The 2017 MLB Thread

[ckfree]

thats a good call on lee he just got cleared too

i dont know about alvarez shoulder but for lee it would definitely be a worthwhile low risk, high reward 1-year deal as long as its heavy incentived

i just cant see this being theo endgame for the cubs pitching staff though i imagine a trade is coming soon

 

[ckfree]

https://twitter.com/Joelsherman1/status/673209533896916992

should do well in a park like at&t

but hes probably one of my least favorite white sox players ever and he was only here for 1 year

glad hes gone

 

[Tommy bilfiger]

thats a good call on lee he just got cleared too

i dont know about alvarez shoulder but for lee it would definitely be a worthwhile low risk, high reward 1-year deal as long as its heavy incentived

i just cant see this being theo endgame for the cubs pitching staff though i imagine a trade is coming soon

I think theo about to stack up some more cuban intentional free agents.He was scouting this cuban pitcher last week and there's a couple cuban pitchers with decent upside who can be in the rotation by 2016 or '17 and a trade(pitching or cf) is still a possibility

Cubs need to try to get a defensive cf inciarte from the dbacks,kleimeir from the rays or pillar from the blue jays would be ideal fits

 

[Tommy bilfiger]

https://twitter.com/jcrasnick/status/673230220208570368

Aroldis Chapman and melancon the only ones on the trade market I can think of edit papelbon,andrew miller and storen too

Cubs also looking at that lefty starter chen from the orioles.I'd be cool wit that

 

[Tommy bilfiger]

Reds gm said they're trading chapman and wit the winter meetings starting tommorow it could be in the next couple days.Just get him out the nl central and hopefully the NL period unless =)

I wonder who gonna get him

 

[Tommy bilfiger]

https://twitter.com/Ken_Rosenthal/status/673626039789232128
https://twitter.com/Ken_Rosenthal/status/673637032325947392

Wtf man.Sounds like the dodgers about to acquire chapman.Jansen and chapman would be a scary sight

 

[Tommy bilfiger]

https://twitter.com/Ken_Rosenthal/status/673885937068285953
https://twitter.com/JonHeymanCBS/status/673887298837225472

Dodgers got chapman

 

[Tommy bilfiger]

Unless somethin changes at the last second Cubs about to trade baez to the rays smdh

 

[ckfree]

its sounding like the cubs are vamping up trade efforts

it could be a big week for them

according to jesse rogers the cubs may be looking to free up money to make a run at heyward but what i dont understand is how soler or castro names keep coming up in terms of freeing up that money -- soler signed for 9 years 30 million and castro is due to make like 6 or 7 million next year -- montero i get but those other two are some very friendly deals, maybe theyre front end loaded or maybe a combination of all of them would free up enough payroll -- im not sure but that kinda money really shouldnt be an issue especially with the year they just had and their future revenue potential

good move bringing cahill back since bosio seemed to unlock something last year

no reason to not try to keep that going

 

[ckfree]

supposedly the chapman deal isnt complete there may be other teams still involved

gotta hope its no seager, urias or deleon involved but a jansen/chapman 8-9 combo

wow

if you aint leading by the 7th inning against the dodgers just fucking forget it -- on paper that could be one of the best bullpens with those two anchoring it but who knows how it will actually turn out though i was hearing on mlb network that according to players that know him, jansen wouldnt react well to losing his job

a first year manager having to try and make this work with two elite closers

could be interesting if the trade goes through

 

[Tommy bilfiger]

its sounding like the cubs are vamping up trade efforts

it could be a big week for them

It's baez and maybe soler

The rays,Braves,orioles and Indians all want javier baez,cubs would get one of these pitchers cobb or moore + McGee from the rays,salazar or carrasco from the indians or shelby miller for the braves or gausman from the o's.I been sad all day since like 6am

 

[ckfree]

https://twitter.com/JonHeymanCBS/status/673982477791268864
https://twitter.com/JoeFrisaro/status/673968097896833024

shit

maybe if he wasnt coming off of tj and shoulder/bicep stuff last year

 

[Tommy bilfiger]

Marlins tryin to fleece squads for fernandez they asked the dodgers for urias and seager

but
https://twitter.com/Buster_ESPN/status/674011413585743873

 

[ckfree]

the marlins are doing what they should be

asking for a franchise altering return for a guy who even with the injury history has a great deal of upside in the future

i wish the white sox would take the same approach with chris sale

 

[ckfree]

nice haul for the red sox on that miley trade

tazawa

carson

uehara

kimbrel

boston bullpen has greatly improved

 

[ckfree]

https://twitter.com/Howard_Cole/status/674009087886163970

wow

 

[ckfree]

https://twitter.com/JeffPassan/status/674057058954682368

at bare minimum

that chapman got out his anger by finding his gun and firing shots inside his garage is some troublesome shit

 

[O.G.]

Well damn

 

[Tommy bilfiger]

https://twitter.com/m_sheldon/status/674067290967646208

Messed up this could change things

 

[its....JOHN B]

I'm all for trading for Fernandez as long as they don't give up Bogaertz or Betts, doubt that will happen though