[Jesse Rogers] The Cubs announced they’ve signed former Twins lefty Caleb Thielbar to a 1-year deal.

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  1. I like it. He’s been very solid up until last year, hopefully something in there that we can fix.

  2. Torn, do I go with “Jed got his guy” or “World Series here we come” as if nobody has ever thought of it for a minor signing

  3. Another “eh, let’s see what he can do” type signing. I can’t really gauge how I feel until we see how he does.

  4. I mean his WAR has been locked in at 0-1 his whole career. And his velo isn’t down.

    Alozay/Cuas/Smyly threw for 80 innings last year for negative war. A backend arm who isn’t a net negative is alright I guess.

    This on top of a move like Scott and now we’re cooking

  5. I would’ve preferred AJ Minter in this role, but maybe Thielbar can regain some of of his old form

  6. >Chicago is the seventh different MLB team Thielbar has joined since his pro career began as an 18th round pick for the Brewers in the 2009 draft.

    >Despite this journeyman resume, all of Thielbar’s 320 big league innings over eight seasons have come with the Twins, in two separate stints from 2013-2015 and then 2020-2024.

    >That second stretch with Minnesota revived Thielbar’s career entirely, as he had taken on a college coaching job following the 2019 season before he was lured back with another minor league deal from the Twins.

    So 7 MLB organizations but never even recorded an inning for 6 of them. All Twins since 2013. 8 seasons in 11 years. Crazy career, never seen anything like this before.

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