Matt Spiegel

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.

World Series.

That would be at least one World Series beyond the 2026 season.

Beyond the work stoppage.

I think they're trying to just be prepared for whatever lies ahead.

It's not going to be the best thing for Shaw.

Well, hold on.

I don't know what Matt Shaw's mental makeup is, because let's be honest, he hasn't had a lot of adversity before last season in baseball.

He had just been dominant in baseball.