01-02-2024, 01:37 PM
(12-30-2023, 10:32 PM)Willbaseball Wrote: So that all leaves the Cubs in a weird meandering place.
Idk, I have all these thoughts and more, I needed to unload them; too much family home for the holidays and too little Cubs activity, and if you’ve read this far, thank you! Hopefully the Cubs do something surprising soon. 43 days until spring training, 87ish days ‘til opening day.
I agree with everything you've written. I wish we had a couple of top-top prospect guys in the system coming up, as opposed to what feels like a deep-ish farm missing an elite bat. But guys develop in ways you don't see coming, for better and for worse. It's really starting to feel like the Cubs are going to point to Counsell as the big off-season acquisition and that would be sad for a team that should be competing for free agents with the Yanks, Dodgers, etc. I suppose a trade could come, and there are some solid options still out there, obviously, but I don't think this ownership group nor front office will ever act like the Padres, Mets, Dodgers. Maybe that will prove to be a good thing, but in the off-season at least, it's frustrating. The Rangers proved it can work in '23.