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<blockquote data-quote="FollowTisdale" data-source="post: 1423404" data-attributes="member: 619279"><p>Yea I get that, and I'm not trying to definitively say the Cubs <strong>won't </strong>blow out the payroll/ blow past the luxury tax for a Machado or Harper deal, it's just that there are so many unknowns and it would definitely be against the trend of teams being either just over the luxury tax line or at least at the point where they can get back under the line rather easily within that 3 year time line.</p><p></p><p>And for strictly baseball reasons, I think it makes a lot more sense for them to spend money on pitching to widen the window than offense. The pitching collapse could happen literally next year with two 35 year olds and a guy who only threw 40 innings being relied upon to be 3/5ths of the rotation. There's not much cheap depth there to supplement like a lot of other high payroll teams. Hendricks was their only above average starter last year.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="FollowTisdale, post: 1423404, member: 619279"] Yea I get that, and I'm not trying to definitively say the Cubs [B]won't [/B]blow out the payroll/ blow past the luxury tax for a Machado or Harper deal, it's just that there are so many unknowns and it would definitely be against the trend of teams being either just over the luxury tax line or at least at the point where they can get back under the line rather easily within that 3 year time line. And for strictly baseball reasons, I think it makes a lot more sense for them to spend money on pitching to widen the window than offense. The pitching collapse could happen literally next year with two 35 year olds and a guy who only threw 40 innings being relied upon to be 3/5ths of the rotation. There's not much cheap depth there to supplement like a lot of other high payroll teams. Hendricks was their only above average starter last year. [/QUOTE]
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