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[CaliforniaRaisin]

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Padres are claiming they were hacked. This continues to be the dumbest offseason.

 

Damn Cardinals.

[Liam Neeson]

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Padres are claiming they were hacked. This continues to be the dumbest offseason.

 

Gwynn3141

[Cubswin11]

The Brewers sources guy says Santana to an AL team as soon as tomorrow. I’d guess Odorizzi, Fulmer, Salazar or Duffy for major league arms. He’s not nearly enough for Archer. Or else he’s traded off for prospects to replenish the Yelich trade a bit then they sign Cobb/Lynn/Jake

[d_money]

The Brewers sources guy says Santana to an AL team as soon as tomorrow. I’d guess Odorizzi, Fulmer, Salazar or Duffy for major league arms. He’s not nearly enough for Archer. Or else he’s traded off for prospects to replenish the Yelich trade a bit then they sign Cobb/Lynn/Jake

I agree Santana’s not enough for Archer but I don’t think he’s enough for the other guys you mentioned either. More like him ++.

[Thusly Boned]

The Brewers sources guy says Santana to an AL team as soon as tomorrow. I’d guess Odorizzi, Fulmer, Salazar or Duffy for major league arms. He’s not nearly enough for Archer. Or else he’s traded off for prospects to replenish the Yelich trade a bit then they sign Cobb/Lynn/Jake

I agree Santana’s not enough for Archer but I don’t think he’s enough for the other guys you mentioned either. More like him ++.

 

Yeah, Santana alone isn't going to buy you a ton. He had a decent year in 2017, but he's a regression candidate. I'd think you'd need to add Philips for even the second tier of SP.

[Tim]

Once you regress his babip, how is Santana more valuable than Happ? Happ has more years of control, is a better defender, younger and within easy range of Santana in performance, if not equal. (again, that's after regressing Santana's babip)

 

If we could have had Salazar for Happ straight up, it would have happened.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Once you regress his babip, how is Santana more valuable than Happ? Happ has more years of control, is a better defender, younger and within easy range of Santana in performance, if not equal. (again, that's after regressing Santana's babip)

 

If we could have had Salazar for Happ straight up, it would have happened.

 

Leaving aside the fair point about Santana(who is more likely than not to have already had his best MLB season), it's quite possible the Cubs have no interest in trying to time the 110 IP they'd get from Salazar just right.

[Bertz]

Yeah I think Santana gets you someone nice, but a tier below the Duffy/Salazar/Fulmer types. I think an Odorizzi or a Kendall Graveman or someone of that ilk. Actually the A's in general make a lot of sense. Santana for any non-Manaea starter they have looks about right.

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Liked him a lot coming out of college as a potential LOOGY.

 

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[CubsWin]

Cubs signed 31-year-old 1B Efren Navarro to minor league deal to fill their AAA 1B slot.

 

https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=navarr001efr

[ScrubMD]

Brewers signed Fatt Albers. Preparing for another round of sportswriter WHATCHA GONNA DO NOW THEO! STEARNS CAME TO PLAY ALL BETS ARE OFF tweets.

[Post Count Padder]

The Royals and Athletics have agreed to a four-player swap. Left-hander Ryan Buchter and first base/DH-type Brandon Moss will head to Oakland in the deal, while right-hander Jesse Hahn and minor-league righty Heath Fillmyer are ticketed for Kansas City. The Royals also included $3.25MM in cash as part of the deal. Jeffrey Flanagan of MLB.com was first with the news.

 

Could pave the way for the Royals signing Hosner.

 

And an old friend alert:

 

The Tigers announced Monday that they’ve signed left-hander Travis Wood to a minor league contract and invited him to Major League Spring Training.

[Cubswin11]

Damn, I really wanted Avila back. I’ll be extra pissed now if we don’t get Darvish because the savings of getting a lesser pitcher would’ve allowed us to add him.

