The Cubs’ 4-2 loss to the Brewers Friday dropped Chicago to a 38-45 record, and a .458 winning percentage that tops only the Marlins and Rockies among all National League teams. With a 17-31 mark in their last 48 games, the Cubs simply haven’t been playing good baseball for the better part of two months, leading to a lot of speculation about the team’s plans heading into the July 30 trade deadline.
President of baseball operations Jed Hoyer addressed this topic and many others when speaking with reporters (including The Athletic’s Sahadev Sharma and ESPN’s Jesse Rogers) prior to yesterday’s game, saying “I don’t think it’s time yet for that full conversation” given that the deadline is still a month out. However, Hoyer admitted that “we’ve backed ourselves into a bit of a corner” and things needs to turn around quickly.
“We have to play well this month,” Hoyer said. “I think you have to be a realist when you get to that point….You have to make the best decisions for the organization based on the hand you’re dealt that year. We’ll see what that is.”
It was just last season that the Cubs were 45-51 on July 20 before rattling off an eight-game winning streak that convinced Hoyer to make moves to bolster the roster at the deadline, rather than sell. Jeimer Candelario was acquired in a trade with the Nationals and helped Chicago post a scoring 18-9 record in August 2023, though a late-season fade left the team just short of a playoff berth.
If the Cubs get on track with another big win streak, or if they keep losing at this pace, Hoyer’s deadline decision will be relatively easy. Given the team’s win-now mode and the investments made in the roster, it might also be fair to say that the Cubs will be more prone to adding at the deadline if they’re even near the .500 mark but still within striking distance in the wild card race. (Even now, Chicago is just five games out of the last NL wild card berth.)
Turning to how the Wrigleyville squad might approach selling, their same roster-building endeavors also lead to a lack of obvious trade candidates. As Rogers notes, most of the Cubs’ roster is under longer-term control, either via contracts or players under arbitration control. While Chicago hasn’t played well, the idea of the Cubs blowing things up and having a fire sale of their core simply isn’t realistic, so any deadline selling would surely be made with an eye towards contending in 2025.
Hector Neris and Kyle Hendricks are free agents this winter and Neris’ track record would lead to some interest from bullpen-needy teams, even though he and Hendricks have both struggled for much of the season. Cody Bellinger can become a free agent if he opts out of the last two years and $52.5MM of his current contract, though his decent but unspectacular play creates some doubt as to whether or not an opt-out would lead to Bellinger finally landing a big-ticket multi-year contract. This same gray area in regards to Bellinger’s status as a rental or a possible longer-term piece would impact his possible status as a trade candidate come the deadline.
The Cubs opted to keep Bellinger at last year’s trade deadline, though it could be a different story this year barring another July surge. “Teams like the New York Yankees and Texas Rangers have recently had a noticeable scouting presence around the” Cubs, according to The Athletic’s Will Sammon, Katie Woo, Patrick Mooney, and Ken Rosenthal, and Bellinger has long been linked to the Yankees on the rumor mill. The 37-45 Rangers are in even worse shape than the Cubs, but the defending World Series champs are another team who could pivot to selling if they can start winning in July.
Until the deadline nears, all Hoyer and his front office can do is hope their struggling lineup and bullpen in particular perform better. Hoyer’s disappointment was clear, as he said “when you look at where we’ve performed this year with a team that’s stronger [on paper], it’s lesser. Is that frustrating to me? Absolutely. If it’s frustrating to me, I have to imagine it’s frustrating to the fans.”
And somewhere Grandpa Rossy grins….
While an unimpressive manager, Ross is a high class guy and I am confident he is rooting for the Cubs, not against them.
Just 32 days to the trade deadline. Win 14 of the next 20 games and the Cubs could be buyers. Unlikely, but not impossible.
Hoyer’s been making questionable moves all along.
1. Giving Swanson 170 million when they already had a perfectly good SS in Nico and a bunch more in the system
2. Giving Happ an extension when he could of made him a QO and got a high draft pick back.
3. Signing Suzuki in the first place. Why did he feel the need to do that ? They could of just signed somebody for a couple of years as a FA and been fine. And exactly why did he fell the need to toss them both NMC’s? Inquiring minds want to know.
4. His compulsive need to think he can just pick up any scrub and make him a bullpen piece. he actually got away with it for a couple of years.
