Weekend Catch-Up: Smooth Plays, Incredible Pitching, Soler Returns, and a Sweep

Within a FIVE-MINUTE SPAN, multiple reports dropped all communicating more or less the same thing: the Yankees and Padres have hit a wall in their long-reported and long-active Juan Soto trade talks. The trio of reports: https://twitter.com/JonHeyman/status/1730714790102806825 https://twitter.com/martinonyc/status/1730715967234179146 https://twitter.com/martinonyc/status/1730716683709419917 https://twitter.com/TheAthletic/status/1730716395976151309...

In addition to Jeff Passan this morning listing the likely final teams on Shohei Ohtani as the Cubs, Dodgers, Blue Jays, and Angels - with the Giants an unknown - you can add two more who seem to be hearing...

While we wait for Shohei Ohtani to make his decision, and Yoshinobu Yamamoto to sign shortly thereafter, perhaps the Cubs could surprise the industry and sign ... left-handed starting pitcher Jordan Montgomery? That's new. The rumor in question isn't quite...

Shohei Ohtani continues to be the central focus of much of the baseball world - it certainly takes up 95% of my brain - but he is not the only top free agent out there this offseason. I keep thinking...

The peppermint cookie fudge ice cream at Trader Joe's. My god. If you like those flavor combos, I could not possibly recommend this ice cream more furiously. I will be stocking up the freezer. A very interesting way to look...

I gotta tell you, this one is catching me by surprise. While we've long known the Cubs have been interested in signing 25-year-old Japanese Ace Yoshinobu Yamamoto, the momentum sure seemed to swing away from them lately (especially now that...

The Winter Meetings were never NECESSARILY going to be the Shohei Ohtani cut-off, but it sure has seemed like a logical dividing line. It's big and splashy, which MLB would love, but it's also a time when involved teams (and...

Even as I read that headline, I realize that it kinda depends on your definition of the word "imminent." For me, I think of that - in a baseball transaction context - as something that's truly just about to go...

It's the Holiday season, which means it's time to do some shopping! It's a great time to be a Chicago Cubs fan, so why not get the North Sider in your life what they really want for the Holidays: Cubs...

A few weeks ago, I shared some thoughts on why the "concerns" about Cody Bellinger's free agency - the injury history, the down years, the poor batted ball metrics - either were, or were not, real and significant concerns going...