Dakota Mekas

He's also going to have an opportunity to play for Team Canada coming up here in the World Baseball Classic.

I wouldn't surprise me to see him succeed in that and kind of use that as maybe a launching pad.

I was hoping that was going to be for the Cubs.

So it is a bummer.

And the other thing I go back to is...

It's what's so hard about scouting is Cabrera's really not thrown over 100 innings other than the last season.

He has a very limited sample size, and that is a risky profile to acquire in a trade like this when you're giving up a prospect like Casey because it has the potential to go very negatively.

It also has the potential to work out really, really well.

I'm personally a guy that's a little bit risk-averse of those profiles because I like to see the track record of success, but...

it's why scouting is so hard because you could easily understand why the Cubs love this guy and why they made this deal.

But also I just, it, the, when you go look at the baseball reference and you see the lack of innings, it does some alarm bells go off in my head, but it's also right.

No, you're 100% right.

And that's why it's worth the risk.

It's just a gamble.

It's 100% a little bit of a gamble on a guy like this.

But you see the track record and you see why the Cubs want to gamble on a guy like this.

Because if it works out, the best case scenario of a guy like this is a top of the line, you know, number one, number two type starter.

And that's why you do the deal.

You'd imagine Alcantara will be there and there'll probably be a signing or two that'll compete with him for that fourth spot.

I was going to say.