Are the Cubs risk averse or cheap?
F you. Get better players.


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Fresh from their annual Christmas tradition of going to Chicagoland Boys and Girls Clubs and slapping donated toys out of kids’ hands, the Garbage Family That Owns The Cubs™ gathered in Tom’s north shore manse to wonder aloud why fans aren’t happier with them for their offseason of hiring a new manager, firing a family toady and then doing fuck all.
“Fine, tell Jed to sign one of those Descalsos. That should shut them up.”
You know things are bad when our pals over that at Blovation Nation have to go full Chip Diller in a fruitless attempt to assuage the sad part of the fanbase that comes to them for comfort.
Oh sure, little Greggy Marmalard or whoever wrote this, tried to position it as, “I’m no happier than you that the Cubs haven’t done anything, but…
…what if they signed Cody Bellinger and Rhys Hoskins and Jordan Montgomery and Robert Stephenson and traded for Shane Bieber? You’ll all feel pretty foolish then!”
I’m sure they’ll get right on all of that. Honestly, most of that is pretty underwhelming anyway. And we know they won’t do that much.
I also enjoyed the part where he wrote, “sometimes it all works out and you get Dansby Swanson for over $100M less than Xander Boegarts ($280M) or Trea Turner ($300M) while avoiding the Carlos Correa mess…”
Turner, of course, had a much better season than Dansby did, even after spotting Dansby the first 100 games.
Overall, Trea had a 111 OPS-plus. Swanson was a 99. (100 is average.)
But from August 1 on it was, well:
Trea - .317/.371/.629/1.000, 16 HR, 42 RBI, 9-9 SB, 38 K’s in 205 at bats.
Dansby - .212/.292/.394/.686, 9 HR, 35 RBI, 5-5 SB, 57 K’s in 208 at bats.
And, I’m not a Dansby hater. I think he’s a nice player, and he was even better defensively than I thought he’d be. He also played through a bum foot at the end of the season and his manager, a renowned leader of men, couldn’t make him take a day off. But to say the Cubs dodged a bullet because the Phillies are paying a better player, in Turner, more money is asinine. Then again, asinine is kind of this guy’s thing.