Trick or Treat was last night for us, and I got HOOKED up. There’s certain candy a couple of the kiddos can’t have, but I CAN, which effectively makes me the trick or treater for about 1/5 of the time. My Reese stash overfloweth …
I would not go so far as to say that Kevin Alcantara will enter 2027 with a chance to win a starting outfielder job on the big league Cubs, even after the departures of Ian Happ and Seiya Suzuki. I think the team will have to prepare its roster in such a way as to make sure they’re a little more covered than that in the corner outfield spots. That there’s a little more certainty, I mean. But I do think Alcantara will enter 2027 with a chance to win some playing time and a semi-regular role. His offensive talent is a factor there, obviously, but so is his ability to play all three outfield spots capably. If the bat does enough, then he’s a near-perfect 4th outfielder fit for this team. The main reason Alcantara will get a shot to win some kind of job, though? He’s out of minor league options, so either he makes the 26-man roster out of Spring Training or he hits waivers. And a 24-year-old who plays great defense, has notable upside and has hit at Triple-A, is very unlikely to clear waivers entirely. You’d hate to lose him for nothing when he might otherwise be at least a nice bench player in the short-term. For now, Alcantara is playing in the Dominican Republic and hitting bombs:¡KEVIN ALCÁNTARA LA MANDA PARA LA CALLE! ? #LIDOM #CopaBanreservas t.co/csgDqnwJmv
An “out-getter” to the highest degree. Since 2022 (Min. 200 IP), Javier Assad’s -1.24 ERA-xERA gap is the 2nd highest in baseball. Season after season, you can expect him to throw Tijuana fastballs and eat innings. t.co/fxTtaPpmqp
— Northside Soundtrack (@CHC_DataDrive) October 29, 2026 However he does it, the Cubs need him to keep doing it. Assad is currently the “best” and healthiest returning starting pitcher on the roster! David Samson is getting a lot of grief for this, and I’m certainly not going to defend him, but I do think some folks have missed what he was saying:@DavidPSamson says MLB no longer needs radio: "We don’t need baseball on radio anymore." The former Marlins president predicts on Nothing Personal that "radio will go the way of Kodak and Blockbuster." @JohnMamola has more. #MLB t.co/QoDpYa5mEo
— Barrett Media (@Barrett_Media) October 28, 2026 If you actually see his full comments, Samson seems only to be saying that radio – very specifically AM radio – is eventually going to go away. He wasn’t saying that the audio experience of baseball should or would go away (because THAT would be really nuts to suggest – there are so many games, and the experience can sometimes be passive, so it’s perfect for audio). He seems to think it has to go in other technical directions than radio. I think he’s probably right about that eventually, but he misses the mark in thinking that literally only very old people listen to games on the radio because they grew up doing so (as a requirement of the then-available technology). Plenty of folks who grew up in the internet era still access the radio sometimes because it’s always there and it’s free. Building at an organizational level requires more than just a poach or two (good as those may be):Exactly. Hiring by brand has a very mixed track record. It’s funny to see people get excited when their team hires someone from certain clubs, as if they know anything about them. It’s so much more complex than that. And I’ll remind people that several people who get these jobs are endorsed by their current bosses because those bosses want them out. It’s a cutthroat business.
— Zack Scott (@ZackScottSports) October 30, 2026 The last bit there from Scott that gets cut off in the embed: “And I’ll remind people that several people who get these jobs are endorsed by their current bosses because those bosses want them out. It’s a cutthroat business.” He adds in a follow-up: “It happens a lot, but I understand why people find it hard to believe. It’s a small, hypercompetitive industry, so POBO/GMs will sell their credibility for two wins—the optics of helping their ‘friends’ and clearing out toxicity to open opportunities for someone they like and actually want to keep.” The 2021 version of William Contreras on the Braves is apparently a Mandela Effect situation:William and Willson Contreras become the 10th set of brothers to play in the World Series on a championship-winning team! ? And they did it 10 years apart! t.co/0VjIK5vu20
— MLB (@MLB) October 29, 2026 (Arguably, MLB gets around it by using the word “play” in the World Series – Contreras was on the team, but did not appear in the World Series – but I will never pass up the opportunity for a Mandela Effect reference!) What a find. Apparently this was the day after the corked bat:that’s right 2003 tna fan t.co/bkBCVNp3zf
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