offseason 2015-16

@Ken_Rosenthal
Sources: #Cubs talking to #Yankees about trade that would send Starlin Castro to NYY

The Twins are going to sign Nathan, who will miraculously rebound and continue to dominate the Tigers, huh?

zobrist to cubs, four years

dbacks are MAKING MOVES (/vigorously pelvic thrusting)

that seems like a pretty good deal for both teams

jeezus so it's Herrera or Murphy at 2b for the Mets next year i guess

you can probably have neil walker

@BenLindbergh 16m
Writing up my contrarian take on why trading his top prospect for a starter with a lousy W-L record makes Dave Stewart the ultimate saber GM

wow @ the return for Miller

I still have trouble believing that somebody let Dave Stewart be a GM.

i can only guess that they put that package together for fernandez, didn't get him, and decided 'who's the next available starter?'

re Dusty's brothers-and-Latinos assertion, beyond his domestic-violence gaffe

@joe_sheehan
Per Fangraphs' SPD calculation, nine of the top 20 fastest players in MLB last year were white. (min. 100 PA) Eleven weren't.

Mets-Bucs talk

http://espn.go.com/blog/new-york/mets/post/_/id/113657/mets-pirates-talking-swap-involving-neil-walker-jon-niese

idgi. niese not only sucks, he's making just as much as walker

the pirates have been pretty good with taking scrap heap pitchers and turning them into good starters

also niese was bad last year but for his career he's been pretty decent

not that i quite understand why the pirates were so eager to get rid of neil walker (defense im assuming?)

i don't think his defense was particularly bad and i don't think his offense was particularly good. maybe they're lining up for someone else? they also have josh harrison who could fill in

walker's in his last year of arbitration, expected to make around $9m, and then want more in free agency than the pirates would be willing to pay. i can understand trading him, but he's pretty good, and i'd rather have one year of him than one year of niese at the same price

niese may benefit from ray searage and shifting and such, but the pirates now basically have half an infield -- half of which may not recover from chris coughlan's slide until late spring

i suppose the trade may serve the greater good to mankind if it makes the mets bring back bartolo

praise be, no Murphy

Kendrick and Murphy are kinda fucked in this market..

well i can't imagine them getting big years, but if chase utley can get a deal . . .

plus the dbacks are in win-now mode because dave stewart's gut says so. they've already lost their next first-round pick; might as well sign murph too

sweet dreams are made of theeese

Asdrubal!

http://espn.go.com/blog/new-york/mets/post/_/id/113694/mets-close-to-signing-infielder-asdrubal-cabrera

Infield defense is clearly the Mets' shore-up... maybe with an outfielder to come as well.

Lawrie to White Sox for pair of pitching prospects

http://www.mlbdailydish.com/2015/12/9/9882896/athletics-trade-brett-lawrie-white-sox

well it appears that Walker and Cabrera are both below-avg defenders, so no paradigm shift after all

@joe_sheehan
Asdrubal Cabrera and Michael Cuddyer will make almost $20 million in 2016. #mets

walker's not that bad a defender. and anecdotally he makes better decisions than murph, which isn't saying much but still

Tanner of the Bad News Bears made better decisions than DM

‏@Ken_Rosenthal 28m
Source: Sipp with #Astros is three years, $18M.

padres made two rule 5 picks, then traded for two others. strange

cardinals signed jonathan broxton to a two-year deal . . . with a full no-trade clause

...

but why

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CV5HT8aWUAAhHUj.png

lol

hehe

The Orioles have pulled back their free-agent offer to Chris Davis for nearly $150 million as the team tries to go about its business, with or without the slugger, a source told ESPN.

i don't think i see headlines like that nearly enough: "Team says 'Fuck it.'"

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CV9rDScUYAA05kq.jpg

yesssssss

sounds like J-Hey is a Small Bear

my lord, the Cards fans moaning on twitter.

it's like they're introducing their new creation just before they activate it

lol. Greink-bot is now ready for your voice activated queries.

this was posted on the cardinals SB blog the other day, imagining the worst-case scenario of heyward joining the cubs:

http://i.imgur.com/R0Qg19w.png

good lord

http://twiki.org/p/pub/TWiki/SmiliesPlugin/love.gif

it is an impressive line-up. great time to be a cubs fan

@BestFansStLouis running wild

Jon Morosi ‏@jonmorosi 8m8 minutes ago

#Cubs have agreed to terms with Jason Heyward, multiple sources say, and are not done yet. They are trying to trade for a starting pitcher.

cld still be fun in store for small bears