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In theory you shouldn't pay for a bullpen, but in a big market like Chicago you need proven guys. Trades would be better or shorter term guys, which allows Brown, Hodge others to develop underneath to take the 8th and 9th by end of year. I cant find a season when the cubs were competitive when prospects were 8th/9th inning guys. Its different with the crowds, media, etc. A lot of good pitchers with great stuff wilt under the Chicago spotlight. Carlos Marmol was a failed SP that turned into a great late inning RP. Hector Rondon did the job in 2015 but that was a unique year, where they were .500 until July. The cubs will NOT have a dominant offense going into opening day next year, so they have to create an edge with SP and late inning RPs to sequence out games. There are a lot of ways to skin a good-great team, so Jed will have to adjust strategy or have to find a new job.

Yes, extend Steele to age 35 with a good hometown deal, not a top deal. Like the Braves locking their young talents. He doesn’t have a lot of mileage in MLB. So he will be relatively under used at the same age.

Alcantara is NOT READY

39:44 if these two carrying water for Ricketts and Jed. The Cubs are a top 4 revenue team, if you believe Forbes it is top 3. They charge the fans Yankees/Red Sox/Dodger prices, and these two act as though the fans are wrong to expect them to spend in a similar fashion. They don't. AJ Preller has had the Padres in the playoffs for three of the past five years. Jed hasn't. You don't assess the job of a baseball exec on whether they get some inheritor owner pockets more money than his daddy gave him. They run a baseball team. One exec has had his team in the mix in October. The other has not. That is how professional sports are judged.

Taillons home road splits are very bad. Sub 3 ERA at home and nearly a 5 ERA on the road.

My question is: Why is the media only now reporting on this? Is the STL media lagging behind just like the Cardinals’ leadership? Isn’t the purpose of the media to uncover information that the general public might not be aware of?

Putting a new cost of paint on the same old outhouse isn’t going to make it smell any better.

gotta sign Burnes and Santander to make a splash and be like hey we back

open division too. wasted

Tito shocker!

they could dominate the division by operating like the big market club

Make baseball great again by putting together both good Cards and Cubs team and show baseball what a real rivarly looks like.

Clean house,top to bottom. Cards an Cubs had great runs. Nothing last forever.

The Detroit Tigers just traded veterans and got better. Going young doesnt mean necessarily that you cant win.

Amazing video. Very insightful

Cubs guys, Cubs please!

I would rather hear about the Cubs making front office changes.

Sorry guys. An hour on the history of the Cardinals is a bit much for Cubs fans to endure...............

I wouldn’t blame Bellinger if he took less elsewhere to play for a team that is serious about winning.

So Houston is not smart for signing Hader? Hmm. Guess time will tell on that one. It would be nice if Cubs could have guys mostly ready when they come up.

Trade for Alcantara and sign Bieber to create the potentially best rotation in the MLB. Trade for Langeliers to produce more runs from the catcher position from the A's. Trade for Vladdy to put a legit star in the lineup. This will take this team over the top to beat the Brew Crew.

Y'all sound like you're stuck in baseball limbo trying to figure out how you actually feel about the team. Take a breath, and look inside yourselves to see how you really feel 🤣🤣. haha, but seriously...y'all want the team to do more but the team is good, so confusion abounds. Several players underperformed this year. Jes is so calm because he knows this and a few tweaks here and there will get the job done. One top of the line starter is all I really expect them to do this off-season. They'll have the money to pursue that superstar bat y'all are begging for, but I don't see it happening. Jed will be better off giving that money to PCA and others.

Rickets needs to sell the CUBS to a real owner, they suck, hoyer sucks, this team organization is back to the days of old, pitiful, well we got another 100 yrs to go👎👎

Outperforming projections isn’t a plan!!! Have projections that say you’re gonna make the damn playoffs!! It’s not that hard!!

Hoyer made it clear this team would need to overperform this season to reach the postseason with some of his comments early on. An it's looking like 2025 will be another year of "well if Seiya has a .900+ OPS and hits 30 HRs, if Imanaga, Steele and Taillon to repeat or improve, if PCA can manage close to an .800 OPS all year etc etc". Relying on the best outcome for every single player on the roster in order to win 85+ games is an absolutely terrible strategy. While sure it may be a valid point that you need indeed need players to outperform projections to have good years my point is that it seems he is heavily relying on good but not great players to basically have career years in order to compete. If they simply added 1 or 2 great or elite players then it would be much easier to compete because even in a down year an elite player will still have the same or better year than someone like Ian Happ has in a career year.

Chicago will always be middling in terms of baseball, hockey, and basketball. Stingy bad owners and as long as fans keep showing up, you will get the same garbage every year.

Tom ricketts doesn't not know what he is talking about the tom ricketts just doesn't not about winning that real facts

Excuses... Excuses... Excuses. Third same presser three years in a row. FIRE HIM! OR SELL RICKETTS!

Tom ain't the owner Cohen or Rubenstein will be. This team deserved better but, we got a loser owner who doesn't want to spend like the big boys.

People have to come to terms that "sustainable success" is a marketing ploy to explain away spending less. Farhan Zaidi tried to sell that nonsense in San Francisco. Chaim Bloom did it in Boston. The only difference is that the fans and media in those cities didn't carry their water when all they built was mediocrity, and those two actually had a playoff appearance in their tenures. The Cubs are not a small market. They do not charge small market prices or generate small market tv money. Hold Hoyer to a big city standard! Him announcing that the Cubs aren't ready to be great does not mean he shouldn't be assessed for the job he is doing.

