To me it looks like keeping all the arms they were speculated to be considering trading (Cortes, Quintana, Henderson), is their alternative to going out and overpaying for bullpen help, and they will be relying on all these guys.
I think it’s just protocol that this area of the board is more for rumors/proposals and so once a trade happens on these rumors, it gets locked and discussion continues in the main MLB thread or new thread on the main page.
Ortiz is highly upgradable.
And Pratt — he’s just not ready.
I totally agree other than that, though, expect with the bullpen prices we’ve seen I don’t know if Arnold will get involved. He might turn one of our existing guys into a bullpen arm instead.
There are professional sports teams that charge reasonable prices for their concessions and don’t overprice the crap out of them, and they’ve actually found great financial success.
Most of the big activity happens in the last few hours on deadline day, honestly.
I'd say you’re probably right, but I wouldn’t count anything out until the deadline expires. I’m pretty sure the Jonathan Schoop deal came together near the very end.
Independent of the first two games, of course I’m disappointed that we didn’t win and extend our division lead to 3 today.
Doesn't mean that I don’t understand that it happens and even the best teams lose 60+ games a year.
I didn’t expect a sweep coming into the series, but having them on the ropes today, I am disappointed that we didn’t get it.
Oh well, we knew it wouldn’t be easy.
I just want that division title and top 2 seed badly.
The thought of another 3 game series wild card exit this year is impossible to stomach.
Well, obviously you’d rather have the Brewer side of it. But I guarantee just about every Cub fan is quite happy salvaging one out of three after that first two, and now they just need to win the 5 game series back at their place to clinch the tiebreaker.
All that fun the last two games and at the end of the day, the Cubs are going to leave town feeling like they got exactly what they needed to get out of this series.