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After going through a season of Gage Workman, Jon Berti, Vidal Brujan, Nicky Lopez and Willi Castro, following a season of Miles Mastrobuoni, Nick Madrigal, David Bote and Luiz Vazquez....the Cubs are not trading Matt Shaw.
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Between the strikeout profile of Owen Caissie, very likely to be made more glaring by MLB pitching and his often clumsy, and likely to get worse, defense in the OF.....this is a trade you make 150 times out of 100. Whatever risk is associated with Edward Cabrera, this is a baseball trade through and through and there is no argument that Chicago didn't get the better of it as we stand in January, 2026. Time will tell the rest.
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The only thing that matters is this....difference makers win championships. Absent true difference makers on this club, absent legitimate difference makers in the minors and absent signing for or trading for difference makers this offseason....these decisions being made are just rearrangements and nothing remotely close to improvements.
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This is what an offense without difference makers looks like. If it looks familiar, it is...because save the first six to eight weeks of the 2025 season, this is what the offense has looked like in previous seasons. When Tucker and Crow-Armstrong went on their early season star turns, they were middle order hitters who needed to be considered. When their performance dropped significantly, the offense became nothing but guys with nobody to fear. Now, you could argue that Busch and Suzuki have had their moments lately that make them better than just guys, but are they really guys you need to work around? Certainly not Busch when the game goes left on left. And arguably not Suzuki when the game goes right on right. The demise of this team could very well be the pitching, as beaten and battered as it is. But this team, and this lineup, is really nothing but a consistent iteration of previous years, whose launch-angle and flyball/strikeout tendencies is not very well suited for consistent offensive production. Say what you want, but the swing less, battle more approach of Milwaukee and their seven dwarfs lineup is a far better approach than what Jed Hoyer has put together.
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No, Mike Soroka is not a playoff weapon. He shouldn't even be on the playoff roster. Sorry....trying to squeeze anything out of that mishap is not happening.
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The sooner the Hoyer/Hawkins "unemotional approach to player acquisition and development" and the asinine over-reliance on useless analytics and metrics is a thing of the past, the sooner the organization can return, or get to, a level of reasonable. This is what you get when you build a team based on math and predictive models. This organization is bereft of difference makers at both the MLB and MILB level. It's going to be quite painful to watch this play out in the next several years. Quite painful.
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It's not just Swanson. You cannot win with an offense that consistently swings as much as this offense does. Way too many first-pitch attack outs. Watch Milwaukee's offense and see what consistent offense looks like.....they don't swing nearly as much. In fact, this isn't just a Cubs problem. MLB teams all swing way, way, way too much given the brutal control of most MLB pitchers. It's an epidemic.
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Ah, the old "bad luck" rationalization for every metric that doesn't line up with asinine metrics. Put whatever numbers you want on it, Tucker has simply not barreled fastballs for the better part of two months. Tha'ts based on a metric I like to call EYETEST.
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IMHO, if you don't have a playoff roster, and the Cubs do not currently have that, unless you're acquiring difference makers, none of these trades make a great deal of sense. It could be aruged that Bieber may "make a difference" though with regressing stuff I'm not sure I'd be willing to pinpoint him as a true needle mover. The rest of the given options are merely hole-filling and wouldn't make this team playoff-competitive and thus I wouldn't imagine any of them are actually necessary deals to consider.
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