Bleacher Bums Forum

Speaking of lefties and splits, any interest in Tony Watson?  Obviously he'd cost more than Duensing, but he is a guy whose lefty splits are more significant, for better or for worse. 

I wonder what the Cubs are going to do about the backup catcher spot.  Will they go with a veteran and let Caratini play every day at Iowa?  Or will they go with Caratini and sign some veteran ham-n-egger to stash at Iowa?

Patrick Corbin was mentioned in a few rumors during the meetings--the Yankees apparently were involved. I wonder if he could be a relatively cheap target if the Cubs can't sign Cobb and don't want to give up what it would take to get someone like Salazar or Duffy. He has only one year until free agency, so I don't know if the Diamondbacks could demand anyone off the major league roster.

The Theocracy has done a nice job of plugging holes and setting things up so that they should only need to make another move or two to be in good shape.  Wade Davis plus a starter?

If we get Davis, do we need Reed?

If we're talking about spending money on Patrick F. Corbin, I'd rather spend that on Davis/Reed and use an internal rotation option.

Agreed.

If Cobb really wants $20 million per as is being reported, that's a hard pass for me.

What did you think he was going to ask for? They just gave a reliever with a short track record and lots of injury issues $11.5 per.

Problem is, none of those relievers have big contracts so Jeter has no real incentive to deal them.