Cubs re-established themselves as a big-market club this offseason
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How have the Cubs re-established themselves as a big-market club?
I think with Pete in general, I mean, he's super talented, as everyone can see. But he's also just a person that you want to invest in. I have no question that he wants to get better year after year after year. And so he makes it really easy to invest in him, I guess is the best way to say it. But I'll leave my Pete comments for tomorrow.
That was Jed Hoyer. This is the Mark Brody pump-up music, a.k.a. Boneless, also Delirious by Steve Aoki. That would be part of your walk-up song if you were to have a walk-up song, isn't it, Mark?
Yeah, it would be this combined with the Rizzo walk-up song. Intoxicated. That's intoxicated. Thank you.
That may happen to some people at Sluggers here today.
Well, and if people didn't hear, Trane Kenny did break some news to us. He did reveal to us If you're going to the game, check it out. Make sure you're there for the first pitch. Anthony Rizzo will be throwing out the first pitch today. I love that Anthony Rizzo is back with this Cubs organization after taking a brief detour to the New York Yankees. But I bet they play intoxicated. If they don't, Cubs, you must play intoxicated for him.
Is that an order? I feel like that can happen.
It is an order. You have received an order from Mark Grody, and I have a lot of influence. you will play intoxicated for Anthony Rizzo.
Well, also, I feel like we're live at Slugger's Bar, and they might play intoxicated for Anthony Rizzo.
Let's do it.
Sluggers, we are live in Wrigleyville for our ultimate home opener broadcast. Zach Zaidman will be here for the official pregame show at 1245. It is all brought to you by our friends at Circus Sports. sports betting the way it should be with no bet fees. This is Rahimi Harrison-Grody and we just heard Jed Hoyer spoke earlier about investing in Pete Crow Armstrong and Hoyer has also been on the record recently with The Athletic notably saying that he felt like there was a lot to handle for PCA. He talked about his first half being so incredible which we have discussed here. We obviously saw offensively how that ended up hurting him in the second half of the year especially that last two months but Knowing that, he said that he wanted to invest in him because he knew about how all that came together.
It might have been a temporary setback. When you consider those comments from Jed Hoyer and the actions that they took with this reported six-year, $115 million contract, how does that make you feel about the knowledge the Cubs have and then what Jed Hoyer, the human element of it, I think, brought into this negotiation?
I think this was one of those common goals in terms of PCA stating over and over again, I want to be a Cub long-term, right? And the way this deal works, it takes him through nine major league seasons. He'll be able to say at least that he was a Cub. And I think the Cubs realize the business is changing and evolving, and they're finally now, I think, catching up with the wave. You know, sometimes you see, you know, if you've ever been surfing, the waves out there are like, I don't know about all that. But then you adjust to what's happening in front of you and say, we've got to give it a try. And for them to broker this deal at this time before the season starts, I think it's a big step up when you combine that with the trade for Cabrera, the big deal, with the deferrals, mind you, because that was my thing the whole time.
I was like, when are you all going to get on board with this wave of deferring money again? When are you going to do that? They have answered the bell in a couple of different ways. And remember, they wanted to add even more pitching.
Well, it's funny you bring that up because according to a story that just dropped by Patrick Mooney and Sahadev Sharma, that there were a lot more pitching prospects, and I mean that by free agent names, that they went after. Number one, this article talks about Dylan Cease. So they wanted him back. Cease, a .455 ERA, 32 starts with the Padres. So the article says multiple league sources said Cubs officials never got that far with Dylan Cease, another Boris client.
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