5. The one exceptional thing he did was upgrade the scouting staff and Farm system. Then, Mysteriously, When it’s about to bear fruit he goes out and makes a bunch of terrible FA signings and clogs up the whole thing.
6. His incessant need to keep his pets around. Wisdom, Madrigal, Mastrobuoni, Smyly, Straily and on and so forth.
The sharks are finally circling and I’m seeing articles asking for his head. He’s not all bad but maybe he’s not the GM we need anymore. I’ve been saying it for a couple of years now. The whole body of work
doesn’t hold up. Sorry to the sheep who see no wrong.
Bring Theo Epstein back! Just kidding that’s not going to happen but hoyer has been given enough time to make a good team and that hasn’t happened yet, it’s time for a new voice
wisdom, madrigal, and mastrobuoni are wasted roster spots, plain and simple. They have proven they are not even depth pieces. I keep hearing how the Cubs farm is doing well…where are these guys? I mean, not like there is not room at the top level for some changes…egad.
Exactly. These guys are failures. The players they should be playing and looking at are in Iowa. Can they really do any worse? I think not.
“Giving Swanson 170 million”…When his Atlanta team showed ZERO interest in giving Swanson big money, that was a good indication(to me) that he’s a decent player, but decidedly not a big money SS or one to burn through your payroll on.
Thank you for the comment on Wisdom / Madrigal / Mastrobuoni. Yes these are not major league players, yet Jed Hoyer can’t bear to let them go.
Think about it Swanson was a fan favorite, a local boy who they made a big trade to acquire and as you said ZERO interest in resigning, but, Jed Hoyer goes and gives him a big contract. There is a sucker born every minute.
Can we just ask Theo to come pick up his bum buddy.
@Manny
If the Mets turned it around I’m sure the Cubbies can as well. I even believe there’s still a chance the BlueJays make some noise too. Obviously I can be wrong but those are 2 teams that look like they are underachieving.
Except the Mets have more talent on their roster than the Cubs (particularly position players.)
Things tend to even out over 162 games. What has not been mentioned is at least half or more of the staff that left camp is on the DL or has/was for a long time. Bats that went dead tend to have a habit of rebounding. Was same last season. Also the observation of a different baseball. Balls are not carrying out. This has hurt. I have noticed a lot of past productive hitters that are not washed up are hitting in the low .200’s league wide. As more replacement pitchers are put into action look for more offense. Can 84 wins make the playoffs? This is probably the best outcome after this start.
Its gonna happen.
Again.
It could be worse. The Cubs could be the Tigers.
The same Tigers who spent $120 million less on this years roster then Chicago and have produced to this point only one less win then the much more well paid Cubs?
Neither team poses much of a threat. At least Detroit isn’t wasting too much money while doing it.
Because the tigers have 1 less win.
How is that worse? Great young pitching staff, good farm system, developing young core. Yes the offense seems to take some nights off but at least we get to see the kids play so they can assess who is part of the future and will know which holes need to be filled next year (SS for sure). The Tigers are a team on the rise.
Difference between the Cubs and the Tigers:
The Tigers have been just as competitive while patching a team together around a younger core, not yet fully committing to being competitive, and thus are playing more as expected.
The cubs went into the year expecting to be contenders and therefore spent more like contenders.
With just a one win difference between them, you can say the Cubs are playing like the Tigers, but it’s still more of an insult to the Cubs than you’d think. Detroit couldn’t keep up a good start to the deadline in a season that could’ve seen them add at the deadline to go more in for a playoff shot. The Cubs couldn’t keep anything up and may find themselves just stuck because they won’t have a reason to buy and won’t really have any good pieces to sell. It’s still the Cubs that look bad, not the Tigers.
I would have a lot more hope and be having a lot better time if I was a hypothetical Tigers fan rather than a hypothetical Cubs fan.
I know right now being a real Tigers (or Cubs) fan is painful. Expectations were higher for both but the Tigers seemed to have less margin for error. Cheers dude.
I’m nobody, but I can’t help but think that the energy(lack there of) brought by Counsell is a big factor. All these guys seem quick to be defeated when issues arise. And let’s face it, Counsell is NOT a proven winner. He never brought his Brew Crew to the true top… but now they’re getting after it…
Another observation is that Milwaukee continues its winning ways without Counsell.
