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Cubs Receiving Trade Interest In Second Baseman Nico Hoerner
Cuzi replied to Brock Beauchamp's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Not sure I agree with that. You only think about trading him if you have a 3rd baseman ready to sign. So assuming that is the case and Shaw is replacing Hoerner at 2B, then Hoerner is projected at 3.8 WAR and Shaw is projected at 2.9 WAR. You don't think the Cubs can find more than 0.9 WAR in value to the MLB roster in a trade for Nico Hoerner? -
Cubs Receiving Trade Interest In Second Baseman Nico Hoerner
Cuzi replied to Brock Beauchamp's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
I can see a world where they would prefer to move Hoerner, slide Shaw over to 2nd, and sign a 3B. I really don't get the feeling they intend to offer Hoerner an extension. By moving him and getting a decent haul in return and signing a 3B like Bregman or Okamoto, you hope to have the infield pretty well set in stone for 4 years until Swanson is out. Thats probably pretty enticing to a team looking at a while horsefeathers ton of turnover for 2027. -
The players already know what they are making. It's all behind closed doors.
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Generally speaking, I don't consider 1 playoff appearance in a division you out spend by at least $60M "fine." But that's just me.
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I dont know if they are gambling on anything. I think they are just using this "fear of the unknown" as an excuse to squeeze every last penny out of the cash cow. They can't seriously believe a salary cap is around the corner. The players union is never going to agree to a pay cut. No union would. And they don't have to. The owners lose out on way more than the players the longer a lock out carries on. The only way salaries will go down is if the owners collectively agree to light their assets on fire and kill the league all together. Then a new league starts up with new financials.
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Top end salaries aren't coming down. You most likely wont see an extreme outlier like Ohtani or Soto for a very long time, but the scatter plot is still going to be trending up. That's simply how money works.
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It should be pretty heavily implied in that post that I was not talking about this year. With that said, I should have erased all doubt when I replied to you and said, "Not talking about this year."
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The sky is about to fall after the 2026 season. We need to keep as much payroll available as possible. Right now there's just Swanson and Maton on the books for 2027. Of course the rest of the league is acting like it's no big deal and is just throwing money around left and right, but they are going to be sorry next year. The Cubs clearly know a storm is brewing and they are apparently the only team in the league privy to this. Prioritize the old/marginal players commanding 1 year deals and reap the benefits when all the muscle have to cut players next year to get under the salary cap.
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I recently thought about that idea, but quickly pivoted to that if they just want a righty bat that mashes lefties and can be plugged in at 3B then just sign Miguel Andujar.
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To me, signing or trading for a bat is last resort if all of their pitching options dry up and there's literally nothing left to do. It's all been about pitching, pitching, and more pitching out of these guys mouths.
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I've already explained you are wrong about this. You assumed I was talking about this season when clearly I was not. Alex Bregman was also a FA last year. No one in their right mind should be thinking I was talking about Hoyer making a move this offseason to save his job for 2027, because that was obviously last year when he blinked at giving Bregman an opt out after year 1 and he ended up signing with the Red Sox who deferred half of his salary to 2035.
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If your point is that in the 2024-25 offseason he just signed a 5 year extension and in fact wasn't in the last year of his contract, then your point is a figment of your imagination.
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We aren't talking about this year, champ.
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But you just said it seems like Bregman is their favorite bat. So if the latter isn't true then at a higher number and a year older, Bregman isn't really on the radar.
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Yet we know for a fact our GM, isn't willing to do what it takes to get a player he "really likes" in a year he's going all in to save his job.
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If Jesse Rogers is right and the price for Bregman has gone up to 6/170 then there's no way I see the Cubs in on that. They offered him 4 last year. He's a year older and had a very Kyle Tucker like mid level year. Why go 6 now?
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How many of the 8 remaining do you have as realistic targets for this FO? I see 2. Imai and Suarez.
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Jesse Roger's saying the price tag on Bregman is going up because of the deals Schwarber and Alonso signed. Makes sense. Guess we'll keep waiting for those prices to come down. This is like all the car buying influencers... "It's OVER! The car market crash of <insert year here> has begun!" Meanwhile it's remained relatively steady for over a year now without any major change outside of EV.
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I'm not even sure Jed goes by "we can't sign anyone until the team is ready." He signed Dansby Swanson and then crickets. Did he think Dansby Swanson was the missing piece? Because he's not done much since and we're coming up on the half way mark of that contract. And looking ahead to 2027, the future isn't looking too bright. The only thing he's done is make a win now move to earn a contract extension and then right back to the same old horsefeathers.
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King has apparently eliminated the Cubs and named the Orioles, Red Sox, and Yankees as his finalists. It's pretty much Imai or bust at this point. With the lack of interest in signing a S tier player like Tucker, this is shaping up to be a dud of an offseason. It's going to be funny how quickly that gameplan of "waiting out the desperate market" til prices decrease turns into a desperate dash to the finish for the Cubs on the trade market.
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I dont think it has anything to do with Heyward. It's just the cowardly way this FO goes about business. They assign a value to a player and that value is a hard cap. It doesn't matter how good the player is. It doesn't matter if it requires a penny more to get the deal done, it's a penny they aren't going to spend. Since Swanson, the most "valuable" player they have signed based on WAR over the previous seasons is Justin Turner, I believe. That's pretty sad.
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I really despise everything about how these guys operate. You are telling me the back-to-back WS champion Dodgers are out here desperate to make a move early and sign one of the best relievers in the game?
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I cant wait to see how Hoyer rebuilds like half the roster next year. So glad we extended him. This man better damn well hope Imai signs here and lives up to the hype.
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Cubs Receiving Trade Interest In Second Baseman Nico Hoerner
Cuzi replied to Brock Beauchamp's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Why you have to edit out the chatgpt link? -
You can pretty much count on every single one of these mega contracts ending under water. However, the market is more than willing to eat the back end of these deals knowing that they are saving on the AAV up front to build a better team initially and then on the back end the contract will not be taking up as much of the tax limit because that threshold is going to continue to rise. The Cubs are avoiding that market all together. So the best players are signing with other teams willing to pay market prices. Then the Cubs are left with paying over market prices on an annual basis to avoid the back end on lesser quality players. So they spend more of the budget on worse players. It makes no sense. Lets avoid spending $35M on 1 player that gets us 4-5 WAR so we can turn around and spend $20-25M on 2 players each to get that 5 WAR.
