The Cubs have stated several times this offseason that they’re planning on competing in 2021, but their moves thus far resemble a team with a bigger focus on their future rather than their present.
Whatever route the Cubs plan to take, they can’t do either without building around a core player. Someone who can bridge the gap between the present and the future, especially with several members of the previous core set to become free agents at the end of the season.
Enter Javy Baez.
Despite the Cubs’ so-called financial issues, Baez’s forgettable 2020 season and looming free agency, it still would be in the best interest of both sides to get something done as they are better off together than apart.