There’s a lot more to say and celebrate about Pete Crow-Armstrong’s unanimous MVP selection and the season that was, and I’ll get into that later. Until then, other bullets …
The GM Meetings concluded in Las Vegas with about as much activity as usual, which is to say, a fair bit of chatter, but only a few lesser signings actually completed. That doesn’t mean the offseason won’t be reshaped by the looming lockout – I think everyone rightly suspects it will be – but it does suggest things won’t be THAT much different this time around than back in 2021 before that lockout. Folks expecting a mad flurry of deals at the very start of the offseason have been disappointed. Those deals will come, but it seems like a big squeeze in the final week of November is more likely than an early rush. As for the Cubs, specifically, I’ll keep my flag planted that this offseason might take a pretty normal shape for how they do things: some minor moves up front, then some significant moves around the Winter Meetings (which, this year won’t take place, so we’re calling that the final few days before the lockout), and then a number of opportunistic moves just before Spring Training. In other words, by the end of it all – whenever that comes – it’ll look like a fine, typical Cubs offseason. I am not projecting them to do anything extraordinary or bizarre just because there’s a lockout smack in the middle, and nothing that occurred this week in Las Vegas changed that thinking. For what it’s worth, Cubs GM Carter Hawkins described the week at the GM Meetings as pretty normal. There’s a chance that the lockout could turn into litigation instead of a negotiating standoff:Be prepared for the baseball lockout to move from the bargaining table to a federal courtroom. MLB is preparing for the players deploying a complex legal strategy involving dissolving the union and filing an antitrust lawsuit. Details here: t.co/bZvTz2u2hr
AL MVP Yordan Alvarez t.co/evscnUbQ60
— BBWAA (@officialBBWAA) November 13, 2026 Judge-less and Ohtani-less:For the first time in 6 years, neither league saw Shohei Ohtani or Aaron Judge win the MVP Award. 2021: Ohtani (AL) 2022: Judge (AL) 2023: Ohtani (AL) 2024: Judge (AL) and Ohtani (NL) 2025: Judge (AL) and Ohtani (NL) t.co/eOKRoF9SpF
— FOX Sports: MLB (@MLBONFOX) November 13, 2026 All four Cy Young/MVP awards were unanimous this year, which is apparently the first time that has happened. All four seemed pretty obvious to me, so I don’t know that this year fundamentally proves anything overall about the nature of player evaluation, but I do wonder if there’s a little something to this point:The MVP and Cy Young awards being unanimous speaks to a larger phenomenon: as understanding of player value has reached something of a consensus, the drama of awards season has been drained. This is a juice-free awards season and I have to admit I miss arguing with people.
— nugget chef (@jayhaykid) November 13, 2026 Ozzie Albies received a 6th place MVP vote, by the way, after hitting .237/.293/.392/86 wRC+, posting so-so defensive metrics, and totaling 1.1 WAR. He had eleven TEAMMATES with a higher WAR this year. Kinda crazy that this has never happened before:The NL Central is the first division in history to sweep the Rookie of the Year, Cy Young & MVP awards with all 3 winners being under 25 years old. t.co/BLsbEDaceh
— OptaSTATS (@OptaSTATS) November 13, 2026 Because he is out of minor league options, Kevin Alcantara will, almost by definition, be given all the chances in the world in Spring Training to make the big league roster. His ability to play all over the outfield will help, but he’s still going to have to at least be a productive hitter against lefties to justify that fourth outfielder job, especially on a roster that might feature a whole lot of mixing and matching in the corner outfield spots. Good to see he continues to rake in the DR, though:Kevin Alcantara (CHC) has been quietly raking in LIDOM. Alcantara has the 2nd highest max EV (115.8) and the highest EV90, leading the league with four home runs. He’s also showing good process by chasing less (-5% from Triple-A). He’ll likely get more time in MLB in 2027! t.co/mOs76sLeEN
— Nate Roper (@NateRoper_) November 12, 2026 I chuckled:Winter is coming, need to be prepared. ? ❄️ ? t.co/DcQQzLcS8q
— Iowa Cubs (@IowaCubs) November 12, 2026 Terry Francona on managing Michael Jordan is an interesting story:Terry Francona says Michael Jordan never accepted being told no when he managed him in the minor leagues, and says he wanted to win at anything and everything including Yahtzee “Well, in Sarasota, when I was with the White Sox as a Double-A manager, we used to meet at 7:00am every morning, in this trailer, and you go over the day. I was kind of half asleep, and all of a sudden I heard, ‘Michael will be assigned to the Birmingham work group.’ My life changed like that. I went from just being happy that our games were on the radio, and I didn’t know it at the time, but it was probably the greatest learning experience I’d ever been put in.” “And then when he was going to play in the fall league, I had already been in the fall league, so they wanted to kind of keep it, but he said, ‘I want him.’ I think he knew I knew the lay of the land, and I had learned how to navigate his life. He was great, man. I’m telling you, the first thing I told him, I said, ‘Michael, you’ve got to respect the game of baseball.’” “And I kind of explained to him how much money these kids weren’t making. You’d have a hard time getting me to say something negative about him. He was awesome. But so much of baseball is repetitive, year after year after year.” “You can be the greatest athlete, but to try to jump in, unless you’re Bo Jackson, it’s really, really hard. When I get asked if I could have made Michael a legitimate major league starter, the way I’ve always answered it is, you need to get a thousand at-bats under your belt before you can even make a determination. He had about four or five hundred. I also found out when you tell him no, he’s going to find a way to make the answer yes.” “And that’s not just baseball. That’s ping-pong, tennis, golf, I don’t care, Yahtzee, you name it, man. He’s going to try to beat you. He’s going to find a way.”
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