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If you add Segura, Robertson, McCutcheon and Realmuto AND sign Aaron Nola to a long-term contract extension...well, that's probably already the best offseason of any team not named the Padres. Harper is just the icing on the cake, and makes them the odds-on favorite for the NL East. Right now, it's a 3 team race with the Mets trying to "get a seat at the table" in terms of their quixotic series of moves this offseason.

Bleacher Report’s Lefkoe is now claiming that a deal has been agreed between Harper and Phillies, with a press conference scheduled for Wednesday. He claims that the deal will be worth around $330 million, which will be an MLB record but the exact length of the contract still remains unclear, with it expected to be either for eight or 10 years. https://www.ibtimes.com/mlb-rumors-bryce-harper-phillies-330m-deal-agreed-press-conference-scheduled-2767898 For some reason, the International Business Times is picking up that story from hours ago about the 8-10 years and $330 million and WED press conference.

Ali and Regina King the first two big Oscars of the Night, for supporting categories. Btw, for those of you who haven't seen it, the Japanese film Shoplifters (one of the five nominees) is excellent. That director has 3 other similar films in his filmography, just started watching Nobody Knows, the story of a single mother in Osaka who brought 2 of her 4 kids (all from different fathers) into her apartment in a suitcase because there was only supposed to be one (was hiding them), and wouldn't let them go outside or go to school...then basically abandoned them for a man to fend by themselves. Kind of the other side of Japan we never see...much like poverty in America.

Well, worst case scenario, we're still somewhere between 6th (BA) and 13th (Law)...maybe BP and Fangraphs have them higher, MLB Pipeline, etc. Hard to keep track of all the different rankings these days. If we get something from Flores or Lambert, that would be a huge boost, because most of us are already counting out Hansen. Dunning's the big wild card, he SEEMS like he should definitely be a solid 4/5 starter.

Where did teorey23 or whatever his name was go?

The best pitching staff in baseball ended in May of 2006 when Contreras got hurt in Cincy. Then we came back at the end of the decade with Floyd/Danks...but that 2008 season was just as much about Alexei and Quentin breaking out as stellar pitching. I'd say we JUST got by with the additions of Linebrink and Dotel, enough to barely hold on coming down the stretch when everything seemed to be falling apart until that last week.

Wow...I was actually mentioned on Twitter, he sincerely made my day, lol.

It all happened at a 2 hour lunch that day...that's been reported out officially by the SD Union Tribune writers.

Other than Rabbit, who's more making "bemused" tweets and not staking out a position about Harper going to the White Sox, the wall of insiders has pretty much gone into hiding, with 2-3 exceptions who have been willing to take it on the chin, not that they controlled anything that has transpired. They're being a lot more honest/transparent than WSD and his company/PR shtick to turn around and defend their not spending.

The market is about as limited as it was for James Shields last year....when you consider his position, his lifetime 740 OPS, his splits and the fact that he was terrible the 2nd half of last year. Too bad the Padres already have invested $144 million into Hosmer, or we might find a taker, since he already spent four years of his career there in SD.

Who's that infielder we had from Oklahoma State about 5-6 years ago that Hawk was always raving about? Chance or Chase was his name? I think he played 3B/1B, never really made it past AA successfully.

The Bulls? They're actually on a hot streak for them, who are you referring to? Oh, Sullivan. This has been the year of media bashing, on multiple levels. Some is well-deserved, some borderline unconstitutional.

It's going to be a LONG year. I'm not sure where the realistic compromise is, though...between the "two sides" in this argument about management/ownership. I guess we can just try to enjoy the minor league season again as much as possible, and the Jimenez and hopefully Cease debuts. You're right about one thing, in the sense that complaining/venting/whining about anything isn't going to change the way this ownership group operates. That said, if more and more season ticket holders like Dick Allen completely abandon this franchise, then they're eventually going to have no choice but to take notice, unlike the Bulls, who seemingly have a 30 year grace period.

Bogaerts is the other obvious one on that side of the infield...Goldschmidt, DH types like Martinez and Khris Davis if he doesn't extend with the A's.

37-39 is more likely...it was actually a bit surprising we didn't bring in Ichiro for marketing purposes there are the end of his career.

Proof is in the pudding, as they say.

Since he didn’t play, probably didn’t miss much. That and the weather was pretty atypically bad and finally broke today.

Those OF lineups before April 12th will be absolutely brutal...and that was the case before any injuries. But picking up Jones, CarGo or Span would most assuredly clinch their annual “winning of the offseason,” right?

Rutherford with 3 hits now...although the Pads’ announcers have him down for 4/4. They also keep bringing up how much Alonso and Jay helped in recruiting Manny to the Padres’ Organization. White Sox 0-3 now, game ovah. Conclusion: Chase Rutherford is our Bryce Harper, or at least Ryan Sweeney.

Well, getting rid of Encarnacion, Gomes, Brantley and Chisenhall, not to mention Miller and Allen...has helped, too.

The Phillies haven’t had six consecutive losing seasons....and the worst cumulative record in baseball over that time period. And referring to “mired in mediocrity,” we have this: For 1901-2018, the White Sox have an overall record of 9211-9126 (a 0.502 winning 'percentage').[3]

At least they tried 3-4 times...at least that’s the number of times they have met, plus informal meeting in Vegas at the Winter Meetings.

And locked in Nola long-term...

Frare has impressed Tony Gwynn’s son.

Ironically, he also came over from the Orioles...either waiver wire or Rule V. Looks like he became a minor league free agent in December.