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  1. Rcal10
    I still see a Bellinger for Castillo trade as very possible. Maybe to even out the payroll some the Cubs take Garver back in the deal. Maybe the Cubs add Wicks or Wesneski and/or a minor leaguer to the deal. Not top 10 in the system. That deal gets the Mariners a left handed bat they want, rids them of a $12M contract for Garver and gets them out of some Castillo money the last 3 years of his deal. But it helps the Cubs because it gets a solid pitcher and a back up/starting catcher for Bellinger’s money. Cubs would now have about $30M to $35M to spend to get another bat and maybe a pen arm.
  2. Rcal10
    Hasn’t this suggestion already been refuted? It is just bad reporting that suggested this, is the way I understand it. No one other than Sherman has brought up Suzuki’s name. He isn’t going to be traded. First, because he is very good. But I also feel it would hurt the Cubs Japanese relationship. This is not the time to do that.
  3. Rcal10
    Yep. If Severino signs this sort of deal what does Flaherty get? Eovaldi as well. And then we get into Burnes and Fried. Cubs need to trade for that next rotation piece. They are not going 3/4 years at $23+ annual for the non elite and also not doing 6/$160 for the elite.
  4. Rcal10
    Got it. Not sure I would do Alcantara and Triantos, but I get your point. I guess if they had to do both, I would. But I would try Long instead of one of them. Hopefully he has some helium due to a having a great minor league season and continuing to hit in the fall league. And it looks like I read the Hoerner deal you suggested wrong. Because I agree what you say here. Don’t really think it matters if Thaiss is added or not(that can be said for both teams😀) on that deal. My guess is he wouldn’t be someone that sealed a deal. Obviously this will never happen, but I like your idea.
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    I would be fine with acquiring all the guys he suggested in deals. But I think he gave up too much. If the Cubs are taking Garver’s contract they shouldn’t have to give up Wicks and Wesneski with Hoerner. Maybe one of them and Murray with Hoerner. As for Lowe I don’t think you have to give up Alcantara and Triantos. Maybe one of them and a lowered level guy(Long) plus Palencia. Hard to tell with Tampa. They don’t always value prospect the same as other organizations. But adding Woo in the rotation, Fairbanks as the closer, Lowe to take over for Nico and Garver to catch would make for a solid off season. And they would still have a fairly loaded minor league system. If they were able to accomplish this I would hope they would hold onto Bellinger. That would be a high 80’s to low 90’s win team IMO. Maybe they would need to sign a FA bench bat. That would be about it.
  6. Rcal10
    No, the Cubs are not secretly meeting with Soto. That isn’t happening.
  7. Rcal10
    I didn’t realize that Suzuki thing was refuted. Yes, that is a good thing.
  8. Rcal10
    I am going to go out on a limb here and say if the Cubs offered what TB offered him he would pick the Cubs. He is from Chicago area and was a Cubs fan growing up. Besides that who goes to a team that might play home games attended by 2,000 people instead of playing in front of 30,000+ a night.
  9. Rcal10
    Seriously! WTF!!!! That was a very reasonable deal. Are we really going with that bum we signed from the Angels as a back up catcher. Why is this happening? Why does it seem they are going to trim the budget more than to just a bit below the LT line. I don’t understand it. Between talks of moving Nico and Bellinger and now even Suzuki mentioned, WTF!!!!!
  10. Rcal10
    Has to be Bellinger. Suzucki makes no sense at all.
  11. Rcal10
    If the Cubs trades Bellinger for someone like Castillo either Cassie or Shaw can take Bellinger’s spot. Doesn’t have to be Cassie. Shaw can be the DH.
  12. Rcal10
    Yates has over 30 saves last year with a 1.17 ERA. He was amazing. He is older. But if they get him it is hardly bargain shopping.
  13. Rcal10
    Are you trying to win an award for the most Tim McCarver (captain obvious) comment of all time with this comment? What is even the point of mentionjng this now. The Soto ship sailed long ago. You “DOUBT” they get in a bidding war? The white Sox have a better chance of winning the WS next year than the chances of the Cubs getting into a bidding war for Soto.
  14. Rcal10
    Christian Hernandez too. He has never even been a top 100, or am I missing something?
  15. Rcal10
    First time I have heard Chafin. At least he is left handed.
  16. Rcal10
    But as I said, if they did this trade so they really have to trade Bellinger? What are they going to do with that money? They have their staff. Why not just keep Bellinger than?
  17. Rcal10
    If the Sox are getting Cassie, Young and Celestin they are not getting additional pieces from the Cubs. I also doubt they get that much. I think more realistic would be Cubs get Crochett, White Sox get Young and Celestin plus a lower level guy from the Cubs. Seattle gets Hoerner and maybe Triantos or someone lower than him on the prospect list of the Cubs. The damage would be the Sox lose Crochett, the Mariners lose Young and Celestin and the Cubs lose Hoerner, Triantos and a lowered lever young prospect.
  18. Rcal10
    If the Cubs traded Nico to get a staring pitcher would they need to trade Bellinger? They don’t need that money for much of anything unless they are going to go big on a FA pen arm, which I doubt. Why not give Shaw second base and stick with the rest of the guys. If anything, I would like to see them find way to get Lowe and let him play 2nd. With the savings of payroll on the Hoerner/Crochet difference they should have no issue adding Lowe, a pen arm, a right hands bench bat(Grichek) and a catcher(Jansen)
  19. Rcal10
    I don’t want to lose Nico either. But if you can get a TOR starter by dealing him and 2 solid prospects you have to at least consider it. As you said the difference between who they put at 2nd (probably Shaw)and Crochet versus Hoerner and Assad is pretty substantial. Besides that, if they really wanted to they could look into trading for Lowe to take second. Then if they deal Bellinger there is still a spot for a prospect to fill in the line up.
  20. Rcal10
    Probably. Still an interesting idea. Maybe the Mariners have to come up with a prospect to give the Sox. Then Cubs deal 2 prospects instead of 3. Doubt Shaw is one of them. But maybe Triantos, Alcantara or Cassie is the top guy.
  21. Rcal10
    If true this is interesting. But if Hoerner goes I doubt Shaw is in the deal too.
  22. Rcal10
    The problem to what Levine is saying is the top 3 prospects of each team can be very different. Sure, Sox might get the top 3 prospects of a bad system. But is that as good as something like Smith, Rojas and Triantos from the Cubs?
  23. Rcal10
    Totally agree with your point. But I would rather go with a trade for Lowe and then sign Grichek as your right handed bat. Money probably works out the same.
  24. Rcal10
    Agreed. I think the Cubs would not consider trading him if they are getting lowballed due to injury concerns and I feel every team they talk to will lowball them because they will use injury concerns as a reason to give back less. This is why I think young prospects for Crochet (or any other pitcher on a bad team) makes more sense than Hoerner to the Mariners. But who knows🤷
  25. Rcal10
    If you read the post I referred to you would know it was Woo’s arm the original poster said the Mariners had concerns about.
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