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MLB Offseason: February 15 isn't THAT far away...

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Corran Horn said:
The Cubs picked him up off the scrap heap and he did well for them. .265/.346/.447 with a 10.4% walk rate and 18.7% K rate. He's not a great defender.
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Not a great defender but decent power and he's good at getting on base. Reliable bench help is hard to find; I think the Cubs will miss him. (And they could have gotten so much more than a junkerball pitcher.)

Ar-Pharazon said:
As far as a Soler trade, that's been talked about all offseason and even last season. If they could get a good starting pitcher (Tyson Ross was frequently mentioned), it could still happen.
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I don't think the plan is to trade Soler if they already dumped Coghlan. He'll play off the bench and start in left on days when the Kyle Schwarber Experience is behind the plate.
 
Well, their bench is still strong. I'd rather have Fowler than Coghlan. They couldn't have both and keep Soler.
 
Who you callin' "grandpa"?

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We have our first Tommy John Disease victims of 2016; Atlanta's Andrew McKirahan (who has already had surgery once, and got popped on an 80-game suspension last year for PEDs) is confirmed to need Tommy John, and Colorado's Jairo Diaz is having further tests after an initial MRI of his elbow showed "something."

Also, Austin Jackson to the White Sox, which feels like it has to be Plan H or something for their outfield.
 
Word is that the Cubs and Arrieta have been having extension talks; they're in the same neighborhood on the AAV but the disagreement is on the length. Arrieta and Boras want seven years and the Cubs are understandably wary of that given his age.

I'm fine with those negotiations stopping until we see what he's got this year, considering he was totally gassed in the playoffs and threw something like 90 innings above his previous career high.
 
Comcast has dropped the YES Network, in what I can only assume is their attempt to become the most hated cable company in America.
 
Comcast dropped YES back in, like, November, and it wasn't exactly a shocker considering television viewership of the Yankees has been in the dumpster since roughly 2012, and once the Time Warner deal fell through, it was kind of a fait accompli, since Comcast's coverage area is, to my knowledge, parts of New Jersey, Connecticut and some fuckhole areas of Pennsylvania.

The implosion of the RSN bubble continues. :lol:
 
Corran Horn said:
Cubs would be crazy to go 7. 5 is good.
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The other thing is that he's still arb-eligible for another season. After his insane workload last year, I'd be hesitant to sign him long-term until he can prove that his arm isn't going to fall off. It's extremely irregular for a guy to suddenly put it all together at 29.
 
Danny99 said:
Agree. There is no doubt he has the talent, but he is a child.
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Out of all the sins a person can commit, flipping a bat has to be somewhere between jaywalking and not putting the toilet seat back down on the severity scale. If people aren't supposed to have fun while playing a game, why should they play?

This "BASEBALL IS SERIOUS BUSINESS" and "EVERYTHING MATTERS" and "RESPECT THE UNWRITTEN RULES" bullshit is what led to the Diamondbacks becoming a bunch of headhunting pieces of shit under Gibson and the All-Star Game determining World Series home-field advantage, which is pretty easily the second- or third-worst decision of Selig's tenure as commissioner.
 
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