Ideally at least a few of those arms are young guys with legit upside to come up and provide great innings in case of injury though. Thanks AA. So happy he's gone.
Cubs
Rizzo
Bryant
Arrieta
Heyward
Lester
NLC
Bryant
Carpenter
McCutchen
Votto
ugh... Lucroy?
You could make the argument that the Cubs are better:
Bryant = Bryant
Rizzo > Votto when factoring in age
Heyward > Carpenter, especially given age
Lester > Lucroy (I guess, you could argue either way)
Arrieta < McCutchen
I dunno, they still have a ton of questions/holes:
C - Avila and Navarro are not good players
2B - can Lawrie stay healthy and defend well at 2B all year?
SS - black hole
LF - Melky is below average
RF - black hole
DH - black hole
SP4 - black hole
SP5 - black hole
and so on...
I think they're going to be awful again.
That 100 mph gas.
Fun fact: I brought him up as a possible second piece in a deal with catsass shortly before trading him to you and he responded "Montanez is awful".
I may have been undervaluing him. I saw him as a longshot to stick as a starter, and more of a back end of the pen type of arm. LA must believe in his ability to start.
LA's behaviour right now is pretty interesting. Their roster is excellent with no real holes. and they're aggressively trying to improve instead of sitting on a position of strength and letting opportunities come to them. Kind of the opposite of a team like St. Louis that is generally content to hold on a roster they think is good.