Shelby Miller Traded To The Cubs [FALSE ALARM]

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Miller for Soler makes a lot of sense with everything else out there. The D-Backs moving on indicates they don't think their offer will get the Braves to move on their demands which could indicate the Braves have a better offer elsewhere. The Cubs being interested in Heyward would make Soler expendable. It just sets up well.
 
thewupk said:
That would be giving the finger to both the Cards and Braves.
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I think Heyward either ends up in Chicago, New York, or Boston. Something tells me that if he were going to stay in St. Louis, he would have signed by now. At the same time, Close seems to be a very patient agent who lets the situation settle before advising his client to jump. He knows the market will be there for Heyward.

I wonder who signs first: Heyward, J. Upton, or Cespedes. My guess is the agent for each doesn't want to set the market but instead react to it.
 
nsacpi said:
I like Baez quite a bit more than Soler. Plus Soler has already used up a year of service time, a not insignificant consideration. I'd be happy with Miller for Baez.
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I love both. I actually prefer Soler strictly as the best bat but Baez is the much better fit plus he's very strong defensively. I personally feel like the Cubs have the two best centerpieces in any Shelby deal with Baez or Soler....but it's the secondary pieces that I like much better from Arizona. I wonder if we get Baez if he plays SS long term with Albies moving to 2B or other way around.
 
50PoundHead said:
I think Heyward either ends up in Chicago, New York, or Boston. Something tells me that if he were going to stay in St. Louis, he would have signed by now. At the same time, Close seems to be a very patient agent who lets the situation settle before advising his client to jump. He knows the market will be there for Heyward.

I wonder who signs first: Heyward, J. Upton, or Cespedes. My guess is the agent for each doesn't want to set the market but instead react to it.
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I've read reports that Heyward gets signed this week so I could see him going before Upton or Cespedes and setting the market for those two, especially Upton.
 
IF AZ isn't coming off of Pollack, then I'm glad they're looking elsewhere. The Cubs seem to make the most sense with a package around Baez or Soler. Both are high upside and high risk players. It would depend on who we like more. I haven't been as big on Baez as some, but to hear one scout compare him to a possible Gary Sheffield with better defense definitely had me intrigued. I hope we make the right decision. The truth is we won't know until next year, so there will be a lot of assumptions made either way once a deal is completed.
 
Millwood1Hitter said:
Well build your damn team around a guy like Shelby, and maybe we should have acquired some hitting in the trades we're we purged a lot of other valuable assets instead of acquiring 398 pitchers, half of which are recovering from Tommy John surgery. And the one offensive guy we have acquired is going to be beyond a disaster, for a good middle of the rotation lefty pitcher and a top infield prospect, that probably could have landed us a huge get in LuCroy at a position of need this offseason.

We sucked in the late 80's and 90's, I guess we should have traded Smoltz, Glavine, and Avery for hitters.
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we could potentially have 7+ players in the top 100 this time next year thanks to many of those trades..

Allard is #88

Touki is #69

Newcomb #19

Fried was #55 2014

Ozzie # 30

Mallex is fringy(I think he will make it if he doesn't graduate)

Riley is close

Sims was #112 last yearTouki

Mallex

Riley

Allard
 
Rosenthal just said on MLB Network that Cubs and DBacks are out, but there are still multiple teams that remain in on Miller.
 
Who knows what's going on now. Though I will say this FO has shown the ability to move quietly and then drop a trade you didn't expect.
 
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