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.
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.
Yeah if you ONLY judge the Cubs for the last three years. They are terrible organization. Padres after they signed Machado and has Tatis, means it is their window. If Bryant and Baez did not fall off a cliff, Cubs will be in playoff for sure. Situations are different, I would not like what AJ did over the years if I am Padres fan. With that payroll and farm, they should be a lot better than what they were.
@@sni6941 The Padres had a CBT tax 40-man of $231 million. The Cubs had one of $237 million. What is this window to win-now? A window isn't created when an exec decides he can't fail and tells the media "it is time." Hoyer has been in a job with one of the highest revenue teams in baseball for a long time. Just because the Cubs have the capacity to far outspend the Padres, it doesn't mean they have actually spent differently. The Cubs haven't made the playoffs when they have the greatest relative resource advantage any team has over its division rivals in the league. Preller has three other teams in his division spending more than the Cardinals and far more than the other three in the NL Central. It is indefensible for someone to think Hoyer has operated a better franchise than Preller. If you don't want to judge them on wins and losses, then when has Hoyer maneuvered the way Preller did to turn Soto into Cease and Michael King while elevating Jackson Merrill to get comparable bat in the lineup from June on? Has he ever come close to that?
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.
Taillons home road splits are very bad. Sub 3 ERA at home and nearly a 5 ERA on the road.
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.
Yeah if you ONLY judge the Cubs for the last three years. They are terrible organization. Padres after they signed Machado and has Tatis, means it is their window. If Bryant and Baez did not fall off a cliff, Cubs will be in playoff for sure. Situations are different, I would not like what AJ did over the years if I am Padres fan. With that payroll and farm, they should be a lot better than what they were.
@@sni6941 The Padres had a CBT tax 40-man of $231 million. The Cubs had one of $237 million. What is this window to win-now? A window isn't created when an exec decides he can't fail and tells the media "it is time." Hoyer has been in a job with one of the highest revenue teams in baseball for a long time. Just because the Cubs have the capacity to far outspend the Padres, it doesn't mean they have actually spent differently. The Cubs haven't made the playoffs when they have the greatest relative resource advantage any team has over its division rivals in the league. Preller has three other teams in his division spending more than the Cardinals and far more than the other three in the NL Central. It is indefensible for someone to think Hoyer has operated a better franchise than Preller. If you don't want to judge them on wins and losses, then when has Hoyer maneuvered the way Preller did to turn Soto into Cease and Michael King while elevating Jackson Merrill to get comparable bat in the lineup from June on? Has he ever come close to that?