), and probably wanted to continue his off-season rehab regimen with the Cubs training staff.  

MLB RULE 55: Sometimes called a "Six-Year Minor League Free-Agent," an unsigned minor league player is automatically declared a free-agent at 5 PM (Eastern) on the 5th day after the final game of the World Series if the player has had his first contract renewed six times and has spent all or any part of at least seven separate seasons on a minor league roster (including all or parts of any season spent on Optional Assignment to the minors), and/or if the player has been previously released or non-tendered in his career and his present contract (known as a "second contract" even if it's his third or fourth minor league contract) has expired. For purposes of determining eligibility to be a free-agent, a player does not accrue a minor league season if the player spends the entire season on an MLB Active List, MLB Disabled List(s), and/or other MLB Inactive List, or if the player spends an entire season on the Restricted List, Disqualified List, Suspended List, Ineligible List, Voluntarily Retired List, and/or Military List. Also, participation in a post-season instructional league or winter league and/or the Arizona Fall League (AFL) does not count toward a minor league season if the player otherwise did not accrue a minor league season that year. Note that a player who ordinarily would have been declared a Rule 55 minor league free-agent is NOT eligible to be a free-agent if the player is either added to an MLB Reserve List (40-man roster) or agrees to a minor league successor contract with his previous club by 5:00 PM (Eastern) on the 5th day after the final game of the World Series. (The deadline is 5:00 PM Eastern on October 15th if the World Series is canceled). The deadline for an MLB club to tender a contract to an unsigned minor league player who had previously agreed to a successor contract is January 15th. If an unsigned minor league player is not tendered a contract by January 15th, the player becomes an unrestricted free-agent.

A minor league free-agent can sign a contract with any major league or minor league club (including the player's former club) without any restrictions. A club receives no compensation for losing an Article XX-B, Article XX-D, Article XIX-A, or MLB Rule 55 minor league free-agent.

LAST UPDATED 10-30-2015

CUBS MLB RULE 55 FREE-AGENT POST-2015

SIX-YEAR MINOR LEAGUE FA:
Jeffry Antigua, LHP
Daniel Bard, RHP
Frank Batista, RHP
Emilio Bonifacio, IF-OF
Drake Britton, LHP
Ryan Buchter, LHP
Luke Carlin, C
Adron Chambers, OF 
Pin-Chieh Chen, OF
Willson Contreras, C
Fernando Cruz, RHP 
Wes Darvill, INF
Ryan Dent, INF
Jae-Hoon Ha, RHP (ex-OF)
Jonathon Mota, INF
Blake Parker, RHP
Felipe Paulino, RHP 
Starling Peralta, RHP
Felix Pena, RHP
Carlos Pimentel, RHP
Andres Santiago, RHP
Chris Valaika, INF
Logan Watkins, INF

SECOND CONTRACT MINOR LEAGUE PLAYERS (see NOTE below)
Luis Aquino, RHP (previously released by CLE)
Jesus Arias, RHP (previously released by CLE)
Julian Aybar, RHP (previously released by TB)
Jesus Camargo, RHP (first contract not renewed by DRM) 
Miguel Estevez, RHP (previously released by CIN)
Roberto Vahlis, C (previously released by TOR)
NOTE: With mutual consent (player & club), a second-contract minor league player who has accrued fewer than seven minor league seasons (six contract renewals) can be signed to a multi-year minor league contract with club control extending up through the player's seventh minor league season (six contract renewals). So it is possible that one or more of the Cubs minor league second contract players are signed beyond the 2015 season (TBD). 

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Submitted by Arizona Phil on Thu, 11/05/2015 - 11:22 pm

A fourth player who would have been eligible to be a Rule 55 minor league 6YFA at 5 PM (Eastern) on Friday has been added to an MLB 40-man roster, as the Cardinals have selected the contract of OF Anthony Garcia from AAA Memphis. 

Submitted by Cubster on Tue, 11/03/2015 - 11:10 pm

Per Rotoworld... Adron Chambers has received a 50-game suspension for a second positive test for a drug of abuse. He was org. depth at Iowa this year. Now he's singing with the Chambers Brothers on the remix of "Time..." https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uHfB63ln1Ig

Submitted by jacos on Wed, 11/04/2015 - 11:23 pm

Collins reups in NY, Mattingly in Miami, Dusty in DC. All kinds of stupid in East

Submitted by crunch on Thu, 11/05/2015 - 11:28 am

j.candelario (who's having a really awesome AFL) voted into the AFL AS game. given his performance he should have been named outright. he joins c.black + w.contreras

Submitted by Arizona Phil on Thu, 11/05/2015 - 11:54 am

CRUNCH: With the exception of the on-line voting that got Jeimer Candelario into the game (the first time the AFL has done that), the AFL Fall Stars rosters are essentially decided before the start of the AFL season. Each MLB club "nominates" three players they would like to be named to the Fall Stars game, and then players are placed on the Fall Stars rosters based upon positional needs (for example, there can be only two starting pitchers on each of the AFL Fall Stars squads). Each MLB club gets at least one player but no more than three.  

