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Also, with Jim Hendry gone, it'd be nice to have someone else to provide us with material for fat jokes.
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Great Theo story from this morning's Bleacher Nation article: http://www.bleachernation.com/2012/02/01/dont-get-in-a-free-agent-fight-with-the-yankees-and-other-bullets/
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Does this thread's existence actually bother you?
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Re: What would you deal Garza for?
ctcf replied to toonsterwu's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
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Looks like the Cubs are interested after all. I'm fine with a 1 year deal here. Makes sense and to be perfectly honest, it's nice to know there's going to be some pitching depth after the nightmare that was 2011. Link to the article BN is sharing: http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/01/31/cubs-and-as-interested-in-reliever-todd-coffey/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
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Congrats to Jim. Glad to see he landed himself a nice position.
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Misc. Free Agent News
ctcf replied to Clem Fandango's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
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nein
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Grumble grumble
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Misc. Free Agent News
ctcf replied to Clem Fandango's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
The good news is he can play all over the field and he's a switch hitter. He's extremely versatile having played professionally at 1B, 2B, SS, 3B, LF, CF, and RF. He's got plus speed and a plus glove. Good player to have come off the bench. He's been poor offensively in the bigs unfortunately. Pretty good minor league career got him spots in the Futures Game and AAA All Star game though. Hopefully if he makes the team he'll have better numbers because his plate appearances off the bench should go up a good bit being in the NL now. I'm glad he's a Cub! Too lazy to play catcher? Yea I don't think we have room for slackers like that on the Cubs. -
So wait, Dwight is actually open to Chicago now!?
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Well that's high praise:
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Not really. If there's nothing to report, then there's nothing to report. Especially considering that he's not in the states at this time, the offers are still likely coming in and we probably won't hear much of anything until he's close to a decision. You know that they have phones now, right?
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Kinda surprised the Cespedes chatter has been completely non-existent so far.
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i like him already Pretty surprising move to me.
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Pretty meh feelings on this one. I'll give him the offseason before I resent his employment.
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It usually doesn't happen. But if it's something that is big enough to be national news and everyone's waiting on, like Darvish, it gets ridiculous. The night before it was announced I was following and just hit yu darvish in the search. Every few minutes, some other team supposedly officially won the bid. So you went to see what the entire internet was saying and you were surprised it was conflicting? This is amazing. All I really follow as far as sports news goes on Twitter are MLBTR and Bruce Miles and as of recently Kevin Goldstein. I usually use the search. If for example you typed Pujols in the search box the night before he signed you'd ge multiple reports of if and with whom he had signed. Aside from Miles, MLBTR, and Goldstein who are some good ones to follow for such things? Again, you're still surprised when you looked to see what the bajillion people on twitter were saying and it was conflicting? As for the best twitter writers I'd say just the guys like Rosenthal, Bob Nightengale, Stark, Olney, Jon Heyman and Knobler would probably have you covered.
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I actually just follow @RHickey66
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It usually doesn't happen. But if it's something that is big enough to be national news and everyone's waiting on, like Darvish, it gets ridiculous. The night before it was announced I was following and just hit yu darvish in the search. Every few minutes, some other team supposedly officially won the bid. So you went to see what the entire internet was saying and you were surprised it was conflicting? This is amazing.
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The problem is that even if someone does have breaking news, there are usually 36 others with conflicting reports. only follow good baseball writers then Rocket, don't tell him that. Jim Bowden doesn't need more twitter followers.
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It usually doesn't happen. But if it's something that is big enough to be national news and everyone's waiting on, like Darvish, it gets ridiculous. I really don't remember much ridiculousness with Darvish either. There was lot of speculation, but I wouldn't consider that as "conflicting". Pretty much everyone thought it would be the Rangers or the Blue Jays, and they were pretty much right. The only conflicting stuff I can recall was probably Swaim and some douche in Toronto who thought he was the next great sports journalist and ended up looking like a moron. As long as you don't follow bs accounts of some dude who "knows a few insiders", you're not going to get horribly misleading news reports.
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The problem is that even if someone does have breaking news, there are usually 36 others with conflicting reports. Have you ever even been on Twitter? That doesn't happen. Unless you followed Scott Swaim, which on second thought is probably something you would have done.
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Please don't. I don't find this half as annoying as pages of discussion on how to say his name. Maybe that's just me being bitter after seeing new posts and mistakingly thinking it is new information. It's bitterness. Trust me.
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Yes plz.
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Well it looks like that question just got answered. Corpas just got outrighted off the 40 man.
