{"id":22219,"date":"2024-12-13T14:16:47","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T20:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=22219"},"modified":"2024-12-13T14:16:47","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T20:16:47","slug":"making-a-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/making-a-move\/","title":{"rendered":"Making A Move"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Looking to make a splash of their own, the Cubs acquired outfielder Kyle Tucker from the Astros in exchange for Isaac Paredes, Hayden Wesneski, and Cam Smith.\u00a0 Tucker, 27, is a three-time All-Star and has averaged over 5 WAR over the past four seasons.\u00a0 He is in his final year of arbitration and will become a free agent after the season.<\/p>\n

The price for this single season of Tucker is fairly steep.\u00a0 Paredes, reacquired<\/a> by the Cubs at the trade deadline last summer, was penciled in as the starting third baseman and was under cheap team control through 2027.\u00a0 Wesneski split time between the bullpen and the rotation last year and was a useful piece.\u00a0 Smith was the team’s 2024 first round draft choice and is the 73rd ranked prospect in baseball.<\/p>\n

Given Tucker’s contract situation, this looks like a win-now move for a team that has been mired in mediocracy since tearing down the remnants of their championship roster in 2021.\u00a0 The next steps would seem to be moving on from Cody Bellinger to free up salary.\u00a0 What happens after that is anyone’s guess at this point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Looking to make a splash of their own, the Cubs acquired outfielder Kyle Tucker from the Astros in exchange for Isaac Paredes, Hayden Wesneski, and Cam Smith.\u00a0 Tucker, 27, is a three-time All-Star and has averaged over 5 WAR over the past four seasons.\u00a0 He is in his final year of arbitration and will become […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[6980,113,11681,7641,120,2501,11680,10711,9807],"class_list":["post-22219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-2016-world-series","tag-astros","tag-cam-smith","tag-cody-bellinger","tag-cubs","tag-draft","tag-hayden-wesneski","tag-isaac-paredes","tag-kyle-tucker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22221,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22219\/revisions\/22221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}