Arrieta had better offers, but wanted the cubs, the last playoff game and other cub bullets

Arrieta had better offers, but wanted the cubs, the last playoff game and other cub bullets

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The Little Girl, who will always be The Little Girl for purposes of this space, turns 10 years old today. This in itself is an amazing and amazing thing, but it also has something to do with this place – it was her arrival that led me to take up life, leave the law firm and decide to do BN full time . . Thank you for that, my beloved, and a very happy birthday.

• The Cubs will soon have to make the Jake Marisnick and Jake Arrieta note official (hey, they are both called Jake)! At that point, they will have to loosen up two spots on the 40s. If we do not make surprises, we see that the Cubs are trying to sneak some guys through forgiveness.

• According to Jon Heyman (who apparently does not communicate regularly with agent Scott Boras), Jake Arrieta “had higher offers elsewhere, but he loved the idea of ​​a reunion with the Cubs and pursued it.” It just makes you smile.

• It’s wild that the Cubs signed Yu Darvish over the weekend three years ago, because at that point he apparently preferred him over Jake Arrieta (although there are reports that the Cubs made a similar offer to Arrieta to stay ). Now, three years later, the Cubs have traded Darvish and are bringing Arrieta back. Just a little wild how it worked out, though the two have clearly gone many different paths over the past few years. Nobody plans Arrieta’s performance in 2021 until replace the expected performance of Darvish (do not let yourself down for that kind of disappointment; the realistic hope is that Arrieta can be a steady, almost league-average pitcher with periodic clogs and periodic excellent starts).

• It’s crazy and also depressing:

• I was at that game against the Dodgers – it was the game that hit Javy Báez the bubble gunner Homer (and another) and Willson Contreras hit one for O’Hare – and Arrieta was fantastic, and we knew it his farewell can be:

(Photo by Jamie Squire / Getty Images)

Not that the multiple reports would be questioned, but you can consider it confirmed that Jake Arrieta is returning to the Cubs, assuming the physical investigation:

• Thanks again:

• Ugh. That time of year has arrived: pitchers are popping up in camp, starting to throw a little more aggressively, and some of them realize something is wrong. Be prepared. Happens every year:

• Bummer for Hall of Fame weekend:

• I’m not surprised MLB is repeating it, because it’s a bit underreported:

• Whoopsiedoodle:

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