Andy

Starting to think Brandon Workman might not work out.

Unless I missed something, both the '21 and '23 pick are top-4 protected, although I haven't seen anything on how those picks are conveyed if they fall in the top 4.

I thought he was DFA'd?Passed through waivers, was brought back today because Romine is hurt again.

ICYMI, and they hope you did, the CFP people said they played around with dozens of potential expansion scenarios before saying they're happy with the current one, which essentially confirms that they're expanding the thing by the time the current contract ends, if not before.

Remarkably rude of Anderson to get himself injured before the Cubs can tee off on him any more than they did in that 1st inning.

The answer is zero. Zero chance. They'll never get rid of it, and I suspected as soon as they implemented it in the minors that they were probably going to shove it into MLB at some point. Frankly, I'm less than 50/50 that they'll even get rid of 7-inning doubleheaders now.

Bryant steals 2nd but gets dinged by the split-second he might have possibly been not touching the base. That rule needs to get junked (with the requisite caveat that we probably won a playoff series because of it)

Like Boog said, the ump should have made no call if anything, but Alonso did brush the base on the stretch for the ball. No challenge for the Mets, so Cubs got a break. Luckily, Joc and Javy bat right behind KB right now, so no harm done for the Mets.

Screw it, drop Baez, add Tatis, and next time someone suffers a seemingly crippling injury it better actually be one.

First elite fake rally of the year.

It's not even disappointing anymore when someone GIDPs with 2 on. Of course that's what happened.

I've covered prep sports here for 9 years and don't think I've ever seen a guy that can get it into the 90s. Then again, the Cubs could just end up being bamboozled by the lack of velocity.

4 HBPs in 4 innings, 1 run scored. Just special stuff we're watching here.

This is so depressing.

If Theo is to believed from his exit press conference, Jed was always the guy pushing for change and moving on from guys and Theo was the guy who held on too long/was irrational about players/too attached. So at least Jed may realize what mostly all of us have the last 1.5-3 years and knows a team offensive profile like this doesn’t work moving forward. Sure but he did very little to change that dynamic this offseason, even despite a partial teardown by trading Yu for nothing of value over the next several years. If they were going to try to go with a "put all our faith in the pitch lab" strategy, why wouldn't you try to also change the dynamic of the offense when it was a well known weakness heading into the season. The more I think about it the more I realize that some of those signings the Cubs did make seem like they were made to be flipped at the deadline. The one thing the Cubs do have right now is a lot of attractive trade pieces for July and I think thats what were going to see happen in July. Sure they hoped that they could scratch together a quasi competitive season in a weak division, but assuming it didnt work out they were going to go into July ready to deal. For all the talk about tanking getting the Cubs a title, the real reason is because they struck gold over and over again in those sign-and-flip trades. I'm not sure we can count on Jed being able to do that again, but you're right, they're probably going to try.

It's 85% of Tier 1 personnel, which includes active roster, coaches and, I think, certain members of the traveling party.

Oh look, we signed another shitty player whose only relevant success came with St. Louis and he horsefeathering sucked. Let me find an emoji to display my shock.

Tony Wolters has been DFA'd to make room for Austin Romine. Also apparently Hendricks has been sent home, still under the weather. So that's going great.

Apparently the Atlantic League will also experiment with the Len Kasper-approved tying of the DH to the starting pitcher. That's interesting.

Moving the mound back certainly strikes me as less objectionable than banning shifts and all the other inane rule changes or proposals of the last couple of years.

Good call, I think I heard Boog or JD mention Burnes pitching tomorrow and went on autopilot.

The game just started. Apparently Hendricks 'isn't feeling well', so he's not playing for cautionary reasons as the COVID absences pile up.

Obviously we take the title even though LA crapping out another random white guy with OBP and SLG skills every other month is annoying while our lineup of supposed studs scores 1 run per game. I find it very hard to believe that if we were hunting for people to hate on the Dodgers like this fan base is with Eric Sogard that we wouldn't find plenty of horsefeathers like that. (Not a comment on the Ricketts or the other myriad of things to hate about the franchise, though.)

It's the same game every day with these asswipes.