02-04-2019, 01:57 PM
There's no reason to think that there should be any significant impact on the major league team through at least 2020, other than that a depleted farm system will make it hard to trade for impact talent.
However, once contracts start to expire after the 2020 season (and the 2021 season in particular), you'd have to think that a rebuild may be next. The Cubs aren't going to be able to afford to keep everyone as they enter their FA years and they're not going to have a farm system ready to reload.
It may well be that a rebuild starting in the 2021-22 range is the best move. Obviously, how much they are able to rebuild the farm system over the next few years would dictate a lot over how long that rebuild may be.
My question is whether Theo is interested in doing another rebuild like that here.
However, once contracts start to expire after the 2020 season (and the 2021 season in particular), you'd have to think that a rebuild may be next. The Cubs aren't going to be able to afford to keep everyone as they enter their FA years and they're not going to have a farm system ready to reload.
It may well be that a rebuild starting in the 2021-22 range is the best move. Obviously, how much they are able to rebuild the farm system over the next few years would dictate a lot over how long that rebuild may be.
My question is whether Theo is interested in doing another rebuild like that here.
This is not some silly theory that's unsupported and deserves being mocked by photos of Xena. ![[Image: ITgoyeg.png]](http://i.imgur.com/ITgoyeg.png)