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Good to hear a notional guy somewhat confirm he’s available. I think he’s my #1 target of reasonably available/realistic guys via trade or FA that we also could afford (money or player capital) to get. Anyone past the Nico/Amaya/Davis/Marquez line of prospects would be available to get him, for me on top of the ML trade pieces we have like Happ, Willy, Vic, etc.

Yeah, this seems like a really solid hire.

Yeah I agree with this. Sure it’s frustrating things haven’t broken better with the drafts/IFA. But there is some context with how they decided to go about things and how they’ve used prospect resources for trades and like you said there isn’t hard evidence he’s some bumbling oaf and incompetent. I mean the 2018 draft is looking like it could be the best draft we’ve had in some time. Hoerner, Davis, Roederer top 3 then Richan was used for Castellanos, Kohl Franklin, Riley Thompson and I’m sure I’m missing a guy or two. That’s shaping up to be a draft to give us multiple useful MLB pieces, whether playing directly for us or used as capital in trades.

I think it was Tom, but someone mentioned when he got the new role that being in charge of finding post hype guys, DFA’d/Non-tendered guys, like Muncy, etc. could actually be a good task and job for him since a lot of these guys currently hitting that point of their careers were draft prospects he scouted and is familiar with. Seems like decent work to throw his way and tell him to stay away from most of the other work.

Eh, he essentially was with the new role. He went from heading player development to working below guys and being tasked work to do some major league scouting, game planning and maybe finding DFA’d/Non-tendered guys to target. He also got a contract extension in the last few years and is compensated well, he’s worth keeping until that expires and giving him some sort of work. Even if it’s just busy work.

They’re not going to get anywhere close to touching $248 going in to the year. That’s just a completely unrealistic expectation for the offseason.

with ballsy moves like these, the Cubs are poised to reclaim their spot atop the NL Central. It's a minor league deal where it's implied that Morrow wants to pay the Cubs back for all the time and money they've invested in him. If that's the case, there is literally no downside to this, nor does it get in the way of any other move. Right I don’t get how people can be against this. He’d cost a couple hundred thousand and never pitch in the worst case scenario. He was one of the top ~12 (forget exactly where but he was elite) relief pitchers in MLB in the first half in 2018 before he got hurt, he likely never pitches again but it’s worth the risk and if it’s not him they should always be looking to add a guy or two like him every offseason that costs nothing coming off injury that was previously good. I think it’s a smart way to potentially fall in to quality depth as you build out a team.

it would be so categorically boneheaded to exploit such a clear advantage to that degree, it'd be unquestionably solved in short order i mean common sense would be just utilizing it in leverage situations...or who knows, maybe they were like the Price is Right Perfect Bid guy just doing it every pitch and 200 loud trash can bangs every home game went largely unnoticed to all and it actually had no tangible benefit anyway Literally nobody here is denying they cheated. The point that in a game rife with cheating at all times, especially this specific cheat, they just got busted on their particular method of cheating. It's faulty, IMO, to assume that their brand of stealing signal cheating was significantly more effective than other teams' brands of stealing signal cheating, and it's especially faulty to think this is some exceptional case, and that MLB will do much of anything about it. I disagree with this. Do teams try and pick up signs/pitch tipping, sure. But they’re doing it when a guy gets on 2B or in pre-game video hoping to find something or a guy on the bench in game. I don’t think many, if any, teams have a camera fixed on a catcher’s signs with a closed circuit TV in the dugout to relay the info to the hitter every game. That’s just brazen and on another level and is somewhat backed by the stories we hear about people and players being shocked at the lengths they Astros have gone to cheat. All teams attempt to steal signs/signals (mostly “the right way”), I doubt many teams actually accomplish this more than a few times over the course of a year. The Astros presumably had the ability to do it for every home game at a level nobody does it at. I don’t think they should be given some huge punishment. Take some picks away, fine the team and players who were doing it (if that can be proven), fire and/or potentially ban the team coaches/employees who carried it out and put in better protocols to make sure this level of cheating can’t happen again.

Stanek is on the Marlins now, he got moved at the deadline. But I like him as a target nonetheless in a separate deal. If a Jon Gray deal can’t happen for Willy, I’d be fine with a Margot, Lamet, Hedges deal with maybe a prospect in their 8-13 range and maybe a little something more from us going back.

You must have missed Almora grading out as the 2nd-worst defensive CF in the NL last year. No I did not, I posted that. It was mostly a joke post but I also think the Mets have some flawed decision making processes and may be dumb enough to do a swap like that with little else needing to be added.

BY GAWD, HOW COULD HE HAVE POSSIBLY CRUSHED THAT MEATIEST OF MEATBALLS OTHERWISE. Still was an 0-2 pitch and a breaking ball that he could’ve been extra geared up for if it was a meatball. Also adds to the proof of “trash can drum beat noise=breaking ball/off speed.”

Yu and his wife had a baby, I think is what that tweet translates to.

Giants hire Kapler. Leaves only the Pirates that have an opening, but they still don’t have a GM/Pres of Ops.

Feel bad the kid lost the ability to play HS sports and the residual affects on his life, but him, his dad and their lawyers should be sent to Gitmo for this nonsense lawsuit. Bunch of fucks.

Almora for Nimmo, get it done Theo

Good, shun that doofuses dumb ass, Yu

Fiers 4th to last start of the year was in Houston, he went 1IP 9H 9ER 5HR 1K. Wonder if that finally made him crack to spill the beans on the cheating.

:-k https://twitter.com/wcontreras40/status/1194292544156438529?s=21

You 100% bring him back on a minor league deal, imo. It costs nothing and is worth the risk, the quotes are from his agent. FWIW.

Boy, I sure hope the Cubs don't hire any of those dirty cheaters who are really good at cheating. No sir! I wish we cheated more, there’s clearly little to no repercussions. It really wouldn’t shock me if we don’t attempt to do anything other than the “traditional” or “acceptable” in game stuff (like runner on 2B, picking up on pitch tipping, etc.). Since I’m under that presumption I’m going to bastardized any form of cheating by these immoral teams.

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Sterns came from the Astros, Yelich had ridiculous home/road splits last year, on top of their general BS. When other teams are mentioned as doing similar things to cheat I just assume it’s the Brewers.