[Bleacher Nation – Cerami] The Good News and Bad News in the Cubs’ Efforts to Sign a Free-Agent Starting Pitcher
November 12, 2024
[Bleacher Nation – Cerami] The Good News and Bad News in the Cubs’ Efforts to Sign a Free-Agent Starting Pitcher
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I heard their going after mid tier pitching
I head they’re dumpster diving again in order to strive for another 80 win season.
We like our reclamation projects
Another Chicago team willing to suck. We fans need to stop traveling to watch them, attend games in person, don’t buy the jerseys of crappy players. Hit them in the pocketbook. Sick of being sold crap expecting gold.
Every year it’s the same thing. The agents hype the media and the fans up about the Cubs signing a top tier free agent. Then it comes crashing down when Jedward and co. start leaking that they want financial flexibility and the mid tier free agents are actually better and us fans are stupid for wanting a Soto, Ohtani, Fried, etc.
Owner is a cheapass.
He’s gotten everything he wants. A god damn casino at renovated, ad-filled wrigley. His stupid tv station. His hotel. All the property in lakeview in and around the park.
And the largest contract in Cubs history was inked nearly 10 years ago now.
Shameful.
Enough of the bargain basement crap. And enough of the bloggers who yeah but it as OK.
How would you all feel about the concept of trading for Jordan Montgomery? It looks like he’s going to be traded and other than last year was quite good
Good news lots of good pitchers available this off-season bad news we won’t be getting any of them.
The good news is there’s plenty of pitchers available.
The bad news is the only ones in our price range are Cuas and Neris. Again.
Cubs are broke they need to raise ticket prices again !!!
Gonna be curious if people actually start realizing the Ricketts are plenty happy to be a middling team acting like they’re trying to be competitive.
So many negative comments in this thread yet last season hardly anyone wanted to admit this ain’t a team that’s built for success in the near future.
We need STARS and the Ricketts and the underlings who are happy to keep being paid, are just going to keep saying “we have the green light to spend”, then act like all the big names were too expensive and settle for mediocre names.
Then continue the same thing. By the ASB we are kinda close to a wild-card/playoff spot, but a lot has to go right. “We’re going to make a splash at the deadline”. Splash turns out to be a full on bellyflop, people on here act like we plugged holes, keep saying “it’s doable if we win X, Y, and Z series”. Cubs have one or two good runs but shit the bed and miss the playoffs.
Then people rest on the farm system saying we’re going to be great in 1-3 years, while not remembering names like Hee-Seop Choi and Brennan Davis.
Because I’m trying to remember the last farm system player the Cubs had that panned out to be a STAR. Or at least an All-Star that lived up to the nomination.
People just need to stop going to Wrigley and spending money. It’s that simple
“We have to beat projections, we have to have players outperform,” Hoyer reiterated. “‘Cause like I said, ultimately, having players outperform, having players beat those projections, that’s how you have the season that we want to have.”
Jed 🤡 Hoyer at the end of the season.
First off, Bleacher Nation and Michael Cerami are hacks. This is an article written off of a Jeff Passan article. It’s pretty much clickbait to get you mad and engaged, just like all of their articles.
Second, a mid tier pitcher wouldn’t be bad. I mean if you replace Hendricks’ 6 ERA with even a 3.50-3.75 ERA, that’s a huge upgrade. That’s 24 games where we have a much better chance of winning. Doesn’t need to be Corbin Burnes. It’s also likely that we need 2 starters… as Assad only really goes 4-5 innings, which puts strain on the bullpen. So going for 2 mid tier starters and putting Assad back in the bullpen would help us a ton. Improves both the bullpen and starting pitching by a lot.
The cubs also have two very good lefties. We need power righties. IMO.
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16 comments
I heard their going after mid tier pitching
I head they’re dumpster diving again in order to strive for another 80 win season.
We like our reclamation projects
Another Chicago team willing to suck. We fans need to stop traveling to watch them, attend games in person, don’t buy the jerseys of crappy players. Hit them in the pocketbook. Sick of being sold crap expecting gold.
Every year it’s the same thing. The agents hype the media and the fans up about the Cubs signing a top tier free agent. Then it comes crashing down when Jedward and co. start leaking that they want financial flexibility and the mid tier free agents are actually better and us fans are stupid for wanting a Soto, Ohtani, Fried, etc.
Owner is a cheapass.
He’s gotten everything he wants. A god damn casino at renovated, ad-filled wrigley. His stupid tv station. His hotel. All the property in lakeview in and around the park.
And the largest contract in Cubs history was inked nearly 10 years ago now.
Shameful.
Enough of the bargain basement crap. And enough of the bloggers who yeah but it as OK.
How would you all feel about the concept of trading for Jordan Montgomery? It looks like he’s going to be traded and other than last year was quite good
Good news lots of good pitchers available this off-season bad news we won’t be getting any of them.
The good news is there’s plenty of pitchers available.
The bad news is the only ones in our price range are Cuas and Neris. Again.
Cubs are broke they need to raise ticket prices again !!!
Gonna be curious if people actually start realizing the Ricketts are plenty happy to be a middling team acting like they’re trying to be competitive.
So many negative comments in this thread yet last season hardly anyone wanted to admit this ain’t a team that’s built for success in the near future.
We need STARS and the Ricketts and the underlings who are happy to keep being paid, are just going to keep saying “we have the green light to spend”, then act like all the big names were too expensive and settle for mediocre names.
Then continue the same thing. By the ASB we are kinda close to a wild-card/playoff spot, but a lot has to go right. “We’re going to make a splash at the deadline”. Splash turns out to be a full on bellyflop, people on here act like we plugged holes, keep saying “it’s doable if we win X, Y, and Z series”. Cubs have one or two good runs but shit the bed and miss the playoffs.
Then people rest on the farm system saying we’re going to be great in 1-3 years, while not remembering names like Hee-Seop Choi and Brennan Davis.
Because I’m trying to remember the last farm system player the Cubs had that panned out to be a STAR. Or at least an All-Star that lived up to the nomination.
People just need to stop going to Wrigley and spending money. It’s that simple
“We have to beat projections, we have to have players outperform,” Hoyer reiterated. “‘Cause like I said, ultimately, having players outperform, having players beat those projections, that’s how you have the season that we want to have.”
Jed 🤡 Hoyer at the end of the season.
First off, Bleacher Nation and Michael Cerami are hacks. This is an article written off of a Jeff Passan article. It’s pretty much clickbait to get you mad and engaged, just like all of their articles.
Second, a mid tier pitcher wouldn’t be bad. I mean if you replace Hendricks’ 6 ERA with even a 3.50-3.75 ERA, that’s a huge upgrade. That’s 24 games where we have a much better chance of winning. Doesn’t need to be Corbin Burnes. It’s also likely that we need 2 starters… as Assad only really goes 4-5 innings, which puts strain on the bullpen. So going for 2 mid tier starters and putting Assad back in the bullpen would help us a ton. Improves both the bullpen and starting pitching by a lot.
The cubs also have two very good lefties. We need power righties. IMO.