Its NOT a factor. They knew when they hired him he was NEVER a manager that overturned tables in the clubhouse. He was as successful in Milwaukee as possible with what a very limited budget. could take him..
He was an excellent manager in Milwaukee.
One of the best in MLB.
You’re really reaching.
While I feel you’re off-base if you’re blaming Counsell for Hoyer’s mess, you do bring up a valid point in that a team often takes on the persona of its manager. And Craig could show a little more sense of urgency in his tone. He is, after all, the highest paid manager in MLB history. But he’s not the main problem. This falls clearly in Jed’s lap and the players who are underperforming.
I can get behind that.
It’s the easiest thing to blame it on the manager. I think you should take a hard look at your recent large contract signings. I’ve had many seasons of watching Swanson’s bat take sharp diving slumps. He isn’t so unusual in that most players have one or two bad months of production each season but his are just memorable. He always brings it back to somewhat above league average but I think he got paid to be a little better than that.
Bellinger has been modestly above league average and I think everyone saw this coming. He also is being paid better than someone who is playing modestly above league average. These two contracts are being to be burdens because they’ll be difficult to move and somewhat difficult to win with.
As a Brewers fan, and having grown up a fan of Counsell, I wasn’t over all that bummed he left. He is our winningest manager of all time, but he also had some of our best overall rotations.
I was skeptical of Murphy being the new manager to replace him, seeing as how Murphy was Counsells college coach and then his bench coach, so I thought that the problems I had with Counsell that got overlooked might still be an issue.
But honestly? I’m glad Counsell left. Our offense has been much better. We know how to play small ball again, they’re more aggressive on the base paths again. Something that always bothered me about Counsell was how station to station the brewers were on the bases. The hit and run seemed also non existent. Steals were there, but could’ve been more. It seemed like we didn’t know how to bunt. They were managed by the poster boy of a small ball player, and yet they didn’t seem to know how to play small ball. The offense looked so bad, they somehow made the playoffs despite run differentials being not so great. The pitching made the Brewers the contenders they were for a good portion of Counsells run as Brewers manager. Not at all saying he was a bad manager. But he definitely had areas to improve.
I’m happy to see the Brewers playing much more exciting these days though. When your team isn’t a power threat and you don’t play aggressive on the basepaths, your offense becomes very stale. And that’s how it felt with Counsell as manager. So whether it was to the cubs or wherever, I’m glad Counsell left. If I were the cubs though, I’d of probably kept Ross. He knows the construct of that team better. And if he did bad this year? They could’ve let him go. Surely I don’t expect the team to keep bring this bad under Counsell, but if they are, they’ll have the highest paid manager for no reason.
Counsell does deserve some blame because lots of his players are underperforming (belly, no morel improvement, Nico, especially dansby) compared to when they were with Ross
But at the same time jed hoyer has not made a playoff caliber roster, you can only do so much with a roster with holes everywhere
Counsell knows how to work with that because of Milwaukee, it just isn’t happening this year for some reason
brewsingblue82;
Interesting observations.
I’ve been following and talking up the Phillies and Orioles for 3 years here. It was easy to see what was being built watching their games, the moves the FO was making. and the coaching up of the players.
I feel that way about the Brewers this year. Believe they can be an NL power in the next 2-3 years if things break right – particularly with the pitching. Building a team up the middle puts the percentages in their favor.
But have you considered that the teams Stearns built were based on station-to-station position players? His Mets are.
Long ago FO’s dictated they style of play their team would play, and the manager went along. I don’t recall Counsell having young guys with speed such as Turang, Perkins, Frelick, Chourio and others.
Nevertheless, am waiting for today’s game to start. Enjoy watching them play as well as my 2 other favorite teams (Guardians as well). All play smart, high baseball IQ, fundamental baseball – which almost always results in winning teams if they have a decent amount of talent.
Of all the teams that have come through Camden Yards this year to date, the Brewers are the one team that stood out.
Kudos to Milwaukee for constructing a cohesive unit all jugging down the magic brew sold to them by the FO and field staff at seasons beginning. Unity and attitude. They came in to Baltimore and punched us in the mouth taking 2 of 3.
Trade and get what you can for all the useless FA’s you signed. Look at other Clubs going with youth, try that! I was pro management until you signed all those FA’s. Get rid of them, use the Farm and make trades.
Not to mention the 40 mil they spent on Counsell when they could have gotten someone as good as him (or close to) for 1/4 of that.
