I completely hate everything that the asg has become, but I still voted for Rizzo about 40 times over the last two days because I [expletive] love that goofy looking man-child.
It's a big difference in terms of leverage, IMO. It gives the Cubs one more year to potentially buy out/one more year before he gets the opportunity to test an open market.
Yep, I'll echo David. It would be great to retain him, as I've been happy with his contributions to the system thus far. In that same vein, though, I can't begrudge him moving on to bigger things. Seems almost inevitable.