Joel Sherman writes for the New York Post, he's a longtime baseball reporter, but holy shit this simply cannot be true. While discussing why the New York Yankees should pursue a Cody Bellinger trade even if the team does re-sign Juan Soto, Sherman dropped another nugget that is quite frankly mind-blowing for how stupid the Cubs would be to consider this.
According to Sherman, one of his sources says the Cubs are "determined" to trade one of Bellinger or Seiya Suzuki.
Via the New York Post.
“The Cubs are determined to trade either Bellinger (due $27.5 million in 2025 with a $25 million player option in 2026 or $5 million buyout), or Seiya Suzuki (two years at $36 million) to reallocate that money elsewhere, a source familiar with Chicago’s thinking told The Post.”
For my sanity I have to believe that whoever this source may be is utterly confused on the objective of the Cubs' offseason plan to trade Bellinger. That part isn't new. We know the Cubs have been shopping Bellinger around since he opted back in to his contract in November and teams are starting to call back. Bellinger will earn a base salary of $27.5 million from the Cubs in 2025 and can then opt out if he chooses to.
Under no circumstances does it make sense for the Chicago Cubs to trade Suzuki, now or probably ever. Unfathomable. Bleacher Nation's Brett Taylor also wrote about this outrageous report and maybe this was the reasoning behind the source's thought process.
Until and unless we hear more about this being an actual thing, I’m just going to assume this was about wires getting crossed, and/or about some source making an assumption based on the positional overlap between Bellinger and Suzuki in right field.
That has to be it, right? Someone not so familiar with the Cubs just sees that they're trying to unload salary and see that Bellinger took over in right field in 2024 and with Suzuki being the other right fielder it must mean the Cubs will look to move either one. But of course, we know that Suzuki easily slid into the DH role and was the team's best hitter last season and for the last two years Suzuki has been a top-10 hitter in the National League.
Oh and Suzuki has a no-trade clause as well.
What the fuck are we doing here? Until further notice, we should take that Suzuki detail from Sherman and completely forget about it.
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