Matt Spiegel

I'm sticking with that.

If he does start in the minors, this is a guy.

And I think Spiegel, during Spiegel's report, didn't...

Didn't he say that report that the Cubs had talked to the Red Sox?

I want to make sure I get this right so I'm not misquoting Spiegel, but talked to the Red Sox as it relates to Matthew Shaw.

So it's already out there that the Cubs may have already tried to shop him.

So what better place to keep him secure and getting better than the minor leagues?

And to that point, here's my thing.

If, you know, there's no baseball next year or limited baseball next year.

The thing the Cubs have is they don't know whether or not Nico Horner is going to be a Cub pass this season.

If he's not, Matthew Shaw is a very viable option at second base.

It would seem.

Here's the whole thing.

He'd be a very valuable piece to this major league roster, but we're looking at him as the player, as a former first-round pick, as a player who you can't call it on yet in terms of is he an everyday player.

So it's really going to be interesting to see how they use him.

I've had my choice, like selfishly,

in a year in which we all kind of think the Cubs are going to win and get back into the playoffs, yeah, keep them on the big league roster for this year.

And we wouldn't be in this if the Cubs had just come correct last offseason with Alex Bregman.

That's a lot of pressure off Matt Shaw if he's just starting the season in AAA last year where he had dominated the year before because you decided to not be third on who's trying to pay Alex Bregman a year ago.

Multiple.