Kolek planning to go pro
The Padres are about to make a real run at LAD’s consecutive division title streak.
I’m shocked that’s all the Cubs got back for Darvish and Caritini, wow.
I’ve heard whispers for a few years now about the Cubs financial woes, and that eventually it was going to hit them hard and have mentioned it here a few times. Theo knew, I don’t think Kasper left because of it, but he knew too. It’s not a coincidence that they’re cutting costs and depleting the MLB roster after a year of Marquee.To think that they fought hard to manipulate Bryant’s service time for a 7th year, and now year 7 is here, and he has limited value and they’re going to be a low 70 win team in 2021.
@DanJFederico: The Cubs are also eating some of Darvish’s salary in this trade, according to a source
Whoops ...@DanJFederico: I believe I got bad info on this part of the deal. Looks like the deal was a salary dump on the Cubs part. My apologies on that
The Rays got 2 Top 7 prospects from the Padres for Snell. Cubs got a #5 starter and no Top 10 prospects for Darvish. Worse than just a salary dump.
Interesting going through Twitter to see David Kaplan saying what I’ve been hearing (for a while now) about the true Cubs financial troubles. I believe he’s the first person in Chicago media to mention it.
As a long-time Cardinals fan, one could see from the outside that the biggest weakness the Cubs had was pitching.