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February 25th, 2021 share-square-386462 The Washington Nationals announced the inaugural Phil Rizzo Scout of the Year Award on Thursday. The award will be given annually to the Washington Nationals scout who represents the integrity, character, and work ethic exemplified by Phil Rizzo. Steve Arnieri, Special Assistant to the President of Baseball Operations and General Manager, is the first winner. The award will be presented annually at the baseball Winter Meetings. Nationals President of Baseball Operations and General Manager Mike Rizzo made the announcement. Arnieri has been with the Nati...

You know the drill by now – I mean, I just said it earlier today with the Joe Biagini signing: “The Chicago Cubs haven’t done a ton yet this offseason to make firm and fast additions to the big league roster, but they have certainly done what we expected them to do on the bullpen side of things: accumulate interesting, upside arms on the cheap. Don’t read that as a criticism, either. They’ve been good at it for a couple years now, and I’m not going to start betting against the approach: get a huge volume of guys in the door who do one or two things that you can’t teach, try to m...

The Chicago Cubs haven’t done a ton yet this offseason to make firm and fast additions to the big league roster, but they have certainly done what we expected them to do on the bullpen side of things: accumulate interesting, upside arms on the cheap. Don’t read that as a criticism, either. They’ve been good at it for a couple years now, and I’m not going to start betting against the approach: get a huge volume of guys in the door who do one or two things that you can’t teach, try to massage some other part of their game to get overall improvement, and figure that you can hit on mayb...

Not much else doing right now for the Chicago Cubs, but they’re sticking to their now-usual route when it comes to the bullpen: find and sign as many “interesting” and “unique” guys as possible. As Bryan points out on Twitter, Kelley, 27, is a sidearmer who had the ninth lowest release point in baseball in 2020. So that’s definitely “interesting” and “unique.” The long-time Red Sox farmhand was exceptional in the minors, but hasn’t translated it in the big leagues yet, either in his debut with the Red Sox in 2019, or with the Phillies this past year (both very small samp...

The Chicago Cubs are adding another big reclamation arm to the bullpen mix – as they do! – according to Jon Morosi. This time, it’s a minor league signing for righty James Bourque: Source: RHP James Bourque, the @umichbaseball alum, has signed a minor league deal with the #Cubs that includes an invitation to @MLB camp. @MLBNetwork Bourque, 27, hasn’t had much time in the big leagues, but once he was converted to a reliever in the minors, Bourque’s performance exploded: Before 2019, after his move to bullpen, Bourque was ranked by FanGraphs as the 19th best prospect in a thin Nats sy...