The WC best of 3 would likely be...
New SP, Imanaga, Boyd
Division best of 5 and NLCS/WS
Probably whomever pitching the best between Taillon, Cabrera, Brown, and Assad, or likely a combination of two of them.
They can keep both, when Shaw returns. either Alcantara or Dean would go down, probably Alcantara.
Outside of catcher, bench would have.
Ramirez SH IF/OF
Shaw RH IF/OF
Conforto LH OF
Dean RH OF but mostly used as PR and defense late
Im sure there are much worst, but I never cared for boog before he joined the cubs. National guy or not he bores me with his yapping and all.
Him being a national guy is what separates him from what we had as far as being spoiled, because not only who we had were top notch PBP guys, they were also very much into the cubs and were fans of the team like us. Boog calling cubs games and everything else he does is the same as he would calling other teams games on ESPN.
Agree, and hes a switch hitter who has played some outfield this season in Iowa.
Problem with trading Shaw is the injury hasn't healed and theres only 2 weeks left for him to be well enough to start swinging a bat again, they can trade him but medicals would need to clear him.
Agree we are spoiled for the past booth we had up until Kasper left.
I dont mind Cohen, he needs work on his overall conversations with whomever in the booth with him, but his play by play calls are pretty good.
Yea, hes just trying to get whatever available arms he can grab now to get through July.
getting Taillon back will free up Assad or Rea for the bullpen next week, my guess Pomeranz will definitely and maybe Thielbar could get the boot.
They looking to have him start or for the bullpen, maybe he'll be ok if it just for the bullpen.
With Taillon back against Detroit, theyre in no desperate need for a SP now.
Imanaga, Boyd, Peterson, Assad , and Rea are the other SP