Jack Flaherty Contract makes it even more important for Cubs to sign Alex Bregman

For the Chicago Cubs it was a kind of boom and bust offseason.

We cannot say that Jed Hoyer was sitting on his hands. The Kyle Tucker was a real swing for the fences -the type of blockbuster cubs fans, for the pine. Tucker ended the last season with 23 Homeruns and 4.7 wars in just 78 games. He is an MVP candidate with full strength and offers Chicago a way back to the post -season.

Hoyer even dipped the former Houston Astros Champs and worked over time to land Ryan Pressly. It is fair, worried about an earlier past prime closeer who ends his worst season in years, but Pressly is a proven winner and he was only an all-star in 2021. He is a definitive upgrade via Hector Neris, right? (Right.)

Chicago feels like the alleged favorites in a wide open NL Central. The brewers bleed talent. The red are firm, but probably not ready. The cardinals are in open free fall. The pirates? Well … Bob Nutting still has the team.

Nevertheless, the Cubs are not near the heavyweights of the National League. The Dodgers were most teams on the RAW talent front. Philadelphia, Atlanta and Arizona took an episode this winter, while New York Juan Freakin ‘Soto signed the largest contract in MLB history. Hoyer still has something to invent.

So why not back to the available pool of the former Astros? Alex Bregman is there to take it and the Cubs have no excuses.

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Jack Flaherty concluded a two-year contract with the Detroit Tigers on Sunday.

So? How does that affect the Cubs?

Well, this is an incredible price -performance ratio for a World Series champion that expects an incredibly productive campaign. The 29-year-old Flaherty ended the season with an ERA of 3.17 and 194 strikeouts before led injury-related patchwork dodgers rotation into the promised land. He was mostly brilliant in October and put together great excursions when La needed the most urgent.

The Cubs, who need another top line starter behind Justin Steele and Shota Imanaga, should have been everywhere in Flaherty at this price. He clearly loved Detroit to the point where a discount from the hometown is out of the question, but the Cubs should have more money to spend than Scott Harris’ little market tiger. Flaherty would have been a real needle movement for Craig Consells Club. There is no better manager in sports when it comes to maximizing his rotation, provided he actually has talent with which he can work.

It is difficult to find an excuse for Chicago’s silence on the Flaherty front … unless Bregman comes down the pipeline. If the Cubs turn around and Ink Bregman for a contract, whether three years with an opt -out or seven years, the fans of the Flaherty supervision are awarded. Bregman has direct connections to Tucker and Pressly, his former teammate, and he would give the Cubs a further influence mouse in the middle of a line -up that is needed.

Bregman, Dansby Swanson, Nico Hoerner and Michael Busch? This is a rear of an infield. Chicago is currently not the favorite for Bregman, but it is never too late to get into the mix – until it is.