Cubs Meeting With Japanese Ace Roki Sasaki

Mike Rodríguez says Cubs are out . 
 

1 minute ago, SOFNR said:

Same. As tight lipped as the FO is we may not even hear about an elimination.

That is a good point. So if they sign IFA we know they know. 

Just now, Dfan25 said:

Mike Rodríguez says Cubs are out . 
 

Yep -

1 minute ago, KCCub said:

Yep -

 

 

Well that sucks. Looks like he is going to the west coast. 

Isnt Mike wrong a lot? Not that it matters, he was never coming here 

It's interesting the amount of this that's coming from LatAm heavy reporters.  Totally believable, one of the first things I'd do as a GM who just got the breakup call is shore up my IFA affairs ahead of Wednesday. 

But I always assumed this would be a Passan bomb or some dumb wetbutt type of situation. Never really considered the in between.

1 minute ago, WhyCantWeWin said:

Isnt Mike wrong a lot? Not that it matters, he was never coming here 

Yeah , he is all over the place with his sources , 

2 minutes ago, WhyCantWeWin said:

Isnt Mike wrong a lot? Not that it matters, he was never coming here 

I think its unlikely he's coming to Chicago. But yah, that doesn't seem to be a very reliable account. Could easily just be trying to gain some fame, because saying the Cubs are out is a fairly safe bet.

6 minutes ago, WhyCantWeWin said:

Isnt Mike wrong a lot? Not that it matters, he was never coming here 

Mike isn't wrong a lot. He's wrong almost 100% of the time. 

1 minute ago, 1908_Cubs said:

 

So you are saying there is a chance…..

Just now, Rcal10 said:

So you are saying there is a chance…..

Yeah, I would entirely ignore everything Mike Rodriguez ever tweets. I haven't a single recollection of him being first to anything. He was the one driving the ship that Correa and the Cubs had a lot of smoke, only to find out at the end, there was little smoke there at all.

They probably still wont get Sasaki, but Mike doesn't know.

Maybe just semantics, maybe it's copium, but the way Mike tweeted his thing is different. 

"The Rangers have been informed", "The Yankees have been informed". Mike didn't tweet that. "My source". It feels...clout chase-y. 

So if we ignore Mike, the four teams whose fate we don't know are:

Dodgers

Padres

Jays

Cubs

There's also potential for a team who has not yet been mentioned in the process to still be in.  After all I don't think we knew about the Jays until this AM.

Just now, Bertz said:

So if we ignore Mike, the four teams whose fate we don't know are:

Dodgers

Padres

Jays

Cubs

There's also potential for a team who has not yet been mentioned in the process to still be in.  After all I don't think we knew about the Jays until this AM.

Brett at BN mentions the Mariners too.

1 minute ago, Bobson Dugnutt said:

Brett at BN mentions the Mariners too.

I was wondering about them, I couldn't remember if we heard they got a meeting or if they were just a team that was hot and heavy for him before he posted.

The Jays would be the funniest, and probably the best analogue to Ohtani picking the Angels.

Jesse Rogers stated in another reply that Sasaki *didnt* visit Chicago. This is different from what he said on the radio the other day, which was "he believed" he didn't visit. 

Hard to tell if thats:

1. New information

2. The same information, but misspoke and made it sound more definitive this time.

We did just learn about the Toronto visit and it could have been something Rogers just didn't get wind of, as well. 

3 minutes ago, Bertz said:

The Jays would be the funniest, and probably the best analogue to Ohtani picking the Angels.

Reports of a sushi party being set up rn

Official - 

1 minute ago, KCCub said:

Official - 

 

 

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Well there you go. Hopefully he goes to the  Padres and the Cubs can grab an arm or two from them.

They need a Japanese draft.  To hell with this west coast garbage