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Originally Posted by Hoover
I wouldn't write off the Cubs any time soon. You do realize they they don't pay dick for most of their position players.
Shit, the only guys they pay any real money from is Jason Heyward, Rizzo, and Zobrist. Everyone else is under team control or in the early stages of arbritration. Do they need to get better? Yeah. Has the money spent on starting pitching worked out? No. But this is a 95-100 win team year in and year out.
For this Cubs fan, I think they should do a little rebuild, trade a legit asset for some young pitching, but I doubt that happens.
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You realize that Bryant is almost certainly going to make more than Rizzo next season through arbitration? Baez is gonna probably approach $8 million in his own right. I mean in the end if the Cubs tender all their arb guys, they'll be approaching $40 million in arbitration salaries when all is said and done. It's not as though they're still getting these kids at $600K anymore. They're still bargains, to be sure. But the difference between their pre-arb years and arb salaries is gonna suck up some of what they'd need to reinforce their starting rotation or bullpen.
Now the Cubs aren't a bunch of skinflints like DeWitt and the Cardinals so they'll think nothing of bumping near $200 million in salaries if they think it will keep them at 90-95 wins, but they can't keep whistling past the graveyard and acting like their salary structure is as healthy as it was in 2016.