That ain't saying much.

Cubs working on another 100 year chasm between World Series appearances.

The team to emulate is the Astros.

Unfortunately we don't have the owner nor the front office to pull that off. 

Edited December 4, 20196 yr by GradMc

1 minute ago, GradMc said:

That ain't saying much.

The team to emulate is the Astros.

Unfortunately we don't have the owner nor the front office to pull that off. 

Shut up.

On 12/3/2019 at 12:04 AM, Look at Ray Ray Run said:

Three big decisions cost Theo.

1. Trading Eloy and Cease for Quintana. 

2. Not trading Schwarber when his value was peak - instead convincing himself he could be a nice NL player.

3. Trading Torres for Chapman. 

If he didn't trade Eloy, moving Schwarber becomes easier. 

He could have gotten an arm for Schwarber.

Not evaluating and moving on from Russell was also a mistake but a more difficult decision to make. 

Amazing to think that the one prospect theo didnt love and almost made expendable turned out to be his 2nd best player - Baez.

Imagine Bryant, Rizzo, Baez, Torres and Eloy. Jaysus.

Don't forget free agent signings that didn't work (heyward, darvish, morrow). Cubs made a few bad decisions, but they still had a very nice run which shows how good this core is.

What killed the cubs most was failure to develope pitchers. This year they invested massively into player development so we will see if that has an effect.