Give examples of the “useless FA’s” that CAN be traded??
Al of them. Bellinger Swanson Nerris and all the others.
I don’t think the Cubs’ free agents are flops. I feel they overpaid. IMO, hiring Craig Councel was unnecessary especially since David Ross was a sound manager. Councel may not know this team as Ross did.
I like Ross too. He should resurface somewhere else as a skipper soon enough.
Get over Ross, he was no great shakes as the manager
Maybe not, but the guy went through a complete rebuild of his team after the 2020 season. Almost every day the cubs would bring in a couple of guys and dfa a couple more. He finally found some useful players like Contreras, Happy, Hoerner, etc., putting together the first stage of constructing a team that could, at times, compete. Then the cubs did their best impression of the White Sox. While Ricky Renteria, who led a successful rebuild with the Sox, was shown the door by a brain dead owner, Ross’ efforts were rewarded by being blindsided for a guy with a bigger name. Both Chicago teams are now paying for these ridiculous moves.
Imanaga is probably the only free agent they signed this year or last that anyone would really likely give anything for, and probably the last one the cubs would want to trade.
Nobody wanted Swanson at that price last year, they surely don’t want him for it now.
Bellinger will all depend on what the cubs want or pay off under the assumption he doesn’t opt out. Because if the cubs don’t want to pay anything and want good prospects, they likely will be stuck with him.
The cubs just really don’t have any good, typical trade pieces. Most of their free agent signings were ones where they overpaid the field, not ones where people were looking to rebound value before hitting the market again. So they’d be stuck with them likely. Their best bet of anything would be getting anything for pending free agents, even like Hendricks, if they can convince pitching needy teams that he has anything of his old form left. Other than that I expect the cubs to basically finish the year for better or worse with their same roster.
There isn’t a star on the roster, but they have parts and pieces that could fetch a lotto ticket or two via trade. Such a waste of a season.
Yes, they are playing poorly. But face it, Jed – you built a very flawed team. He continues to ignore the elephant in the room. Blaming underperformance while not being humble enough to admit his own mistales. The only thi g he says about the bullpen is that theybwere hit hard by injuries. Bit guess what Jed, so have many other teams. He is one of those guys that knows hes thr smartest guy in the room. He lacks humility. He continues to trust his system of numbers. And he’s so damn overanalytical (is that a word?). He’s a victim of paralysis by analysis for sure. Slow to react. Cubs are probably cooked. They will be sellers unless they have a strong July. But I don’t see it happening.
Well said! I’d give this extra likes if that was possible.
Jed only needs to look in the mirror to discover the Cubs biggest flaw.
Fables
I find your lack of faith disturbing.
Never underestimate the power of a Jed-eye.
This team is a slightly better lineup and SP group than last year. The pen isn’t good but much of that is the manager.
Counsell is not the problem. Sure, I’d like to see a little more energy from him but he’s not a ‘fire & brimstone’ type of guy and to be that now wouldn’t be authentic and players pick up on stuff like that. This team has blown 17 saves this season..If they converted even 12 of them, they’d be in first place or very close to it. The bullpen is a major flaws and that isn’t just injuries, that’s arrogance on the part of Jed Hoyer.
I don’t buy that. Merriweather was a big piece. Alzolay too. Leiter was great until he got hurt and tried to pitch thru it. You lost the big three from last season. Neris was supposed to be #4 and got thrust into closing. They should have signed two more besides Neris but were against the cap. They also lost their wildcard arm in Almonte. Steele got hurt opening day. They had to lean on Hendricks. He’s at the stage of his career if he’s even off a bit he’s shelled. It was known Shota would have growing pains adapting to the league. There is 3/5 of your rotation with issues. So the bats were counted on to produce. They haven’t. Things will heat up on offense but same result as last season looks more and more likely.
When Alzolay was healthy last year, he was very good. I wouldn’t count out Alzolay being a big contributor in 2025.
I wouldn’t count it out. But I wouldn’t be DEPENDING on it again either.
I think the status of the Cubs in their division also might be that teams like the Cardinals, Pirates and Reds have also improved just as much if not more than the Cubs. Is this a Great division – no- but teams have improved.
