Clark_Addison
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Let me give you a perfect example. We had Mike Tauchmann. Good OBP decent overall numbers and we could have kept him and started him in LF the last 3 years and platooned him with a RH power bat for far less money and then used the savings to pay for Bregman or go another SP. I would take Mike Tauchmann and will use a recent name Refsnyder as the RH bat if we could just replace them with Happ for 2026 and use that money to go the extra needed to get Tucker, Bregman, Imai, Cease. One reason we can't spend the extra to get these top FA's is we have so much payroll locked up in guys like Happ. Happ is a very good baseball player and if he could play 3B (I wish they would have tried at some point as he was a middle infielder) that contract would be fine.
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I didn't like paying that much for a LF and committing that many years. Left field is the easiest position to fill on the baseball field and I would rather use it for a rookie like Owen Caissie, or a vet on a 1 year deal or 2 vets to platoon in LF. Has he overall outperformed his contract sure, but would rather commit those dollars to another position.
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Such a bad take on all this.... Teams directionless path....seriously I would say just the opposite. I don't think Jed walks on water (and I never liked the Happ extension at all) but to say he has set this team on a directionless path is crazy. Lots of big league ready prospects with veteran presence all over the roster and lots of payroll room to last years payroll (let alone to luxury tax level) is a good combo and sounds like excellent planning. What Jed does with it will be the real question and his long term legacy will be based on it as well. The fact you write an article about trading Happ and don't completely say this is a nonsense article as Ian Happ has a full NTC and loves Chicago and the chance of him waiving it is near zero. Would I like them to find a way to trade Happ this off-season....yes. Do I think it will happen? No! I would say less than 1% chance and it would take Jed going to him and telling him he would be in a platoon next season and he should expect to start 80-90 games for Ian to say ok, then trade me. I honestly think there is a better chance that Jed extends Happ this off-season (please don't do that Jed) then trades him.