Chicago Cubs Baseball Rumors | Time to Brace for Deadline Deals
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- Опубликовано: 9 сен 2024
- The Chicago Cubs manager Craig Counsell spoke before the Cubs played the D-Backs and was asked about the Trade Deadline. He was Poignant about the season and future plans “I look at the total number of games we have left to prove ourselves,” Counsell Said “That’s our job. The way we played the first 100-ish games of the season has not left us very much room for error." “We have to play really well to get back in this and put ourselves into position. I don’t think that it’s determined by the next 10 days.” Mick tried to desifer what he meant that talks about players that could be traded. The Cubs did Ink 10 of their 20 Picks draft picks including Cam Smith the first rounder out of FSU
Cubs vs D-Backs 1:20
Shota Imanaga (8-2, 2.97 ERA) vs Brandon Pfaadt (4-6, 3.97 ERA)
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Mick Gillispie has covered the Chicago Cubs since 2007 and has been a fan of the team since the 1984 season. He has broadcasted spring training games or been heard on Cubs.com, MLB.com, 670 The Score, WGN, CSN-Chicago and Marquee Sports Network. He is an award winning play-by-play voice for the Tennessee Smokies Cubs Double-A Affiliate. He has also hosted many forums over the years at Cubs Convention including Down on The Farm.
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As a fan, I'm only interested in getting players who will contribute in 2025 and beyond. The Cubs need to punt on this season. Their big move was winning 7 out of 8 before the break, and now they've lost 4 of 5. So they're basically running in place. Time to focus on the future, which could be bright if they don't screw it up.
Counsell actually showed some fire in the postgame interview today. I was only half listening so I don’t know who the comment was referring to, but he called it a bad take.
Love your analysis Mick. Honest but not cruel.
They've also haven't hit against the bad pitchers either!!🤨🤔😞
Great analysis as usual Mick. Time to trade the vets and shed salary. Taillon, Hoerner, Happ, can all be moved for value. Plus, we cannot keep blocking the prospects. I would love to pick up Vlad Jr. Dansby to 3b and bring up Vazquez.
It's not just that they don't score against the ELITE pitchers ...it's that they get shutout and you look at the boxscore ...and don't even RECOGNIZE they guys that shut them down. That's happened many times this season.... Somebody I've never heard of...throwing 6-7 innings of 2 hit ball... against us.
I found a Catcher that is draft eligible for next year’s draft that should be there for the Cubs pick Luke Stevenson the North Carliona catcher as a freshman he hit 14 homers 58 RBI’s 48 walks to 55 strikeouts and hit by a pitch 4 times Moises Ballesteros is unfortunately a DH.
Thanks for the show Mick! LET'S GO CUBS!!! ⚾️✌️💙🐻
My picks to be traded are Jameson Taillon, Christopher Morel and Drew Smyly. The Cubs have to start trusting the pitching depth in their system and they can fill the gap of a traded Taillon. For as much of a trooper Morel has been at third base, he’s just not consistent at the plate. Drew Smyly is pitching well right now and in the last year of his contract. Every playoff contender can use an extra lefty.
The Jed/Carter team said, a few weeks ago, that Happ won’t be traded, so, there goes my other pick.
My other recommendation is that the Cubs pay Justin Steele to yell at this team every day because, apparently, they fell asleep again!
PCA is fast, but couldn’t hit water if he fell out of a boat!
That's true about the offense
I believe it goes deeper than the players.
Firing of Ross and hiring Counsel was Not a good move for the clubhouse
@@TimMurphy-bq3fv Ross was undervalued for sure. I think Mr Rickets needs to take control with new front office.
Keep hearing about farm system. It’s empty - nothing there!! The best they can do is PCA who’s a 4A player.
So true! The Cubs are terrible at evaluating and developing talent. How often do they have guys come through their farm system who are truly ready to play when they bring them up? When they do get someone who truly has credible Big League star power, they dangle them out for trade bait for some tired old rental player…
Only 4 hits!!! They coudn't take advantage of the 6 walks!!! Trade half the team!!! Keep only Imanaga, Steele, Busch and PCA... Go Cubs!!!
I think Hendricks and Taillon will get a lot of interest.
I don’t care how much a guy like Swanson is getting paid or how long you are locked in, if a guy doesn’t perform to the expected level, they sit.
We need power hitters and relievers and pitching
The season is over. I really hope that Jed and Counsell can come up with a plan for a 2025 contending Cubs team.
Fire jed
Sell the trash on this team and when your done fire hoyer and crew and start fresh
Want to hear ideas... What would Shota bring back? If Swanson sucks, what SS do you go after? Could Hoerner be replaced? How many bullpen guys do we trade, then grab more "fix em up" arms that'll take 2 years to see a return.
Let's not say anybody is off the table. Just ask how the return fits the puzzle/timeline.
