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Jim Riley on Youtube has 3 possible deals for Devers, all to NL Teams. Mets for Mauricio, Megill, Tidwell and Vientos Dodgers for Pepiot and Vargas Cubs for Amaya, Davis, Triantos and Wicks

Cubbiescrib put out what they think they will happen at the Winter Meetings with the Cubs. Said they Cubs will sign Bogaerts. trade Alzolay, and sign Senga. Why would Cubs trade Alzolay and then sign Senga. Which would you rather have next season? Alzolay is a proven commodity, Senga is not in the Major Leagues. I like Adbert Alzolay and would hate to see him traded. When he is healthy, he is a very good arm.

GraffeNeckMarc on Youtube says where he thinks 206 free agents will land. He said the Cubs would get these 6 players: Kohl Calhoun, Mychal Givens, Chad Green, Jose Abreu, Jed Lowrey, Christian Vazquez.

So if you were the GM of the Cubs, and you have expectations of a pretty good pitching staff, and most of your starters get injured and miss much time, wouldn't that take you down too? You guys act like this is the fault of the owner and the GM. Why? They set up a pretty good staff. They got injured. Miley has barely pitched, Mills and Alzolay have not pitched at all. Your big free agent signing has missed much time and has hardly any wins. Now Hendricks is out indefinitely. Whose fault is that? Blame the owner? Stupid. Blame the GM? Stupid. Blame the injuries. They were able to have a really good bullpen and sell them off at the deadline for some pretty good pieces. And they have a really good minor league season taking place. So if you were the GM, and all your starters go down, you would be right where these guys are. And you would say, "but this is not the team I set up, we had many injuries", and that would be correct. Give these guys a break on this losing season. This is not the team they planned to play this year. Just be happy that Steele and Thompson stepped in very well to lead the starting staff, or it could be much worse than it is.

Mets acquire Tyler Naquin and Phillip Diehl from Reds for Hector Rodriquez and Jose Acuna.

I was watching The Just Baseball Show on Youtube while ago. They are making trade proposals for teams. The very first one involved our Cubs and the Mets. Here is the deal they proposed. Contreras and Robertson to the Mets for #5 prospect Mark Vientos, #10 prospect 18 year old pitcher Joel Diaz, #21 prospect Mike Vasil, and Dom Smith who is 26 years old. They said the Mets want to win this year and need to upgrade the catcher spot only as a rental. And need bullpen help. What do you make of their proposal?

Tim, guess you didn't read what I wrote. You had Heyward at leadoff, and I talked about that in my post. Thanks. In no way was I saying Brock and Denier were the same player, just good leadoff guys who could steal bases. You guys just read what you want to read, and post what you want to post. Never mind what the person had in mind who wrote it. And way to fast to hate someone's ideas. You might not want to be so critical of ideas on here if you want people to read this stuff. Thanks.

It is bad when someone asks a good question as I did, and get replies like the one just above. Shows real talent to write garbage. Thanks. So some think Heyward can be the leadoff hitter. If you like a K man as leadoff hitter, fine, but I don't. Frankly, I would rather have Denier back, or Lou Brock, someone who can get on and get over. The daily double. You guys are happy to play for 3 run homers all day, and I would actually rather have an offense that creates some havoc for the defense, and scores without the long ball.

I was actually asking Tim, but thanks for your answer. This really leaves us without a leadoff hitter.

So give me your lineup then. Who is your leadoff hitter?

Why is Galardo from the Brewers never mentioned as someone to sign? He is a free agent after this season, and young, and has never had a losing season. I would be very happy signing him, along with Lester, and go to war in April.

Taylor Davis is doing really well at AA. I hear no talk of him on this board. What are the thoughts on Davis? Good hitting catcher? Or what? Anybody have him on their radar yet?

Why didn't the Cubs just take Russell with the #7 instead of taking Almora? Interesting to think about. Which would they take today?

Toonster, if you add Jr Lake to Silva and Ha, then what?

White Sox send Jesse Crain to Tampa for cash considerations and players to be named later.