Bruce Levine
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3,939 appearances
31 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 3d ago
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Not only to try to win a championship this year.
That makes sense.
But as we talked about, not at length, but a little bit yesterday, the Cubs, whatever team gets Scooble, will be the only team that can talk to that pitcher until November 7th.
And after November 7th,
You'll only have three weeks until there's no CBA and you can't talk to any players.
The likelihood of signing a guy like Scooble after December 1st is somewhere in April or May if there is any type of lockout.
So with that in mind, you say, well, who is the agent?
Well, the agent is Scott Boras.
And then the next thing you're going to say to me is, well, Boras always holds his guys out the longest time to get the most money.
Well, maybe sometimes that's true.
But last year, the first big free agent that signed in November last year was Dylan Cease in the biggest contract of any pitcher.
So all of those things are something you have to consider as well.
The Cubs, if they acquire this guy, will be the only one that can talk to him about a contract over the next three months.
Of course.
I mean, you know, there's tons of contracts that are going to be looked at that way.
And the industry and the union are going to insist on that being a part of the deal.
The other part of that is that when you look at
You look at what's coming off the books.
The Cubs have potentially $100 million coming off the books in potential free agents, okay?
So it's not like they're going to strap themselves into a $300 million payroll moving forward if they –
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