All right. Time to do the post-Christmas readjustment work. A little extra challenge for me this year: I’m taking the big kids to visit family in Texas on Friday, so I get to settle back into my routine for only one day. Then it all gets disrupted again (for good reasons!) the next day. Then we get back just before New Year’s, which will disrupt things again. All fun activities that I’ll enjoy, but I am definitely a creature of habit.
The Cubs apparently weren’t thrilled that word got out about the front office meeting with Roki Sasaki, according to Bruce Levine on Marquee:.@MLBBruceLevine provides an update on the Cubs and Roki Sasaki ? Watch Cubs 360 – Tuesday at 6:30. pic.twitter.com/glAUTQyRS2
— Marquee Sports Network (@WatchMarquee) December 24, 2024 Levine, who was the one who originally reported on the meeting in Los Angeles (something that absolutely merited reporting if he’d confirmed it), noted that it came from an agent source, not from the Cubs. As is usually the case in these situations, I don’t know that word of a meeting leaking is going to have a material impact on whether the at-issue player chooses that team or not. I also think the Cubs simply hate anything leaking on anything, so I am not too worried about this meaning much. Besides, the Cubs were already an extreme long-shot, together with every other non-Dodgers (and maybe non-Padres) club. Publicly, we’ve seen reports of Sasaki meetings in L.A. with the Cubs, Mets, Yankees, Rangers, and Giants. The Phillies and Red Sox have indicated that they have not yet met with Sasaki, which makes you wonder if they aren’t going to. We can all safely assume the Dodgers and Padres are getting meetings, given the proximity, as well as the rumored interest (oooh, but they haven’t let it slip publicly, so they win!). Those two may even have already gotten at-home visits, because, I mean, it’s all kinda right there, relatively speaking. I just won’t let myself get even a 5% hope until and unless I hear about Sasaki coming to Chicago (which, man, stupid seasonality). A reminder that Roki Sasaki cannot officially sign until the next IFA period opens up on January 15, but also he must be signed by January 23 because that’s when his posting concludes. I expect more will leak in the weeks ahead, including home visits/tours, and maybe even reports on which way he’s leaning. It’s possible we learn which team he will choose long before January 15. The Red Sox and Twins got together on a minor swap of lefty Jovani Moran and catcher Mickey Gasper. Although Gasper can play other spots, too, and is mostly a depth guy, it does make you wonder if the Twins are preparing in the event they find a way to move Christian Vazquez’s contract. That, in turn, would mostly be of note around here because I’d been hoping the Twins would resign themselves to having to trade Pablo Lopez for financial reasons instead. An early look at next offseason’s free agent class, the perception of which can always change dramatically after another season of play. For now, though, it looks ROUGH, at least on the positional side. A court decision that permitted a college football player to get an extra year of eligibility by not counting a year at a junior college has serious implications for baseball, as you can read here at ESPN. The short version is that, if players can go to juco for a year or two without it impacting their four/five years of NCAA eligibility, the talent pool in college ball AND in the draft AND in the lower-minors could change in a variety of ways. To be sure, the ruling has not yet been extended to all college athletes, so this is all projection for now. But stay tuned. Sometimes, Seiya Suzuki showed off a nice arm:??? ??? ????? ?? ????: #??Seiya Suzuki with a hose from right field to get the runner at the plate ? pic.twitter.com/jOjqtPELCl
— Marquee Sports Network (@WatchMarquee) December 25, 2024 Rickey Henderson, who was born in Chicago on Christmas Day, would’ve turned 66 yesterday:Rickey Henderson played the game of baseball with so much life, so much energy, so much joy. pic.twitter.com/VmxzbXYjiw
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