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Originally Posted by BigRedChief
- Tank. Lose 100 games for 3-4 years on purpose.
- Draft in the top 5 and get great position players.
- Lose some more while those position players develop.
- When they reach MLB, buy free agent pitchers to complete the roster
Obviously #4 is where the plan went off the rails. If you haven't won a title in 109 years, maybe 1 WS title makes all the losing worth it? But, I've seen my team win 5 WS's(including 1 live in person) and they never forced me, on purpose as a plan, to watch crap baseball for YEARS just so we have a chance to win later. |
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.