Bruce Levine’s report on Friday that the Cubs are going to be very much in on the Juan Soto trade sweepstakes this winter got all kinds of folks hot and bothered. As is typical with these things, opinions seemed sharply divided between this being either a must-do or the worst idea in the history of baseball. Most of the folks in the latter camp meant well enough and some used solid rationale, but there were some mind-numbing takes out there.
With little else going on in Cubdom right now, I’m going to lean into my gluttony for punishment to address some of the things people are saying.