Maybe firing Ross out of nowhere to land Counsel after the team played so well down the stretch wasn’t the right move to get the team over the hump. The Brewers haven’t skipped a beat and the Cubs are lingering around the basement of a very top heavy-weak NL. I haven’t heard that brought up but maybe the Brewers success had more to do with what Stearns did on a limited budget vs the manager doing a superb job. Maybe that’s not it idk but when you have a team that’s good on paper and not performing overall that usually merits taking a look at the manager
The team literally pooped the bed down the stretch, hence why they didn’t make the playoffs. And everyone is so quick to forget how they were calling for Ross’ head b/c he mismanaged the game and bullpen on a daily basis.
Look, if you’re going to credit Ross for their winning streaks, then you have to blame him for the team choking in September. You can’t have it both ways.
Hoyer has had the Cubs in circles for years.
Trying this for a few years, then that, then something else.
They’re a middling team under him. Accept it. .
Wrote what’s below under another Cubs article. This is basically what it’s about. I believe that when Epstein left the owner lost a nice amount of money for years due to the outrageous long-term contracts Epstein gave out as he was radically mischaracterized as a FO maestro. Surely did not understand pitching. Bought his way out of his shortcomings until the owner(s) said no mas as working within budgets was for small market franchises.
Don’t care how rich someone is. You lose money for years and it’s not a comfortable feeling. The Cubs have been profitable again so why would the owner get rid of Hoyer?…And that goes for at least half the teams in MLB today
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Samuel12 hours ago
The Cubs – like most middling teams with the same FO’s for years – try one approach for a while, then a different one, maybe another one after that – and every once in a while have a miracle year.
Nice that Mr. Hoyer committed to pitching a few years ago, and there has been noticeable improvement in many areas of the Cubs pitching. But then leaks sprang elsewhere and the team is at where it’s at.
The Yankees under Hal/Cashman have been doing the same thing, but they’re a high revenue team so they stay competitive. They make the playoffs, just don’t get to the WS. The Rangers did the same thing for years under Jon Daniels till the owners had enough. The Twins. The Tigers for years. The Reds, Pirates, Giants, Rockies…..and more.….just thrashing around playing middling baseball and thanking the Commissioner and team owners for keeping the scam going thanks to the expanded playoff’s…….
“HEY, We finished 2-1/2 games out of the last Wild Card spot and if we just fix this one thing that we were weak in we can get in next year….then anything can happen!”
This is what modern day pro sports is selling with with such a high percentage of teams making their leagues’ playoffs (take away the rebuilding teams and everyone else is now a playoff contender).
I like a lot of what you’re saying except that the Cubs were losing money for years. Are you crazy? This team prints money! 30k plus tickets sold almost every game. I don’t buy the “biblical” losses bs from Ricketts. But things are not going well for Marquee, so the payroll will likely be going down in future years. Sucks to be a Cubs fan.
If the Cubs “lost” money over the past few years, the culprit is probably cost overruns due to Wrigley Field renovations or Marquee not being the expected cash cow because of the crumbling RSN scheme.
I doubt they’re losing money due to long term contracts especially when the limit was usually set at the first CBT threshold. They did not sign a major free agent after Darvish was signed until he was traded (Kimbrel was signed when Zobrist went on the restricted list).
Did Samuel just quote himself? That’s gotta be an all timer
Samuel’s arrogance knows no bounds. Why did he come back out from under his rock?? Nobody was pining for his self-indulgent and self-important takes.
This team was supposed to be a potential NL Central winner, and right now the Brewers are running circles on them and the rest of the division, without Corbin Burnes and without Woodruff this year. All I can do is give props to the Brewers front office.
The Cubs front office seems to have some Jeckyll and Hyde qualities. They make some really deft moves while also making some total head scratchers. They are definitely dealing with a self imposed salary cap. But really, lack of spending isn’t what’s holding them back. They have the highest payroll in the division. They just aren’t getting good return on their investments. Some of that is underperformance, but some of that is poor roster construction.
I think these inconsistencies have to be explained by one or more of the following:
1) Jed Hoyer is simply very good at some aspects of the job and very weak at others.
2) There are multiple influential voices within the front office who don’t share a common vision.
3) Ownership is heavy handed on more issues than just payroll and like to occasionally step in and play GM. (then step out and wash their hands of any responsibility).
Crane Kennedy, business head, publicly declared that Jed was not fully spending just before they signed Dansby. That probably helped an overspend there especially when Swanson was the last big SS free agent left.
