Welcome Back, Welington?

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So here we all were, basking in the glory of defeating Roy Halladay and minding our own business, and suddenly the Cubs Twitterverse is abuzz about a tweet.  The tweet causing the commotion is from Enrique Rojas:

Of course, nobody on the Cubs beat has said anything about it.

A few Cubs blogs have re-tweeted it and Kevin Goldstein is shocked:

So what are the possibilities?

1)  There is a Soto trade about to be completed.

​There have been rumors about the Rays being interested in Soto since their catchers have been practically useless, so it's possible. But there really hasn't been anything lately. Alvin would claim that is a sign it is true because only trades that nobody sees coming are the the ones that get done.

2) Soto or Clevenger is hurt.

Anything is possible with this new tight-lipped front office, but Soto played all night and didn't seem to be having any problems out there. Clevenger did not appear in the game tonight and there has been no mention of any injury to him after the Cardinals series.

3) Enrique Rojas is full of shit.

Goldstein seems to be taking the tweet at face value and claims Rojas is as good as it gets, but something like this going uncorroborated for such a long time (Twitter-wise) is odd.

4) Welington threatened to "accidentally" stab Brett Jackson or Anthony Rizzo if he wasn't called up.

Let's face it, the man does have a history.

We are probably going to have to take a wait-and-see approach.

UPDATE

Sullivan wins the race to figure out what the hell was going on. Do you believe in miracles? Yes!

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  1. Rice Cube

    4) Welington threatened to “accidentally” stab Brett Jackson or Anthony Rizzo if he wasn’t called up.
    Let’s face it, the man does have a history.

    I can’t argue with you today.

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  2. Rice Cube

    @ GW:
    I had thought of that but with his relatively cheap contract and that extra year of arbitration it doesn’t make all that much sense.

    The phantom injury or the mystery trade seems more likely.

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    Aisle424

    Rice Cube wrote:

    Do you know if Soto would have to clear waivers before he could be outrighted to the minors at this point?

    I’d be shocked if he didn’t.

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  4. Rice Cube

    @ Aisle424:
    I might have worded that wrong…I wanted to know whether he has to be exposed to waivers. If his case is like Wells, then maybe a DFA makes sense because they don’t have to risk losing him.

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    Aisle424

    Rice Cube wrote:

    I might have worded that wrong…I wanted to know whether he has to be exposed to waivers. If his case is like Wells, then maybe a DFA makes sense because they don’t have to risk losing him.

    Yeah. I’d be shocked if he didn’t have to be exposed to waivers. He’s been up for 4+ years. I can’t imagine they are DFAing him. It almost has to be a trade or an injury. He’s a cost controlled catcher who, even when hitting like shit, is still probably better than a lot of catchers.

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  6. Heather

    I can’t see them bringing Castillo up unless they plan on using him everyday. From what I understood, the reason he didn’t make the club in the Spring was because they wanted him to get regular at bats and play everyday…. something “significant” must be coming tomorrow, whether it be an injury or a trade, but I’ve been stalking MLB messageboards and there isn’t anything out there.

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    Aisle424

    Also, everybody put their pants back on. There’s a lady present. Let’s not scare her away right away. I’m looking at you, RC.

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  8. josh

    See, you guys are crazy. They aren’t dropping Geo. At a little above league average, he was one of the most valuable players on the team last year, and this year.

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  9. Suburban kid

    Aisle424 wrote:

    I still can believe Enrique Rojas was the one who got the Clevenger injury, news story first.

    Hobbit was in the right place when he read a tweet from the Dominican.

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  10. Suburban kid

    @ josh:
    Those guys are owed $6 million and $9 million respectively. Isn’t Soriano owed something like $50 million? He’s one hot streak away from the Cubs saving five or ten million.

    /rose colored glasses’d

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  11. srbutch5

    Cole Hamels would be an interesting sign…I’d take him for the Cain deal. 6 for ~120M.

    Am I taking crazy pills?

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