The Chicago Cubs are not in the ranks of the Washington national team player Juan Soto. Why is that the case?
The Washington Nationals are preparing to replace Juan Soto with what could be one of the biggest commercial packages in MLB history.
And the Chicago Cubs see nowhere to be found, with the finalists reportedly being the St. Louis Cardinals (the Cubs’ rival), the Los Angeles Dodgers and the San Diego Padres.
But why not join the Cubs trying to trade for Juan Soto?
Why don’t the Cubs get involved in trying to trade for Juan Soto?
29 MLB teams want Washington quarterback Juan Soto, but only a few teams have prospects of being able to do so. The Chicago Cubs are one of those teams, as they did Four odds in MLB.com’s top 100 sites. But even that might be enough to get Soto… which is the number one reason they didn’t share it with him.
Of those four potential prospects, only one is above the high ball (top prospect Brennan Davis). The Citizens want prospects in the top minor leagues that are MLB ready or very close to that or even young MLB talent. Cubs don’t have it. They are on their way to losing 97 games and Team Trip A is 44-54. They don’t have much talent in general anywhere now, unfortunately.
They did some bigger signings (Marcus Strowman, Seiya Suzuki, etc) this past season to try to take a step forward but that obviously didn’t work out. That’s why they themselves are sellers.
Wilson Contreras is a free agent at the end of the season, so it’s easy to see why he traded, but they shopped heavily, Ian Hub. Hub is not a free agent until the next holiday season. In other words, the Cubs are telegraphing that they don’t think they will be contenders next season either.
Do they want to abandon the entire farm system over two years of Soto and still be a team that will lose 85 games or more? This basically boils down to the cubs.
Until their horizons advance and/or they spend more money on their team (their salaries are down more than 30 percent from 2019), they won’t be in the cut-off, and therefore, have no reason to trade for them. Soto.
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