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The Chicago Cubs are in a strange situation with a lot of their great players. Which of them will stay and which will go?
The Chicago Cubs are in a weird situation. They are a team that is now four seasons removed from that 2016 team that won the World Series. A lot of their core is still there but the bottom of the depth has fallen out. They also replaced Joe Maddon with David Ross as their manager. It could be the start of a new look to some degree on the North Side in short order.
The Chicago Cubs have some contract issues on the rise. They won in 2016 but were a bit disappointing in the years that followed. It really was peak disappointment when they didn’t even qualify for the National League Wild Card Game in 2019. That made everyone wonder what is wrong and it was also clear that they were going to make some changes soon.
So that is where those contract issues come into play. The Cubs have some really good players that need new deals that are going to cost a fair amount of money. It is fair to wonder if Theo Epstein and Jed Hoyer are going to be willing to shell out the cash and potentially handcuff their team with big contracts with no-trade clauses.
The only guy out of them all that they might roll the dice on is Javier Baez. He is not only one of the best players on the Cubs but he is one of the best players in the world. He might be the one guy that the Cubs take their chances with on a lucrative deal of that magnitude. With that said, these three players might get traded as a result of these issues: