re: 2022 MLB Predictions

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Can someone tell me what Jed Hoyer is doing? Glad he got rid of all the 2016 guys. Any thoughts from Cub fans

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I was down with the trades he made, Cubs were getting stale with the core - we could have kept them and won 80 maybe 85 games but there was too much swing and miss with that core and too much inconsistency.

I could go on with several other points to justify it - but suffice it to say the value they got from trading those guys and the young talent we got back IMHO is better than what we would have done had we kept them. And at various times we offered all 3 (Rizzo/Bryant/Baez) were offered as good or better deals than they ended up getting.

I do wish we had gotten maybe one more starter in free agency and maybe gotten a better free agent SS than Simmons, but we do have a glut of SS talent in the minors and probably one of that group is only about 2-3 years away.

Jed could have spent more this year but I'm overall happy with the direction - I was frustrated with the long offensive lapses of the core we had and was ready to move on. Plus Rizzo and Bryant had both started missing too many games for my liking. And I love those guys.