Last Friday, BCB’s Tim Huwe wrote this proposal here regarding a potential trade of Kris Bryant. It centered around acquiring prospects.
To me, the message sent in trading KB for prospects would be: We’re rebuilding.
Eventually, this team will have to “rebuild.” Virtually every team does; those who contend and win go through up and down cycles, times when they’re at the top, times when they have to sell off parts and “return to championship-caliber form,” as Tom Ricketts stated in his recent email to season-ticket holders.
I don’t think the Cubs are in rebuild mode.