SouthSideRyan

Sure, I'm not saying that Medina is a terrible return, but if a bullpen reclamation is the best we can do right now, why not wait until there's actually someone who can take the roster spot? Medina or a Medina equivalent is likely to be available for Castillo in a month or two. I'm no cheerleader for Motte, but I don't share your pessimism that he's hemorrhaging value in his current role. Considering La Stella re-injured himself and the bench was short maybe this was the best they could do knowing they need to get another non-pitcher back on the club. Sczcur has to wait 10 days or something like that, i wonder if they go with an arm or call up Baez... intriguing to say the least. So replacing a hitter with a hitter?

wada Wada up for Schlitter/Coke Coke brought back helping to educate everyone on the nuances of DFAs

Matt Brazis and Jake Brigham. Hairston is the only comparable player I can think of where we got something interesitng.

It's poorly worded, but I think the takeaway is that the Red Sox weren't interested in paying for young catchers(read: multiple years of control), when they have multiple young guys who will be great options in future seasons. They wanted a stop gap, and the Cubs were likely not pricing Castillo as a stop gap. i hope i'm wrong, but i expect the return here to suggest the cubs were pricing castillo as a waste of a roster spot. If they were pricing him that low, why carry 3 catchers for a month and a half? Surely they could've ditched him at a low price over the winter. Seems to me they were holding firm on his price. If they were asking for something of value why would the Mariners trade for him?

I didn't realize how poor Castillo's overall numbers are this year. I take it we'll be getting a nothing prospect in return.

Unfortunately, Generalissimo Jeffrey Loria is still alive. True, but it sounds like he's run out of guys with less stars on their shoulders to fall on the sword. I've heard Buster Olney & Co. talk about how many bridges Loria's burned on everything from All Thing Considered on NPR to the Artie Lange podcast today. I can only hope Manfred realizes what potential this situation has. Everyone hates Loria. He'd have a decade of good graces if he mans up and goes full McCourt. They just gave him the 2017 all-star game 3 months ago.

Rizzo probably had like 8 ABs with 2+ runners on before this season.

Unfortunately, Generalissimo Jeffrey Loria is still alive.

So now that multiple posts have talked about STL getting ripped off Heyward should go on an MVP run right?

Ryan Sweeney

And people are no longer saying he "should be doing this"

Holy [expletive].

Got to think it's Coke, little reason to have 3 LHPs in the pen. With Wood moving to the pen, we have 4 LHPs in the pen.

It's like locked in Soriano with walks.

washed/faded one http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41Xj6DohM4L._SY300_.jpg Yes, this is much better. I picked up an all powder blue with a royal blue brim and the 60s-70s Cub bear logo on the front.

If Locke is a soft-tosser at 92-93, Hendricks is a little leaguer. In my experience online every lefty who throws under 98 mph is labeled a soft tosser.

They traded for him that deadline. Came along with Grabow For two guys who I can't remember who mostly took up some DL space. Oh, and some throw in low A guy. Who played in the all star game for us last year. Kevin Hart and Jose Ascanio?

I just had stir fry for lunch, thus undercutting your stir fry for dinner last night. Pirates will now win the series. Whatever I win: http://www.benjyehuda.com/

They traded for him that deadline. Came along with Grabow

We weren't even that bad during that run. Just the stupid [expletive] Cardinals went 26-7.

It's stuck to me how many "last time we were good" stats are from 2009 because I had largely relegated that season to the nightmare corners of my memory. Then I remember that it was just the year after an amazing season, so of course some of that would carry over, plus it ended up just being a "normal" bad season as opposed to what was to come. Before the dark times. Before...the Empire. Hell it wasn't even that "bad" of a season. They had a [expletive] August/Sept IIRC, but they won as many games as the 06 Cardinals and only 2 fewer than the 07 team. They were in first place in early August. I was thinking the same thing looking over the numbers...until I got to that they finished the season 11.5 games out. The Cardinals just rocked it that year; Pujols had maybe his second best season. Yikes. Actually, they didn't finish the season 11.5 games out, but they were 11.5 games out in early September. Basically a month after they had a share of 1st. Yeah, didn't we go like a month where we either stayed the same or lost ground every day? ETA: On August 3rd we beat Cincy to improve to 56-48 and pull into a 1st place tie with STL(Percentage point ahead actually) Over the next 37 days we either lost ground or stayed the same every single day, going 15-19 in the process and winding up 11.5 out.

Stealing.

I've never listened to Mark Grant outside of his annual stint with the 7th inning stretch. Based on that, I want to throw Mark Grant off a tall building.

I don't hate the guy, but there's no excuse for losing this series. And there's really no excuse to get blown out by a team without Irving for three quarters and with LeBron off for most of the night. I won't miss his stubbornness. Hopefully Hoiberg can at least coach a little bit of offense. Pretty sure the Hoiberg thing has lost almost all steam. He meant Ty Corbin.