Ok. Keeping up their April pace all season would’ve resulted in them scoring 950+ runs, which had happened like 10 times in the last 60 years. Instead, they’re merely the 2nd best offense in baseball. Just feels weird to harp on the offense when the starting pitching staff is the obvious Achilles heel of the team.
There was an interview when he was in Iowa talking about how good the cubs lineup was that was something like (suuuper paraphrasing)“the pitcher has to face me, and then someone else, and then Kris Bryant, and then another guy, and then Jorge.”
In your opinion, is it reasonable to draw a line and say “I don’t want to trade Caissie for a rental?”
If so, the list gets pretty damn short for me. I’m not into dealing him for Mitch Keller. Edward Cabrera is interesting but the recent elbow issue is scary. Alcantara is also interesting but holy horsefeathers have the results been bad. Mackenzie Gore and Joe Ryan obviously are on the list but I don’t think either of them are going anywhere.
Realistically, I think he ends up going for one of the Marlins pitchers.
I’m fine with Rea as a fifth starter. He was signed as rotation depth and I think he’s done a cromulent job since being called into action. You need rotation depth that’s not going to get bombed out of games in the second inning and tax the bullpen every five days. And I guess someone needs to drive the Colin Rea Bandwagon, so I admire your work here. But we’re still talking about a guy with a 4.48/5.48/4.78 ERA/FIP/xFIP going back to May 1. If other posters want to dream bigger than that, I see no issue.
I honestly can’t believe the amount of consternation about this particular loss. By all accounts, Jed is very actively trying to plug some holes in the rotation and maybe even add an impact pen arm to the mix. Brown and Flexen likely won’t be on the roster in ten days. The headline of the game for me is our rookie 3B is maybe turning a corner. Otherwise, burn the fuckin’ tape and move on.