THE PERFECT FIT | Cubs Baseball Channel
I just looked at these numbers. There's other players that are also fit in this area. But Suarez, I think, is a fit because he doesn't block anybody, right? He can play third, but he's not going to play every day. He can play first against lefties. He can DH. They just have this rotation and then he probably plays a little bit more if there's an injury in the field, >> right? Plus, the contract is is right up their alley. Like he's projected at 2 years 45 million to 3 years 72 million, right? So that's 15 to 24 million. And we're going to get into this later on in the show, but they don't like to spend the money on the elite free agents, right? That is definitely Alex Bregman. He's an elite free agent this year for that third base spot. But are there some other guys? And I love Look, I I love the idea of having Suarez. We we had rumors that Suarez could possibly be coming to the Cubs last year at the deadline. Obviously, the team that got him was, you know, a win away from the World Series. So, he was and he was a differencemaker in the playoffs. >> Yeah. And he had a little bit of a hiccup towards the end of the year because he went to Seattle. He doesn't see the ball well there for whatever reason. He's got some weird home splits. You know, if you take those out, he's fine on the road. He's he had really good numbers at uh in Arizona, but I looked at his away home splits that they're pretty good still like regardless, right? And like it's all about balance, right? So I'm just looking at some of this balance stuff. And I do think that the Cubs could go over the top be like, "Hey dude, we'll give you three years, 26 million a year. We'll give you an opt out so you can get 30 or whatever if the market's higher in a year or two." If they if he if they sign him for a year or two, say his contract ends, then he fits right into the D8 spot.
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The owners are a joke. So disrespectful to fans who back u .
Suárez gets a lot of strikeouts.
We don't need another boom or bust hitter, i think
He is going to be paid for playing everyday. This isn’t some part time player lol
Get a hair cut or join Color Me Bad 😅
Never going to happen. They won't do anything. All the Ricketts care about is lining their pockets with cash and the fans don't care.
I don't like this guy with the Cubs as he strikes out too much!
they will not sign a single multi-year contract due to the impending doom of 2027, mark my words.
They won't pay this guy. It's not gonna happen.
Okamoto is cheaper AND can play LF and maybe RF in addition to 1B/3B. Between 14m-19m…my best guess is 17m maybe 18m…? I like Eugenio but no more than 2 years. The 3rd year may be what gets it done. But if you’re paying Okamoto 17/18 he needs to play a lot of games at several positions. If you’re paying Suarez 18+? Likely 21-23mil? He needs play almost everyday doesn’t he? 130 games. These guys on the other side of 29/39 could benefit from days off. A deeper bench would make your everyday players better in August and September in my opinion.
Why can’t Shota be traded? Shota, Caissie, Little(if you need to add J. Long or a Brandon Birdsell or Connor Noland? Do it) for Alcantara and R. Weathers??!??
Keep Wiggins.
Keep Ballesteros and have him DH this year and catch some while working on catching.
All the other teams are signing all the players thar are rumored to the cubs, and gues what? We get nothing just the 8th tier free agents and pitchers that throw high 80s low 90s, thats it that's our team because of the ownership we have, so bad for us we only can dream with good free agents because they will never spend money for us the fans to be happy.