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Jeimer Candelario went 4-for-5 for the Cubs tonight. 🦆🦆🦆

I wonder whether the deal might have been predicated on the idea that Eduardo would waive his opt-out to stay with the Dodgers for three more years—which, coincidentally, would lead to the optimum haul for us, as well as cost certainty for the Dodgers—and something happened in Eduardo’s world that nixed that. Maybe his wife, like someone said. Or maybe he would have been OK with two months in LA but not three more years. Just another possibility to speculate on. Who knows.

Now THIS is a deadline deal that I heartily approve of! 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽

Racist. 😉

I agree with your timeline, although had it collapsed days ago, I'm pretty sure Harris would not have blabbed that to the media.

Not defending Harris failure to trade Eduardo as being a good thing—it's definitely not—but I think most of us understood that he was always going to be a more difficult trade than Lorenzen was. The deal we signed saddled us with a guy who would be a rental if he pitched well for a new team, and four more years at 60-some million if he either did poorly or went down Tommy John-style. That's a big risk for a buying team. I also wonder what role Eduardo's agent played in this whole drama. It's not as though Harris was dealing directly with Eduardo during the negotiations—he was almost certainly dealing through Eduardo's agent, who might have been on a very different page than he should have been throughout this. He might have been leading Harris to pursue a deal with LA for reasons such as he thought he could sell it through to the pitcher. And as we learned during last year's ghosting incident, the agent, Gene Mato, is not exactly the most high-powered buttoned-down agent in the game.

OK, now I don't know what I want regarding Eduardo Rodriguez. I don't want six years of him. I don't really even want four years of him. I don't want Harris to go overboard Avila-style trying to justify not trading him by overpaying him. I don't want Eduardo to walk away for nothing. In any event, I'm going to get something I don't want here.

It's official. 😞

So-called media professional gets schooled by amateurs.

Looks like Baseball's Best Fans™ are only too glad to see Flaherty go

Turdley strikes again

The Big Kahuna:

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Shedding $30 million in one fell swoop this winter should help.

Someone likes Scott Harris. This is the kind of thing that helps get decent players interested in coming to Detroit.

Seems to be ... at the moment ... Let's talk in half an hour or so.

OK, well, there we go, I guess.

Technically, yes, but I don't think aces think in such terms and let it affect their decisions.

I was wondering that too, but we're only talking two months, so unless something is at hand for him right now, I don't think that's as much a consideration. The more I think about it, the more I'm thinking Dodgers is still on the table and he's trying to squeeze the maximum out of the deal. Although there's also the Orioles, too.

How?

It might be a negotiating ploy. The right to block a trade is a neat point of leverage for the player to get something extra from the buying team, or maybe even the selling team. After, if he wanted to stay here, all he had to do is agree to go to the Dodgers for two months, play in the playoffs, maybe win a ring, and then sign an extension with us in the offseason after opting out. But nooooo ... One thing I know for sure: if he doesn't move in the next hour, it's going to be awful uncomfortable for everyone involved, him sticking around an organization that just tried to get rid of him.

I don't want to get into a winter bidding war only to lose him for nothing. I'm hoping for a trade in the next 62 minutes.

I don't like that outcome. I'm hoping he's trying to get someone to extend him in the trade and/or he'd rather play closer to home in Baltimore. Or who knows, maybe he needs LA needs to extend him to get him.