11-15-2019, 01:20 PM
Unfortunately, don't be too quick to assume that we will be rid of Almora. This was from an article yesterday by Sharma in The Athletic:
Quote:Albert Almora Jr. won’t go into 2020 as the starter in center, but there is still a strong possibility he remains with the organization. After a dreadful 2019 that followed a brutal second half of 2018, Almora has little to no value on the trade market.
Almora’s offensive numbers have been among the worst in baseball over the last year and a half and in 2019, advanced metrics actually rated him as a below-average defender.
But the Cubs still view him as valuable enough to not dump in a trade or non-tender.
This is not some silly theory that's unsupported and deserves being mocked by photos of Xena.

