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it begins https://twitter.com/CharlsMeow/status/1095753761891352576 Just checked Cat's Twitter. Great ratio of following to followers. Great traffic, which includes tweets that have hundreds of retweets and likes. I'm sort of sad how gullable so many people are, but if he's seeking attention, he's ...

The_Achiever wrote:Wait, whut? That seems like an absolute steal for Nola.

This is mostly just buying out his controlled years, right? So, I suppose for a pitcher who could throw his arm out, you take the locked in money.

Becoming a more racist organization than the St. Louis Cardinals and their fans.

It has reached that level, right? I don't know the history of the Cardinals that much, so correct if I'm way wrong.

Wait. So when was Marquis Grissom on the Cubs? I don't remember that transaction at all.

17 Seconds wrote:what an unfathomable offseason. i actually can't believe how much of a mess the last 4 months have been.

You are being kind. We already were a train wreck for two months going INTO the offseason.

Both guys are only 26, and have been each worth approx. $236 million in about 7-ish seasons of play apiece. Free agency is fine. Fix prearb I hear this stuff and am very recently coming to realize that often the intention is to take from the older players to give to the younger players. While I can...

So just to review, did some guy tell some other guy something he heard from a Brewers FO type, but that the guy couldn't say anything because his friend would get fired? And then sometime in the next few hours he tweeted exactly what his friend said detail for detail and even said what role his frie...

I haven't been paying attention to the Cards or their needs much, but couldn't it be Machado rather than Harper?

ETA: Oh, wait. Yeah, it's likely more about that extension brought up a few posts above.

Brian wrote:if we're looking to video game twitter accounts for news, I'll stick with my trusty cat

I'm alleging you are the Cat. You love the Cat big-time.

man i dont know what has to happen to you to think that the lester signing was boring, even in retrospect. i feel like when that signing went down we all knew it meant we were finally serious and about to start winning a lot of games. To be fair to Sofa, I think he's in a zone right now in that he'...

TomtheBombadil wrote:Hopefully they’re flipping Honeywell if this is real

Wait. What?

It would be awesome if Yu is good to go this season. I've just assumed this whole time the injury will reoccur early in Spring Training and he will then get Tommy John.

There is a decent chance Trout isn't playing in 2022.

TomtheBombadil wrote:

Cubswin11 wrote:OTOH totally agreed that Chatwood should generate some trade interest, but we knew that before this deal. The A’s, Angels, Orioles, Twins, Blue Jays...Lots of teams need the innings

If Chatwood generated any trade interest, he'd have been traded by now.

y Chris Cotilo also got a job based on twitter. Not sure whether he had actual sources though. He for sure did. He would break legit news at the Winter Meetings while still a teenager and had the respect of his.......well not peers, but of the industry. On the other hand, it's an embarrassment that...

I think they're hoping that when they accidentally get something right, they can parlay it into a real gig. That’s basically how Dierkes (spelling?) Got MLB Trade Rumors going I believe. He threw a bunch of horsefeathers out and got a thing or two right that drove traffic then just turned in to an ...

And this LOL https://twitter.com/CharlsMeow/status/1085934738836058114 I mean, the guy is basically worthless and entirely full of horsefeathers, but yeah. he's right about this one. none of this offseason makes sense to me What a nice thing you did for Cat by adding "basically" before th...

Brian wrote:

I think that sums it up real well.

Bull wrote:

Ding Dong Johnson wrote:zobrist is not fast and does not play CF so he can’t lead off

While I agree with the sarcastic sentiment here, Zobrist is old and crusty, and there’s no guarantee he’ll continue to get on base at a —— holy crap! He had a .378 OBP last year?!? Nevermind.

Plus he needs like four days off per week.

Cubswin11 wrote:Here’s everyone in 1 tweet. All arb guys have signed. Depending on who you use for projections it appears we saved some money (but obviously we don’t know what they calculated internally).

horsefeathers yes. Bring on Adam Warren.

jersey cubs fan wrote:so he's going to miss a chunk of change due to suspension and they are giving him bonus opportunities to make all that back?

I think he was actually projected to get $4.3 million in arb -- sorry if I'm wrong and spreading bad info -- so hopefully he's getting screwed a bit no matter what.

Good move for them. With his elite framing and their devil magic he improves them a ton since C was so weak for them last year. I would assume this is their one big spend, they will be at $120 mil with this move which has historically been as high as they go when they are competitive from the late ...

there are lots of businesses. owning a sports team is not a business. I don't know what to do with this. If you mean "owning a sports team shouldn't be a business," I can go along - but only so far. But that's just not realistic. Maybe I have some sort of strange Stockholm Syndrome from f...

This has nothing to do with this topic, but I never realized how boring our offseason was after winning the World Series, probably because I wasn't paying attention and figured there was nothing needed any way.

But we traded Soler for Wade Davis. That was about it. I suppose we also signed Jon Jay.

The Cubs are extremely poor. Add in the fact that Theo doesn't really give relievers a lot of years or big money, and there is zero chance of Kimbrell coming here. The Cubs are not extremely poor - they’re extravagantly rich. What they are is extremely cheap, and that’s a very different thing. Yeah...