Tough to dig up any real baseball news from yesterday, but things should pick up this weekend and all next week as we inch closer to the Winter Meetings.
What are the Cubs going to do about Addison Russell? Personal issues aside, his salary is expected to jump to $5.1 million in 2020 and he is coming off a year where he badly underperformed. He also admitted to a complete lack of preparation and concentration, spending a short time in Iowa as a result. If the Cubs tender a contract to all of their arb-eligible players and each gets his expected bump, Theo Epstein is looking at a payroll that will be over the $208 million luxury tax threshold even before free agents are added.