Yeah, Lincecum is being DFA tomorrow
And the Astros call up Alex Bregman.
Watching Dodgers-Cardinals tonight. Mike Mayers gets his first start in the majors and with some bad luck, gives up 6 runs in the first inning. I’m a Dodgers fan but I feel sorry for the guy. Hopefully he’ll get some more starts in the majors and some wins.
Aroldis Chapman appears to be heading to the Cubs.
I can’t access sports sites at work. What will the Yankees get in return?
Reports say they’d get top shortstop prospect Gleyber Torres, plus other unnamed pieces.
What the hell? Didi is more than adequate at short. As much as I like Texiera, he’s become too injury-prone. Give me a 1B prospect and maybe a long/relief or starter.
They may be thinking of Torres as the 3B of the future. He’s rated pretty highly in most tools, with the exception of power. They just traded Vogelbach to the Mariners. He was blocked by Anthony Rizzo at 1B, but he’d rake as a DH. Torres was blocked in Chicago with Baez/Zobrist/Bryant/Russell all in the mix for the infielders of the future.
According to rotoworld, part of the hold up is that the Cubs want to work out an extension with Chapman. If that doesn’t happen, then I expect that the Cubs won’t include nearly as much talent. Why pay a king’s ransom for a 2-month rental?
Yes if he can play 3B that would make some sense. It would be frustrating to be an infield prospect with the Cubs, that’s a tough act to break into.
If a MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL TEAM is giving you a jersey to wear so you can play for them, I don’t care if it has fucking Hello Kitty on it, you put it on and go out there and play ball. Maybe things have been brewing for awhile, but the employees don’t pick the uniforms. If you cashed your paycheck, do your goddamn job.
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What the hell? Didi is more than adequate at short. As much as I like Texiera, he’s become too injury-prone. Give me a 1B prospect and maybe a long/relief or starter.
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Torres is 19 years old and at high A ball, so it’s not like they’re pushing Gregorius out now, and you’re right, they’d be stupid to; Gregorius is a decent ballplayer. The Yankees are facing a rebuilding period, so getting a Grade A prospect was the key here;* it doesn’t really matter what position the prospect plays *unless you need them to play right now, which they don’t. By the time Torres is ready to help the Yankees win, which will be 2018 at the earliest, who the hell knows what they will need or not need. Once Torres is actually knowing on the door then you can decide what to do. Maybe he plays third base; Chase Headley isn’t getting any younger or any better. Maybe Starlin Castro won’t work out at second. Maybe someone makes the Yankees an offer they cannot refuse for Torres or Gregorius and they get a sweet MLB-ready hitter for first base.
Incidentally, I love Torres. He is unpolished to some extent but a very precocious hitter, showing solid contact at a very young age, and his power is developing.
The fact that he didn’t start crying when Gonzalez hit that Grand Slam speaks well of his character. 
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Okay four players for a free agent I can get behind that. The Yankees definitely have a surplus of closers.
Toronto DFAs Drew Storen.
I cannot really explain what happened to Storen except that he just pitched really badly. There was never any indication he was hurt. He didn’t get Steve Blass Disease. He’s not old. He’d just throw really fat meatballs that got hammered.
The narrative now is that “it still wasn’t a bad trade because it allowed Sanchez to enter the rotation and Saunders to play full-time.” This is a ridiculous argument, of course. The Jays traded a player with some value (Revere) for somebody who wound up having no value (although Revere isn’t exactly tearing up the league either). I liked the trade at the time, as Toronto traded from a position of strength to fill a position of weakness, but in the end it can’t be argued that the trade ended up working out.
Good description of the Giants’ Jeff Samardzija
There needs to be a Chris Sale bobblehead doll, complete with cutup jersey and knife.
Indeed, the trade made perfect sense knowing what the two teams knew at the time. Toronto didn’t need Ben Revere - his replacement was Michael Saunders, and I’m sure we’re all glad he was given a full time job - and Washington did need him. It has failed for both. Revere has played atrociously for Washington.
I mean, one could argue that the trade had the fortunate side effect of allowing Saunders to play. But if you had known Storen was going to suck, obviously, you would have traded Revere for something of value. Turning perceived value into no value can’t be a good trade; it’s about opportunity cost. I don’t know that they would have gotten much, but they could have gotten something worth more than Drew Storen.
Who knew? Hopefully Storen can turn it around somewhere else. As to Ben Revere, he might need to be released, too. I am not sure why Washington keeps running him out there.