Cubs trade Vogelbach/Blackburn for Mike Montgomery/Jordan Pries

[shnsajax]

He'll love Seattle. Washington's a damn good state if he makes it so far.

 

Agreed, but he's from Florida.

 

Seattle a much better climate for a fat guy.

 

With a ton of great beer so he can stay fat and happy forever. I know I would.

[apete6]

 

Agreed, but he's from Florida.

 

Seattle a much better climate for a fat guy.

 

With a ton of great beer so he can stay fat and happy forever. I know I would.

 

The older and fatter I get, the more a Seatlle-like climate is more appealing to me than a Florida-like climate.

[Irrelevant Dude]

 

Seattle a much better climate for a fat guy.

 

With a ton of great beer so he can stay fat and happy forever. I know I would.

 

The older and fatter I get, the more a Seatlle-like climate is more appealing to me than a Florida-like climate.

A Florida-like climate has never appealed to me at any age.

[Sammy Sofa]

Man, Seattle is humid as horsefeathers; humidity is NOT a fat man's friend.

[Aaron_Kennelly]

I found footage of Brian Cashman, when Theo called him to break the news:

 

[Rob]

Montgomery induces a metric [expletive] ton of ground balls, too. I think he'll enjoy pitching in front of our infield.

 

Yup.

 

It looks like he isn't afraid to challenge RHB inside when he's facing them. Lots of low-inside fastballs and curveballs.

 

http://i.imgur.com/t3R8TKN.png

 

I wonder if that's part of the reason they targeted him. If Bosio worked on his cutter, that'd give him a good weapon to throw RHB a little more off-balance.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Man, Seattle is humid as [expletive]; humidity is NOT a fat man's friend.

 

No one cares about humidity when it's between 40 and 80 degrees 360 days a year. It's also the least humid in the warmest parts of the year.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

And by that I mean, the northwest is terrible and inhospitable, no one should ever move here

[Sammy Sofa]

Man, Seattle is humid as [expletive]; humidity is NOT a fat man's friend.

 

No one cares about humidity when it's between 40 and 80 degrees 360 days a year.

 

Fat man says FALSE.

[Sammy Sofa]

TT clearly biased due to skinniness and today's beautiful weather:

 

https://weather.com/weather/tenday/l/Seattle+WA+USWA0395:1:US

 

Poor sweaty Vogelbach.

[Rob]

And by that I mean, the northwest is terrible and inhospitable, no one should ever move here

 

[expletive]. My brother lives in Portland. I went to visit him and nearly OD'd on delicious gourmet donuts like these.

 

If you don't want to eat a donut covered in Froot Loops, then you're a communist. There. I said it.

Edited July 20, 2016 by Rob

[Thusly Boned]

Man, Seattle is humid as [expletive]; humidity is NOT a fat man's friend.

 

No one cares about humidity when it's between 40 and 80 degrees 360 days a year.

 

Fat man says FALSE.

 

Well, it's not like Chicago or Iowa are dry and cool (or especially Florida). I'll take Seattle weather over both for avoiding hot, swampy, summer doom.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

And by that I mean, the northwest is terrible and inhospitable, no one should ever move here

 

[expletive]. My brother lives in Portland. I went to visit him and nearly OD'd on delicious gourmet donuts like these.

 

If you don't want to eat a donut covered in Froot Loops, then you're a communist. There. I said it.

 

 

Froot Loop covered donuts are great, a welcome distraction from an existence in the hellhole of amazing weather and natural beauty that is the PNW. Never move here it is bad and this is definitely not a ruse to keep my cost of living down.

[stitchface]

lol at chicagoans commenting that Seattle is humid . . .

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Nightengale says Jordan Pries is the AAA pitcher: http://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.cgi?id=pries-000jor

 

Unremarkable statistically, late round college draftee, maybe he'll tick up out of the pen.

[badger]

Man, Seattle is humid as [expletive]; humidity is NOT a fat man's friend.

 

Not anywhere close to the misery of florida. Or hot and humid Chicago summers.

[shnsajax]

Man, Seattle is humid as [expletive]; humidity is NOT a fat man's friend.

 

You've never been to Florida have you?

[raw]

So, we thinking Montgomery in the pen the rest of the year and getting a shot at the rotation next year?

[Cubfanintheknow]

So has Clayton Richard thrown his last pitch as a Cub?

[badger]

And by that I mean, the northwest is terrible and inhospitable, no one should ever move here

 

[expletive]. My brother lives in Portland. I went to visit him and nearly OD'd on delicious gourmet donuts like these.

 

If you don't want to eat a donut covered in Froot Loops, then you're a communist. There. I said it.

 

You can come to Denver for those and Denver is awesome.

[Rob]

Nightengale says Jordan Pries is the AAA pitcher: http://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.cgi?id=pries-000jor

 

Unremarkable statistically, late round college draftee, maybe he'll tick up out of the pen.

 

Honestly, I'm kinda thinking Pries might just be an older, slightly more advanced version of Blackburn.

[Tryptamine]

Nightengale says Jordan Pries is the AAA pitcher: http://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.cgi?id=pries-000jor

 

Unremarkable statistically, late round college draftee, maybe he'll tick up out of the pen.

 

Honestly, I'm kinda thinking Pries might just be an older, slightly more advanced version of Blackburn.

 

Pretty much. Guys who are 5s in a perfect world and in all likelihood middle inning relievers.

[craig]

Interesting trade. Wonder who the AAA guy back is.

 

And I wonder what the "imbalance" in the deal was. Vogelbach is a little too much value for MM, so the prospect/Blackburn is in our favor to level the deal? Or MM was actually a little too much for Vogelbach alone, so Blackburn was more value and the prospect is pretty much roster-filler?

 

Pries looks like less than Blackburn value, so somebody in Seattle must have been interested in Blackburn, and saw him as added value.

[David]

I bet Sulley would eat the horsefeathers out of a Froot loop doughnut

[Tracer Bullet]

not a happy call

 

 

Well, he was getting told that he gets to leave Iowa to go play in the major leagues, so I'm sure he wasn't too upset.

 

DSM Iowa is a nicer city than Tacoma and it ain't close (sorry tiger). But losing the chance to play with the Cubs in September and be around for all the glory years is what I meant. It's not likely he's going to the 90s Yankees or something. The Ms suck.