We need a catcher
Need to offload as much payroll as possible. Swanson is worse than Heyward. A nagging knee doesn't cause him to swing and miss at pitched 12" outside.
It appears that the manager has already waived the white flag. It’s basically the same dead lineup every single day. There doesn’t seem to be any attempt at shaking things up or making changes. So obviously CC has given up. Most of the players appeared like they’ve given up.
MICK- why do you think that Tom allows Jed to continue to build poorly constructed rosters?
Cubs W....with a walk off walk from Hoerner
This seems to be what happened last year, they were buyers then they collapsed in Sept. Please do not be buyers this year, sell off what can be sold off and bring up the kids. The Big Five of Happ, Belanger, Suzuki, Swanson & Horner have NOT produced consistently this year.
Who did Tauchman replace on his 2nd at bat on Friday?
I would think they have to listen to all trades and to me the only two veterans who are untouchable are Steele and Imanaga. Not one of the other "veterans" are untouchable, they should listen to all deals regarding those guys. PCA and Busch are rookies who need evaluation the next couple of years before we can determine who they really are.
I don't want to trade Seiya or Nico either but everybody else is fair game
Trade out: Trauchman, Hoerner, Taillon. They have return value. Cody if a team takes the whole deal. If not then move Busch to 2B and Cody to 1B.
PCA would not be in the league if he was on any of the other 29 teams. We continue to beat our horses while they are down. Sit some guys and send pca down. Time to sit down The left side of the infield and put Tauchman out in center every day. Amaya has hit so much better since he got benched for those 3 days back in June
Well . I can't see winning 40 games, they can't produce runs. They leave guys on base all the time. People say pca to keep. Yeah he is quick , but not a good hitter, ya need a great hitter, good would help. Should of used taillon, earlier, against ARIZONA. So won game 3. Gotta win . Taillon, could of pitched game one, and use him against brewers.
LOOOOL Honestly it’s for the best. The saddest part of all this is the future. This FO really was hoping on this team and they got F’D big time by the so called “stars” of this team. Dansby might be the biggest disappointment signing in the history of the Cubs. Stellar D but you don’t pay that kind of cash when you have Vasquez who can make a lot of those defensive -lady and can really get it at short. They don’t have big boppers and big time players. I’m seriously doubting they have that down on the farm. They may have some talent, but I don’t see the Bobby Witt Jr’s, Graysons, Jasson Dominguez’s, Spencer Jones’s etc…. This isn’t the same farm as far as STUDS go as they had in 2014-2017. It’s gonna be rough folks. This FO doesn’t spend money when they print it, and forget about it. Sometimes I feel guilty about also being a Yankee fan from a kid but their season the last month has been so similar, it’s eerie. The offense has disappeared. 2 STARS are keeping that team alive right now. That’s what STUDS do.
FO needs to grow up and sell what they can. Couple relievers, and one actual position player. Dont care if its Happ or Nico. The team is now stuck with Bellinger in 2025, so that has to factor in. The team NEEDS to open room for these propects, or trade them for major league talent
Jed won’t do anything at the break of significance. He doesn’t seem to have the ability to think outside of the box as well. But apparently Tom Ricketts is fine with all of it.
@@timad11 As long as the Cubs are a money machine for Ricketts he is happy. They could lose 120-130 games but Wrigley will be filled with drunks making beer snakes while the Rickettsville cash register rings..
he fixed the bullpen pretty fast
@@austin6272 yeah he is doing a great job.
I think that the Cubs will be silent at the trade deadline. They really don't have much to trade that anybody would want. I'm not trading Nico. He's proved that he can hit and is a gold glove defender. Talk is that we have players in the system to replace him. We have no idea if any of them will be able to hit major league pitching and none can play gold glove 2nd base. I am skeptical if any of our minor league players can hit in the majors. See the following: Morel, Mervis, and worse of all PCA. All killed at AAA none can hit in the Majors.
PCA just started mervis never got a real chance. Morel yes can’t hit
Hitting when you first come up sometimes means nothing it’s can you make adjustments to various pitches Baez, wisdom, and morel all instantly hit
"Don't have much to trade":
-Taillon is a high value 4th or 5th starter for a contender, and is playing his best he can now. Sell high before he age/talent implodes next year, and you drop $20M.
-Bellinger: lots of teams are interested(CF/1B flex, solid hitter, great baserunner)
-Hoerner: definitely tradeable and teams are asking. Having a down year and still trade value. To your farm skepticism, that's fair. And, 2B is arguably your deepest position along with OF. Certainly one of the following will stick at MLB level at 2B: Shaw, Triantos, Morel(as a backup/platoon, he's better fielding there anyway)
-Happ- teams asking, and he's not worth $20M annually...defense is aging/declining, hitting is streaky every year.
Isn’t Counsell already waiving the white flag by running basically the same lineup every day? No effort is being made to try something different? Looks like he gave up.
