Oso planning to go pro
Trade the best slider and the best tagger in the history of baseball?Insanity! Especially with my sources saying he also is top 3 in scratchin' and top 5 in spittin'!!
I'd do it if I was the Mets, even if Baez in reality was only the second or third best tagger.
In a heartbeat.
Baez is not moving. If any of the cubs everyday players are being shipped his name is Russell. (or Kyle)
James Shields has 10 quality starts in his last 13, and has pitched into the 7th inning in 9 of them. Joakim Soria has given up 2 runs (earned or otherwise) since the beginning of June, and they were in the same outing. During that stretch he is K-ing just under 13/9. BAA of .178 and a WHIP of .93 He is sporting an OPS against him of .428. Not too shabby. These 2 are probably the Sox best 2 trade chips, assuming Abreu stays on South Side.Oh, and with the Nats under .500 and 7 games out, I wonder if they would entertain the notion of trading Harper...
I'll stick with my opinion on Gold. He'll be in foul trouble within the first eight minutes.
Good call.
Glad David Stearns is a Scooper and took my sales pitch to heart. I like the deal from the Sox side as well. Medeiros seems to have good stuff with control issues, which falls right into the Sox strength for player development.
TAMUI do know, Newsie is right on you knowing ball.
Sounds like the Cubs are closing in on a deal for Cole Hamels. Word is the Cubs will pay $4 million of the $14.2 owed to him this year and the buyout of next year along with some low level prospects.His stats away from home are pretty good but the same thing was true of Tyler Chatwood.Not a huge move but it's cheap and keeps them under the luxury tax. Also he can't be worse than Chatwood has been.
Obviously Hamels has been bad this year but he was really good in 2016. It's worth a shot to see if he has anything left, especially if they're giving up marginal prospects and Darvish is still going to be out a while. You never know, Verlander had an ERA near 4 before he was traded. Perhaps a trade to a contender will rejuvenate Hamels as well (obviously not expecting Verlander-like dominance, just a decent step up from his current level of Chatwood-like ineffectiveness).
Could you please explain that to Lucas Giolito and Carson Fullmer?
Well that was an exciting ending to the Cubs game.
Burnes, Jeffress, Hader, Soria, and Knebel. Not sure I've ever seen a better bullpen in Milwaukee.
Was there today - great comeback and what a 9th inning. I hope Bote isn't moved because he has the potential to be a Swiss Army knife once Zobrist is done. I like the Chatwood signing but it's close to unsustainable at this point. He's going to have to reset this offseason.
What’s to like about it?
Cole Hamels to Cubs