Giants (McDonald) vs Cubs (Taillon): 6/7/26, 7:30pm

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

3 minutes ago, Stratos said:

I'm hopeful Bregman will come around.  He tends to start slower and finish strong anyways (not this slow).  And it's not like he was ever a great hitter outside the sign-stealing years.  He's been basically Ian Happ with better contact, so good for 25 HR.

to be fair to Bregman, the best year in his career was 2 years after the sign stealing year.

[Stratos]

5 minutes ago, Tangled Up in Plaid said:

to be fair to Bregman, the best year in his career was 2 years after the sign stealing year.

Not in fWAR or wRC+

[CubinNY]

45 minutes ago, muntjack said:

Mo has struggled, but he's hit the ball pretty hard and is 22 with nothing to prove at Iowa. 

Yes, he's he seems to hit a lot of lasers right at people. 

[chibears55]

6 hours ago, Cubs420psd said:

What can they even sell?

Get what they can for guys on expiring contracts... i get No trades have to be waived 

Happ, Kelly, Suzuki 

I'd add the pitchers but they might need them to have an actual rotation cause theres really noone in AAA to replace them unless they go full blown really suck ass tank mode.

Boyd, Taillon,  Imanaga, Maton

If they can get really lucky, maybe there will be a contending team looking to add a defensive SS and would be willing to take Swanson 😆

 

[Zilla 24]

Jesus, most of you need to come off the ledge and stop acting suicidal. Or, stop using that dumb word horsefeathers already.  It’s all your faults. 

Edited yesterday at 07:13 PM by Zilla 24

[17 Seconds]

1 hour ago, Zilla 24 said:

Jesus, most of you need to come off the ledge and stop acting suicidal. Or, stop using that dumb word horsefeathers already.  It’s all your faults. 

It's a filter

[javy knows my name]

1 hour ago, Zilla 24 said:

Jesus, most of you need to come off the ledge and stop acting suicidal. Or, stop using that dumb word horsefeathers already.  It’s all your faults. 

Faaaaaaart noooooiiiise

[Backtobanks]

4 hours ago, chibears55 said:

Get what they can for guys on expiring contracts... i get No trades have to be waived 

Happ, Kelly, Suzuki 

I'd add the pitchers but they might need them to have an actual rotation cause theres really noone in AAA to replace them unless they go full blown really suck ass tank mode.

Boyd, Taillon,  Imanaga, Maton

If they can get really lucky, maybe there will be a contending team looking to add a defensive SS and would be willing to take Swanson 😆

 

Nobody is taking Swanson unless the Cubs pay 70% of the money owed and Ricketts wouldn't do that.

[chibears55]

Lol

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTBahCnEE/

[Rcal10]

3 hours ago, Backtobanks said:

Nobody is taking Swanson unless the Cubs pay 70% of the money owed and Ricketts wouldn't do that.

This is a huge overreaction to Swanson. I get he isn’t hitting so everyone is on him. But he is still trending to a high 2.5-3.0 WAR at the end of the year. Cubs don’t need to pick up 70% of his contract. Won’t get anything for him but they aren’t paying him $20M a year to be on a different team. 

Edited 19 hours ago by Rcal10

[Outshined_One]

9 hours ago, Stratos said:

Things could be worse. We could be the Jays, Tigers, Mets, or Red Sox.  All under .500

Give it a week.

[BKHoo]

Is the season over?

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

12 minutes ago, BKHoo said:

Is the season over?

Yep, half a game back of the playoffs. We're toast

[NorthsideAvenger]

For those who are way smarter than I about this stuff, but is having his (Bregman) own personal HC come to Wrigley Field part of Bregman's problem? 

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

4 minutes ago, NorthsideAvenger said:

For those who are way smarter than I about this stuff, but is having his (Bregman) own personal HC come to Wrigley Field part of Bregman's problem? 

Bregman has his own personal hitting coach? I've never seen this mentioned before now. He should probably fire him.

[NorthsideAvenger]

8 minutes ago, Tangled Up in Plaid said:

Bregman has his own personal hitting coach? I've never seen this mentioned before now. He should probably fire him.

That is what the Locked On Guys were saying. When the Cubs are at home, Bregman would have his guy come to the field. If this true, Bregman needs to consider benching his guy.

[Stratos]

1 hour ago, Rcal10 said:

This is a huge overreaction to Swanson. I get he isn’t hitting so everyone is on him. But he is still trending to a high 2.5-3.0 WAR at the end of the year. Cubs don’t need to pick up 70% of his contract. Won’t get anything for him but they aren’t paying him $20M a year to be on a different team. 

Agree. Why sell low anyways?  Hopefully he's just in a bad slump and needs to make some adjustments.

I'm not really worried yet about any hitter on this team.  A month or 2 isn't a huge sample and we've seen this team go into long hitting slumps before.

[Geographyhater8888]

8 hours ago, Rcal10 said:

This is a huge overreaction to Swanson. I get he isn’t hitting so everyone is on him. But he is still trending to a high 2.5-3.0 WAR at the end of the year. Cubs don’t need to pick up 70% of his contract. Won’t get anything for him but they aren’t paying him $20M a year to be on a different team. 

Yeah, He also had an 81 wRC+ by mid June of 2024 too. He’s always had a fickle bat. Unless there’s a failure to adjust to a career high in breaking pitches seen or an age cliff then it’s just Dansby being Dansby. 

Edited 10 hours ago by Geographyhater8888

[Backtobanks]

8 hours ago, Rcal10 said:

This is a huge overreaction to Swanson. I get he isn’t hitting so everyone is on him. But he is still trending to a high 2.5-3.0 WAR at the end of the year. Cubs don’t need to pick up 70% of his contract. Won’t get anything for him but they aren’t paying him $20M a year to be on a different team. 

That's exactly what I said.  He is untradeable and Ricketts won't pay him $20 million to play for another team.

[Geographyhater8888]

29 minutes ago, Backtobanks said:

That's exactly what I said.  He is untradeable and Ricketts won't pay him $20 million to play for another team.

You could trade him. It’d require swapping him with another high contract with similar production if you they need a shortstop and have an underperforming pitcher with a few years remaining on his contract. 
A slightly less washed up Aaron Nola maybe. 

Edited 9 hours ago by Geographyhater8888

[BKHoo]

The Brewers are f_ing unbelievable.  Their lineup is miles ahead of ours. 

[Rcal10]

2 hours ago, Backtobanks said:

That's exactly what I said.  He is untradeable and Ricketts won't pay him $20 million to play for another team.

Not exactly. You said he can’t be traded unless the Cubs took on 70% of his contract. That is the overreaction. They would not have to take that much of his contract to trade him. 

[Backtobanks]

2 hours ago, Rcal10 said:

Not exactly. You said he can’t be traded unless the Cubs took on 70% of his contract. That is the overreaction. They would not have to take that much of his contract to trade him. 

The bottom line is he's untradable with the contract he has.  You're right that they wouldn't have to pay 70% of his contract if they got back a worse contract.

[javy knows my name]

50 minutes ago, Backtobanks said:

The bottom line is he's untradable with the contract he has.  You're right that they wouldn't have to pay 70% of his contract if they got back a worse contract.

So the bottom line is he's untradeable but could also be traded if the Cubs took on 70% of his contract but also they wouldn't have to do that if they took on a bad contract. Got it.

The real bottom line is he's a surplus value at 3 fwar/year and there's no reason to believe he'll miss that this year

[Eeyore]

On 6/7/2026 at 3:46 PM, Dfan25 said:

The Cubs were completely broke that offseason according to Hoyer .  That’s why he was NT .

They had Caratini money though.