The players certainly look like it.
Nick, why do you think Tom allows Jed to continue to build poor teams?
@@timad11 because they spend enough to sell tickets/merch/subs and get fans excited, but refuse to spend enough/right to actually contend. The Ricketts are greedy t(R)umpers when it comes down to it .. They love a good grift.
Sigh... maybe next year
Can’t sell them because they aren’t worth what they spent on them, and then there’s those no trade clauses. That contract with Swanson is a nightmare. There’s nobody in the farm system ready to come up and replace the bad players, they can’t dfa anybody and cut their losses even if they wanted to. This is NOT the team that should be playing at the Tokyo Dome PERIOD!!
The last 2 games pretty much stick a fork in this group as they are constructed. Now we have to hope that Jed & the FO have a plan for how to remake the team that creates momentum for the offseason and 2025. I poke around fangraphs roster resource a lot and the path to creating an edge seems pretty hard unless they spend money or get lucky with trade partners. 80k fans show up to see a bottom tier team and cant score any runs to at least make it entertaining, pretty pathetic.
The farm system hope and relying on prospects could be the next let down forthcoming if the roster is not fixed. If the cubs think Caissie, Shaw, Ballesteros, and Cam Smith are the core of the next contending team, well get ready to wait for them to learn on the job.
This year's injuries to Wicks, Ben Brown, and Horton are also big setbacks for the rotation to get experience and innings build up for 2025. Jed should probably be fired for this year, but over the last 4 years, he's done what Ricketts wanted so he's probably got a leash to see the plan through.
Right now it does not seem that the cubs are good at anything or have any competitive advantage in scouting, player development, etc. That to me is the most concerning aspect going forward.
Every thing will be ok. We have counsell
Are you being sarcastic? 🤣
@@everetttauscher8377 yes. Lol
This Cubs team, again, like all the Cubs teams since 2018 has no heart. They don’t ever feel a sense of urgency to win. They all take an attitude of it is a long season and one game doesn’t make a difference, even when you are 1/2 game out with a week left in the season. Seen that scenario play out way too many times the past 6-7 years. Need some leadership, on the field and in the dugout with some fire in their bellies. Give me a Lou Pinella type manager. Nick Castellenas is a perfect example of one who had some fire and was hungry to WIN and the Cubs didn’t keep him because he didn’t fit the Cubs laid back, passionless way - he is now on a team with lots of fire and passion and seems to be doing pretty well…
blow it up. it is NOT getting any better. I would've kept Ross and paid for pitching.
They need to fire Hoyer period and get rid of Morel
I don't believe Councell has a say if they sell or anything else. That's a generic statement by a manager. Counsell has not done a decent job so far. This team is not impacted by him. Trades can work but I have NO confidence in this mgmt.
They need to sell because they are definitely not contenders. Rebuild Now!! This year is a bust!!
Keep the starting staff, but add a true ace. Get a good corps of relief pitchers, which in today’s stat geek game is the most important piece of the puzzle due to starters rarely making it out the 5th inning. Most positions players can be jettisoned. The only two I would keep are Hoerner and Happ. And give me a farm system that actually develops players to fit into the team with a purpose and are ready to play when brought up, rather than developed for trade bait. Cubs farm system, from a practical and, most importantly, philosophical perspective is light years behind the Braves, Dodgers and Rays…
@@myronlarimer1943You wouldn't keep Busch? Please Explain
It’s time to just flush this toilet that is the 2024 Cubs season. It’s over, move on to 2025 and hope it’s better.
ON Sunday the Cubs have already struck out a bunch. Suzuki of course who LOVES to take strike 1 and strike 3. Swanson of course, who does it every day. Happ of course because he thinks he's good. He's not. He takes meatballs. Our 1st baseman who can't do anything except strike out. The Cubs blow. It's the 5th inning and the Cubs pitcher has 7 strike outs. Cubs will lose anyway.
I can't understand all the love for PCA..the guy needs to learn to hit to left field some..then maybe..and Taughman just sucks..move on from him..
I've said it all along as you know this team is not the team to bring a World Championship! The only players to keep are Armstrong if he starts hitting and Busch! Everyone else needs to go and there won't be any buyers! Jed Hoyer is a joke and he needs to be fired first!!! In a few years when all this has happened I will say I told you so!!! Cubs in 2027!!!!!
Sell, sell ,sell these guys suck!! One hit thru 8 innings in the last game of series with the backs!!
Cubs should trade Hoyer& Hawkins.. and bring back Theo.
@@steveburlo8010 Theo is the reason the Cubs won the WS in 2016 AND the reason they didn't after that. He built, then emptied the farm system and loaded the team with old starting pitchers with ridiculously generous contracts and tolerated a manager who doesnt light a fire under anyone. He knew there wasnt anything left and an owner who wouldnt let him be bold moving forward and packed his bag...
PUNT!!!!!!