Bernstein: 'The Cubs are going to finish a star player out of the playoffs'

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00:00Matt Chapman's a five-win player.

00:03Really?

00:04Yeah, he's had a fantastic year.

00:06I knew he was up, but I didn't...

00:07He is a five-win player.

00:10That's what you get for playing after I go to bed.

00:12So you can think about that.

00:13Now, how many games are the Cubs out of a wild card?

00:18Five.

00:19There's six.

00:20Six, okay.

00:21They're gonna finish like five or six out.

00:23Yeah, probably.

00:25My point is, they're going to finish

00:29one way or another, a star player of value out.

00:36Well, the idea of war,

00:38and we think about it as this sort of independent stat,

00:40but that's what wins above replacement means.

00:43That's what you pay for.

00:46Having this person instead of a replacement-level player

00:49over the course of an entire season

00:50means you win five more games.

00:52A star player, a six-win player that you pay.

00:57You pay for that.

00:58You pay for it.

00:59You pay for it.

01:00And if the Cubs finish, essentially, a star out,

01:06it's right there in front of us.

01:08And you could sign two stars.

01:10Is this about, though, Matt Chapman and players like him,

01:13or is this about the guys they have on their roster

01:15who have not become the stars

01:16they thought they were gonna be?

01:17It's both.

01:18It's all of it.

01:19Because Cody Bellinger, who...

01:20He's had a bad year.

01:21Yeah, he's had a bad year.

01:22And if you went from last year and said,

01:24just have the year you had last year,

01:25don't have to be any better.

01:26Just have a year around the neighborhood of last year,

01:30how much better would the Cubs be?

01:32They'd be significantly better.

01:34Exactly, so...

01:35They'd be...

01:36You could add it up.

01:37This is what I'm saying.

01:38You can put it out there and add it up.

01:40The Cubs are going to finish a star player

01:42out of the playoffs.

01:44Matt Chapman was right there.

01:45So this off-season, is it as simple as,

01:49go get a star player?

01:50I mean, you have guys allegedly in the minor...

01:52I mean, you can see what Pete Crow Armstrong's done

01:54the second half of the season.

01:55Now, if he's a six-win player next year,

01:58we're talking about something real different.

02:04I don't know if he's going to be a different player

02:07than we saw the second half of the season.

02:09Then he's a six-win player.

02:09Okay, but what I'm saying is,

02:11I don't know that that's enough,

02:12based on what they've done in the back half of the season.

02:14Agreed.

02:15So I think they have to still go out and get more.

02:17Agreed.

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