Cubs trade:
OF Martin, Leonys, $0.5m (2019)

Giants trade:
SP Paxton, James, $2.5m (2020)
X-SP Paxton, James, Cash Exchange, $2.0m In 2018

Cubs agree to the trade. Martin is looking really good healthy again and leading off for the Tigers, but I have tons of OF. Paxton can't seem to put together a full season for the life of him, but can be very good when he's healthy so I'm willing to take the risk on him. Maybe him and Otani can make a full starter's worth of IP. And I'm not at all happy with my depth at SP so I think this is a win-win. Thanks for the smooth negotiations Flash.

Cubs would like to extend a few guys:

SP Darvish, Yu, $10.5m (2018)
#146 in 2018, #19 in 2017, #95 in 2016
SP-19 = $9M for the max of 4 years
New contract = $10.5M (2018), $9M (2022)

MI Cozart, Zack, $3m (2018)
#18 in 2018, #8 in 2017, #47 in 2016
MI-8 = $7.5M for the minimum of 2 years
New contract =  $3m (2018), $7.5m (2020)

CI Morrison, Logan, $4m (2018)
Off the charts low in 2018 so far, #24 in 2017, #69 in 2016
CI-24 = $6.5m for the minimum of 2 years
New contract = $4m (2018), $6.5m (2020)

PC

PC

PC