PeanutPunch33

That's because he was a DH mostly last year while Happ gets play LF, arguably the easiest position in baseball to play. And Morel is clearly not a 3rd baseman, yet they are choosing to ruin his career by forcing him there. Let Morel play 150+ games in LF and then compare their WARs. Just my opinion. Ian Happ is who he is. Morel actually has real potential. Edit and I don't hate Ian at all, just very sensitive to Morel criticism. I seem to be the only one here that remembers what he did for this team last season

Nice series win before they get slaughtered in Baltimore

when did I say they don't count lol? Thank god they do otherwise he'd be in AAA

go to baseball reference and check out his stats vs those 2 teams vs the rest of the league.. pretty straightforward, and pretty glaring even in the midst of the best stretch of his career, he won't come close to the .500+ slugging that Morel did last year or the 26 home runs., or the .820 ops. mic drop

Probably every single team, since he's less than a year removed from nearly 30 home runs as a 24 year old The Morel hate is so funny, and so tiring. You know who's a bum? Ian Happ. I have 5 years of evidence that he's an overpaid overrated player that only shows up against the Reds and Pirates

It really sucks that the Cubs haven't positioned themselves to be buyers this year because there are so many intruiging names that could be traded. Guerrero/Bichette, Crochet/Robert, Arozarena, Jazz Chisolm. All fairly young and could be difference makers for years to come..

Counsell finally finds out that if you keep PCA and Amaya on the bench all game long, you may actually have a chance to win

I'm talking about their profiles as Hitters. Swanson is so MID. In fact, I think I hate him.

Lol that doesn't make him a good player, or make it a good signing, or make Jed above criticism for signing such an abhorrent player. Jason Heyward had better or comparable statistics thru 2 seasons than Dansby Swanson. This is the funniest thing I've read today - "no big deal that we flushed 175 m down the toilet on a terrible player because some other incompetent teams did the same thing!" Spending money for the sake of spending money is how stupid GMs like Jed Hoyer get fired. The Braves signed Orlando Arcia for 5% of what they would have re-signed Dansby Swanson for and he has way better numbers

haha

I remember I said this is the worst bullpen in America a few months back, nobody believed me.. I wish I wasn't right..

It's so Cubs that their best prospect can't hit worth a horsefeathers. Corey Patterson 2.0

I don't care how good the Cubs farm system supposedly is, if they end up in last place or 4th with a $230 million payroll, people need to lose their jobs in the front office

But I guess that if the Cubs keep sucking *** and Amaya keeps playing like a single A player, the Cubs front office can continue leaking information about Contreras' time here in Chicago, breaking ipads. Such a slimy organization. Funny as hell that their handpicked replacement of him can't even hit above the Mendoza line

Amaya is probably one of the 5 worse big league players right now. Every time that punk scrub hits a ball out of the infield it feels like a human accomplishment like going to the moon

lol if the Cubs offered that trade, it would be the Mets that say no

I was just thinking the other day. That's a guy I'd trade Horton + for in a heartbeat. He really is that special and something that I think should interest both teams, the Mets don't have a lot of pitching but they have a new GM that really wants young pitching

Why does every athlete have a terrible podcast

game over

The Cubs getting BORP production from Hendricks rest of way would be a nice little boost

Amaya is foul in every way, a literal 0 tool player that should be in Triple AAA, but that was a nice AB

haha same old LOSERS can't even hit it out of the infield on a windy day

Nico is so overrated.

In case anybody was wondering, the Cubs have only scored 10+ runs twice all season long, and not since April 16th. Without major changes, and quickly, this could be a historically bad offense.

I thought that when the Cubs got Craig Counsell, they would explore creative solutions to win games, especially in 1-run games. 1. Why didn't the Cubs explore Ben Brown at closer or high leverage relief, despite him having prototypical stuff for that type of role? Even if you think he is a starter in the long-run, why not give it a shot when the bullpen was so putrid for a long time and Brown was riding the bench 4-5 days in a row at the time? And at that time, Wesneski was actually dominating a few starts as a Starter, yet you throw him back into the bullpen and now 1 is injured and the other sucks? 2. Tyson Miller has been like the best reliever since he has put on a Cubs uniform, why do we keep seeing Wesneski/Neris instead of him? 3. Why hasn't Canario been given an extended run at DH or as a contributor? Instead they opt for career journeymen like Madrigal and Wisdom? It makes no horsefeathers sense especially if they thought Busch could play 2nd base on occasion..which he has. At least Canario can run into a home run every now and then and also is young enough where you can see some potential. WTF does Wisdom provide? 4. What value does that smug punk Carter Hawkins provide? Go find a real executive that knows what he's doing, he's turned this organization into the 2021 Guardians. I haven't heard 1 word from that bum during this 6 week stretch of misery, but he will certainly show up when things are going well