2018 Cubs Contract Tenders
2018 MLB Contract Tender Day Tomorrow
12/1 UPDATE: The Cubs have tendered 2018 contracts to 27 of the 29 unsigned players on their MLB reserve list (40-man roster).
RHRP Hector Rondon and C-1B-3B Taylor Davis were non-tendered and are now unrestricted free-agents, free to sign a 2018 major league or minor league contract with any club (including the Cubs).
Rondon could not be tendered a 2018 contract with a salary less than $4.64M (and that's with the maximum 20% cut from his 2017 salary), but he was likely to get somewhere north of $6M if he had taken the Cubs to an arbitration hearing, and the Cubs obviously weren't interested in going there. Now that he has been non-tendered, Rondon's 2018 salary is no longer restricted by the maximum 20% cut rule, so the Cubs (or any other club) could sign him for any amount (but no less than the MLB minimum salary if it's a major league contract).
It's very possible that the Cubs will try and re-sign T. Davis to a minor league contract (for MLB "split contract money" and an NRI to Spring Training), preferably after the MLB Rule 5 Draft a week from Thursday. Because T. Davis was an MLB Rule 6 Draft Excluded Player, he could not be sent outright to the minors during the off-season.
So the Cubs MLB reserve list now stands at 34 (six slots are open).
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crunch (view)
it's a "for cash considerations" trade.
cooper is a 1st/DH only type, but that's practically a freebie for BOS. i was expecting some AAA fodder gamble on the same level rather than cash. he showed up decent in spring + his limited time with the cubs.
given BOS's extreme need for a 1st, this is a steal for them.
Cubster (view)
Red Sox get G Cooper, I doubt if the Cubs get anything in terms of personnel.
videographer (view)
An excellent Earl Weaver chain smoking reference.
Dolorous Jon Lester (view)
I think it’s a bit of a chicken or egg scenario. Did they make these trades because they saw what was coming and weren’t impressed and knew to keep up with the demand for constant winning thru had to acquire impact players? Or did those additions cause a failure of resource allocation elsewhere.
In addition, the whole they traded to acquire a star, that’s precisely what organizations should do if they feel they’re a piece away. Keep developing talent, but sometimes you need to supplement that talent. It’s what the best run organizations do. Atlanta does it. Houston in their prime run did it. Nationals during their prime run did it. Of course dodgers did it. Boston and Philadelphia too. Hell, the Cubs did it when they won. There’s no team that has had sustained success that has solely relied on their own internal development. It just doesn’t happen. I wouldn’t fault St Louis for that. What I suspect happened is in that 2020 season, in an effort to save money, they cut budget from developing and scouting. Or maybe the wrong guys got poached by other orgs. Regardless, blaming the acquisition of two of the best players of their generation for peanuts, seems off base to me.
I do agree that we’ve more or less come to the same conclusion, but our paths to that conclusion contain almost no crossover. I think we can also agree that seeing the cardinals struggle brings a warmth to our hearts.
CubbyBlue (view)
(LAUGH EMOJI)
Arizona Phil (view)
azbobbop: Yes.
Mike Wellman (view)
I’ve got Tim’s The Last Out too, along with some other prints of his work.
TarzanJoeWallis (view)
Very well played game all around tonight.
crunch (view)
best starter and 2 top hitters from the team gone...and they keep on winning.
little ahead of myself here, but the RSox got 9 outs to find 6+ runs.
TarzanJoeWallis (view)
Richard Gallardo just left the Smokies game with an arm injury after going to the ground following a pitch. Doesn’t sound good at all.