Winter Meetings catch all

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Please continue to share stuff relevant to big moves in those respective threads(Ohtani, Glasnow, etc), but for more speculative stuff or news unrelated to the Cubs, pop it in here.

[gocubs218]

 

[ILMindState]

My guess is:

Plan A: Ohtani + Glassnow trade

Plan B: Yamamoto + Trade we don’t know about yet and/or Hoskins

[UMFan83]

not really news at all but he speaks the truth

Edited December 3, 2023 by UMFan83

[Jason Ross]

 

[JHBulls]

50 minutes ago, gocubs218 said:

 

If we come away with Ohtani and Yamamoto, I swear I am going to buy a latex gimp suit and strut down the street. 

[Cubs70]

20 minutes ago, JHBulls said:

If we come away with Ohtani and Yamamoto, I swear I am going to buy a latex gimp suit and strut down the street. 

For that reason alone make the deal

[Rcal10]

55 minutes ago, The20thK said:

Can Ohtani play first base as well, while recovering from TJ? 
 

also, I hate that one free agent, even one as amazing as Ohtani, holds up all of baseball. 

Really not unusual that he isn’t signed yet. Everyone is anxious waiting on him, but it isn’t like he is taking unusually long to decide. Yes, he is holding up the market and that might hurt the team he eventually picks, but he has to do this however it is most comfortable to him. Also, he really isn’t holding up all of baseball. Moves can be made. Chapman can sign, Cease can be traded, etc… We just have to realize this is a life decision for him. One thing I will say is if it was such an easy forgone conclusion he was going to stay in LA it should have been done already. The fact that this is a rough choice for him gives me encouragement that he might actually pick someone other than the Dodgers. And it is isn’t the Dodgers I really like the Cubs chance. 

[Jason Ross]

 

[Stratos]

2 hours ago, JHBulls said:

If we come away with Ohtani and Yamamoto, I swear I am going to buy a latex gimp suit and strut down the street. 

I think the likelihood of this is close to zero.  I think Yamamoto is Plan B.

[JHBulls]

18 minutes ago, Stratos said:

I think the likelihood of this is close to zero.  I think Yamamoto is Plan B.

He sounds like a fine Plan B. I wouldn’t complain. 

[KCCub]

13 minutes ago, JHBulls said:

He sounds like a fine Plan B. I wouldn’t complain. 

Absolutely. If we land Yamamoto for 5-7 years, I’ll be ecstatic. 

[Jason Ross]

Juan Soto chatter really picking up the last two days.

[Rcal10]

28 minutes ago, 1908_Cubs said:

Juan Soto chatter really picking up the last two days.

Have to think of them blue Jays get Soto they are out on Ohtani, right? 

[Jason Ross]

1 minute ago, Rcal10 said:

Have to think of them blue Jays get Soto they are out on Ohtani, right? 

I would imagine so.

[Tryptamine]

If USA Today is to be believed, Hader is asking for a deal of 5 years 100M+ and Bellinger is looking for 250M. There is no way in hell I'd give Bellinger 250M. 175M? Sure if he's going to play CF, but there's no way I'm giving him 250M.

[Bertz]

I hope the Blue Jays/Ohtani stuff means they're out.  At minimum I think it'd back up the idea that the wining & dining phase is done and we're just waiting for a decision?

[Bertz]

2 minutes ago, Tryptamine said:

If USA Today is to be believed, Hader is asking for a deal of 5 years 100M+ and Bellinger is looking for 250M. There is no way in hell I'd give Bellinger 250M. 175M? Sure if he's going to play CF, but there's no way I'm giving him 250M.

I would think it'd be a Xander Bogaerts deal where he gets a silly long deal to reduce the AAV.  

[Ding Dong Johnson]

4 minutes ago, Tryptamine said:

If USA Today is to be believed, Hader is asking for a deal of 5 years 100M+ and Bellinger is looking for 250M. There is no way in hell I'd give Bellinger 250M. 175M? Sure if he's going to play CF, but there's no way I'm giving him 250M.

I’ll be absolutely stoked to give Bellinger like 9/225 after striking out on all the big ones this offseason and watch him turn into a pumpkin.

[Jason Ross]

16 minutes ago, Tryptamine said:

If USA Today is to be believed, Hader is asking for a deal of 5 years 100M+ and Bellinger is looking for 250M. There is no way in hell I'd give Bellinger 250M. 175M? Sure if he's going to play CF, but there's no way I'm giving him 250M.

Feels like your typical "this is what Boras is going to tell the media" thing without it being actually what he expects to get.

[Jason Ross]

14 minutes ago, Bertz said:

I hope the Blue Jays/Ohtani stuff means they're out.  At minimum I think it'd back up the idea that the wining & dining phase is done and we're just waiting for a decision?

Yeah, I think we're in the end game spot. Probably a little tweaking and moving things around and then deciding. I'm hopeful for a choice in the next few days.

[ILMindState]

3 hours ago, The20thK said:

Can Ohtani play first base as well, while recovering from TJ? 
 

also, I hate that one free agent, even one as amazing as Ohtani, holds up all of baseball. 

Welcome to the MLB off season where this happens every year and will continue to happen in the future. 

[WhyCantWeWin]

19 minutes ago, Ding Dong Johnson said:

I’ll be absolutely stoked to give Bellinger like 9/225 after striking out on all the big ones this offseason and watch him turn into a pumpkin.

Yeah I really hope they don't sign Bellinger because he's the only guy left. 

[Tryptamine]

1 hour ago, WhyCantWeWin said:

Yeah I really hope they don't sign Bellinger because he's the only guy left. 

Still not as bad as signing Chapman would be. He's supposedly going to get 6 figures and I don't even know that I could convince myself to want him on a 2/40 deal.

[Stratos]

11 minutes ago, Tryptamine said:

Still not as bad as signing Chapman would be. He's supposedly going to get 6 figures and I don't even know that I could convince myself to want him on a 2/40 deal.

Why not for 2 years?  He's been a pretty good player consistently throughout his entire his career and has stayed mostly healthy.  He'll probably hit better outside of Oakland/Toronto too.