Chicago White Sox

Lol...he legit says they’d like to add core guys in that very tweet. It’s not even remotely realistic to expect long-term additions at every spot. There will need be some placeholders and that’s a good thing unless you enjoyed watching the black holes sprinkled throughout our roster last year.

Awesome write-up Jimmy! If the big two are off the market, Wheeler is without question the next best option and I hope they prioritize him over the bigger name in Bumgarner.

Rodon should compete with Lopez, Dunning, & Lambert for the 5th starter spot. Honestly, if Lopez or Dunning steps up, we might be best off just using Rodon as a reliever in 2021. He might be lethal in that role a la Andrew Miller.

Well that seems like a dumb plan with that many people involved.

The real question is how did they think they’d get away with this? Did they really expect the whole team to stay quiet even after guys started leaving?

Define what “massive contract” you see Wheeler getting.

Castellanos old?

I’m certain they plan to be aggressive and I’m optimistic that everyone after the big three should be attainable despite Jerry’s limited risk tolerance. That being said, you just never with this guy and last offseason was an example of that. They said they were serious and ultimately made a large but half-assed offer for Machado. This year they simply need to get shit done...the time for excuses is over.

I’ve actually liked what Hahn has been saying today, but I would have avoided commenting on Jerry as wanting to win is meaningless if he’s only willing to offer free agents 80% of what other teams are.

Sure, what’s the terms?

I mean, MLBTR has him getting $6M and Fangraphs didn’t rank him amongst the top 50 free agents. Gun to head, I’d put him at like $7M and that extra $8M is substantial enough for a decent back of the rotation starter or bullpen piece.

Sure, if you’re willing to pay them the most money.

This is 100% right way to approach it. You can never have too much pitching.

The Cubs aren’t giving Castellanos $100M.

100% agree. The plan should be to sign Wheeler (or theoretically Cole/Strasburg) to a multi-year deal and then add another cheaper starter on a one year deal like Wood or Gonzalez. That gives you an opening day rotation of Giolito, Wheeler, Cease, Wood, & Lopez. Kopech comes up after he recovers that lost year of service time and replaces the weak man in the rotation. Rodon serves as a wild card this year and is used in the bullpen if necessary. Come 2021 him, Lopez, Dunning, & Lambert compete for the 5th starter spot. That makes Stiever very much expendable IMO and I think he goes in a trade for a RF this offseason.

In what semse?

Yeah, pretty much.

Rendon in the bag!!

How do you know agents aren’t telling him this?

Zero chance Calhoun ends up with a AAV in the $15M range.

Not really, but I think we'd just go to 5/$100M and give him the seven figure number he'd be looking for.

Sounds like Wheeler or better to me! Not sure anyone else outside of him and the big three will get $90M+, although I guess it’s possible that Donaldson or more likely Bumgarner could.

But you were talking about the Yankees? ?‍♂️

Lol...why do you constantly think fanbases of playoff teams are going to jump ship because their offseason additions aren’t sexy enough?

I don’t follow at all what you’re talking about here. What did the Cubs do with Quintana that has anything to do with “shot” players in reinjecting a bunch a new talent?