Our Long National Nightmare Is Over: Cubs claim Tomás Nido, DFA Gomes

[WhyCantWeWin]

 

[UMFan83]

I’m glad you made this thread because I was gonna pick some stupid funny title and couldn’t think of anything good. Best I had was Yan’t Here Anymore

[WhyCantWeWin]

4 minutes ago, UMFan83 said:

I’m glad you made this thread because I was gonna pick some stupid funny title and couldn’t think of anything good. Best I had was Yan’t Here Anymore

Lol it wasnt me, i keep forgetting they want us to make separate threads for transactions 

[CubinNY]

Gomes hit the proverbial wall hard. I'm sure he will become someone's bench coach soon and be shortlisted for manager jobs.  

[jersey cubs fan]

18 minutes ago, UMFan83 said:

I’m glad you made this thread because I was gonna pick some stupid funny title and couldn’t think of anything good. Best I had was Yan’t Here Anymore

Gomes but not forgotyan 

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Gas money outta town

[sneakypower]

remember when we let Willson Contreras walk but mystical catcher defense woo-woo was going to make us actually more productive overall at the position

[Derwood]

Tomás, not Thomas

[Outshined_One]

41 minutes ago, UMFan83 said:

I’m glad you made this thread because I was gonna pick some stupid funny title and couldn’t think of anything good. Best I had was Yan’t Here Anymore

Yan Can (No Longer) Cook?

[LBiittner]

Someone like the Yankees or Phillies or another good team will pickup Yan and he will magically return to his positive self. 

Best of fortune to Yan-can-cook

[LBiittner]

1 minute ago, Outshined_One said:

Yan Can (No Longer) Cook?

OMG lol

[Cuzi]

10 minutes ago, sneakypower said:

remember when we let Willson Contreras walk but mystical catcher defense woo-woo was going to make us actually more productive overall at the position

Remember when the Cardinals signed Willson Contreras and their entire pitching rotation took a dump?

Edited June 19, 2024 by Cuzi

[LBiittner]

1 minute ago, Cuzi said:

Remember when the Cardinals signed Willson Contreras and their entire pitching rotation to a dump?

Yep. Cards switched him off catcher for awhile

[We Got The Whole 9]

30 minutes ago, jersey cubs fan said:

Gomes but not forgotyan 

This is great

[sneakypower]

4 minutes ago, Cuzi said:

Remember when the Cardinals signed Willson Contreras and their entire pitching rotation to a dump?

i remember 40+ yo Adam Wainwright being the worst P in the league and them having to add 3 starters in FA

[Irrelevant Dude]

55 minutes ago, WhyCantWeWin said:

Lol it wasnt me, i keep forgetting they want us to make separate threads for transactions 

<insert obligatory complaint about the Transactions forum that nobody uses>

[Irrelevant Dude]

Reminder that Yan Gomes is another $6M flushed down the toilet.  Not huge dollars by itself, but there is a lot of dead money on the aggregate when accounting for all the other Yan-like deals the Cubs have had to eat.

To be fair though, Yan's option looked like a no brainer going into the season, so I can't really fault the Cubs for this one. At worst, he was going to be an experienced backup catcher, but it turns out that experience is the only thing he has left.

 

[Banedon]

1 hour ago, UMFan83 said:

I’m glad you made this thread because I was gonna pick some stupid funny title and couldn’t think of anything good. Best I had was Yan’t Here Anymore

Yan Gone was gonna be my best effort.

[javy knows my name]

It's nice to read Cubs news that doesn't come with 900 words I don't want to read

Edited June 19, 2024 by javy knows my name

[Irrelevant Dude]

16 minutes ago, javy knows my name said:

It's nice to read Cubs news that doesn't come with 900 words I don't want to read

Someone give us the charts and tables!

[JHBulls]

16 hours ago, Derwood said:

Tomás, not Thomas

Awesome! Now we know how to spell his name for the “Cubs DFA’d Tomás Nido!” thread next month. 

[UMFan83]

6 hours ago, JHBulls said:

Awesome! Now we know how to spell his name for the “Cubs DFA’d Tomás Nido!” thread next month. 

On a related note, its spelled "moises ballesteros"

[Bertz]

Pretty fortunate timing here.  What Nido lacks in knowing Cubs pitchers he makes up for in knowing Mets hitters.  I wonder if he gets two starts this weekend to try and take advantage and get him into the mix quickly.

The other thing that's interesting is there are some signs that there's a lot more in the tank offensively for Nido than he's ever shown before.  Compared to '21-'23 his contact is up, his chase is down, his groundballs are down, and his exit velo is WAY up.  He's got a .317 xwOBA which is not just better than league average for a catcher it's better than league average for everybody.  David Stearns isn't dumb so I'm sure there's something I'm missing but it's interesting.

 

[Transmogrified Tiger]

19 minutes ago, Bertz said:

David Stearns isn't dumb so I'm sure there's something I'm missing but it's interesting.

It was his turn to be seduced by the siren song of Luis Torrens.  Rite of passage for a front office exec really.

[Rob]

Between 2013-2014, Yan Gomes put up 9.3 fWAR. But that ended up being more than half his career value. Still, he managed to stick around another decade and put up numbers that kept him a good backup option that was often ill-suited to his role as a primary catcher until the wheels finally fell off this year.

All things considered, he's had a solid career. He strikes me as the kind of guy who might give it a shot to latch on elsewhere, but this feels like The End even if he hasn't recognized it yet.