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Nah I'd much rather have all the pieces we've turned Heyward into. But great move for cubs

We follow a brilliant move with a head scratching move.

I've been on board with the rebuild but my concern has always been that we've accumulated nice depth but a severe lack of impact guys. This trade is 100% a turning point for us.

Let's be reasonable here. I know we just made a great trade but you're not getting Soler, Baez, and Hammel for Teheran and Inciarte.

I really don't understand this. We're rebuilding and refused to even give the guy a look. Most likely won't miss him but never understood Fredi's treatment of him last year. We had every opportunity to just give him a look to see if he would develop and we refused to. Now we have a crap...

If it's Casey Kelly I don't get this. I fully understand the concerns with CB but I'm also annoyed with how he was handled last year. I don't think he's the future at C by any means but just handing him to another team without giving him a shot is not smart. Especially when catching is a huge...

I agree but my point is they maybe overpaid in very good talent but remains to be seen if they gave up a true impact player. I'm without a doubt on the high end on Swanson but there are scouts that doubt how much of an impact he'll make offensively. Again, I'm on the high side with Swanson. I...

I think they realize it's a steep price but they're trading from strength, not losing much major league talent because of depth in OF. Again, let me preface this next comment by saying I LOVE LOVE LOVE this trade....but they traded a promising SP in Blair who's ceiling is a mid rotation SP, and...

The Brewers are going young and building with top young talent. They're not going to trade an elite prospect in Phillips to clear Garza

Yea no way we can put the trade that high when the two main pieces are prospects. I love the trade but we also didn't get a Correa type. Time will tell how big of impact guys Blair and Swanson will become.

The Cubs would not add something to that. You're not getting Soler and Baez for Teheran and Inciarte

Yes it would be a good deal value wise but I'm just not sure I want to trade Teheran after moving Shelby. We have a lot of good young pitching but we don't have a lot of top of the rotation types outside of Newcomb and potentially Fried if healthy. Teheran has pitched at a very high level and...

Yea Blair definitely doesn't have the upside of Miller but he's a fantastic replacement for Miller. Swanson is the huge get tho

I would have loved Soler. But the problem with the Cubs was they didn't have the secondary pieces that fit our needs like the Dbacks did. Blair is a big deal in this

No I can't see Swanson moving to 3B. Pretty much all reports say he will be a strong defensive SS. He's an up the middle guy. Maybe he moves to 2B if it's determined Albies is stronger defensively but can't see him moving to 3B. Just know that SS and 2B are golden for us for a VERY long time...

Apparently Coppy received 10 calls already on Inciarte. I really like having him but with the presence of Mallex I would not be against flipping him for another positional need like 3B. I wonder what Inciarte and Bethancourt could fetch.

Problem always comes back to Olivera and Markakis.

Has to be Swanson. Bigger, stronger arm. Albies 100% can handle SS long term but to me it's an easy answer. This is going to be one exciting DP combo for years.

Yea I'm curious what this means for the future of Mallex. Inciarte is a really nice player and a hell of a defensive CF. But I also don't want to cast Mallex aside....prototypical leadoff hitters are hard to find.

Henderson Alvarez is absolutely the type of guy we should take a shot on. But he might get a little pricey. As for internal options, we HAVE TO roll with the inconcisistency of Folty. He has way too much upside to just move to the pen when we're not competitive. Let him take his licks all of...