Chicago Cubs: With Cubs as buyers, several players are attractive bait

#5: The Catcher in the Rye

Maybe it is time to break up. We don’t want to, but the time may just be best to do it now and not later. It is not us, it is him. He looked so enticing, strong and confident, with a side of dorky school boy. But, the interest is just not the same.

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That said, if we let him go now, will it haunt us? Will seeing him with another team make our stomach want to jump out of our chest only to be used as a wrestling mat for our hearts to pummel our brains?

Kyle Schwarber, we love having you on the team. Maybe putting you in the leadoff spot is the reason why you seem so distant now. Or, maybe our eye was captured by the performance of Ian Happ and Albert Almora Jr.

You deserve better. You deserve to play every day. The thing is, I am not sure it is with the Chicago Cubs now. I know that fan everywhere are reading, armed loaded with a rock and taking aim. But, let us find the logical truth.

Half of his hits are for extra bases, but he only has 29 hits. With 91 fewer at-bats, Jon Jay has 25 hits. Your offensive WAR is the lowest on the team, including pitchers. Defensively, you are the seventh-best on the team.

But, the potential price tag you carry may be the answer to the rotation shortage.