Ricketts is hands off with baseball decisions that fit under the budget.
It’s Kenney, not Kennedy
Yep, damn MLBTR resets the page a couple times while commenting and then autocorrect gets me.
I think the Cubs need another impact hitter. Bellinger has not lived up to expectations. Their rotation is good 4 starters with an ERA of about 3 is terrific. But the pen isn’t too good.
What expectations? He has one good year in the last four and only the cubs were dumb enough to pay up
Cubs have a pretty good farm system. Add to it with a few deadline deals and promote some AAA players worthy of the call to gain experience. Load up prospects in late-July to prepare for trades November and December. Spend a little and you have a contender in a soft division.
Hoyer “imagining” the fans might be upset is pretty laughable. While Counsell has been less than inspiring. the same problems persist with roster construction. I do believe Hoyer is handcuffed to a point by that knucklehead, Ricketts, but Jed’s bullpen philosophy isn’t working- Never has and it’s absolutely killing them this year. One cheap retread after another is never gonna work, especially for a so-called contender. Do I even have to mention that trotting out guys like Wisdom, Bote and Mastrobouni as often as they do, is a testament to lack of quality depth across the board. He needs to go but I’m betting clueless Ricketts doesn’t even know it.
Pretty hard to be as bad as the pirates and reds but the cubs found a way. Lol
Best Summer ever. Watching the mid 30-40’s age bleacher fans, who just can’t let go of their frat party days making giant cup snakes and fawning over the star studded lineup of .200 hitters. The owners know that fans will gladly hand over $ no matter what team is on the field. Incompetence all the way around. If the farm system is so good, why has Bote, Wisdom , Masterboner, Happ, Morel and an entire bullpen of poo been allowed to stay on the roster for so long?
And it’s still SO important for the ankle biting haters to spew their worn out nonsense. Feel better?
The farm system is not as good as people say. The best of the prospects are borderline major-leaguers. Hoyer has failed at every aspect of his job. I am “imagining” something too: a new Cubs POBO.
I completely agree a new leader is needed. I seriously doubt Ricketts would know one if he met one.
Send Rizzo and Gleyber back to cubbies for Bellinger
Just throw in Dominguez, and it’s a deal.
I really took a big swing and a miss this season.
For the 1st time since 2018 I had the Cubs wining the NL Central. Had them at 90-72. The roster wasn’t perfect. But I had confidence in several players who are either injured or just simply dramatically underperforming. For a payroll of around 230 million, which leads the NL Central, I just can’t see ownership allowing an increase and exceeding the revenue tax. Can’t see this team finding any type of winning streak from now up to the trade deadline. It’s a tough scheduled. Try to trade/sell off what you can and try to get some returns. I’m ok moving Happ, Suzuki, Belli, Hoerner. Lot of money coming off the payroll in 2025. Belli is a wild card here considering his opt out. Maybe this leads to a nice set up for a new President of Baseball Operations. Hoyer’s contract runs through 2025. There’s been some rumblings around local Chicago media that he’s likely fired after the season. That is unless the Cubs have a seismic turnaround. One name mentioned as a replacement is Sam Fuld.
Former MLB player and Cub. Sam is the current GM in Philly under Dave Dombrowski.
Trade Dansby back to the Braves with cash going to the Braves and Arcia going to the Cubs.
Hey Jed, if you are not being a realist and making plans for making some serious changes at the deadline, you are not doing your job.
Your team has not been playing well for some time. They have gone 20-34 over their last 54 games. Risks you took like Morel and PCA are not paying off. Morel’s MLB worst defense at 3B is costing the team games and eroding the confidence of pitchers. Other moves are questionable. Many players are underperforming expectations.
ALL of those things call for change. Are you prepared to make those changes?
+1 love how you addressed it to Jed. Hope he reads it.
I think Hendricks, Taillon, Neris and Smyly are all trade-able. They might want to consider moving Ian Happ to a contender too.
Kinda of a strange rebuild post joe Maddon era. Used career minor leaguers and traded prospects now prospects and free agents. Showed signs of progress past few years but seem to have hit a snag. Give counsel a year to figure out what this team is or isn’t doing. If the prospects were blue chips in the 1st place, the cubs would have a better record.
CAN JED GET FIRED PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PLEASE!!! he is not Theo and he wants to be Theo. He could never do that even being trained from him.!!!!!!!!!!!