Cubs sign Josh Phegley!

Another team in Chicago keeping 3 catchers!

Phegley will be the back up for Caritini when Contreras is traded

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Welp I checked if Hulu was carrying Marquee, but nope. I wish you could buy this standalone.

https://getmarqueesportsnetwork.com/providers/

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Hawaii (fuck) You

Reddit MLB streams are usually pretty good for me when I want to watch an out of market game.

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The At&t streaming service has it. I am open to considering a change in live tv streaming. Hulu is decent. I like being able to watch on my ipad when I travel.

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Hawaii (fuck) You

Couldn't even sign Felix Hernandez to a minor league contract...

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Hell yeah!!!

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At best, he's nothing more than a 5th starter.

Coincidentally the Cubs need a 5th starter on a cheap deal so as not to rely solely on Alec Mills or Adbert Alzolay.

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At least the Cubs don't have an ingrate like Nolan Arenado on the team. Can you imagine if they extended Bryant for $300m and then he started bitching that they haven't made any other moves?

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Chatwood and Rea also factor in. I understand the concept but Hernandez is basically done at this point.

Would have still liked to get him in camp. If he sucks and you cut him before the season, he literally costs nothing.

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The failure of Kimbrel and his addition of bad money seems to have tightened the spending even more. Would love to hear Theo and Rickets conversations behind closed doors.

Don't worry, IMU. Caller Bob says that Alzolay will be better than Dylan Cease!

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I think Alzolay could be really good. But I wouldn't bet either way on his 2020 season and he is still likely on some sort of innings limit for the 2020 season. Maybe it should be a bullpen year for him.

Cease is going to be good. I no longer need to convince myself that Eloy and Cease won't be as good like I tried to do last year. I've accepted the L on the trade. I root for them both.

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The return of Rex Brothers!!!!



Cubs Made Several Previously Unreported Minors Deals, Including LHP Rex Brothers

https://www.cubsinsider.com/2020/01/22/ ... -brothers/

I've never hated an offseason more.

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Come on. They've signed approx 20 minor league free agent relief pitchers. 2 or 3 are certainly going to emerge from the pitch lab and become the next Rowan Wick! We are a shoe in to win at least 82 games!!! Go Cubs!!!

Yeah I get that 100%.

It's not even like they are trying to improve the 26 man roster. The(o) plan now seems to be, "Well we have our core. Let's run 'em out there 150 times this year and see what happens," which hasn't really worked out all that well the last two seasons.

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Especially after last year's speech about needing production instead of potential.

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And last year's "offense is broken" speech, which evidently Daniel Descalso was brought in to fix.

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I still think there is going to be a trade before the season.

But it has definitely been a strange offseason. I dont see how they can stand pat again after all the noise at end of last season about the short comings

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I'm almost surprised they didnt hang on to Russell for one more season...to see if all that potential gets realized.

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It was funny to hear Theo talk about the long-awaited Bryant ruling the other day...you could tell he wanted to tell the arbitrator to get his head out of his ass and make a decision, but he had to be diplomatic and say he respected the process, it's a lot of material, etc. Sounded like he knows the Cubs will win, but doesn't want to piss the guy off.

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With ATL signing Ozuna, that eliminates the top landing spot for Bryant in terms of young talent. They'll probably unload Q and his 10M now for prospects to get under the CBT. But hey, we have David Ross!

Go Cubs!!

Their new slogan should be: "Embrace .500".

In that case, Rae, Chatwood, Mills and Alzolay need to cover 2 rotation spots. Might as well get comfortable in 4th place.

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Does Ross speak Spanish? I believe Maddon did, at least rudimentarily...wonder what effect that might have, if any, on trades.

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Will the have more wins this year than the Cubs last year or the year before?

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