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  1. Outshined_One
    I hear there's a piece of prime real estate available out in Arlington Heights that's basically stadium-ready!
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    There is also a publicly unknown factor with Wicks, in that the Cubs will have him on a pitch/innings limit, although we don't know what those limits are at this time. Wicks just eclipsed last year's IP mark, and likely will end up pitching roughly another 20-40 innings before being shut down again for the season. I'd love to see what Wicks could do, but my concern is his secondary stuff isn't quite at the point where he could get by if he lost a tick or two on his fastball due to fatigue.
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    Caleb Williams will end up going to the most annoying option. Think of a team with loathesome fans and an obnoxious head coach that's had some recent struggles, but isn't as long suffering as, say, Detroit or Cleveland. Washington sounds about right.
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    I have a sincerely hard time seeing Kris Bryant as a bust. Yes, he's been abjectly bad with the Rockies since signing with them, but the guy put up 30+ WAR over 5 and a half years with the Cubs. By way of comparison, Ian Happ's nearly completed six full seasons with the team and has *only* managed to post a career WAR of 13.2.
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    Credit where it's due, he generates clicks and content.
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    Pete Crow-ArmstrongCade HortonMatt ShawJordan WicksMiguel AmayaOwen CaissieBen BrownKevin AlcantaraJackson FerrisMatt MervisMoises BallesterosJames TriantosAlexander CanarioJosh RiveraLuis VazquezBrennan DavisRichard GallardoJefferson RojasPablo AliendoBJ Murray Jr Post-deadline, not much changed at the top of the list, save for Caissie moving ahead of Brown/Alcantara. Outside the Top 10, Made (trade), Hernandez (eh), and Palencia (meh) all dropped off the list, so Vazquez, Aliendo, and Murray get the bump from Honorable Mentions. I also toyed with dropping Mervis off the Top 10 due to his recent slump and the Cubs' seeming refusal to call him up, but no one below him really jumped out enough for me to justify it at this point.
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    This is where I'm landing with Morel at the moment. I don't get the sense that Morel can Zobrist his way into being a superutility type of player who can play across the MIF and in the OF while still keeping up his end of the bargain at the plate. So, on the other side of the equation, he may need to man a single position in the hopes that the everyday reps will improve his defense at that position. However, he's currently blocked at 2B and across the OF, his odds of sticking at 3B don't seem so great, and 2024 likely won't have an everyday opening for him unless the Cubs pull some serious offseason moves. So, you end up with a situation where Morel might be more valuable to another team than to the Cubs come the offseason. In that scenario, he'd be better served as trade bait, instead of the Cubs trying to smash a square peg into a round hole.
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    The minors have been fun to watch recently. PCA continues to look like a legitimate stud and will probably end up in the top 10 of a heck of a lot of national Top 100 MLB Prospect lists, while Matt Shaw is wrecking A+ ball. Assuming everyone keeps healthy, the Cubs might have some really fun choices to make come next season. Oh yeah, and the MLB team is pretty good, so there's also that.
  10. Outshined_One
    He's not making contact and not showing any in-game power at the plate. I'll grant that he's young and in a pitcher-friendly environment, but he's on a downward trajectory at the moment.
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    @Brock Beauchamp Might want to remove Kevin Made and DJ Herz from the list, chief.
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    As memory serves, this team was treading water in the 2015 Wild Card race before someone put in the cheat code for God Mode Jake Arrieta in the back half of the season.
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    That fight just about summed up the entire White Sox 2023 season.
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    Welp. They really are trying to do this, huh?
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    Damn. I was hoping he'd be in line for a setup role in the major league pen once the minor league season wrapped.
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    I would have been sadder about losing Herz, but for the fact that he'd been in the system for nearly 4 years and never ironed out his control issues. The potential is there, and maybe the Nats have the key to unlocking his potential, but I got the feeling the Cubs were going to leave him off the 40 man this offseason. LHRP is going to be an issue for this team going forward, though. The only possibility I can think of is shifting Jordan Wicks into a relief role down the stretch to keep him under his IP/Pitch limits while getting him major league experience, but this team has been really weird about giving regular playing time to rookie pitchers.
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    Regardless, welcome to our dysfunctionally enjoyable corner of the internet!
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    There's still some time for Ed Howard, but yeah, his hip injury will likely rank high on my Cubs What If? List, below "What if Corey Patterson didn't blow out his ACL in 2003?" and "What if Mark Prior never collided with Marcus Giles?", but instead around "What if Luke Hagerty actually recovered from TJS?" and "What if the Cubs weren't complete cheapasses in the 2010 MLB Draft?"
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    With the way the Cubs have handled Thompson and Steele, I'm wondering if they'll utilize Wesneski/Brown/Wicks in swing roles as those guys start to approach their IP limits, while keeping the door open for possible rotation spot/s in 2024. That being said, Brown looks like a future closer to me. He has some filthy stuff.
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    The South Side's obsession with Burger was just flat-out weird this season. He was a positionless power bat and a decent story, but still, eh. Good return, though.
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    Boo.
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    Herz was decent; I predict makes the majors, but likely as a swing/pen type. You can talk yourself into seeing more there, but he's been in the system since 2019 and he hasn't exactly been a world-beater. Made is a bit of a bummer, but he's having a down year and might benefit from the change of scenery.
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