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High Heat from the Brewers board is claiming the Cubs have the high offer on the table for Darvish FWIW.

I'm guessing not much.

High Heat from the Brewers board is claiming the Cubs have the high offer on the table for Darvish FWIW.

At this point, I think that HighHeat guy is basically another ABTY or BigBird. He probably has some contact, but that contact is something like a sales guy with the Brewers who has lunch once or twice a month with the assistant GM's assistant. He was definitive on the Cubs signing Darvish and the Brewers being out a week ago, and now he thinks the Brewers have a 40% chance of signing Darvish. He was similarly definitive on Santana being traded last weekend, and Santana is still with the Brewers. He called a Yelich deal, but he never really said anything but the deal was likely and that it would take Brinson+ (Brison+ was the obvious package).

BlueJay makes the pertinent point.  Short of Darvish or his agent, there is no source that could possibly know who he is going to sign with, or even who is the current high bidder.  Even if Epstein (or any GM) WAS a source, all he could tell you for sure is that he is very interested, and that he has or has not an offer on the table.

Or nobody has met his price/years yet.  I think there is a good shot that is the only reason he hasn't signed anywhere yet.

The Dodgers to unload enough money are going to have to hurt the team by giving up quality players or premium prospects to unload Kemp. 

Or nobody has met his price/years yet.  I think there is a good shot that is the only reason he hasn't signed anywhere yet....

Yes.  Even so, not sure that's very meaningful.  Every agent's "price" is the best he can get. 
*Maybe originally they figured Scherzer ($210/7) would be good price/years to set.  It's not like he's going to sit out the year if he doesn't get that price.
*Or maybe they anticipated a realistic price of $130/5 guaranteed ($150/6 if 6th year vests), and Theo made that offer in December.  Wouldn't the agent still sit on it and allow the chance for somebody else go higher, or for Theo get antsy and bump it to $136/5 ($156/6 vesting year 6)? 

Don't imagine it's quite like a bag of cinnamon hearts that has a list price of $1.75, and my wife either does or doesn't add it to the shopping cart.  Whatever gets offered, the agent will end up taking the best; and whatever the best may be in December or now, he can wait in hopes of getting variably more. 

It would be best to sign Cobb before Darvish goes elsewhere though and Cobb becomes the "it" guy on the market.