Cubs REKAP Podcast ⚾️ (S2 – EP 25) – How do the Cubs fix their mediocre team?

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1. Let’s hear more stupid Gordon takes.

2. Cubs have learned one thing: wrigley will still fill no matter the product on the field

3. Soto

4. Always Spend Spend How about developing young talent? Gordon would be the first guy to complain if the Cubs spent big on a bust FA which they have done many times in the past.

5. Trade for Sandy Alcantara and sign Shane Bieber to create a cost controlled great rotation.

6. Can't be believe Gordon is still falling on this Darvish sword.

7. How do you fix the team? Fire Jed.

8. Need a number two starter and a solid solid bullpen. Kap, you keep dragging the comversation to where the Cubs will never go. After all these years, we know who ownership is. Strengthen the staff, not halfway, but all the way, and tweak the lineup.

9. Why should they spend? Wrigley is always full, can't add more seats. Look @ it from ricketts side, can't increase profit by getting better players, so why spend. Fans care about championships, owners don't.
   Hope the Cubbies are enjoying their nice leisurely October, no stress

10. Boycott Wrigley Fields now! Who b carin? Wirlin verlin breakdancer froms Crestwood IL do. Amysully wat up dog? Loveable losers forever move to Dalton an b Dalton Duds. Cubbies gots no heart. Next year b da sames ting. MAKE AMERICA TRUMPLESS AGAIN FRANKLIN. 🤘🃏🎸🥃🍺🤤🪦🕺🌪️🇺🇲🤣😂

11. They’re a solution to all this! Quit being cheap! This is what
    it takes 💰💰 💰

12. "I dont care about my great grandkids". Why you boomers are so hated loool.

13. Gordon is underrated

14. More bs hahahahahahahaha tom ricketts doesn't not care about winning tom ricketts will never pay superstars to get them is never going to happened

15. Cubs should do both development young and spend money 💰 they that 2016

16. Have to Development young players and spend money on free agent that will help too

17. Ur right david kaplan I never hear too tom ricketts never say want to win i guess tom ricketts doesn't not care about winning

18. Vlad is definitely attainable. The Bluejays are going full-court press on Juan Soto. The Ohtani drama from last off-season still stings for them. If the Bluejays somehow land Soto and get a haul from the Cubs for Vlad, they’ll be fine.

19. Yeah 2.7-3m fans every year. And the teams worth 5x what he paid for it. Ricketts and Hoyer have Zero Excuses. We're the Cubs if you can't afford to be a big market team sell some of the team to get the cash plain and simple.

20. You can't sensibly improve this offense from outside the organization. It's going to have to come from improvement by Swanson, Bellinger, Paredes, Hoerner, and Amaya (keep waiting for that "next step" from Suzuki too); growth from PCA and Busch: and contributions from prospects. But you can improve the pitching. How about a rotation of Steele, Trevor Bauer , Imanaga, Roki Sasaki , and Jameson Taillon. That's pretty damn good and you've still got SP depth in Assad, Brown, Wicks, Killian, Wesneski, and Cade Horton–some of which can bolster the bullpen. Speaking of which, target Tanner Scott and Jeff Hoffman to shore up the pen. Even with Bellinger's contract still on the books, you could add all 4 of those pitchers for less than the $70M luxury tax space.

    And at mid-season I'd look to deal either Hoerner or Paredes (your only marketable and tradeable veteran candidates) to strengthen catching and pitching–Mariners catching prospect Harry Ford is the main guy I would target, as they need position players but already have Cal Raleigh. If you really wanted to try to swing for the fences, you could target Samuel Basalo (who is behind Adley Rutschman) in a good old fashioned challenge trade for Matt Shaw.

21. What j don't get is this All you hear is how great there farm system is but yet they can't put great players on the field somethings wrong?

22. Front office improvement?
    Unfortunately Tom appears to approve of the Jed is doing.
    4th place next year.

23. I wouldn't be sad if Happ was elsewhere!!🤔

24. Get rid of Jed Hoyer and get a general manager that knows what he's doing

25. Episode was:

    90% spending more cures all ills
    5% contract status
    5% actual baseball talk

26. They can’t hit playoff quality pitchers. 😢

27. Cubs is not going to win games with Nico hoerner go sign Willy Adames and get rid of Nico Hoerner put Willy Adames 2nd base next year with cubs

28. They had their chance last offseason
    Didn’t even bother offering Ohtani or Soto a deal
    And both those players are in the NLCS
    Big market
    Small market mindset

29. If I was the Cubs I add Adames at all cost. Play him at 3rd, move Parades to DH or first. And sign a Pitcher and trade for a legit closer.

30. Getting rid of hoyer who shamed us all and has no respect for our history, culture and honor is just about all that will help. No real talent will sign for a known honorless backstabber.

31. I'll stop harping on the honorless hoyer, who has terribly harmed our legacy and brought the rebuild that was over, to a permanent standstill. I know most are sick of it and aren't nearly as offended by his actions as I am. But I grew up being loveable losers and was ok with that. We did it and the right way, without shaming our historic franchise. hoyer has no such standards or respect for any of us. After 35 years I'm done with the Cubs until hoyer is gone, then I'll re-evaluate the situation. I'll be watching Mexican baseball next season unless they do something drastic to restore our honor.

32. If we would have had a closer, we would have won 90 games this year

33. Alonso CANNOT HIT well. Absolutely NOT!

    Same for Santander.

34. Trade Nico and Peredas for pitching. Put Cody B at 1st full time. Busch and Matt Shaw at second/third Suzuki DH and either Owen Cassie or the Jaguar in RF

35. Burns, top 10 catcher by trading Paredes and prospects and money and more money on the bullpen. Shaw plays 3B.

36. You taking about Phillies??? You know their records??? Last 12 years, they finished only first in their division ONCE! 2nd place TWICE !! You want to tell me they are the model you want Cubs to go??? Bad bad take! They finished 90 wins only twice in last 12 years! Cubs had 4 seasons over 90 wins, 3 division titles, three 2nd place, 4 post seasons! Phillies? Give me a break!

37. Mets?? They made postseason three times, finished 2 times division leader, 2 times 2nd place, 2 times over 90 wins, in last 20 years, only one more post season and division title. While spending like a maniac! You want to use their example and standards??? Give me a break! And they traded away PCA for Baez!

38. Please, don’t use the recent 3 years to compare other rebuild ready teams with just start rebuilding Cubs. Oh no rebuild? Phillies took 10 years to rebuild, and same as Mets! Check their records!!!

39. The audio in that new studio SUCKS

40. Cubs easily get to 90+ WINS by Signing Burns on free agency then trading a couple of prospects for Mason Miller. Rotation of Burnes, Iminaga,Steele, Taihon and Horton.

41. Fire Hoyer NOW!

42. The Ricketts have no intention of being serious about putting together another potential World Series contender. They truly Do Not Care. They got rid of the proven successful staff.

43. The Cubs need to go get a closer

44. Cubs need to fix their lineup it just stinks

45. Great minor league players right? Were are they? Still in the minors. How many more years do they need down there?I think the cubs are dillusional

46. Gordon gets it too bad the Cubs organization doesn't get it. Give me Vlad over Pete

47. Quit bringing in retreads from other teams. Get rid of Jed and co promote current manager to jeds position and hire new management team. Rebuild a trashy bullpen. Find good players for first and third base not potential players!

48. They NEED Soto. Period. And NEVER let management & FO stop hearing it. If he's not signed Ricketts needs to feel it.