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You know what would create more space to work with before reaching that self imposed LT restriction? Not having a years restriction. They are both stupid.
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Cubs Receiving Trade Interest In Second Baseman Nico Hoerner
Cuzi replied to Brock Beauchamp's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
I dont count on Amaya for much of anything. With him or not, the Cubs will still need a catcher, preferably one that can be relied upon to carry most of the load. Busch, Swanson, and PCA are the only positions players absolutely locked into a spot. Everything else is a big question mark. I have faith Shaw can be a guy that can at the very least give you close, if not equal, performance to what Hoerner gives you at 2B. But then plugging in a whole bunch of meh level rookies into 3B, LF, RF, DH, and whatever you decide to do at C and expecting them all to perform at the level of the veterans they replaced sounds like the absolutely dumbest expectations to go in with. -
92 wins and bounced from the playoffs by a team with 80M in payroll less. And sure, you can make the argument that something like that can happen in any given year. Even the Dodgers were 1 out away from losing to the Blue Jays. They almost lost to the Padres in the first round in 2024. But we are not talking about a 1 off when it comes to the Cubs. This is an annual tradition of having to ask if the Cubs have spent $90M+ extra than their competition wisely enough to beat them? It's pathetic. Teams ask themselves how they beat the Dodgers. The Cubs ask themselves how they beat the Brewers. Hoyer is building for the regular season and a hope and prayer in the playoffs. His philosophy seems to be a very expensive Cinderella story.
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I would say 3 and 4 are true. I still see them in on Imai/King. Everything else is going to be cheap as hell to stay under the LT and we are going to go into 2026 with another pathetic attempt to win a small market division, put butts in the seats, and earn a little bonus money for playing at least 3 games in October before being shipped out.
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Cubs Receiving Trade Interest In Second Baseman Nico Hoerner
Cuzi replied to Brock Beauchamp's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
My willingness to get behind trading Nico relies on what exactly the Cubs plan is going forward. The Cubs are going to need 4, maybe 5, starting position players for 2027. What are we doing? Are we extending Nico? I don't get the feeling we are actually trying to build for a WS with all these current 1 year left players. So what is the plan? -
Cubs Receiving Trade Interest In Second Baseman Nico Hoerner
Cuzi replied to Brock Beauchamp's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Abrams is a terrible defender. Him being on the Cubs radar would be truly shocking to me. -
On paper, there's only a couple "impact" pen arms left available. I suspect by the time the Cubs get their SP that those 2 will have signed elsewhere and the Cubs will be going with their patented quantity vs quality approach.
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On paper, there's only a couple "impact" pen arms left available. I suspect by the time the Cubs get their SP that those 2 will have signed elsewhere and the Cubs will be going with their patented quantity vs quality approach.
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Let's hope they get that SP figured out before all of the other quality free agents put pen to paper.
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Chicago Cubs Have "Renewed Interest" In Alex Bregman
Cuzi replied to Matthew Lenz's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Interest - held a zoom meeting 3 weeks ago. -
Still some large and medium market teams out there with some overlap with the Cubs. When those teams make their moves and the market settles, the Cubs will be there ready to pounce on what is left.
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Let me answer with another question. Do you think I'm being serious with the "fear of a lockout" or I'm mocking the mindset of the Cubs wanting to keep the slate clean because, "The sky is falling, there may be a salary cap coming!"?
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If you go by Fangraphs FA tracker, pretty much everyone is beating the projections. Lots of fear going around over the potential lock out...
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But at least they'll be getting 1 pick back because they have no interest in retaining Tucker.
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Live look at Jed Hoyer contemplating another 9 figure contract
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Its truly embarrassing the way this team manages its operation. Everything Jed does revolves around if the market likes the player he is trying to sign. If the market likes them he's going to bow out every time because the price is going to end up higher than his surplus calculations. Ask him about going out and getting the players he needs to build a roster fit for October and you are left with the answer, "It depends on how the market values them."
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Just because things have changed from the outside doesn't mean it's changed from the inside. The Nationals are not said to be shopping Gore. They are listening to offers with no rush to trade him. This doesn't sound like an organization backing down from the asking price much, if at all. He's still one of the better/best options available in the trade market, no matter how much I dislike the option of trading for him. They are going to use that fact to their advantage.
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I dont want Bregman because you know damn well the Cubs are going to jack up the annual to lower the term. Then you have Jesse Rogers over there saying that the market for Kyle Tucker is 250-300M. I dont believe that for a second, but if that is the case and the Cubs sit out on that for a 32 year old 3B that's a lesser player but getting paid damn near the same amount of the budget, then this organization can piss right off.
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Not when the asking price begins with Matt Shaw.
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I think a smart organization waits another 2 years to take that leap and just signs a Michael King if they want an upside project for 2026.
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It doesn't give me a lot of warm and fuzzies to hear Gore doesn't have good enough stuff to attack the strike zone. Another issue he has is that he is notorious for tanking in the second half of the season and his workload is not that crazy in a year. It's like he doesn't have the stamina to be a full time starter.
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It's pretty simple, really. Outside of his slider, which he exclusively uses against lefties, his best secondary pitch lands in the strike zone just 40% of the time. He nibbles. You can pretty much take your pick of top pitchers in the game and look at how often their secondary pitches are thrown for a strike and walk away with their least controlled pitch landing in the zone as much as Gores best controlled pitch. If you are comparing Gore to league average, you are lowering the bar. We are talking about him as a TOR pitcher that's going to require a TOR trade package to acquire. Pass.
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You can praise all the underlying data you want when it comes to Gore. I'm not going to get erect talking about his extension, movement on pitches, <insert shiny talking point here>, when the end result of it all is a pitch that ended up a ball because his secondary pitches don't make it in the strike zone. The guy averages just over 5 innings a game because he will not or cannot attack the strike zone. MacKenzie Gore has made it to the 7th inning 11 times in his entire career. I don't want to rely on my bullpen nearly as much as my "ace" starting pitcher. Ideally, I want 2 pitchers better than Gore in my rotation. I'm not paying a kings ransom to get 2 years of a pitcher I immediately have to develop and hope to get more out of him in a short amount of time to make it worth it that I'm going to slot in as my #3. I'm not even entertaining a trade for a guy like Gore unless I swing and miss on pretty much every top pitcher available in FA and then I'm still like 99% sure I'm walking away from a Gore trade when I hear the asking price.
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Nope. The word you are looking for is would.
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On one hand you have the Diamondbacks wanting pitching in return for a A-tier player on a cheap deal, going to take a lot of pitching to get him. On the other hand you have the Cubs wanting to keep it's pitching and add on to it and putting hitting on the back burner, seemingly. Sounds like a match made in heaven.
