What if the Cubs become sellers?

[SouthSideRyan]

Right now, they're trying to patchwork a team that's window that has likely closed with parts that are worth more than they provide and no direction towards the long-term.

 

I don't know how you can say a team that won 97 games last year has had its window closed. They're a worse team, but they're still a team capable of winning the world series without adding anything.

[E.J.]

Right now, they're trying to patchwork a team that's window that has likely closed with parts that are worth more than they provide and no direction towards the long-term.

 

I don't know how you can say a team that won 97 games last year has had its window closed. They're a worse team, but they're still a team capable of winning the world series without adding anything.

 

Our offense is mostly comprised of players on the wrong side of 30 who all have large contracts that make moving them difficult. We could definitely be in for a string of bad years coming up.

[SouthSideRyan]

Right now, they're trying to patchwork a team that's window that has likely closed with parts that are worth more than they provide and no direction towards the long-term.

 

I don't know how you can say a team that won 97 games last year has had its window closed. They're a worse team, but they're still a team capable of winning the world series without adding anything.

 

Our offense is mostly comprised of players on the wrong side of 30 who all have large contracts that make moving them difficult. We could definitely be in for a string of bad years coming up.

 

Yeah, I don't see how that affects this year's chances. You don't go from a 97 win team to non-contender overnight.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

Yeah, I don't see how that affects this year's chances. You don't go from a 97 win team to non-contender overnight.

 

Why not?

 

Drop a few games due to plexiglass principle, drop a few more because your key offensive players are all past their primes, drop a few more because of bad offseason moves (whether budget-related or just dumb), and boom, you are now a mid-80s win team.

 

Other recent 97+ win teams in the NL:

2006 NY Mets: Haven't won 90 games since.

2000s Cardinals: Consistently great for a lot of years

2003 Giants: Went from 100 wins to 91 to sub. 500 every year since

2002 Braves: Gentle decline after their last 100-win season at the end of the dynasty

2002 Diamondbacks: Awesome to mediocre to bad pretty quickly.

 

Going quickly to mediocrity or worse is certainly a possibility for great teams.

[champaignchris]

When you have, statistically speaking, the best starting pitching staff in baseball is the window really closed?

 

The frustrating thing is that the Cubs don't need THAT much offense to win this division. Really all that needs to happen is for both Bradley and Soriano to play to their capabilities at the same time, which hasn't happened all year.

[UK1679666180]

Right now, they're trying to patchwork a team that's window that has likely closed with parts that are worth more than they provide and no direction towards the long-term.

 

I don't know how you can say a team that won 97 games last year has had its window closed. They're a worse team, but they're still a team capable of winning the world series without adding anything.

 

This team ain't going to win. They don't have the bullpen to compete, even with the better play as of late. They certainly don't have the bench to maintain any similar level of production when a guy goes down on an extremely fragile team and they can't handle any regression from offensive players, given last year was likely based on maximium value from guys like Soriano and Soto and expecting Fontenot to up respectable numbers from 2B.

 

This team right now won't get past LA or Philly, it would make last year look like a close series.