MiddleCoastBias

Speaking of, whatever happened to Ranger/Rongey? We scare him off?

Anyone catch what was talked about?

Is there evidence for this? I've only heard about how loyal the org has been, to a fault, nothing about burnt bridges for a million here or there. The "snitty for less money" thing sounds like the Astros or some comparable team on the other end of the spectrum.

It's 10am CT, less than 24 hours after we received any information from anyone even tangentially related to having real information - I think we need to relax and let things develop as they will. We haven't missed anything, he hasn't passed on us, the off-season isn't lost - it's just a process.

Tony out here live-tweeting his post-lunch constitutional 😉

My understanding of the process means it gives us a chance to clear a spot on the 40 earlier in the off-season as the decision to non-tender isn't due for a couple months. If our intention was never to bring him back, might as well start that process early to give ourselves flexibility, right?

The article is a few weeks old but I haven't seen it shared anywhere so thought it worth mentioning: Kiley McDaniel at Fangraphs predicts his market is not what we think and that he'll sign at 4/$68M https://blogs.fangraphs.com/2020-top-50-free-agents/ FWIW, in that same article Kiley predicted Grandal at 4/$70M

Personally, I won't believe it until Peavy44 confirms it.

Isn't IncarceratedBob the know-nothing blowhard that cubs fans absolutely swear by? Probably sharing another person just throwing stuff at the wall, but that's what the off-season is until he actually signs somewhere.

Wasn't there a marketing slogan to that effect in the mid '90s or around the "good guys wear black" era, or am I making that up? Feel like there's definitely an opportunity to brand this as a young & fun team, in line with MLB's "let the kids play"

Brb, I'm going to go lurk in the Wheeler thread refreshing every minute and wait for Tony's eye emojis there too

Yeah, but is a friend of Machado? /gn Let's goooo! Hopefully the first of many and a great signal to the rest of the FA class that we mean business

Our seat at the table might be the upgraded to the adults table this year!

Yesterday Rosenthal had an article suggesting we might be able to get Benintendi if we take on Price or Eovaldi's contract with it.

With a trade, what value does Yolmer have? I'm not sure how his contract situation works with a trade - would we have to tender him a contract first before we trade him, or can we trade him first and let the other team pay the arb price? Does he even have value as a trade piece (not as a headliner but a sweetener)?