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Counsell has won 90 games with less. Question is, was our bullpen magic his doing or the pitching lab that Milwaukee has put together.

 

Paredes is a nice player. If we can get him, then I'll take Glasnow too.

 

Cubs have turned it around with the pitching lab in recent years. Not on the level of the Indians or Brewers who seem to develop ace talent and elite pen arms yearly. Most fans thought Jed would spend in the deep waters… it’s just not who he’s ever been.

 

Sure sounding like Shohei is headed to Toronto, which is...a surprise.

 

He doesn’t want to live in America when Trump is elected, at least that’s what my Facebook tells me.

 

Me neither man.

 

That doesn't include all the shit around Wrigley they own

 

Wasn’t Alfaro a big time catching prospect? Guess he never panned out.

 

Cannon Arm
Incredible speed for a 245 lb catcher
Strikes out 35% of his at bars
Doesn't take walks

 

Glasnow to the Dodgers

 

Honestly though, who needs stars?

 

Following the twitter tracks… seems like we’re in covo with Cleveland for some of that talent.

 

Who is a star there? Bieber? Ramirez?

 

I'd like bieber and Naylor. Ramirez is a pipe dream.

 

Ramirez hasn’t been mentioned but I’ve seen Bieber, Clase and Naylor

 

A couple of packages… don’t think they move Morel seems like he’s going to be locked into 3B next year.

 

Some talk around baseball is Bellinger priced himself out of some places (SF, Tor) and we could be his best option. On a decent pod they said 7/175 could be where he lands with Chicago.

That would put us back to where we ended 2023 as far as lineup is concerned. Would love to add Soler as a DH over Hoskins.

 

Curious what the contract is like. My guess is 5 years 110M but it’ll probably be a higher aav given there were other suitors

 

I've seen 5 for 75 floated as a realistic price for Imanaga

 

That was the initial projection but every story recently felt that it would be higher than that and likely go over 100M. They were just using that contract as a placeholder because of the Senga deal

 

That’s a decent first step. Now let’s add a couple of bats

 

Jed is never going to going to play in the deep waters. From what I gather they basically brought in Stroman 2.0 for a smidge under the cost of Stroman.

If we sign Belly that takes us as a roster back to where we finished 2023.

Feels like Belly, Chapman and Hader would be great to actually improve the team next season.

And it also seems like we have offers out on Belly, Chapman. So we might get there!

 

That’s a great deal

 

Fucking outstanding deal

 

They should have plenty of money to go get Belly, Chapman and Hader. Get it done Jed. I need Chicago team I can believe in.

 

yes give us a roster we believe can get to 84 wins

 

we're basically the dodgers now

 

speaking of

 

I’d imagine this is the cubs trying to take advantage of the dodgers 40 man roster crunch but Michael Busch isn’t very good

 

You should almost never fall in love with 19 year old prospects. Maybe Jackson Ferris is the next Kershaw but Busch is a top 50 guy that’s MLB ready. We need to use our farm depth at some point.

 

Has to be a dh or possibly the guy at 1st.

 

They must like his profile a bit more than Mervis

 

I feel like he’ll play third, no? They’re likely still going to end up with one of Hoskins or Bellinger that would fill first. Knowing the cubs, I can’t imagine the cubs would be thrilled to pay Matt Chapman to play third.

 

I would hope Morel is the guy at 3rd. Busch had an average arm at 2nd and is butcher at 3rd.

 

He's going to play 3rd

 

He’s definitely playing third. This likely indicates that they’re going to try to move Morel and that if Busch doesn’t work out they can then try Shaw out there.

 

Yeah I think it’s more likely than not that morel gets traded. Although, I guess they do have a really high price tag on him so who knows.