Also, I guess there aren't penalties anymore, just a hard cap.

If you sign a player that rejects a QO, you also lose some of your bonus pool money, $500K if under the tax, $1 million if over. You can also now trade for up to 75% of your bonus pool money, so in theory a team like the Cardinals could end up with around $11 million in bonus pool money if they made the right deals (might be a good way for a savvy team to rebuild given how much value minor league prospects hold now).

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Matt Carpenter has been so ill with a stomach bug, he said he spent 40 hours in bed and wound up tweaking his back. With just six games left until the ASG, the team decided to put him on the IL. Expects to return July 12.</p>&mdash; Mark Saxon (@markasaxon) <a href="https://twitter.com/markasaxon/status/1146234736446038016?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 3, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

This team is so mentally weak its insane. You can see it in their faces.

Jack can’t throw strikes against a bad team. He deserves a demotion to Memphis but this pitching staff is bad so I dunno what the **** to do.

Ugh Flaherty. Learn to throw strikes early in the count.

best starting pitcher we have with a wipe out slider and he looks like Loshe out there this year.

Only Cardinals player I like since his walk up song is "Long Hot Summer Day" by the Turnpike Troubadours.

Whipped the Cubs again and it feels so good. All those bandwagon Cubs fans were in mourning.

Just figured getting rid of those Bible Studies and favoritism would turn things around. 41-42.

You want him? Take him. Please.

On this everyone agrees but Cubs fans. They are far removed from the lovable loser era. We are well into the arrogant pricks era.

Like this one


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They also traded away about 10 WAR of production right after that firing for essentially 0 in return.

I would DFA O'Neill right now. No need to have him on the 40 man. An outright release would be fine. He's not a baseball player.

If this team cant manage more than three hits against Mike Leake they might as well call it a season and start playing golf early.