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The Brewers could sign the entire Savannah Bananas roster and still find a way to win the NL Central.

His mom is tweeting like the ball is in Ryan’s court now. His decision whether to accept the trade or not. I know this is rather common sense, but feels noteworthy at least coming from his mom. It does mean there’s validity to the report and seemingly the Astros and Cubs are content on a package, just waiting on Ryan to move forward.

Sorry wasn’t directing that to you. I agree with what you’re saying. I was just airing my frustrations about their approach in response to your post, not at you.

Because god forbid the Chicago Cubs go over that $241M. I would hate for Tom Trying To Break Even Ricketts suffer more Biblical Losses by going over a bit. I can only imagine how owning the Cubs and Wrigleyville is such a horrible investment that makes him and his family almost zero money and trying to use their advantage of being a large market team would sink that family and their profits. I mean god bless the Ricketts for even willing to spend enough to run out a 85 win team while only breaking even at years end. That’s true dedication on their part.

I don’t buy this report. It would be super fun though to pair him and Hodge in the back end of the pen. I would be shocked if Jed went 4/80 on Scott. I don’t see anybody going 4/80 on him, not even LA. We will see though… sounds like he’s close to a decision.

I mean yeah. That’s basically what was reported. 3 year deal with opt outs after each year. Basically the Bellinger 2.0 contract.

I’m guessing if this ever came to fruition, Nico likely gets traded for SP and Shaw likely plays 2B.

I would consider sending my first born to KC for Bobby Witt lmao

Personally I’d pay up for Burnes and then turn around and trade Taillon. Surely you can get a contender to take him at 1/18. I don’t know what Burnes will end up get annually, he’s projected for 7/200 ($28M per year), so let’s call it 7/210 ($30M per year). Then you could turn around and trade Taillon and his 1/18. That puts you with around $28M left to spend. Get back on the phone with Miami to bring Luzardo over to take Taillon’s spot. That puts you with around $20M to spend on the bullpen. That’s a good rotation regardless, but if you add Sasaki as well, it’s pretty elite. Burnes Steele Shota Luzardo Boyd Sasaki

As much as I’ve pushed back on this FO, I do have extreme confidence that they nailed this meeting and will nail the whole process. They are extremely good at these type of things. I need Roki like I need air. That guy is freaking electric.

Not sure if already posted, but Dom is tight with Happ, so maybe he knows something, maybe not. Figured I’d post anyways

It’s a tough spot. I don’t love Luzardo. I know it doesn’t really matter, but the idea of 4 lefties in the rotation is just weird to me. I don’t love Castillo. I like him fine, but the problem is I don’t want to give anything up for him. As Cuzi said, you could have just signed Eovaldi for money and gotten roughly the same production for the same money without having to give anything up. Cease is the one, but he will be expensive prospect wise and he’s another rental. I don’t see a world where the FO extends both he and Tucker. I would love for them to just pay up for Burnes, but they just aren’t going to sail past the LT. We already know that. Again it’s not an ideal situation either way you slice it. Interested to see what happens here.

Really need this trade to break. 2 full days I’ve been consumed by this now lol

If it’s Seiya AND Paredes, maybe. But this hasn’t gone this far down the road if they weren’t super close. There’s a lot of moving parts. Including the Bellinger side. Jed has to figure out if he will need to keep Belli. Trade Belli first. Will he need Warren for Belli to add to the Tucker deal? Just so much going on here that we can’t even grasp I would imagine.

Dream scenario imo. Would hate to lose Smith. Loved him on draft day and still do today, but if we can get Tucker without giving up Shaw, that’s a huge W in my book.

*If* hypothetically the deal involves Paredes and Shaw, where do the Cubs turn for 3B next season? Busch and go after Alonso to play 1st? Keep Belli and move Busch to 3rd? Possibly Bregman? Just curious what y’all’s thoughts are.

I understand that the Cubs just might not be able to resign Tucker if they trade for him. Things happen. He might prefer somewhere else. Might want to play closer to home. We might get “Cohen’ed” by somebody. Could be anything out of our control. That’s fine. My issue would be the Cubs giving up a ton of assets with no intentions at all to be willing to step out of their comfort zone and give a 10/3-400M contract out. I just don’t see the point. Yes. It would be cool for one year… but that’s just not the kind of risks I think this team should be taking at this point. I get the arguments. I agree with the “just get the star player and then see what happens.” My whole point is you have to at least be willing to step up to the big boy table when the time comes. If he signs elsewhere, at least you can say you took a shot, offered fair market value, but just missed out. At least we tried. But giving up 3 years of Parades, multiple years of Ben Brown (?), and another elite prospect (Shaw/Smith), just for one year of Kyle Tucker on a .500 team with zero intentions of getting anywhere close to his asking price in free agency would be as dumb as giving up Seyia & Parades & Smith. Trust me. I’m all aboard the acquiring Kyle Tucker train. I’ve refreshed Twitter constantly tonight hoping something breaks. Will watch it all day tomorrow. I just hope Jed isn’t stupid about this to try and save his job.

can’t tell if this is just Jesse assuming or what based on this FO track record. But if he’s correct and Jed has zero intent to try and retain Tucker, then what’s the point? We aren’t one player away. We’ve been a .500 franchise for years now and currently sit at the .500 mark as is going into next year. We aren’t in a position to trade away multiple year assets for one player that doesn’t put us over the top. I understand extending him can be tricky and maybe just completely out of Jed’s control, but if he isn’t even willing to put a competitive offer on the table, then what is even the point?

1) Would be pretty shocked if Jed traded both Seiya and Parades. 2) Would also be shocked if Jed did this while not being willing to do everything in his power to extend / re-sign him. He knows Kyle will be in that 400 range. If this trade happens, I would feel pretty confident Jed / Tom will be willing to finally pay up for a star player.