2015 Winter Meetings (Day Two)
Update 2: In a related move, Castro heads to the Yankees for RHP Adam Warren and IF Brendan Ryan.
Update 1: Zobrist signs with the Cubs for 4/$56m.
Cahill is back and Baez is rumored to be on the block.
Meanwhile, the Reds have a bridge over the Ohio River they'd like to sell you.
Recent comments
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crunch 20 hours 21 min ago (view)
marvin miller and ted simmons are part of the next HOF class.
long time coming for miller.
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crunch 1 day 59 min ago (view)
things that are important to good on-field play like buying up all the property around wrigley field, from rooftops to acerage, isn't going to monetize itself.
i know some people would love to have a top tier pitcher, but i'm looking forward to more control of rooftop advertising and an open air beer garden near the team owned hotel and resturant complexes.
i know some people want a solid leadoff man, but i'm looking forward to seeing 10-20 concerts on off-days destroying the playing field so that extra revenue can help a polician in Nebraska or Iowa get some ad buys.
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Hagsag 1 day 2 hours ago (view)
Their friend Donald will come through for them.
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crunch 1 day 2 hours ago (view)
remember when the billionaire owners got a huge double digit tax cut?
maybe the city should do them a favor and give them more tax savings help to let them buy and build another 2-3 revenue projects outside of the park. that might help these struggling heroes find some extra loot.
i know this rant isn't fair, but my "dan winkler got a MLB contract fever" is dying down a bit.
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crunch 1 day 2 hours ago (view)
f'real. i don't even know why they're going to bother playing games. i'm over here printing Cubs 2020 World Series Champs banners while others are sleeping on reality.
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Dolorous Jon Lester 1 day 3 hours ago (view)
Just saw a fun report that the Cubs are telling even budget type free agents they can't currently negotiate until they clear some payroll. So that's a fun start to the winter meetings.
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Dolorous Jon Lester 1 day 3 hours ago (view)
I'm with you 100% on that. Minor league retreads are fine and all but we don't need to be paying premiums for middle relief.
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JustSayin' 1 day 5 hours ago (view)
The Cubs have 15-20 extra pitchers in their minor league system due to unbalanced drafting over the last few years. I am ready to see them err on the side of giving the internal guys too many chances as compared to signing AAA players who had short stints in the big leagues which didn't go too well. We don't know it the Cubs organization is just that bad at developing pitching, or has too many guys trying to prove themselves in a fixed number of minor league innings. Bad scouting/development or self-inflicted bottleneck?
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Dolorous Jon Lester 1 day 9 hours ago (view)
Dan Winkler and Jharel Cotton wasn't enough for you? Tough crowd.
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Hagsag 1 day 23 hours ago (view)
I think we all are ready for some action.
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crunch 2 days 3 min ago (view)
winter meetings start tomorrow...guys got into town friday/today.
the cubs are supposedly looking to tap the trade market for their major moves. this is the place where it gets done or seeds get planted.
also, the modern day HOF class will be announced. marvin miller will most likely get in. lou whitaker and ted simmons should have some heat, too.
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crunch 2 days 13 hours ago (view)
semi-interesting winter league note...
trey mcnutt (yes, that guy) is having a hell of a winter league in mexico (one of the less talented winter leagues) so far as a closer. 15.2ip 8h 4bb 24k, 0.57 era.
giants signed him to a minor league deal a couple weeks ago. he never went anywhere. he's been consistently playing ball in the minors and indie league ball since he was last a noteworthy player. last season he played in the OAK minor league system. 30 years old now...
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jdrnym 2 days 20 hours ago (view)
Brad Brach signs with the Mets for $850K but the Cubs are paying $500K, per Ken Rosenthal. Wasn't his 2020 club only supposed to be on the hook for league minimum?
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crunch 2 days 21 hours ago (view)
when he got to the mets he suddenly learned how to throw with control (small sample size etc). last year was not a fun bullpen year...
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crunch 2 days 23 hours ago (view)
Yeah, I've made myself familiar with a lot of the changes, but AZP's posts have both added more information and cleared up stuff I didn't fully grasp. I appreciate the hell out of it. Thanks Phil, thanks TCR.
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bradsbeard 3 days 1 hour ago (view)
Looks like Savant has his breaking pitch classified as a curve while Fangraphs calls it a slider. Suppose by ST he could have made everything over in the pitching lab, so who knows!
