re: Sources: Cody Bellinger, Cubs agree on 3 years, $80M

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This to me guarantees that this will be the last year Bellinger is a Cub. Id have liked to see a 4 year/120 a year deal with opt outs after years 2 and 3. That way he'd be a Cub for at least 2 more years.

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I could have lived with this but I'm fine with the deal as is. I was worried Boras was holding out for 6 years are more and I would not have been a fan of that at all.

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If he has another year like last year, and his batted ball metrics improve some, some team will give him something better than 2 years at 50 mil.

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I think the reason it ended up this way is because the batted ball metrics last year which the geeks tell me show he was unusually fortunate in batted balls last year , coupled with the 3 years he had previous to that made teams very reluctant to invest long term in Belli and it showed in how this played out.

However, after living through a couple of years of the same geeks tell me how great Bote's hard hit rate and batted ball rate was for two years with the same results...which was poor actual numbers...I take the batted ball numbers with a grain of salt.

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At least by then we should know what we have with PCA and Busch both.

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We should, and maybe a couple of the other highly touted prospects as well.