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It’s going to be another two-sets-of-Bullets kind of day …
Don’t Expect Any Garza-Reds Drama Tonight and Other Bullets
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- Cubs “Have Checked In” on Recovering, But Dominant Free-Agent Reliever Brooks Raley
- IFA Week and the Cubs Class, Festa and Good Weird, More Funds, Woodruff, and Other Cubs Bullets
- Reading Roki Sasaki Tea Leaves: Did an International Prospect Change Just Spill the Beans?
- Farewell, Jorge Lopez – He’s Signing with the Nationals
- Thinking Through the Cubs’ Moves, Roles and Funds, Rea, Hoffman, and Other Cubs Bullets
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Cubs “Have Checked In” on Recovering, But Dominant Free-Agent Reliever Brooks Raley
Here's an interesting new rumor for Sunday morning. According to Ken Rosenthal at The Athletic, the Chicago Cubs are one of the teams who've checked in on free-agent left-handed reliever Brooks Raley - he of a 2.58 ERA over his...
Jan 12, 2025
IFA Week and the Cubs Class, Festa and Good Weird, More Funds, Woodruff, and Other Cubs Bullets
Thoughts are still with the folks out west, dealing with the terrible wildfires. Scary to hear that more winds are coming once, which could exacerbate things again. Hopefully there will be enough respite soon to get these under control. The...
Jan 12, 2025
Reading Roki Sasaki Tea Leaves: Did an International Prospect Change Just Spill the Beans?
Everyone is understandably looking for tea leaves in the Roki Sasaki sweepstakes, and one of the most obvious ones we all pointed out to anticipate was the breaking of handshake deals with International Free Agent signings. If a team started...
Jan 12, 2025
Farewell, Jorge Lopez – He’s Signing with the Nationals
By the time the Cubs had added Colin Rea, or even earlier with the Eli Morgan trade or the Cody Poteet acquisition or the Matt Festa claim or the Caleb Thielbar signing or some combination of those plus the many...
Jan 11, 2025
Thinking Through the Cubs’ Moves, Roles and Funds, Rea, Hoffman, and Other Cubs Bullets
I believe I have shoveled more in the last week than I did all winter before this week, plus last winter, combined. I don't really hate it THAT much, at least now that I have a much better back situation,...
Jan 11, 2025
Blue Jays Land Jeff Hoffman on a Three-Year Deal
This would've been a very good signing for the Chicago Cubs. Sensibly-priced given the talent and market, and a pretty critical need. But the Cubs of the current front office simply DO NOT give out reliever contracts like this: OFFICIAL:...
Jan 10, 2025
Cubs Signing Old Friend and Former Brewers Starter Colin Rea
The Cubs have made a pitching addition today, though it's probably not among the names you had on your radar for a significant move. It's old friend Colin Rea: Free agent right-hander Colin Rea and the #Cubs have agreed to...
Jan 10, 2025
The Roki Sasaki Vibes Ain’t Great, Babe
To be clear, the vibes on the Chicago Cubs landing Roki Sasaki should never have been particularly high to begin with, and I've done my best to keep folks' hopes in check from the jump. The rumors on the Dodgers...
Jan 10, 2025
Lukewarm Stove: Short-Term for Both Bregman and Alonso? Does Cabrera Make Sense for Cubs? More
MLB RUMORS — Well, we're officially in a holding pattern. The big-time free-agent relievers are still standing by for Tanner Scott to set the market (Andrew Kittredge notwithstanding). Pete Alonso and Alex Bregman are in no man's land and are...
Jan 10, 2025
The Whole Tucker Thing, Mastrobuoni’s DFA, Franklin on the Mound, and Other Cubs Bullets
'Conclave' was good. I don't have much more to say than that, especially since I'm way late on watching it, and also because I don't know much about how realistic it is. Just an interesting, well-paced story to enjoy. The...
Jan 10, 2025
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