 

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i'll always remember him as the guy who gave us the best moment of the season right after the world series

[Cubswin11]

I wish we would've been all over this, even if we had to bump it by a few million.

 

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[chopsx9]

I wish we would've been all over this, even if we had to bump it by a few million.

 

 

 

He's going get a ton more playing time with the DBacks, no?

[javy knows my name]

I wish we would've been all over this, even if we had to bump it by a few million.

 

 

 

He's going get a ton more playing time with the DBacks, no?

 

Yeah, this feels like a gentlemen's agreement to me. I'll bet we would have gladly offered that money but were open about our ability to give him playing time and respected his wishes to go elsewhere for more

[Cubswin11]

Yeah, he’ll get a lot more playing time but he said earlier in the year he’d go to a contender even if he had a lesser role. If 2/8.5 was his best offer for playing time, I’d assume 2/12 would’ve been enough to nudge him to come to us to play less.

[CubsWin]

I wish we would've been all over this, even if we had to bump it by a few million.

 

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So going with your 2/12 estimate, that would be $6 million against the cap this year.

 

We have no way of knowing for sure what the Cubs feel they can safely spend going into the season, but if spending that 6 mill would only allow the Cubs to offer a max of $24 million per for Darvish and he won't sign for that AAV, would you still want Avila?

[Cubswin11]

I wish we would've been all over this, even if we had to bump it by a few million.

 

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So going with your 2/12 estimate, that would be $6 million against the cap this year.

 

We have no way of knowing for sure what the Cubs feel they can safely spend going into the season, but if spending that 6 mill would only allow the Cubs to offer a max of $24 million per for Darvish and he won't sign for that AAV, would you still want Avila?

No, obviously. That’s part of the reason I’m pissed Darvish is taking so much time because if he didn’t decide us we could have gone Cobb or Jake and Avila most likely for under the ~30 mil we have to work with.

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Mark Appel is taking an "indefinite break" from baseball. If he doesn't return and make it to the majors, he'd become the third number 1 overall pick to never make it to the big leagues.

 

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2757009-why-mark-appel-perhaps-the-biggest-bust-in-mlb-history-is-retiring-at-26

[David]

Mark Appel is taking an "indefinite break" from baseball. If he doesn't return and make it to the majors, he'd become the third number 1 overall pick to never make it to the big leagues.

 

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2757009-why-mark-appel-perhaps-the-biggest-bust-in-mlb-history-is-retiring-at-26

 

i have no idea why i thought he'd already gotten a cup of coffee

[weis21]

really interesting article. thank you for sharing

[Sammy Sofa]

Damn. Can't help but feel bad for the guy.

 

He was having the worst season of his life—in a league of 20- and 21-year-olds. Ten starts in, on his 23rd birthday, Appel hit the mental reset button. He was scheduled to pitch the next day against the Visalia Rawhide, a chance to move past the 9.57 ERA he had posted as a 22-year-old.

 

Instead, he had the worst start of his life. Appel went 1.2 innings and allowed seven hits and seven runs while striking out two and walking one. He walked off the mound and watched the next inning before returning to the locker room, tears streaming down his face. He shut the door and screamed until his voice went hoarse. Across the locker room, about the distance from the pitching mound to home plate, he noticed a particle-board panel and a baseball lying on the ground next to him. He picked it up and threw it across the locker room as hard as he could, 100 mph, aiming for the wood.

 

The ball broke through and hit the drywall and sheetrock behind it.

 

"That felt good," Appel thought. "I need to do more of that."

 

He grabbed a box of balls sitting above a locker. For 30 minutes, Appel threw 80 baseballs at the wall, cracking through the board and hitting the wall with a thud. When he was finished, he sat down, breathing heavily, grunting. Ten minutes after the noise ended, Appel's teammate, Josh Hader, walked out of the bathroom. He had heard the entire ordeal and was too scared to leave the stall. The pair laughed before Hader returned to the field and silence filled the room. Appel heard the crowd cheering outside, the air conditioner purring in the background.