Update: Brandon Woodruff is non-tendered.

[Thurston Fluff]

On 11/19/2023 at 6:26 PM, TURBO said:

You think the Cubs aren't going to be improving now that they lured Counsell away from us?  It isn't thoughts of doom, it's pretty damn factual...

They WILL be players in free agency, you can bet on it.

It's likely they will spend more but that might be just to maintain their current level than to improve. Cody Bellinger is going to cost them more than $12.5 million and Stroman chose free agency because he wanted to make more than he would have if he stayed. So they either pay more to keep both or pay more for someone else his caliber. To get better would be added costs on top of what it would cost to remain the same. Which is why free agency isn't the panacea to improving a team it's made out to be.