This is my shocked face. We’ve all known for a while now that the Cubs aren’t going to spend what it’ll take to land Juan Soto, not that it’ll matter if he doesn’t even want to consider Chicago as a destination. A lot of folks are going to want to make this about Tom Ricketts and Jed Hoyer, but it’s really just saving us all the hassle of thinking there was a chance at all. As with Shohei Ohtani last year, the market for Soto is extremely limited and might only include two teams.
If you still think the Cubs had a chance to change the slugger’s mind with a huge offer, you can save yourself a whole lot of mental anguish by rejecting that notion.