How good do the Cubs have to be to justify the Kyle Tucker trade?

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00:00Let me ask it to you this way, and let me ask Cub fans this.

00:03If you win a World Series with Kyle Tucker as a major cog of your team this year, is

00:09it worth whatever you had to give up to win a World Series?

00:14Yes.

00:15That answer is yes, without a doubt.

00:19If you make a World Series, is it worth having had to give up Cam Smith and Isaac Paredes

00:27and Aidan Wisniewski?

00:29If you just make a World Series with Kyle Tucker as a major cog in your offense, you

00:34make a World Series?

00:35That to me is a yes.

00:36Yes.

00:37It's a yes to you as well, right?

00:38Yeah.

00:39Because of the randomness of the postseason, if there is overall success for the Cubs,

00:45if they're a 93-94 win team that wins their division, I think that you can look at it

00:52and say it's a success.

00:53Now maybe, just maybe, he plays so well and things go so well that ownership is like,

01:01you know, he's really young to be at this point from a contract standpoint.

01:10Maybe we're willing to go.

01:11Maybe they've got to do it.

01:12Maybe ownership will realize, you know what, we do have to do this.

01:15We've got to give them $450 million.

01:18Let's continue the thought exercise.

01:20So winning a World Series, absolutely it's worth it.

01:23Getting to a World Series in one year, even if it ends up being a rental, even if it ends

01:27up being that way, getting to a World Series in one year, yes, it's worth it.

01:32How about getting to an NLCS and losing in six or seven games because of the randomness

01:37of baseball?

01:39Is that worth having given up what you did for Kyle Tucker?

01:42Yes.

01:43For me, that's a yes as well.

01:44So we do need to put the caveat on it of, well, what happened?

01:49What does, what does Cam Smith become?

01:53But I still think it's worthless regardless.

01:55Do you?

01:56Yeah, I think it is too.

01:58So what if they win the division and lose the first round series?

02:03It's going to suck, but that's what baseball, like if they win 92, 93 games and lose their

02:10first round series, having won the division with Kyle Tucker as a big cog and they lose

02:14their first round series, is that worth it?

02:17Having made the trade?

02:18Yeah.

02:19I'm kind.