Jack Flaherty -Contract makes it even more important for Cubs to sign Alex Bregman

It’s been a boom and bust kind of season for Chicago Cubs.

We can’t say that Jed Hoyer has been sitting on his hands. Kyle Tucker was a real swing for the fences – the kind of blockbuster cubs -fans torment. Tucker finished last season with 23 home runs and 4.7 war in only 78 games. He is an MVP candidate for full strength and he offers Chicago a path back to the postal season.

Hoyer even doubled on the former Houston Astros Champs and worked overtime to land Ryan Press. It is reasonable to express concern that a previous prime is coming closer from his worst season this year, but Pressy is a proven winner and he was an all-star as late as 2021. He is a certain upgrade over Hector Neris, not ? (Right.)

Chicago feels like the presumptive favorites in a wide open NL Central. The breweries are bleeding talent. The red ones are fiesty but probably not ready. The cardinals are openly free. The pirates? Well … Bob Nutting still owns the team.

That said, the kids are not close to the National League tongue weights. Dodgers patch most teams on Raw Talent Front. Philadelphia, Atlanta and Arizona made all consistent additions this winter, while New York signed Juan Freakin ‘Soto for the biggest contract in MLB history. Hoyer still has some reason to put together.

So why not circle back to the available pool of previous astros. Alex Bregman is there to take and the kids are out of excuses.

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Jack Flaherty broke a two-year contract of $ 35 million with Detroit Tigers on Sunday.

So what? How does it affect the kids?

It’s an incredible value for a World Series champion that comes out of an incredibly productive campaign. Flaherty, 29, ended the season with a 3.17 ERA and 194 strikes before led a harmful, patchwork dodgers rotation to the promised land. He was mostly brilliant in October and composed big excursions, as LA needed it most.

Cubs that need another top-line starting behind Justin Steele and Shota Imanaga should have been everywhere in Flaherty at that price. He obviously loved Detroit, to the point where a hometown discount is not out of the question, but the kids should have more money to spend than Scott Harris’ small marketers. Flaherty would have been a real needle mover for Craig Counsell’s club. There is no better manager in the sport when it comes to maximizing his rotation, provided he actually has talent to work with.

It’s hard to come up with an excuse for Chicago’s silence on the flaherty front … unless Bregman comes down the pipeline. If the kids turn and ink bregman for a contract, whether three years of deselection or seven years fully guaranteed, fans will forgive the Flaherty Supervisory. Bregman has direct connections to Tucker and Pressly, his former teammates, and he would give the kids a different influence bat in the middle of a set -up that needs it.

Bregman, Dansby Swanson, Nico Hoerner and Michael Busch? It’s a heck of an infield. Chicago is not the favorite of Bregman right now, but it’s never too late to get in the mixture – until it’s.