Equating every single thing to the off season is just played out. How about we just Madrigal on his skills and not who wasn't signed in the off season. The need to be angry is such a waste.
This is around a 75 win team with ok luck. Maybe they could back their way into .500 if just about everything broke right.
Contender is a leap too far.
I am not sure when distance from contention is included, that any team had a worse off season than the Cubs. With even a solid pen, this team would be a huge favorite, but now that they are cheap, the door to the NL Central was opened.
Then your post makes no sense. He isn't going to sit on the DL for a year with no injury. If they Sox want to dump him, he will take his money and leave, not pretend to be hurt. If he spends the entire year "hurt", he is going to be even less able to find his next contract.