Go with your preferred trade. Fried, Anderson and Waters. Are they better in 2020? 2021?
I HATE the notion of trading Bryant this off- season.
For me, I’d like to keep Bryant the next two seasons and try really hard to re-sign him when he hits free agency.
But, Cubs seem to be in a different place. It’s a unique situation they are facing with basically the virtual core of the club hits free agency around the same time. Don’t think that has ever happened, anywhere.
So, highly unusual circumstances make for difficult decisions.
Theo now talks about balancing near-term with long-term interests—not exactly a startling idea— but actually kind of startling when we ponder what it could mean, as in trading Bryant and more.
If Theo could get all of Fried, Waters, Anderson—he’s going to do that. He won’t get that but he would take that in two seconds if he could, given the apparent current strategy above.
Would that make Cubs better in 2020? Unlikely——maybe in 2021 when Waters and Anderson more ready.
In any case, will be interesting how this plays out. Naturally, full of gloom and doom here—-the most predictable thing about the whole situation.
Looks like Jesse Rogers prediction about Bryant getting traded at Winter meetings turned out wrong. Beats me how anybody actually expects Bryant to be traded before the grievance is resolved.