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2026 Chicago Bears Offseason Thread
Geographyhater8888 replied to Outshined_One's topic in Other Sports
Zavion Thomas over under for receiving yards? 250? -
Good. He needs a reset.
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330 is ridiculous. Sign stealing comes to mind.
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I’m surprised the pitching lab hasn’t told Assad to stop throwing his sinker like with Taillon and Cabrera. They only like low 90’s 4 seamers that are clobbered.
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Have the bloop hitting, blow hard Brewers hacked the system with a 100 wRC+ and a 111 wRC+ with RISP since 2018?
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If the Cubs traded Taillon for Detmers before the season straight up in an alternate universe, one of their trade targets, they’d theoretically be 42-33. Trading for a starting pitcher might not make them a top 10 pitching staff but run prevention from our gold glove defense only works if you can limit home runs. Cubs are ranked dead last in home runs allowed at 1.5 game, they’re 27th in fWAR and a modest 17th in ERA. So top 10 in ERA is certainly achievable and more economical when you factor in the amount of farm capital it’d take to land Alvarez over the available pitchers. Ben Brown in 26 and Cade Horton in 25 both have xERAs between 1.2-1,3 runs higher than their actual ERAs. No matter how frustrating the offense can be at times it can’t be overstated just how much those same streaky hitters mask the deficiencies of our pitching staff playing defense.
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Glad we don’t have to face the Rockies again. They were a tough opponent.
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Are the Cubs getting lucky on soft contact or are the Rockies positioned really poorly in the field?
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Trap. What kind of horsefeathers camera angle did CC have to waive off challenging that?
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Danny!!!! Looks like the wind blew the horsefeathers out that.
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Eventually you’d think at least that the RISP problems will progress to the mean and the offense will score runs consistently again. It won’t be the first time it’s happened with this core. The pitching will suck, and these scoring droughts might bite them in the ass like in 2023 and 2024. These are all different solutions to fixing a team that isn’t good enough no matter how impractical adding a bat would be with a pitching staff that’s putrid.
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6th in offensive war, 12 in runs and 27th in pitching war. The pitching is obviously the problem and situational hitting too lately, and it’s a better bet we’ll see more positive regression there. The pitching is a bigger problem and the offense hasn’t been able to pick them up, and 38-36 is the end result. The focus should be on 27th ranked staff but time and time again this offense goes through these droughts that ends up biting them in the ass like in 23-24, which is frustrating. The position players are the teams strength so naturally people will focus on their struggles based on expectations, fair or not. If someone is trying to lose weight then cutting calories is probably a better approach than spending an extra 2 hours in the gym doing cardio or amputating your own leg, but it’ll help you achieve your weight loss goals I guess.
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You’re talking about adding wins. Yeah, if the pitching staff sucks, which it does, then another PCA since May 26th will help. So could adding a couple more Ben browns. We’re just splitting hairs over ways to improve the team. But these consistent 1-2 month scoring droughts year after year leaves little margin for error with a consistently below average pitching staff that’s currently in shambles. And the point was that adding a star bat still isn’t the fix if you want to put the last 16 games in a vacuum. PCA has been on a tear and they’re 7-9 since May 26th. Although scoring runs is a bigger problem than box score stats lately.
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Yeah. PCA has been the best player in the world since May 26th and the Cubs are 7-9 in that time span against bad teams. Cubs need better players. Having a star is a simpler way to add wins than a collection of 3.5 win position players with a lot of fielding value that masks a flawed pitching staff.
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Alcantara will at least have opportunities with 2 uncertain corner outfield spots next year. Ramirez, Shaw and even Rojas are even bigger question marks, blocked at their minor league positions for another 3.4 years. There’s a number of ways that can go. A contending team with in season try outs in the corner outfield next year?
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So a fourth outfielder who can platoon is what you see in him? Nothing wrong with that, I wouldn’t be thrilled with him pencilled in as Happ or Suzukis successor but what the horsefeathers do I know.
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Is anyone really confident in Alcantara? Of all the OF prospects traded he’s the only one who couldn’t fetch anyone significant in a trade. Teams preferred Smith and Cassie. He’s slid outside of the top 100 prospect rankings and he’s 22 years old who strikes out 1/3 of the time against minor league pitchers.
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They won’t be spending $100 million to fill 4 positions. 1 Starting pitcher 1 and corner outfielder will cut into the $100 million, there’s internal options at the other corner outfield spot. If you trade for a cost controlled starting pitcher then that’s more money saved, and it might be a good idea with a number of blocked infield prospects.
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Through 2 games the Cubs have posted .7 fWAR with a 135 wRC+ and 826 OPS. The Rockies have posted -.2 with a 73 wRC+ and a 633 OPS. The series is tied through 2 games while the Rockies have a +2 run differential. That’s impressive horsefeathers. Equally impressive how they’ve gone almost 6 weeks without a win at Wrigley without a walk off or a win by more than 1 run against teams.
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Tip of the cap to the Rockies, they’re the better team. It’s close but I’ll give them the edge.
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Brown, Imanaga, Assad, Rea and Wicks will be out 1-5 for at least another week.
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The game tying solo home run against LA in April? That’s the only hit that comes to mind.
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The Rockies and Cubs are 2 very evenly matched teams.
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For whatever it’s worth, the Cubs have over $100 million coming off the books next season and a lot of the guys coming off the books are starting pitchers who aren’t very good. Outside of 75% of the infield there’s at least enough contractual flexibility to reshuffle the roster quickly and add quality arms instead of being on the hook for aging players like Sandiego and Philly, who failed to cash in on their championship windows. No guarantees with Jed but at least it’s not a do or die situation.
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2026 Chicago Bears Offseason Thread
Geographyhater8888 replied to Outshined_One's topic in Other Sports
Catches: Loveland yards: Burden Touchdowns: Loveland I think Burden plays well into Caleb’s down the field vision.
