WestEddy

Or it isn't. As I've said, it's a strange, in-between number that wouldn't satisfy either party. I'm certainly not picking on you. I could see Robert shitting the bed the rest of the season and taking 2/20 with a player opt out after the 1st year, or 4/40 with opt outs after the first 3 years. Jeez, Bergman has what, 3/120? And he has an opt out to retry the market, because he's betting on himself, and he might just do better. The reason being that if Robert doesn't think he can be a guy who commands 10/300 +, then he probably isn't, and they can get that cheaper on year-to-year deals.

Maybe he just wants to keep the team together through the Cub series and is bluffing to see if he can get an extra DSL arm, or something.

I still think that Lenyn Sosa's a fallback in the 3B bat race.

Nonsense fan accounts:

Robert in "young with upside" tier of available OFs: Phillies trade deadline targets: How can this outfield get bolstered? | PhillyVoice

Teams in on Cease - Yanks, Red Sox, Blue Jays, Rays, Cubs, Mets.

I'm not even seeing the blogger generated 6 player deals, or ChiSoxFanMike writing columns about fake trades.

It's pretty dead out there. Not even much in the line of "Reds showing interest in....". Seeing as Houser, Tauchman, Robert and the BP arms are all fallback options (maybe except for Robert), I'm guessing there won't be any real noise until after the Cub carnival, maybe even into the Phillies' series.

Yeah, I think this is the "core" going forward. I agree with adding Vasil to the rotation. There's really no other position players on the horizon for OD 2026, and I don't think any of these trades bring in more than, maybe, one OF project to compete with Will Robertson and Dru Baker. Maybe Bryan Ramos gets a good long look in the back third this year. But I think this is their team. Maybe they add a more substantial OF and 1B, maybe a starter and closer, and viola! They're a 70 win team waiting for the 24/25/26 drafts to filter up through the minors and challenge some of these guys. I wouldn't hazard a guess at individual stats, but I don't think it's crazy to look for 70 wins in 26, and a .500 + team in 2027. As far a true "core", maybe the two Montys, Teel/Quero and a couple of Hagen Smith, Schultz, Grant Taylor, Tanner McDougal, Burke, Thorpe - and that's the team you build around for the back part of the roaring 20's. I think Vargas has an amazing ceiling and maybe could be a Mark Grace kind of 1B. Hits, fields, and has a little pop. Brooks Baldwin could be all sorts of things. Meidroth is nice and maybe hangs onto 2B, while one of Bonemer/Carlson move Monty to 3B or eventually 1B.

Civale has made about $15M in his career, so far. Any of us would retire this morning with that much in the bank, but that's not what these guys signed up for. Yes, I'm sure it's nice to be in a pennant race, but it's also nice to triple your insanely comfortable net worth over a winter. He's looking at about 11 more starts against MLB hitters to hone his arsenal and create a bit of a resume heading into free agency. If he stayed with the Brewers, he rots in the bullpen pitching garbage time, and there's not even a guarantee that he's on the major league roster September 1, let alone pitching in the playoffs.

I'd imagine that they're pretty busy with getting the draftees signed, assigned, and the TDL; nobody has time for anything. In three weeks, it wouldn't surprise me to have one of the assistants pick up the phone and more thoroughly answer a question somebody felt compelled to call the front office and ask.

Why? He gets to start every five days, work on his pitches and build his value for free agency.

Yeah. Jewel carries it.

Will Robertson with 2 HRs tonight in Charlotte, so we know he can at least see the baseball.

I don't think 4 runs is going to win this game. Especially because both teams have that many.

Or it was Hahn in a high pitched voice.

I think the White Sox and Dodgers got what they wanted. The Dodgers, in spades, and the Sox got the opportunity to develop a guy or two with talent. The Cardinals .... got what they paid for.

It's actually true. Talked to a lady named Nancy who went and asked somebody. She put me on hold to check to make sure Tauchman wasn't a free agent. It's pretty cool. They'll answer any questions you have, I guess, within reason.

Okay, they called me back. (They get calls like this all the time.) Flexen had free agency written into his contract last year. Tauchman doesn't, therefore, Tauchman will not be a free agent after this season. So, Mike Tauchman has an arbitration year to go in 2026 before he reaches true free agency.

No, that gets me put straight through to Reinsdorf. Dude babbles.