MLB Offseason 2020-21: I'm a Hall of Famer baseball person

Theoretically, pitchers and catchers report in a month. Yet we have no idea if there is a universal DH, MLB has not established if there is a 162-game schedule, and free agents like Realmuto, Springer, LeMahieu and Bauer are sitting at home without contracts, twiddling their thumbs.

Yes, this is perfectly normal.

 

The Cubs signed ... Shelby Miller off the scrap heap. Right now, he projects as the #5 starter.

Truly he is the chosen one to lead the Cubs back to contention.

 

It sounds like Lester is close to an agreement with the Nationals, so subtract him and consider the rotation after Hendricks and Mills (who's a prime candidate to turn back into a pumpkin) ... hoo boy, Cubs games are going to be tough to watch this year.

Edit: Per Passan, Lester and the Nats have agreed to a one-year deal with a mutual option. He's not the pitcher he used to be, but he'll be a solid back-of-the-rotation anchor behind Strasburg, Scherzer and Corbin. I can't wait for Jed Hoyer to plant a classic "we tried" story with the Sun-Times (less likely with the Tribune, as they haven't been terribly willing to carry the Cubs' water for them over the past year and a half, although you never know, since their longtime Cubs beat writer just left for another job and the new person might want to make nice with Hoyer's regime).

 

ESPN is reporting that NY Mets GM Jared Porter admitted to sending explicit images to a female reporter when he was working for the Cubs; the Mets have fired his dumb ass accordingly.

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id...it-images-female-reporter-worked-chicago-cubs

Remember, guys, the ladies don't want to see your dick pics, whether they're your own or you found them on Shutterstock.*



*I have no idea if there are any dick pics on Shutterstock. Probably not.

 

Oh God, sadly yes.

 

If the context is that both parties are willingly and enthusiastically swapping nekkid pics of each other, then yes. But that was not the context here, nor is it the context 99.99999999999999999999% of the time, so basically, no.

 

Pretty much. It's sickening that the Pirates got a better return for Joe Musgrove than the Cubs did for Darvish.

That said, though, the NL Central has been a wasteland this offseason.

All told, the entire NL Central has, by my math, spent less than a million dollars in free agency this winter.