That really would be an incredibly deep lineup.
C- Amaya
1B- Busch
2B- Nico
SS- Dansby
3B- Bregman
RF- Tucker
CF- PCA
LF- Happ
DH- Seiya
That's a really good line up and if PCA and Amaya are anything resembling their 2024 2nd halves, it's got top 5 potential.
This is why I hate it. So we're realistically talking 2027 before they can even try to put a competitive team on the floor after being non competitive for the better part of a decade.
literally about zero chance. They're way to far ahead of the other teams to even finish in the bottom 4. They'd have to pull a lucky rabbit out of their ass from the #5 spot.
I just don't see how Alonso could work? Seiya is a better hitter, Busch is far cheaper and was more valuable last year. Where would Alonso even go and be an upgrade?
The only hope the Cubs ever had was if Bregman was doing to take like a 3 year deal with opt outs after year 1 and 2. I'd be shocked if the Cubs went any further than that.
Which makes it all the crazier that less than 10 years later, a man that was adored by this city has become hated. It's damn near impossible to waste that much good will in such a short amount of time.
What would the Met equivalent to Shaw be? Sproat? Only Shaw is ready to step in day one and has a longer and more consistent history of dominating at every level. I can't imagine Jett Williams would be the headliner and I can't imagine they'd even consider trading Vientos.
Yeah, this is 2 guys who both appear on at least some top 100 lists, an MLB starter with mid rotation upside and an MLB ready bench bat for 1 year of cease? Hard pass.
He might get a highly touted prospect but it's not going to be an MLB ready top 30 prospect and then more on top of that. If he's getting a top 50 guy it's going to be someone a year or two from the bigs. It's not going to be someone who is immediately able to step into the lineup as a first division starter.
But it's not an article for the masses, it's an article for us, which makes it a bit weird. If we're addressing the meathead common fan opinion then they could write a million different hot take articles which would make NSBB completely intolerable.
This is a weird take. I think most of us have already accepted that he's destined for the pen and that being a long term starter is the overwhelmingly most unlikely scenario.