Unless this post is sarcasm going right over my head, how can you believe the bolded to be true with Chicago 1 game behind Milwaukee for the division (the 2nd best winning percentage in MLB), with the Brewers not making any [major] noise at the deadline?
They just picked up Shelby Miller.....and now Jordan Montgomery
The former is a solid add. The latter, you can miss me with the season he's having.
The Cubs have 2 decent starting pitchers. They play a 5 game series against Milwaukee soon. I expect/fear my point will be made then.
I think C+. Jed doesn’t suck at his job, but he isn’t particularly good at it either. I think Cubs were willing to trade some of those guys — Alcantara, Long and Triantos — but they weren’t enough to pull a big name SP. Looking at what WSox got for Houser, I can’t believe Cubs couldn’t get that deal done. Not a big name SP, but he would have helped. I’ve said it before, but I really think the lack of pitching prospects hurt the Cubs. Seems like at least 70 percent of the prospects traded were pitchers.
With the knowledge that teams wanted Shaw as the centerpiece....what did you expect?Way to go, Jed. Really earned your extension today
I agree. We did what we needed to do, get pieces without gutting the future. Build from within always works. We did not need a starting pitcher especially what teams were asking. I am content with Shota, Jamo, Boyd, Horton and either Sokora/Brown. Assad will be a nice piece in the pen and the Kittridge will be a solid late game guy. Castro strengthens our bench. We can win with this team.
Cubbies, based simply on the fact that Nestor Cortes is now off Milwaukee's roster. He's been lights-out during his rehab.
Agree with this.
In my opinion, neither did anything earth shaking, and a tie goes to the Brewers.
We do not know that about Tucker. Why do we need a starting pitcher when we have one main piece coming back in a week? Teams were asking too much for rentals. We desperately needed relief pitchers. We got three solid pieces. We got a super utility guy and gave up virtually nothing in all these trades. I think this was a very successful deadline for us. Pressly is gone. Huge upgrade. We now will have Sokora, Kittridge, Rogers, Palencia, Keller, Braiser, Pomeranz and Thielbar as our 8 guys. Assad can be worked in the mix as well. We upgraded the bullpen and that will pay off in September.
The can’t mortgage the future argument is a cop out. There is a big difference between mortgaging the future and not being aggressive enough. Not being willing to trade Shaw and/or Caissie (which was the right move) squashed any hope for a #1 pitcher, but there were plenty of players moved who would have helped the Cubs. In all, I think only 2 maybe 3 top 100 players were traded. So how did these other GMs get players without mortgaging their teams’ futures. Not asking him to step into AJ Preller land, but he needed to get more aggressive in packaging players outside the top 100. Keep the 5 prospects who are in the top 100, but put together better/larger packages to get players that could have made more of a difference.
Yeah, none of the impact, controllable starters were delt, suggesting the prices were crazy. We weren't going to give up a top 10 prospect for a rental, which is probably wise in the long run. I imagine that in 2 years we'll be glad we were conservative, but if we fade in September again...
I agree with a SP, 2 RP's and a Bench Guy but the SP had to be better. They could have at least gotten Houser or Kelly without selling the farm and made an improvement in the rotation Hopefully, I'm wrong and Soroka's decent analytics show up in the next 2 months.
In 2 years there will be a major lockout.
I disagree with this in that there isn’t a Cubs prospect in the 6-10 range that I wouldn’t have traded to get a good SP rental. Sure I’m not trading 3 or 4 of them for one, but Jed needed to be more aggressive and package one or even two depending on pitcher. I have no problem with the deals he made, and team is better. He needed to make one more though.
