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Re: Hot Stove
By: CurtOne Date: December 3, 2023, 2:49 pm
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At the convention he can whine about coming in second on Ohtani,
Yamamoto, Bellinger, and how Bote and Smiley was too much for
Soto or Alphonso.
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Re: Hot Stove
By: Ron Date: December 3, 2023, 3:16 pm
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So is there a cynicism or dump on Hoyer contest of which I am
unaware?
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Re: Hot Stove
By: Reb Date: December 3, 2023, 3:38 pm
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[quote author=Robb link=topic=630.msg483325#msg483325
date=1701634635]
I wish he would just pick the Dodgers and be done with it. They
were always his pick all along and all this noise is just to
sweeten his eventual deal with them. This is probably why Jed
jumped in with such gusto. No real danger of having to actually
write that check.
[/quote]
If there’s a “danger” that Cubs might have to pay Ohtani,
perhaps best way to avoid that danger is not to be making an
offer that he could accept.
Yeah, Ohtani probably goes to Dodgers but, if you want the
player, you take your good faith shot at it. That’s what is
happening. Now it’s up to Ohtani.
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Re: Hot Stove
By: CurtOne Date: December 3, 2023, 3:43 pm
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[quote author=Ron link=topic=630.msg483330#msg483330
date=1701638199]
So is there a cynicism or dump on Hoyer contest of which I am
unaware?
[/quote]just for fun, yes
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Re: Hot Stove
By: Deeg Date: December 3, 2023, 4:10 pm
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If Ohtani really drags this out till almost Christmas like
Nightengale says, I don’t see how you can wait around knowing
he’s likely going to the Dodgers. Other names are going to
start coming off the board fast and furious.
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Re: Hot Stove
By: Reb Date: December 3, 2023, 4:54 pm
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[quote author=Deeg link=topic=630.msg483334#msg483334
date=1701641420]
If Ohtani really drags this out till almost Christmas like
Nightengale says…..
[/quote]
What Nightengale said is that Ohtani signing is not imminent and
could be an unknown time between the winter meetings and before
Christmas holidays at the latest. Not necessarily “til almost
Christmas”— could be well before that, just not imminently.
Nightengale: “Give it a week, certainly before the Christmas
holidays, but not quite yet.”
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Re: Hot Stove
By: CUBluejays Date: December 4, 2023, 1:51 pm
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Cody Delmendo
@Cody_CHGO
19m
Chatter around this place is things with the Cubs are slow.
Carter is here, Jed is out somewhere perhaps cooking as the kids
say but hey I realized Ken Rosenthal is shorter than I expected
and they finally gave me a credential so who says I’m not a
journalist
Maybe Jed is in LA.
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Re: Hot Stove
By: Deeg Date: December 4, 2023, 6:58 pm
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Seems like the Ohtani thing has really frozen the top end of the
market.
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Re: Hot Stove
By: CurtOne Date: December 4, 2023, 7:21 pm
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Maybe Jed is in LA. Doing the Homes of the Stars tour.
"There's a meeting where?"
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Re: Hot Stove
By: craig Date: December 4, 2023, 7:41 pm
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[quote author=Deeg link=topic=630.msg483389#msg483389
date=1701737885]
Seems like the Ohtani thing has really frozen the top end of the
market.
[/quote]
Yeah, how could it not be? Kind of a bummer. Ohtani teams
can't sign other big tickets until he says no. And other
big-tickets can't sign until Ohtani losers have a chance to bid
them up.
Is is actually slower than usual? I can't remember. Last year,
Correa didn't sign with Mets till 12/21, Swanson 12/21. Turner
was first, but only like Thursday midnight of winter meetings,
right? I recall early in winter-meetings week "source" saying
he'd not be surprised if the Cubs might even sign two of the
SS's, and stuff like that. Have the Cubs signed anybody
significant at winter meetings since Heyward and Zobrist? Seems
like they always just come out with no real moves, just saying
"we had lots of productive conversations".
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