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They dumped a lot of money into him. Sadly it sounds like a lot of money dumped onto a kid, and who knows who is around him and accessing it kind of deal. Pure speculation, but you hear horror stories about the IFA kids. And , they are kids.Former Chicago Cubs prospect sought by police in Dominican Republic in connection with a shooting death
Dominican Republic national police are searching for a former Chicago Cubs minor-leaguer in connection with a homicide. The Cubs signed outfielder Josefrailin Alcántara as an international amateur free agent in January 2022 for a reported $500,000. Alcántara, 18, is now wanted in a shooting...
Didn’t know or hear much about this guy
That’s because he was a teenager signed in Jan 2022 that was working out at the international baseball complex and hadn’t come stateside yet. Cubs apparently referred to him as a “former minor leaguer”, so they either cut him over this or had released him prior.Former Chicago Cubs prospect sought by police in Dominican Republic in connection with a shooting death
Dominican Republic national police are searching for a former Chicago Cubs minor-leaguer in connection with a homicide. The Cubs signed outfielder Josefrailin Alcántara as an international amateur free agent in January 2022 for a reported $500,000. Alcántara, 18, is now wanted in a shooting...
Didn’t know or hear much about this guy
Great team win tonight. Twitter had the Cubs down 87 to -6 based on just the starting lineup, but the guys people complained the most about did get on base 6 times in 17 PAs, so I’ll take it.
I did not know that Joel Murray was the voice of Chester the Cheetah for 10 years until I looked him up. He was also in Shakes the Clown before a decent TV career.
That’s how I read it, and they did overlap. Here’s a piece from 2017:
Rucker? Nah. Let’s all piss on the grave of Nick Madrigal.
I like Nick, but he’s not a fit for this team. I hope he gets his bat cooking at Iowa and the Cubs can ultimately pair him with a low-minors arm for a bullpen piece at some point. There’s absolutely a place for Nicky 2-strikes in the majors somewhere, just not on this roster.
It was always going to be a position player going down because the Cubs were only carrying 12 pitchers. Hendricks brings them back to the 13 max. It will be fascinating when Heuer comes back in about a week, though - there’s a 40-man spot to clear. Will they DFA someone on the active roster? Even if Boxberger winds up needing the 60-day IL, there would still be the question of who to send down. Rucker likely is at risk.
Good thing they kept Rucker. Need that 8th bullpen guy to throw the other team batting practice. Maybe Barnhart can be their 8th bullpen arm; he looks better than some of our pitchers, and it might make up for his .189 BA.
I’m fine with DFAing Barnhart by 7/4 if Amaya performs in Des Moines. He gives you nothing offensively and he isn’t in the long term plans.
I sure as hell hope he can turn it around. Otherwise, worse than eating up $17M/yr would be him taking up space in the rotation and not giving our up-and-comers a chance. Even now I'd rather have Wes taking the mound every 5th game and maybe going through some growing pains; he obviously has Major League stuff, and his numbers wouldn't be any worse than Taillon's. It would help more with his development than staying at the AAA level IMHO. Now we have Brown ready to be in the bigs this year, with Wicks and perhaps others ready to be starting in the bigs next season. Need spots for them. Taillon could end up being a really expensive middle reliever...
Cubs forgot to leave a wake up call today.
Gross, no. He’s a regular in the booth. I’m not a Girardi fan based on his time in NY and Philly. Not opposed to moving on from Ross, but the fan calls to fire him today aren’t going to accomplish much of anything immediately, most likely.
Didn't know that. I was channel surfing during innings of watching the B1G tourney.
He seemed to have great fun during the Mets series talking about all the ways Gary Sanchez sucks as a catcher.
Yeah, on Morel, they want him to become a Ben Zobrist type of utility player but his glove can be very suspect in instances. Coming through the system I always heard his best position was 3B and he doesn't even play there. Gonna be interesting to see how all of that plays out but i hope his bat continues to produce.
I’m thinking more and more that it’s less about them wanting Morel to be Zobrist and more that they don’t really feel comfortable with his defense anywhere. He came up a natural 3B, but it seems they’re pulling out all the stops to avoid playing him there. Him in RF yesterday was a disaster.
even novice fan could see Madrigal was not a MLB player. I assumed he had nudes of the Cubs GM.
There was a small window for him to have value and he showed signs for a couple stretches, but nothing long enough to justify the playing time he’s been getting. When he first came back from injury after the All Star break last year, he went on a run where he probably hit .340 over the course of several weeks (before getting hurt again). His D at 2B is adequate at worst….but he’s just never going to be a 3B and while I think there are some teams that could put his profile to use, the Cubs aren‘t one of them.
Can you imagine the embarrassment of sending him down?
LOL. Taillon is a veteran - he doesn’t have options. If Cubs don’t want him taking up space on the roster, they’ll have to concoct an injury. He’s essentially untradable, and if they put him on waivers they’ll lose him to a desperate team and eat the $68M left on his contract
The issue is the Cubs whiffed on him just like the Sox did. They thought they were getting a steal in the Kimbrel deal.
Schiambi said his arm slot has been too inconsistent at 3B on his throws. I think it’s CF or DH for now. He makes bad reads in the corner OF spots.
