GDT 8/29/14-Cubs (Hendricks) @ Cardinals (Miller) 7:15 CDT

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Gone quietly

[Knot Hole Gang Vet]

I know it's been mentioned before but the Cubs and Mets would be perfect trade partners. Cubs have a ton of young hitters and no pitching, the Mets have a ton of young pitching and no offense.

But we could only squeeze out 2 runs against them.

[mul21]

I know it's been mentioned before but the Cubs and Mets would be perfect trade partners. Cubs have a ton of young hitters and no pitching, the Mets have a ton of young pitching and no offense.

cubs can get decent pitching on the free agent market....why should they trade their prospects

They can get high upside, cost controlled young arms

With money they can get free agents and keep all the bats. Which means they can continue to beat the Cards 7-2 on a regular basis. Also, young pitchers break all the time and are for the birds.

[boops]

We really need to retool the lineup in this offseason. We can look at our lineup and easily say: "well, these guys are all pretty good, so who do we really replace...?" I've been guilty of this at least. The fact is that while we're not awful at any position we're also not good at any position either except perhaps shortstop and definitely catcher.

[Cronos]

It's ok to admit the cubs are gonna be awesome soon.

And it only took punting several seasons completely to do it! Theo's a genius!!

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I'm sure the new owner wanted it this way to minimize costs for a while.

[dmarx114]

Scored in 1 inning in 5 straight games.

[pioneer98]

I know it's been mentioned before but the Cubs and Mets would be perfect trade partners. Cubs have a ton of young hitters and no pitching, the Mets have a ton of young pitching and no offense.

cubs can get decent pitching on the free agent market....why should they trade their prospects

They can get high upside, cost controlled young arms

With money they can get free agents and keep all the bats. Which means they can continue to beat the Cards 7-2 on a regular basis. Also, young pitchers break all the time and are for the birds.

Welcome to the board. I can't judge the next 5 years based on what happened in 3 innings tonight. I do not think Moz & Co. is going to sit back and let the Cubs beat them 7-2 every game. I think most people expected some amount of regression from #1 in the NL in runs for the Cards, but I don't think anyone, not even their most pessimistic critics, expected their offense to be this lousy this year. Moz has some work to do.

[Vidor]

It's ok to admit the cubs are gonna be awesome soon.

Or, you know, we could wait for the games to be played.

[pioneer98]

It's ok to admit the cubs are gonna be awesome soon.

And it only took punting several seasons completely to do it! Theo's a genius!!

The people that say "Theo's a genius for going for all position players!" may be partially right. It probably is a smart strategy. But the real intelligence in any draft is picking GOOD players, regardless of whether they are hitters or pitchers. That's the trick that every team has been working on since the beginning of time.