Lots of weather excuses. So why doesn’t somebody say, OK when the wind is blowing in 75 miles an hour why is there not more small ball being played bunting running things like that instead of trying to hit a three run homer into the teeth of the wind. Other teams were doing this and that’s why they won more games than you did. Could you speak to that Jed? How are you blaming the weather for the poor offense yet bragging about pitchers ERA? You can’t have it both ways. The reporters chickened out on a lot of questions

Not one question about them barely going over the tax threshold.

TOM ISNT THE ONLY OWNER OF THE CUBS, 2 BROTHERS AND HIS SISTER,,,, I believe Tom has the most passion to win, more than the others, he can't just say let's go and spend a bunch of millions without an agreement with the others, if I was him I would buy them out and take soul ownership and go get some division championships, and a few world series rings

Well you have to look at the landscape we are in now a days. Most of the teams are in contention or on the upswing due to the expanded playoffs and will never trade away good players. We also have richer owners to battle like Cohen and Rubenstein. You all know Tom ain't out spending them so, we can only trade for game changers now and that costs a lot of player capital. We should only try for guys like Vladdy if he's willing to sign an extension with us but, there's more of a chance that happens then Tom out spending Cohen and Rubenstein. I'd also love for them to take a chance at Sandy Alcantara since we need a clear cut ace and also trade for Jesús Tinoco to bringing in more guys with stuff to the bullpen. Longshot I know but, you all should know by now that Tom and Jed won't do much in free agency.

Maddon or Ross in Cincinnati? Would be interesting.

Gordon is the meatballest of meatball reporters who only writes articles to rile up the meatball fans.

My man Gordon! You guys have to him on more often! Thank you for the conversation as well as the honesty. I greatly appreciate all the work you guys do.

Why was Mooney even on this pod? The other guy wouldn’t stop talking . This was a joke

Nico is good at defense but stinks at bat. He is not a power hitter nor clutch hitter!. He can be traded and get better bat with same defense. Happ has power but does not have the smart situational hitting. Dansby is the biggest disappointment. The guy is so laidback and lazy.

Also, it's very difficult to have 3 base hits and maybe a walk bunched together 3-4x a game to score enough runs and truly beat the better pitchers and outscore the better teams on their schedule

One way to score more runs consistently for this team is to obtain a serious DH who bats 3rd and who hits 35 doubles, 30 Home Runs and who comes through and drives the ball w men on base...Bellinger was pretty close to that last season... But they really dont have that player on the roster right now

I think Jed needs to listen to those that have had winning seasons on the team and add. We need to win at least 95 games. Listen to counsell

What team going to be/still in the hunt for the postseason doesn't have at least 1 superstar type of player or someone at least playing like one? Philly - Schwarber, Harper, Turner, Wheeler Dodgers- Freeman, Betts, Ohtani Padres - Bogarts, Machado, Tatis, Cease, Darvish, Merrill AZ - Marte, Walker, Carroll Mets - Lindor, Alonso, Vientos Braves - Ozuna, Olson, Sale Brewers - Adames, Contreras, Chourio, That's just the NL can apply the same pattern to the AL teams as well. All of these players are producing superstar like numbers either throughout the entire season or started surging in the 2nd half.

I hope they make more moves. I don’t trust the leaders entrusted in making moves, based on their philosophy and performance. How to reconcile.

When is Tom Ricketts getting on board? It’s hard to tell if the problem is Tom or Jed buts it’s one or the other. Worst case, it’s both. We’ll be watching. Just missing the playoffs is getting old.

There's a handful of players that have been doing their jobs for the most part these past 2 years. 2 most obvious hitters are Happ & Seiya. Starting Pitching wise its Steele & Assad. Relief Pitching there is absolutely nobody. This team needs to bring in more consistent players that produce in clutch moments. A.K.A a superstar. But they do have some good pieces in that regard that can be relied upon to produce. Shota/Busch/PCA only have this year to back them up but look VERY promising. Parades/Hoerner/Swanson/Amaya/Taillon/Bellinger/Wicks/Brown all have something to prove or reinforce next year.

If Jed listens to what you guys believe he's going to War himself to death w a bunch of nice players who play 'pretty good' when the pressure is off

The Brewers essentially play with 3 center fielders and 3 shortstops every game so they are really athletic and the defense has been really good. They killed it in trades for Adames, Yelich, and Contrares, Burnes deal got them 5 years of control of Ortiz and Hall. Brewers find above average guys that have been Dfa'd- Myers, Koenig and others. And developed some- Chourio, Turang, Peralta and more so they find talent all over pretty well. The pitching lab has been ridiculous, and pitching coach Chris Hook is the best in the business imo.

Jed Hoyer getting beat this bad by the team they set out to beat this season is a drastic screw up & fire worthy... He's lost the division by 10+ games, (specific goal set by Tom Rickettes himself) not getting into the WC, going over the tax limit of 237 million when they clearly didn't want to & in a lost season, didn't build a good bullpen over offseason for the 2nd straight year & cost us a playoff spot because of it for the 2nd straight year.

So basically what you said in the first half, summed up, is Tom doesn't spend enough, despite huge profits, so it's not Jed's fault. Gotcha. Solution? SELL THE TEAM RICKETTS!