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Man, Oscar de la Cruz works fast. Dillon Maples' control is horsefeathers.

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Ugh, hurry up with this Phillies-Tigers game, MLB Network.

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Sweet. You made the Yankees go over the luxury tax threshold.

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He actually did sign but failed his physical (elbow questions).

I thought we found out he was hurt. Is he only able to hit and not pitch right now? he has some sort of elbow ligament injury but he is pitching...i believe he did the platelet rich plasma injection thing at some point. but either way, yeah, he pitched the other day. The injury did limit his ability to play in the field (or maybe that's a precautionary move), which was one of the reasons he picked an AL team.

His shoulder is probably shot but this was a guy I really wanted the Cubs to take a chance on this offseason in the hopes he could turn into a meaningful reliever. Pretty exciting, even though I feel like West Side Rooter/Little Lord Fontenot for wanting to sign a flyer. [tweet] [/tweet]

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Maples had some control issues there but had a scoreless inning. Oscar de la Cruz and TT's guy Duane Underwood had nice, quick efficient innings.

[tweet] [/tweet] Lol, Arizona might be out Rich Rod and Sean Miller in a span of like two months. Someone get Steve Alford caught up in this, stat.

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I wouldn't make that leap. Pitchers don't generally get as much as the hitters do in IFA. Actually, I'm struggling to think of the last pitcher to get $2 million in IFA. Did Espinoza get that from Boston, or did either of those 2 Rays pitchers get it when they went over their spending budget? But we see $2-3 million dollar position players every year. I wouldn't be shocked to see that he signed for $1 million. Ah, when I skimmed thru, I didn't notice he had just also posted the 5 best hitters. That definitely changes things, as his comment wasn't necessarily meant for the pitchers. I agree that they don't typically get as much. And I'd amend my initial thinking on Gallardo. I'd still bet Rodriguez gets well over that though. Every team has at least 4.75 mill now to spend. I'd guess the players see their bonuses go up a bit anyway, just because of that. FYI, I don't think anyone who gets paid to do this has said Rodriguez is a top 100 prospect. I surmised as much just reading the glowing write-ups for him. At the end of the day, he's a 16-year old pitcher, so immediately being a top 100 prospect will be tough. That said, he is the best pitching prospect in this class and showed up late, so I think he'll easily clear $2 million. I've added the the teams linked to these guys. No idea on Azuaje, the Cuban pitchers or Rosario. Looks like Calzadilla is linked to the Diamondbacks. 12:49 Kiley McDaniel: Those hitters: Diego Cartaya, C, VZ Dodgers Noelvi Marte, SS, DR Mariners Marco Luciano, SS, DR Giants Orelvis Martinez, SS, DR Blue Jays, likely the biggest non-Cuban bonus there’s a bunch of candidates for the 5th spot, but I’ll go with the guy that ran a 6.37 in the 60: Alexeis Azuaje, SS, DR 12:50 Kiley McDaniel: Best Arms: Osiel Rodriguez, RHP, Cuba Richard Gallardo, RHP, VZ Cubs Sandy Gaston, RHP, Cuba Abraham Calzadilla, RHP, VZ Diamondbacks you can either take projection with Jerming Rosario, RHP, DR or now velo with Starlyn Castillo, RHP, DR Phillies 12:51 Kiley McDaniel: I would assume/already know all of those players get $500K on July 2nd or soon thereafter 12:51 Kiley McDaniel: and there’s more than a couple millionaires in there, probably a few over $2M. A couple top guys weren’t at the event, but not that many.

Badler mentioned him back in November: viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1739#p227788 Thanks. Maybe I shouldn't have been so lazy and actually looked through this thread first. No worries. Wasn't trying to be a jerk by linking my post - BA has contacted Tim before about posting too much premium content.

I knew about it, but I'm a big UCLA fan. Really disappointed because it sounded like he was going to run away with a spot in the weekend rotation. Yeah, there was finally room for him in there. Molnar isn't back yet, is he? Not yet. He had a setback and is expected to miss the first month of the season. He's still expected to go into the weekend rotation when he returns.

He sure did. Said he was the standout there today despite not having the best FB velocity, with the best combination of fastball, offspeed stuff and control. He's 6'1", 187 lbs. Gallardo is the second 7/2/18 IFA linked to the Cubs. The first is 16-year old Dominican SS Rafael Morel. Of the other two guys in my post above with Kiley McDaniel tweets, Starlyn Castillo is linked to the Phillies and Badler didn't link Abraham Calzadilla to any teams. The hardthrowing Cubans will pitch tomorrow. I can't find anything on this kid. Badler mentioned him back in November: viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1739#p227788

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Galindo will be 21 all this coming season and was in the same IFA class as Gleyber Torres, Eloy Jimenez and Jen-Ho Tseng who are all still prospects. Doesn't seem crazy for a kid who signed at 16. Alzolay and de la Cruz have actually been in the system a year longer.

I'm not shocked Callis and Keith Law both like Moreno one spot more, despite the injuries. Moreno has a mid-90s sinking fastball with the groundball rate to back it up while being 2 years younger and only 1 level lower than the un-sexy command-over-stuff Rucker.

From the MLB Pipeline write-ups: Little: Steele: Estrada: Short: Galindo: Marquez: Clifton:

The Cubs have made four February signings, per Arizona Phil: http://www.thecubreporter.com/02162018/cubs-sign-cuban-catcher Two other February signings are 17-year old outfielder Josue Fernandez and 19-year old pitcher Johan Lopez.