Chicago Cubs Update: Key Additions for the Upcoming Season

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00:00Offseason winners now, and again, how do we attack them?

00:02Because the public is really on a lot of these teams.

00:05We're gonna start here with the Chicago Cubs.

00:07Everyone talking about the addition of Kyle Tucker,

00:09Ryan Pressley on the back end, gives them that win equity.

00:12There's an arm here or there that may help.

00:15Joe, you and I often talk about teams needing a big three.

00:18When it comes to big three pitchers, big three bats,

00:21a closer and a manager.

00:22In your football books, you often talk about

00:24a quarterback and a coach.

00:25In baseball, we're talking about a closer and a manager,

00:29a bullpen and a manager.

00:30The Cubs have that.

00:31The three pitchers are Steele, Imanaga,

00:33and I think if Assad is healthy.

00:35You like Matthew Boyd.

00:36Let's talk Cubbies.

00:38Yeah, first of all, let's talk about

00:40Night at the Roxbury being a very underrated SNL comedy.

00:42I just wanna put that out there.

00:44It's pretty funny.

00:45You go back, it actually holds up a little.

00:46Grieco, Richard.

00:49Everybody loves a little Richard Grieco.

00:51Yeah, all right.

00:52So, Butabe brothers aside,

00:54Kyle Tucker is the acquisition to talk about.

00:56Kyle Tucker in a contract year,

00:58playing it out for the Cubs.

00:59It's a good hitting environment.

01:00So he goes from one good hitting environment to another.

01:02It's a good hitting division for him too

01:05in some of the ballparks.

01:06He's gonna play in Cincinnati and Pittsburgh,

01:07all those good spots there.

01:08Matthew Boyd, you mentioned,

01:10you know, coming over too,

01:11had a really good flourish of the season,

01:13left-handed starter.

01:14Maybe he's healthy and figured it out.

01:15This could be a nice addition to that rotation,

01:17but the Cubs already have that one-two punch at the top

01:20with Imanaga and Justin Steele.

01:22Those guys are vastly underrated still.

01:24And now you get Presley to close out games,

01:26tie-ons there too.

01:28So I feel like the Cubs are maybe one more pitcher away,

01:31but you look at the rest of this offense

01:32and the lineup looks so different

01:33when you put Kyle Tucker in it, right?

01:35Because you've got a real superstar.

01:36The rest of this lineup is good, right?

01:38Swanson, Bush, Ian Happ, Seiya Suzuki's a nice player,

01:42but it's lacking star power.

01:45And Kyle Tucker brings that to the Cubs.

01:46I think the Cubs, with the Cardinals regressing,

01:50with Pittsburgh still feeling like

01:51they're a little ways away, maybe offensively,

01:54I think the Cubs smell blood in the water

01:56in this division.

01:57And I like how aggressive they've been

01:58in the last two off-seasons, especially this year.

02:01So I think the Cubbies are gonna be in it,

02:02which is gonna really be exciting

02:04because I feel like baseball's better

02:06when the Cubs are better.

02:09Nicely done.

02:10There's your soundbite.

02:11Let's clip that, put that out to all socials

02:13because that right there is a really good statement.

02:16It's an almost, an anti-Dodger statement, if you will.

02:19There's two different-

02:20I hate to know you have the doom, doom, doom,

02:23and you have the Cubbies.

02:24All right, let's talk Boston Red Sox here.

02:26We talked about them a bit at the top of the show,

02:28adding some pitching, adding some bats.

02:31Again, it comes down to bullpen for me.

02:32I think if guys like Liam Hendrickson or Robbis Chapman

02:35should falter or wear thin as the season goes on,

02:38then it's Garrett Whitlock that needs to come in

02:39and do the heavy lifting.

02:40There's a lot of pitching on this ball club,

02:43a lot, and a lot of hitting.

02:45I'm just hoping the prices aren't reflective

02:48of the public is really on this team, Joe.

02:50Talk about the Sox.

02:52Well, I mean, it's a public team,

02:54so I understand why they're excited.

02:56And we talked a lot about Bregman in the opening segment,

02:58but I want to talk more about Garrett Crochet

02:59because this is an emerging superstar pitcher.

03:02This is a lefty who's striking out guys

03:04at a 13, 14K per nine rate.

03:06I mean, it's absurd as a starting pitcher

03:08what this guy is capable of.

03:09The question is how many innings

03:11is he going to give you this year?

03:12Does he give you 175?

03:13Does he give you 180?

03:14Is he going to be okay when you get to the playoffs?

03:16This was a guy that got shut down last year.

03:18So that's a huge addition to this.

03:20And again, the front of this rotation, and he's young,

03:23and he's going to be able to grow here

03:25with this organization.

03:25They're going to be able to pay him too.

03:27Walker Buehler, who if he can regain the past form,

03:32and well, in the end of the playoffs,

03:34you know that the last couple of games

03:35are against the Mets and the Yankees.

03:36He looked much more like Walker Buehler.

03:38So maybe he was finding it again.

03:40I don't want to put too much stock into a small sample,

03:43but those last couple of starts that he made in the playoffs

03:47where that ball was really moving around a lot more,

03:49that to me was very encouraging.

03:51You put him with Bayo and Houck and Cutter Crawford,

03:54potentially there even Giolito on a returning Tommy John

03:57at some point, that's a pretty deep rotation.

04:00So now all of a sudden you've bolstered your offense

04:02with Bregman, you've bolstered your bullpen with Chapman,

04:05and now you've bolstered your rotation

04:06with two possibly very legitimate front end starters.

04:10The Boston Red Sox had a really good off season.

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