Lmao, Otani is in the conversation for being the best RHP on the planet right now.
Babolat pls.

My point is still valid, completely...

Cubs trade Chris Coghlan to the A's for Aaron Brooks.

Incoming Jake Arrieta 2.0

This post was edited by Schwarber on Feb 25 2016 11:14am

Fowler resigns with the Cubs!

Wonder if this puts Heyward back in RF and Soler to the 4th OF'r/LF'r.

This post was edited by Schwarber on Feb 25 2016 11:50am

Holy fuck man. The Cubs are so good.

Wonder what the lineup will even look like now.. prior to this I had Heyward, Zobrist at the top of the order

wonder if that pushes Heyward down to like 6th..

Fowler
Zobrist
Rizzo
Bryant
Schwarber/Soler
Heyward
Russell
Montero/Schwarber

damn..

Cheap as hell for Fowler only 8mil in 16, with a 9mil mutual option next year. He must have really wanted to come back to Chicago. What a steal.

This post was edited by Schwarber on Feb 25 2016 11:58am

wtf thought he was going to the Orioles?

Guess he changed his mind and wanted to be with the Cubs or that was never true at all; not sure.. but I love it as he signed even cheaper.

that lineup is insane


now theyre gonna trade soler+ for another top starter

This post was edited by Genetics on Feb 25 2016 12:02pm

http://www.camdenchat.com/2016/2/25/11113872/dexter-fowler-signs-cubs-not-orioles



Orioles shocked as Dexter Fowler re-signs with Cubs instead
By Mark Brown  @EatMoreEsskay on Feb 25, 2016, 12:53p 1

The Orioles had a deal with Dexter Fowler, and then suddenly they didn't. There was a Thursday afternoon surprise as Fowler re-signed with the Cubs instead of signing with the O's.


Chaos. Panic. Disorder. The Orioles aren't getting their leadoff hitter after all and right now nobody knows why. What we do know is that Dexter Fowler, who had apparently been in agreement with the Orioles on a three year contract, has now signed a one year contract with his former team, the Chicago Cubs, with a mutual option for a second year. The agreement was announced by the Cubs early Thursday afternoon.

It's a surprise because you simply don't see it often in baseball, where a deal is reported done, pending physical, with one team, and then they go and sign with a different team without having actually taken the physical. It's not something that happens often. Off the top of my head, I don't even know the last time something has happened quite like this.

For O's fans, there's going to be a somewhat understandable impulse to have a negative knee-jerk reaction. After all, the O's were fairly directly scorned here. In some ways this is not far short of professional wrestling theater, the heel turn move where a guy drops his signature move on his old ally out of nowhere, then rips off his shirt to reveal he's actually joined forces with the other side. The Orioles just got power-bombed through the Spanish announcer's table.

When the dust settles, I think what we'll probably find is that the shorter contract offered by the Cubs is what lured Fowler back to Chicago. If he feels his 2015 was a dip in performance that he can overcome, then it's better for him to have the choice to be a free agent again in a year's time in what everyone agrees will be a weak market. He's probably not wrong about that, and it's his choice to make, but what a weird situation.

I guess at least the Orioles will keep the #28 draft pick after all.