That's why some of the players named to the Fall Stars game are having absolutely horrible AFL seasons but were named to the Fall Stars game anyway, while other obviously more-deserving players were left-off. So it's not exactly an "All-Star" game. It's more of a showcase game for the 30 MLB organizations.

I would guess the Cubs probably nominated Willson Contreras, Pierce Johnson, and Corey Black, and because Johnson is a starting pitcher and could not be named because two other AFL East Division starters (Freeland and Manaea) were named instead, Black had to be on the roster if the Cubs were to have more than one player in the game (that's prior to Candelario getting voted onto the team). 

Submitted by Cubster on Thu, 11/05/2015 - 11:26 pm

The Astros hired Anthony Iapoce from the Cubs as their new hitting instructor.
Iapoce, 42, has spent the last three seasons as the Chicago Cubs' Special Assistant to the General Manager/Player Development, overseeing that club's minor league hitting program while contributing to additional projects for the organization.

Submitted by crunch on Thu, 11/05/2015 - 11:24 pm

aram announces his intention to retire. .283/.341/.492 in 18 seasons (15 as a regular). .294/.356/.531 in 8 and 1/3 seasons with the cubs.

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Submitted by crunch on Fri, 11/06/2015 - 11:00 am

he could make a bare-handed pick and throw with the best of them...which is nice considering that when he got to the cubs from the pirates he was an occasional defensive klutz that fielded way too much off his hips to the side rather than getting in front of the ball. he wasn't a gold glover, or anything close to a defensive wiz, but his D tightened up rather quickly and nicely.

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Submitted by dcf on Fri, 11/06/2015 - 11:00 pm

Ramirez was a great player for the Cubs, but I think Santo was clearly better. I realize that you said that Ramirez could be more important than Santo, and not that he was better, but I think that Santo was better. We can certainly disagree on the point, but I am not of the view that Ramirez's presence on three post-season qualifiers renders him more important. Santo was more likely to be in the lineup than Ramirez. Santo had 9397 PAs in 15 seasons to Ramirez's 8986 in 18 seasons. Top ten full seasons by OPS+: Santo 164, 161, 153, 146, 139, 131, 128, 126, 122, 115 Ramirez 139, 136, 136, 134, 128, 127, 126, 122, 108, 102 (he had a 130 OPS+ in 2009, when he played in 82 games, and a 127 OPS+ in 2013, when he played in 92 games). Ramirez's career WAR was 32.1. Santo's was 70.4. Neither was comparable to Brooks Robinson defensively, but both were decent fielders. Santo won five gold gloves, and Ramirez did not win any. Santo's career dWAR was 8.6 and Ramirez's was -6.4. I recall Ramirez as being a better fielder than that, but the baseball reference dWAR stat does not seem to like him. Neither player won an MVP. Santo did better in MVP balloting than Ramirez. One could make a decent argument that Santo was the best player in NL in several seasons (1964 and 1967 particularly). One cannot make the same argument about Ramirez. I like Ramirez and think he was a great player and is very underrated. He was not better than Santo.

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Submitted by VirginiaPhil on Sat, 11/07/2015 - 11:59 am

"Ramirez was a great player . . ." He was a great hitter. His offensive numbers are comparable to Santo's, but unlike Santo, he was a bit stiff at third. His hands were okay but he didn't "go to ground" well. If he ever did manage to dive for a ball--his dive was more of a flop--it was well after the ball was past him. This is why, unlike Santo (and unlike Scott Rolen, whose bat was a little less potent), he won't be in the HOF discussion when his time comes. Ramirez bounced around the teams in the central division who didn't care about defense at second, short and third, Chicago, Milwaukee and Pittsburgh. Braun, McGehee--the Brewers didn't care who played third. When St. Louis and Cincinnati went looking for a 3B, they preferred a two-way player like Rolen. (The Reds had Gold Glover Phillips at second, while the Brewers were fine with Weeks!)

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Submitted by Old and Blue on Fri, 11/06/2015 - 11:10 am

Remember when Aramis side stepped when a ball was hit to one side of him and then would double clutch before his throw? It's not uncommon for third basemen to double clutch, sometimes you need that sure hand, but he did it a LOT early on. It took him I think only about half a season if I remember right to get all that straightened out. I never got the lazy thing either.

Submitted by Arizona Phil on Fri, 11/06/2015 - 11:25 am

The six-player deal between TB and SEA where the Mariners sent SS Brad Miller, 1B Logan Morrison, and LHRP Danny Farquhar to the Rays for RHSP Nate Karns, LHRP C. J. Riefenhauser, and CF Boog Powell probabvly removes Tampa Bay as a poterntial source for a SP and a destination for Javy Baez. 

