![]() I don’t think you have to necessarily allocate your dollars in one spot.” I think there’s plenty of examples of that. “You’ve seen teams that have been incredibly successful and have had really good offseasons by being really targeted in what they go after. ![]() “Yeah, I think there’s different ways to do it,” he said. So not spending a lot on any one free agent, right? “What I’m trying to explain is - you guys keep on asking what does that mean, ‘spending intelligently,’ and that’s what I’m trying to get at.” “I don’t think so,” Hoyer said, pushing back. ![]() That would seem to preclude aggressiveness in the next couple of years, at least. Just by doing the math on those players’ timelines. That timelline looks years away at best, given where the organization is now in terms of the best guesses on pre-arbitration impact players. As we were building, we really didn’t do that.” That’s when they got aggressive in free agency, he said, “because we had so many zero-to-three players that we really to pack that much talent on our roster. That’s where the “decline-phase” part of the “danger” comes into play, he said - at which point he offered a reminder that the Cubs didn’t go big the last time until they had a core in place in 2015 and ’16. So when we talk about intelligent spending, that’s ultimately how I see it: You want to bring talent to the organization there’s only so many pipelines you can do it you have to be really careful.” “Building a club through free agency is really challenging. “There’s a reason that the best organizations are generally built from within, and they’ll use free agency to sort of finish off the club,” Hoyer said. Value.īecause here’s what seems most certain about where the Cubs and their immediate plans for building a roster have them: Most of their in-house possibilities for young, potential impact core players are in the low minors and at least a couple years away (with a few exceptions such as big-leaguer Nico Hoerner and Triple-A outfielder Brennen Davis).Īnd if they don’t supplement that core with a long-term impact player or two with their newly available payroll flexibility, then this competitive process is at least a year-to-year proposition until then, if not a multi-year rebuilding process. We have the resources necessary to compete in 2022 and beyond, and we will use them,” that letter said in part. “Jed and the team are now focused on reloading our roster. “I think that you always have to be mindful of what the biggest value is of that contract.”īut how does that square with Hoyer’s assertion earlier this month that he would “certainly be active”? Or with that letter last week by Ricketts that seemed to double down on the big promises: “When you’re talking about spending in free agency, there’s a danger in free agency of committing a lot of years and a lot of dollars to players sort of in the decline phase of their career,” Hoyer said. Whether Hoyer can deliver on his promise to try to “field a team that’s competitive next year,” it figures to be done again with a roster built with a lot of short-term contracts, a process that makes it a roster again built to blow up at the deadline. And might as well take Robbie Ray and Marcus Stroman with you - and any other big-ticket free agent who might inject hope and excitement into a fan base wondering how many years it’ll be before the actual Cubs rejoin all those ex-Cubs in the postseason. Bulls' Alex Caruso Has Basketball Court Named After Him in Home Town
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