Cubs Acquire Brandon Kintzler for Minor Leaguer Jhon Romero

[UMFan83]

[Cubswin11]

horsefeathering gross

[Tim]

Hopefully this is very cheap.

[David]

meh. he's fine.

[champaignchris]

Obviously, we have to see what’s going back. But in the words of C. Montgomery Burns, “I know what I hate, and I don’t hate this.”

[Bertz]

Extremely Meh

If we were going to grab someone so pedestrian. I would have preferred someone who really excels in one particular area. Now that Kintzler's groundball rate has evaporated, he's just thoroughly mediocre at everything.

[UMFan83]

Extremely Meh

If we were going to grab someone so pedestrian. I would have preferred someone who really excels in one particular area. Now that Kintzler's groundball rate has evaporated, he's just thoroughly mediocre at everything.

twitter says that he has the 11th highest soft contact rate in baseball this year.

[ConstableRabbit]

This is interesting. I don't love relievers that don't strike out a lot of guys and don't have elite GB rates, but his K and BB rates have ticked in the right direction as of late (LD rate, too, but not sure that's stable in this short a span) -- not sure if he's made changes or if this is him getting healthy after his DL stint for the forearm.

He's also got a $10m team option and $5m player option for next year and I know we've been linked to him in the past.

[David]

he's a little too amped about this but posting it for the info either way

[Andy]

This is a perfectly fine depth move provided it costs almost nothing. He'll be like our 5th-best reliever.

[big ball chunky time]

[Duke Silver]

Meh. He'd do well with the grounders and soft contact with our defense. But still really meh. Do better.

[Schwarber Fan]

We're probably done, right?

[bcl412]

I was meh on Mike Montgomery when it happened and he had the coolest save in cubs history so maybe this dude will do that too

[Andy]

We're probably done, right?

There were reports linking us (and the VBs) to Matt Harvey a couple hours ago.

[Banedon]

Just about everyone on the market was meh...I think expectations were set a touch high.

[Cubswin11]

Better pitching coach than Hickey

[Sammy Sofa]

Eh; at least it wasn't Ziegler.

[soccer10k]

Better pitching coach than Hickey

Fire Hickey. Kintzler for player-pitching coach.

[Cubswin11]

Eh; at least it wasn't Ziegler.

I’d rather have Ziegler

[Cubswin11]

Kintzler has a $10 million team option next year and if it’s declined can exercise a $5 million player option, fwiw.

[Banedon]

[Duke Silver]

Better pitching coach than Hickey

Fire Hickey. Kintzler for player-pitching coach.

Might want to hold off on that...

https://www.fangraphs.com/statsd.aspx?p ... 28&season=

[ScrubMD]

People were meh on Chavez too, and now he’s easily our best player.

[Brian]

Kintzler has a $10 million team option next year and if it’s declined can exercise a $5 million player option, fwiw.

We need to find out if he's friends with Bryce.