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Which current Cubs player would you say has the potential to earn a multi year contract on the open market for north of $240 million ($150 million for pitchers) off of peak production under the current CBA in place? PCA if he decided to bet on himself? The Cubs are log jammed with steady Eddy’s so your options are slim.
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1/30 from our 3-6 hitters since Sunday. Team slug is currently at 384, the league average is 392. 7 straight losses at wrigley, most since August of 2021.
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If Jed is unwilling to commit to a player like Skubal long term then do something bold and rent him. This the best player he’ll ever have the opportunity to trade for at the deadline and he’s got a leg up with Shaw. I hope anyways. No more half assed efforts. It’s Shaw. You just spent $175 million to replace him.
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he looks like he’s wearing a blindfold when swinging at sliders.
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I thought I made it pretty clear that Texas was the exception.
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Sure. Miz is in the running for a Cy Young and Turang is establishing himself as the best second baseman in baseball. It’s not a rule. The 2015 Royals had no truly memorable names besides maybe Zobrist whose fame is tied to the Cubs. I think the superstar question is rooted in skepticism over Jed’s quirky roster construction. If you look at all the other teams with $250 million top 10 payrolls, he’s the only GM without a player signed to a $200+ million contract and a roster mainly comprised of high floor, medium length deal vets with a few exceptions. There’s a bit of unfamiliarity with the lack of aggressive signings unless I’m mistaken.
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I’m aware. But we still have to cross that bridge first. Outside of 2018-19 Yelich, they’ve been defying all projection models with mostly random names.
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I’m speaking about adding another silver slugger DH bat to convey the point that they’ll need to score a ton of runs because the pitching staff blows. They can certainly trade for a top of the rotation starting pitcher, the Ben Brown thing is real (maybe a star in the making) and Cabrera and Boyd perform better, especially Cabrera when they come off the IL, then who the horsefeathers knows. They can shock the world. That needs to happen though. But to your initial point, teams with great players win championships whether they emerged during their championship seasons or were established stars well before. That incomplete list features both of the above. Milwaukee doesn’t really have anyone that belongs on that list and they turtle in the playoffs every year. You took that as a direct shot at the cubs for some reason. My direct shot was comparing the talent gap between the Dodgers everyone else.
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I agree. Better players and or better performance from the pitchers currently on the team is needed in the rotation. If we’re stuck with what we have we’ll need an Aaron Judge like bat at DH to compete with the Dodgers superstar roster, at least on paper. Although I could be off on this, Ian Happ has a higher wRC+ than Freddie Freeman, which may or may not disprove that the Dodgers have really good players.
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Do you think the Cubs are on a similar level of talent to the 2018 Redsox? PCA is great, sure. We don’t have Mookie Betts trending towards league MVP or a Chris Sale who finished top 4 in cy young voting though. We have some great complimentary pieces. Boggarts played like a “superstar”/all star/whatever by earning himself a $280 million contract with Sandiego. So we’ll have to wait on Busch for now.
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That’s a typo, right? Did you mean to to type 70?
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Freeman and a Braves core that won between 88-104 games from 2018-24, Sale, Martinez, Boggarts and Betts on Boston, Soto, Rendon, Turner, Scherzer on Washington, Verlander, Alvarez, Altuve and Bregman on Houston, Texas is the one team where you can definitely say caught lightening in a bottle thanks to career years from Seager, Semian and Garcia, I don’t have to explain the Dodgers or the 2016 Cubs. This has definitely been a phenomenon over the last decade. There has to something to Milwaukee turtling in the playoffs despite 90+ wins every year.
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Yeah. They’re not as potent as the Dodgers or Yankees. The Cubs are a Cy Young winner in the rotation, a healthy and healed Steele and Horton just to be safe and even a silver slugger Dh bat away from being more than heavy underdogs against the Dodgers in a postseason series. That’s not happening. But when a top 6 scoring offense isn’t good to ensure a wildcard spot, that’s more of an indictment on a horrific pitching staff than an imperfect but productive offense. Acquiring a starting pitcher should be the only focus right now.
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I think the only difference is the range of outcomes. A top heavy lineup has more boom or bust potential than a deep 1-9 despite an equivalent runs/game over a full 162 game season. It makes a team more dangerous in a playoff series but just as likely to fall flat on their ass.
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The core of position players performing at a consistently high level is really the only path towards winning games at the moment because the pitching sucks. Taillon falling off a cliff and Hortons absence have been major blows.
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You can call exceeding projections luck if you want but The lack of slug is a problem this season. You’re right, Suzukis OPS was 40+ points lower than the previous 2 seasons, but he still had over 100 RBIs and in large part from his home runs. That element from the offense is missing so far. 3 guys with 30-+ home runs in addition to Nico almost batting 300 was a major reason they hit that 92 win mark.
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It took Kyle Tucker and career years from PCA, Nico, Suzuki and Busch to hit that 92 win mark.
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Not the spirit of your post but it cracks me up how people demand $400 million slugger production from Happ for some bizarre reason, because he’s one of of our top hitters. He is. Unfortunately his production entailed a 3/$60 million contract that he’s more than lived up to He wouldn’t stick out like a sore thumb during these bad slumps with a Juan Soto in the middle of the order to take the pressure and spot light off of him, which isn’t at all his fault.
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Jed didn’t commit $430 million to PCA, Nico and Swanson for their bats.
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Greens efficiency is par for for his last 2.4 seasons yet his ISO is around 100 points lower. Where’d his slug go?
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Dansby sucks. The middle of the order sucks more. They can’t knock in a guy with an RBI hit with any consistency and it shouldn’t fall on the shoulders of our 9 hole hitter to score runs and pick up them up.
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216 with RISP. 216 is his slugging percentage by the way.
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These same problems game after game after game after game are getting really old.
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Our middle of the order is money. Always reliable for a big RBI knock and tons of slug.
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Job well done by our 3-4-5. As always.
