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Re: Cubs in '20
« Reply #990 on: December 03, 2019, 03:19:08 pm »

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Re: Cubs in '20
« Reply #991 on: December 03, 2019, 03:57:01 pm »
Now I just got one of those Bleacher Report alerts about us wanting to keep Castellanos.

If we resign Castellanos then IMO Schwarber is gone.

What's it gonna cost to keep him?

100 million?

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Re: Cubs in '20
« Reply #992 on: December 03, 2019, 04:16:35 pm »
Castellanos and Schwarber is certainly an either/or proposition for me. But if it costs a hundred million Castellanos won’t be back whether we trade Schwarber or not.

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Re: Cubs in '20
« Reply #993 on: December 03, 2019, 04:26:42 pm »
Bleacher Nation is passing on speculation that the National League might adopt the designated hitter in the next collective bargaining agreement and the Cubs might be interested in keeping Castellanos around in case that happens in 2022.

It's not unusual for garbage like this to show up when there is no other offseason news to report about.

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Re: Cubs in '20
« Reply #994 on: December 03, 2019, 04:28:21 pm »
Jon Morosi reported this.

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Re: Cubs in '20
« Reply #995 on: December 03, 2019, 04:33:07 pm »
I'm still convinced that Cubs fans are really overestimating the size of Castellanos' contract. Players have been getting paid more than expected so far, so I wouldn't be surprised at this point if he got something like 4 years, $56 million. But he's not getting close to $100 million.
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Re: Cubs in '20
« Reply #996 on: December 03, 2019, 04:36:43 pm »
Bleacher Nation is passing on speculation that the National League might adopt the designated hitter in the next collective bargaining agreement and the Cubs might be interested in keeping Castellanos around in case that happens in 2022.

It's not unusual for garbage like this to show up when there is no other offseason news to report about.

So we’d be taking the 20 and 21 seasons off?

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Re: Cubs in '20
« Reply #997 on: December 03, 2019, 04:58:50 pm »
So we’d be taking the 19, 20 and 21 seasons off?

Fixed that for you.

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Re: Cubs in '20
« Reply #998 on: December 03, 2019, 05:48:26 pm »
Jon Morosi reported this.

Correct

There is also this from Bleacher Nation
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BUT, if you’re still among the hopeful, Ken Rosenthal throws you a bone this morning in the form of a Designated Hitter conversation: “A long-term deal [for Castellanos] from a National League team might even make sense, if a club is willing to bank on the possibility that the NL will adopt the DH in the next collective-bargaining agreement. The current CBA expires on Dec. 1, 2021, meaning that Castellanos might only need to play the outfield for two seasons.”

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Re: Cubs in '20
« Reply #999 on: December 03, 2019, 06:26:27 pm »
DH in the NL definitely will be a goal for the Union in the next CBA talks. Indeed, union and MLB already have had preliminary discussions about it last off-season (see link below) but all the big negotiating stuff has been put off to later.

So, stands to reason could be a factor in NL clubs interest in Castellanos beyond 2021.

I really don’t see Cubs shelling out significant money for Castellanos but notable that Cubs still interested in bringing him back.

I thought we had “inside info” from a regular poster here that Cubs would not be pursuing Castellanos. Perhaps that was wrong?

https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/mlb-rule-changes-the-universal-dh-makes-sense-and-its-time-for-the-national-league-to-make-the-switch/

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Re: Cubs in '20
« Reply #1000 on: December 03, 2019, 07:03:19 pm »
Anyone with "inside info" on a message board is usually an attention seeking liar.

They can throw anything against the wall and if it sticks they look like Ken Rosenthal and if it doesnt they can always say "things change".

The inside info I gave was pecker sizes and who was a SOB and who wasnt.
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Re: Cubs in '20
« Reply #1001 on: December 03, 2019, 07:04:37 pm »
I thought we had “inside info” from a regular poster here that Cubs would not be pursuing Castellanos. Perhaps that was wrong?

I’m pretty sure the poster later clarified that the Cubs weren’t pursuing at the price he initially asked for (I think it was 4 years, $80 million at the time).

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Re: Cubs in '20
« Reply #1002 on: December 03, 2019, 07:05:50 pm »
Jeff Passan says the Cubs are "aggressive" and "manic" to make trades.

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Re: Cubs in '20
« Reply #1003 on: December 03, 2019, 08:35:55 pm »
I’m pretty sure the poster later clarified that the Cubs weren’t pursuing at the price he initially asked for (I think it was 4 years, $80 million at the time).

That’s called:  negotiating.

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Re: Cubs in '20
« Reply #1004 on: December 03, 2019, 08:43:27 pm »
Situations are almost always fluid...that should go without saying...