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I’m not sure I buy Happ as a Gold Glove LF but congrats to him just the same.

While I am amazed that Happ won another GG, having 3 GGs on the team must make the Cubs a relatively attractive destination for pitchers if the money is in the same general area.

"Experts" say that Cubs, Yankees, and Giants in on Bellinger.

Author says that the big concern GM's have about Bellinger is the hard hit rate.  What was Rizzo's hard hit rate?  I seem to recall he also choked up and just tried to make contact when he had two strikes.

Perhaps that will be to Cubs advantage and the market on Bellinger won't be crazy?  Think he makes so much sense for the Cubs, *IF* his price doesn't go way crazy.  You never know, one or two teams can make it go crazy.  But, it's not impossible that it won't, and Hoyer will get him for a very long and expensive deal, but not unreasonably crazy? 


I think it's also fair to expect he won't come close to his 23 numbers again.  Obviously he outproduced what anybody should expect moving forward. 

Thanks for the link Curt. Very interesting article.

I believe Bellinger is more than capable of sustaining his ‘23 production levels…or at least being in the neighborhood…