Mark Grote

They may just be sitting back, ah, let's just take, let's listen to all these offers.

And if somebody wants to do something crazy and give us their top prospect at a couple major leaguers and a really good bullpen arm or something like that, you have to listen.

I think that's all I'm saying.

You have to listen to these possibilities.

Would it be crazy to think that Nico Horner would be back?

No.

No.

In fact, I still think he probably will be back.

with the Cubs next year.

But you're crazy if you don't listen to what other teams want to give you for this player.

Right, which is why I don't think they would do it unless they felt like they were getting something legitimate.

I don't think the Cubs... Jed Hoyer is not sitting there saying, I want to get rid of Nico Hoyer.

He knows exactly how valuable he is.

The other part of this, too, is the Matt Shaw part of this.

Like, mini PCA.

Remember, there was a period of time where I was calling him... No, I was calling him the real PCA.

Yeah.

Yes, the former starting third baseman for the Cubs.

Who's to say that he doesn't make the kind of jump that, say, PCA made last year?

The improbable things that can occur.