Comments
ExCub Jason Motte gets 2
"#Rockies sign RHP Jason
Jason's a good dude. I loved
Cards continue tradition of
And Jay would have made more
he's 30, he should have been
Padres acquire the John Jay
Jacos, his mother spelled his
"Ken Rosenthal @Ken
Bullpen seems pretty full,
All if these Soler/Baez to TB
How about...go with the MLB
heyward at 25m-ish a year for
I hate that lineup... Now for
Well, that's just crazy...
"Bob Nightengale of USA Today
Consider the source.
it's easily the craziest
Bob Knightengale? Legit?
he just doubled-down on that
Whoa. That's way too much
Tomorrow is Wednesday, Water
cubs/lackey finalized...guess
Dusty giving a lot of
Perhaps I'm easily convinced,
I like Heyward for Cubs.
The embedded highlight clip
More Baez to Atlanta rumors.
Mark Gonzales @MDGonzales 2
It looks like crunch is not
It looks like crunch is not going to have Mike Baxter to kick around anymore. He's headed to the Mariners in a minor league deal.
good...i've run out of jokes
According to anonymous
Sources?
i'll vouch for him. all that
Seems like a series of panic
it's the single best way to
multiple sources telling the
sent sound: rimshot
sent sound: rimshot
Rosenthal on Twitter: Zobrist
if that happens castro pretty
Muskat tweets: Theo said
Joel Sherman reminds...Jim
Tyler Flowers signs 2 yr deal
"Carrie Muskat @CarrieMuskat
Rosenthal (6:37pm)...Zobrist
zobrist is a cub.
Zobrist, 4yrs x $56M
cubs got older really quickly
The victory disco dance
castro to yanks! details to
Joel Sherman says Castro deal
Ken Davidoff on Zobrist
Signing bonuses for contracts
Signing bonuses for contracts signed prior to the end of the calendar year are usually paid out of the $$$ left-over from a club's previous season's payroll, so the Cubs probably had aboutr $10M left-over from their 2015 payroll (allowing for a $7M signing bonus for Lackey and a $2M signing bonus for Zobrist).
NYY sending pitcher Adam
Players eligible for
Players eligible for selection in the Rule 5 Draft are "frozen" on minor league reserve lists (can't be traded, released, or transferred from one minor league reserve list to another) beginning on 11/20 up through the conclusion of the Rule 5 Draft, so the PTBNL coming to the Cubs could be a Yankees minor leaguer eligible for selection in Thursday's Rule 5 Draft.
Cubs get Andrew Warren for
Theo said he wanted pitching
Al Leiter on Warren: bowling
Cubs also get Brendan Ryan
:(
-1
Maybe gets flipped with
i just hope the middle IF can
Baez is Russell's backup with
dbacks get s.miller from the
Shelby Miller to AZ per
Ender Inciarte, Aaron Blair
The NY media is going to eat
The NY media is going to eat Castro alive.
Unfortunately for him this is
These are not the kind of
The way the money breaks down
So... you're saying we get
We'll see what Santa says!
Charles: It would seem as if
Brendan effing Ryan .....
Henry got his man: Starlin!
So much for Coughlin or Baez
So much for Coughlan or Baez being Maddon's Zobrist.
So Zobrist is Maddons new
No reason Baez couldn't be
is this a Zobriety test?
with Zobrist, Is Arismendy
Talk is Warren going to be in
could live with that...wonder
So is Warren the "young, cost
Yeah...6-6...3.66 ERA in 17
If you had been offered that
Castro sucked in May, June
i was hoping for something
Who hacked Crunch's account?
same crunch...it's just
"One" piece of criticism
yeah, this is what i'm
I also posted about Starlin
It is not sexy. I don't know
Steve Adams from MLB Trade
I don't know, what when was
matt clement pulled 3 solid,
matt clement pulled 3 solid, but overshadowed, seasonsooops...he left FOR the al east. it's been a long day.Matt Clement was a good dude.
supposedly Brendan Ryan is
I assume this means Javy is
they're yet to give up a
My guess is that Theo saw
Did TheJedi pull it off again
Agree with you guys. Theo and
Bruce Levine tweet: Cubs not
Great pickups in Zobrist and
and the buzz has been that
per Dan Szymborski tweet: