Rcal10
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Well if there is a positive, Cade has looked very good.
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What we are seeing is a team in a slump. It happens. Going to be some tough times where if the Cubs do win it is going to be ugly. It happens to all teams. It might be bad for a bit, but I think this team is good enough to hit again after the slump and still be fine.
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You probably asked Jason. But I can also answer. I would want Cabrera. For one thing, he has one more year. He is also cheaper and he is pitching better now.
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Question of the week: name your trade candidate
Rcal10 replied to Brock Beauchamp's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Ryan or Gore and nothing else, gives them an A? I don’t agree. That isn’t a big enough deadline. It is good, not A. Plus to get one of then I am sure you lose 2 of their top 5 guys plus more. -
He actually isn’t that low. Or at least not as low as fans here want to make him out to be. He is at OPS+ of 101. It would not take much to get him to 115, tbh. But to answer your question, in ‘23 Happ had OPS of 821 in August and 839 in September. He ended the season in his usual spot. If he does that this August and September I would guess he would show the same numbers.
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Also, factor in Ian Happ, year after year has good and bad streaks. For the last 4 years he has been a guy who has very down periods and then periods where he carries a team. I know that has nothing to do with your POV. I am just reminding people we do this every damn year with Happ. I agree, he will be fine. And at the end of the year we will see the same 115-120 OPS+ we see every year from him.
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Question of the week: name your trade candidate
Rcal10 replied to Brock Beauchamp's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
I don’t think the Cubs can acquire one guy at the deadline that would allow me to grade their deadline as a B. It would have to be either Gore or Ryan, and even then, because of what they would obviously have to lose to get one of those guys as well as lack of additional pick ups, I am not sure that would rank as a B deadline. There are numerous options of multiple players what would get them a B. -
Question of the week: name your trade candidate
Rcal10 replied to Brock Beauchamp's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
I would go under that number. I am not sure the Cubs will even move more than 4 prospects overall, let alone more than 4 top 10 prospects. -
Thanks Jason.
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I agree with you. I don’t see them doing all of this either Maybe 3 of the moves he mentioned. And there is a path that doesn’t really give up that high a prospect in any one trade. Take Lugo, Gallen, and Bieber for examples. None should get a top 6 on the team. A pen arm, who isn’t elite but rather a middle relief pitcher, shouldn’t take a top 10 guy. Personally, I don’t see Suarez as a Cub. But if they will take someone not in the top 6 in the organization, maybe he is here. I think I would rather have Castro, tbh. And he would cost less. The only guys who would cost more would be the guys with team control. Sandy and Cabrera. They probably would require one top 60 prospect (maybe something more with that).
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Pretty sure it won’t be getting Marte.
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But you did compare Cabrera to Assad. Maybe go to baseball savant and check the comparisons. Then tell me Assad is just as good. He isn’t close. Cabrera has then”potential” to be an ace. Assad has the potential to be a solid BOR starter. Now, I do agree with you that the Cubs shouldn’t trade 3 great prospects for Cabrera. That is the cost of guys like Gore or Ryan. Cabrera and Sandy should be less. But less might be one top 50-70 prospect and a couple of lower guys in the Cubs system. Remember, each has several years of control after this one. Neither is going to be cheap, but shouldn’t cost 3 “great” prospects, either. Any pitcher worth trading for who comes with a couple to 3 years of control left is going to cost a top 50-70 prospect. Keller might even cost that. Of Keller, Cabrera and Sandy, if cost is the same on all, Keller would be my 3rd choice. I think Cabrera and Sandy are high reward acquisition. But with that comes risk.
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Serious question. Is this the first season you are following the Cubs? Have you not seen Happ EVERY YEAR? First, you are exaggerating his season. He has not been good for a good portion of it, but he hasn’t been awful with the exception of 2 weeks. He has had one stretch where he was very good, but that didn’t last too long. As he does every season, I would guess he will have another good streak. I don’t know when. But in the end he will probably finish at that OPS+ between 111 and 120, as he has done for several years. That, with his defense in left make him a fine player. Sure, I would rather he go all season between 111 and 120 OPS, but that is not who he is.
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But I don’t think it is cheaper to get Suarez than it is a rental pitcher. Of the rentals maybe only Cease would cost more, and I have doubts Cease is available. Best rentals realistically available are guys like Kelly, Lugo, Houser, Soroka, Gallen. None would cost what Suarez costs. And the Cubs need a pitcher or two way more than Suarez.
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They are not doing this. There is a far greater chance Cassie gets traded than there is him playing left field for the Cubs this year while they fake an injury to Happ.
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Especially since we have seen this from him a few times. He has probably had 4 disastrous starts in the two years with the team. For some reason it happens to him. But for the most part his other starts are either good or great. He is fine. Just had a bad start. It happens.
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Yep. They are a team with a top 5 record in the league and they have absolutely no chance of winning the WS. They should probably sell. But then again, every team in baseball has gone through tough 20 game stretches. So I guess no team is going to win the WS this year.
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No problem. I think we both agree here.
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I know this. You probably should have responded to peanut, not me. He seems to think Cabrera isn’t an upgrade over Assad. Which he is. But if somehow Assad is as good as Cabrera it would be great to have two guys to turn to instead of Rea and a bullpen day.
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Why does Cabrera have to be an upgrade? He is, but even assuming you are right (you’re not), why can’t the Cubs have Cabrera and Assad?
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Who are you considering 3 great prospects. If they truly had to give up 3 GREAT prospects, I would agree with you. But if it is one top 100 prospect and two others between 12-25 in the organization I would be fine getting Cabrera.
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Maybe I am buying into to Jason’s explanation that Suarez won’t be as big a difference as we think he will be, but I think I would rather have Castro at a lower cost, than Suarez for his rumored/expected cost.
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Predicting it now. Like it or not Cubs get either Cabrera or Alcantara before the Marlins leave Milwaukee on Sunday. Whichever one they get starts Tuesday in Milw. If I had to pick the second pitcher they end up with I would say Kelly.
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That is just obscenely ridiculous.
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Do the Cubs get Castro with just one of those guys? I might rather do that. I like Castro’s versatility. And it allows Shaw to play more.
