Danny Parkins

going down last year.

They need the depth.

They don't have the pieces, as stated, to afford to lose a guy like Nico Horner in the middle of the season if the goal is to not only win the division, but put yourself in the best situation to make a run in the playoffs.

The Dansby Swanson game.

I don't even think that's the question.

I think the question is, do the Cubs feel like Nico Horner can replicate what he did last year, and largely what he's done as a Cub over the next four to five years?

I think, can you maintain, not necessarily 6.2 on the baseball reference war, but maybe 5-plus on, and so that leads to the question, which is,

Definitely a rhetorical question.

Does Nico Horner deserve a raise after getting paid $12 million per over this contract?

And, of course, the answer is yes.

And then the next question becomes, how big of a raise does Nico Horner deserve?

And that's probably how they're looking at Matt Shaw.

Like if we re-sign Nico, what happens to Matt Shaw?

And my whole thing is figure it out.

Maybe that's too harsh of an approach.

But I'll say this.

If you told me right now, hey, Nico Horner, four years, $60 million.

Does that feel right?

It feels right to me.

Matt Shaw was a rookie last year.