Submitted by Arizona Phil on Fri, 11/06/2015 - 11:43 am

Baseball America 2016 Cubs Top 10 prospects: 

1. Gleyber Torres, SS 
2. Willson Contreras, C
3. Ian Happ, IF-OF
4. Duane Underwood Jr, RHSP
5. Dylan Cease, RHSP 
6. Albert Almora Jr, CF
7. Billy McKinney, OF 
8. Oscar de la Cruz, RHSP 
9. Eloy Jimenez, OF
10. Jeimer Candelario, 3B 
 

Submitted by Arizona Phil on Fri, 11/06/2015 - 11:19 am

HAGSAG: I think Carl Edwards Jr fell off the BA Cubs Top 10 Prospect list because he is being projected as an MLB reliever rather than a SP. 

Submitted by crunch on Fri, 11/06/2015 - 11:30 pm

cubs making a qualifying offer to d.fowler. the cubs will either pay way too much for only being on the hook for a single season, or be seen as evil for keeping d.fowler from getting a wider variety of deals from clubs who don't want to lose a pick. as a fan who doesn't care...can't complain. also, the cubs claimed ryan cook from BOS (formerly As) because they need a RH reliever that really sucks and theo's never seen a guy put on waivers from BOS that he didn't want. seriously, though...low risk, questionable reward...who cares unless it exposes someone to the rule5 that shouldn't be exposed. also, for those expecting the cubs to hit up the "higher-up, but still second-tier" SP market...the padres are expected to make a QO to i.kennedy, the jays are expected to make a QO to m.estrada, the wsox are expected to make a QO to ninja, o's are expected to make a QO to w.chen, sea is expected to make a QO to h.iwakuma, and the cards are expected to make a QO to j.lackey.

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Submitted by crunch on Fri, 11/06/2015 - 11:10 pm

it seems like 1/2 the people offered QO's complain, or have others complain for them, about how it's hurting their overall off-season team interest...which it does...but dems the rules they agreed to. fwiw, no player has ever accepted a QO for a contract.

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Submitted by crunch on Fri, 11/06/2015 - 11:09 pm

as much as "way too much" is off mark, "it's a steal" is right up there with it. imo, 16m a year is too much for fowler. that said, there's a combo of other stuff in play in this situation which makes it a very reasonable move for the cubs. the cubs have a short-term need in CF because they have a kid in AAA who's expected to get a serious look in 2017 if he doesn't show up earlier, they have the loot, there's no FA on the market worth paying big+years (cespedes makes fowler look like a GG'r in CF), and they have enough excess talent to prod the trade market for a CF'r if fowler walks away from the offer and they give up on the FA market, etc... it's pretty much a no-lose to offer him the QO even if he makes a few million more than the market would bear if he was signing a long-term deal with someone. hell, a 2/30m-ish deal wouldn't shock me if the cubs could swing it (boras client, though).

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Submitted by John Beasley on Fri, 11/06/2015 - 11:21 pm

I hear ya. He wouldn't take $16M or $30M when he's going to get $50M from somebody. I highly doubt the Cubs value him more than some other teams with CF needs, but I don't know it for sure. I highly doubt Fowler is back. Theo talked about upgrading the "outfield defense," but it'll be not easy to make a great Cubs deal if Soler or Schwarber is heading out of town. I suspect the Cubs would value an elite defensive CF who hits better than Austin Jackson. My best guess now is Kevin Pillar. He's probably obtainable due to the Jays having Saunders-Revere-Bautista in their outfield in 2016. The power sucks, the OBP is tolerable, but he can steal bases, and he brings some elite defense. He can play CF cheap for a season or two or slip into a 4th outfielder role if someone better comes along. Pagan, Maybin likely available, too. Rasmus is not impossible but seems unlikely.

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Submitted by crunch on Fri, 11/06/2015 - 11:26 pm

yeah, i think he'll end up somewhere else, too. boras client + still young + somewhat standing out in a weak CF market... i figure the main CF option will come in trade, but everything is so wide open i have no clue who's system they'll look to for talent...or if they're even looking to the trade market for a CF'r.

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Submitted by VirginiaPhil on Sat, 11/07/2015 - 11:38 pm

Pillar is interesting, but my hunch is the Cubs are tired of swings and misses. Pillar played in 159 games and walked 28 times, while striking out 85 times. Better options might be Span, Gregor Blanco, Aaron Hicks. And of course the Cubs would know about guys in AAA who are closer than Almora. (I certainly don't.)

Submitted by crunch on Fri, 11/06/2015 - 11:30 pm

"Gordon Wittenmeyer of The Chicago Sun-Times reports that Cubs bench coach Dave Martinez will interview for the Dodgers managerial opening next week." 1 of about 100 candidates for the job...

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Submitted by crunch on Sat, 11/07/2015 - 11:51 pm

sandberg seems to hold the same amount of clubhouse authority and respect as his old cubs teammates who were banging his 1st wife. he got chewed up by the kids in philly.

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