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One less spot for Cain. Giants trading for Andrew McCutchen.
http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/2...sburgh-pirates

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Originally Posted by WhawhaWhat (Post 13363895)

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Brewers?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Brewers</a> continue to be “in” on RHP Jake Arrieta & also 3B Michael Moustakas with the idea that if they signed Moustakas they could trade Travis Shaw to NYY, ATL or NYM according to a club source.</p>— Jim Bowden�� (@JimBowdenGM) <a href="https://twitter.com/JimBowdenGM/status/952889908842192896?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 15, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Michael Moustakas??? :spock:

Pitchers and Catchers report four weeks from today. Just happens to be Mardi Gras.
When the regular season starts;
I hope Jason Hammel and Brandon Moss are not on the team.
I hope Hunter Dozier or Ryan O'Hearn is the starting at 1st.
I hope Bubba Starling is starting in CF.

So, are we going to sign any FA position players?

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Originally Posted by ChiTown (Post 13365102)

So, are we going to sign any FA position players?

Market is at a stand still.

Market waiting got for possible Stanton move and then Hosmer move.

Duffy pleads guilty to DUI, 1yr probation and fine.

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Originally Posted by mikeyis4dcats. (Post 13365565)

Duffy pleads guilty to DUI, 1yr probation and fine.

This saddens me

@Royals: The #Royals have hired former MLB manager and coach, Gene Lamont, as Special Assistant to the General Manager. Info: http://atmlb.com/2rjilPJ https://twitter.com/Royals/status/95...928961/photo/1

This is the quietest off-season I can remember. Amazing how many guys are still left unsigned.

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Originally Posted by lewdog (Post 13365843)

This is the quietest off-season I can remember. Amazing how many guys are still left unsigned.

Lotta big trades tho

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Originally Posted by Prison Bitch (Post 13365853)

Lotta big trades tho

Yea a decent amount there. Surprised with the McCutchen trade to the Giants.

It's just all these free agents sitting around, with a month until spring training. I can't say I remember a year where so many decent players were still unsigned this deep into January.

We don't know why. Maybe the players are refusing good offers. It's hard to imagine Cain or Moose really don't have 50M+ deals on the table

Angels alone for Otani, resigned Upton, traded for Kindler and Cozart. So there's movement and teams taking on salary, now the FA will go next

https://sports.yahoo.com/heres-baseb...224638354.html

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Here's why baseball's economic system might be broken

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What’s clear is the free-agent impasse represents a reckoning long in the making – one that marries shifting power in labor relations, the emergence of analytics and cookie-cutter front offices, and the willingness of teams to treat competitiveness as an option, not a priority. Combined, they pose the greatest threat to a quarter century of labor peace and have people at the highest level of the sport asking whether a game-changing overhaul in how baseball operates isn’t just necessary but inevitable.

“I’m just not sure that the structure that’s been in place for all of these years makes sense anymore,” one union official said. “Now, whether anybody is prepared to blow that up is a completely different question.”

“Of course it doesn’t make sense,” a league official concurred. “We pay you the minimum for three years and arbitration for three or four years, and then you get paid more in free agency for your decline?”

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Recently, one of the best free agents available this offseason met with a friend, and he admitted something shocking: He was preparing to sit out until the middle of the season. The market for his services this winter was so thin, the offers so incompatible with his production, that he worried he was going to need an external force to compel teams to pay him what his numbers say he’s worth. Maybe it would take a playoff race.

Across the game, profits have soared. Baseball should cross the $10 billion mark in revenue this year. Each team soon will receive a $50 million payment from the sale of MLB Advanced Media’s streaming arm, BAM Tech, to Disney. And amid that opulence, one of the best free agents available is preparing to sit at home.

When an elite player would rather not play baseball than play baseball, that’s a problem. When teams are restricted on spending everywhere except with major league free agents and still don’t want to reward someone whose production more than sufficed for a bonanza contract in the past, that’s a conundrum: Is this the manifestation of an inefficient market turning efficient, or is it something dirtier?

Some interesting stuff in here. I wonder if the free agent in question is Hos?

Good thing they picked all those HS pitchers for the re-build

LOL