Brock Beauchamp

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I will absolutely refuse to use anything but #YouHaveToCIt this season.

Hard to believe the Mariners are truly interested. They dealt for Jorge Polanco - likely to play third - and also required the Twins to take back DeSclafini as a salary-shedding move.

We currently have a tie for first place if someone out there wants to put their finger on the scale...

There are at least three very good blog posts in this thread. Use our blogs section, please! You cantankerous old coots. 😃 https://northsidebaseball.com/blogs/

I was coming in to say Morel gets 400+ PAs this season.

He sure did, thanks.

I wiped out your vote, you can now vote again.

DERRRRPPPPPPP Of course, done.

Some of the players on the list are probably gone. If someone needs to be removed, just tag me with the name and I'll get rid of it. 1. You must have an account and be logged in to vote. If you don't have an account, click here. It literally requires 60 seconds to create an account. 2. Review our current top 20 prospect list, catch up on stats, rankings, etc. (you can do so from the voting page link below) 3. Have your prospect list in your dirty little paws? Then flip on over to the new prospect voting page (after reading the rest of this, please). https://northsidebaseball.com/prospect-voting 4. Voting is super simple, you drag and drop players in the order you wish them to be. After you move a prospect, the list automatically renumbers so you don't lose track of the order. This works on mobile devices but it's a *vastly* better experience on desktop. Sorry, that's just how this kind of thing works. There's no great way to make something like this be as awesome on a phone screen. 5. Each prospect has a comment section where you can add any commentary you have on that player. At the bottom of the list, there is a general comment section to explain over-arching things you wish to mention. 6. Don't see a prospect you want to put on the list? Just pop back here and give me a mention (in a comment, start typing @Brock Beauchamp and then select my name when it appears). Mention the prospect you want added and I will do that asap. 7. Once you're done with all of it, click Save. You've now voted! 8. When the voting closes, a new thread will automatically generate in this forum with all of your rankings and comments for everyone to read and talk about. 9. You can only vote once. If you have voted in error, pop back here and again tag me, asking to have your vote deleted. I will remove it and you can vote again. Voting will close at end of day Wednesday, February 21st!

Welcome to the site! Our own Matt Trueblood has "Not a Rebuild" podcast that's rather esoteric. I also listen to Wrigleyville Nation, which I believe is quite popular.

There's Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe, though I believe that happened after DiMaggio retired.

Welcome to the site!

@Irrelevant Dude and @UMFan83: Thanks for the input. The front page news forum is so that the Cubs forum isn't overwhelmed with article threads. As the site grows and content grows, we will start moving all article threads into the front page news forum (they currently generate in the Cubs forum and I manually move them after a few days). We do it this way to create engagement with the articles as a bridge to the site/community growing. I think you're right about the transactions forum. I will look into changing this up in the near future. I'll move the rumors to the Cubs forum and we'll create a specific transactions forum if that's what people prefer. I decided to give up on the war against megathreads for the time being. But the war is not over, this is def a calculated retreat for now.

How do others feel about this? We had more diverse offerings at Twins Daily and let's just say... people got mad at each other for using them. It turned into a bit of a headache. But I can create more options here if that's what people want.

There's also value in wins today, that was kinda my point. Hendricks isn't flashy but if he's healthy, he's useful on a competitive team. The list isn't only about trade value but also production on a competitive team today.

Well, I think they come to their value in very different ways. Hendricks has immediate, though underwhelming, value in the here and now. He was pretty good in 2023 and helped the team remain competitive. Morel's value is (possibly) less in the here and now but has value well beyond Hendricks. Whether that's with the Cubs or another team remains to be seen. Personally, I don't know where to put Morel on this list. It's all subjective based on what you think of him and opinions vary wildly on the guy.

Huh. This is an excellent piece. I was fully aware of Bellinger's "problems" last season but was completely unaware that Chapman stopped pulling the ball, like AT ALL. That's pretty scary.

I will add it to the list of development pieces. To make sure we're on the same page, you just want the ability to hide any specific thread from sight permanently, correct?

You mean in a Facebook or Twitter style? The current setup is an intentional choice; it's the traditional forum setup from way back in the day. We can change to a social-media style but I pretty much guarantee it will infuriate most of the forum, who has been using this format for literal decades.

The past five years have been a veritable cornucopia of ****, it's easy to forget specifics.

What about the lockout offseason? That was pretty awful, too.

Right under each post, there is a small blue "quote" button. That quotes the person and takes you to the post entry window.

Mark Feinsand of MLB.com, in his typically-great free agent roundup, ran through remaining free agents in the wake of the Josh Hader deal in Houston. It appears Cody Bellinger and his agent Scott Boras are still pursuing a deal in excess of $200 million, which is the reason he remains unsigned. The Blue Jays remain very interested but are balking at that price tag. Cubs' President of Baseball Operations, Jed Hoyer, is remaining patient in hopes that Bellinger's price will drop in either years or total dollars. Feinsand remains optimistic that the Cubs are still the most likely landing spot for the 28 year old center fielder. View full rumor