- #WHATEVER HAPPENED WITH BRYCE HARPER CONTRACT PLUS#
- #WHATEVER HAPPENED WITH BRYCE HARPER CONTRACT SERIES#
MVP-caliber 26-year-old superstars almost never hit the open market and there is no equivalent to Harper in 2020 or ’21. If that $20 million option was even going to come close to creating a cash crunch, it should have been vetoed. Again, however, the Cubs must have had a ballpark number prior to the final budget (if they did not, someone really dropped the ball). I also get that the 2019 budget was not finalized until after Hamels’ option was picked up.
They also knew there would be a plethora of relief arms on the market to be plucked for a deal late in the offseason.
#WHATEVER HAPPENED WITH BRYCE HARPER CONTRACT PLUS#
Yet they had Mike Montgomery and a healthy (fingers crossed) Yu Darvish, plus Drew Smyly under contract as a depth option. PHILADELPHIA (AP) Phillies slugger Bryce Harper will continue as the team’s designated hitter and not play the outfield when he returns from a broken left thumb that has sidelined him since late June. If that is the case, why on earth did the Cubs pick up Cole Hamels’ $20 million option? I get that they wanted more starting pitching depth. The uncertainty over Marquee is not going to disappear in the next two months, which means the budget issues are based on current payroll limits. The Cubs apparently still hope they can move salary to make Harper a possibility, which is where my confusion comes in. The other culprit is the lack of 2018 playoff revenue, which would have supplemented the 2019 budget until the TV money could start rolling in.īut then, the Chicago Sun-Times reported that the Cubs asked Scott Boras, Harper’s agent, to circle back with them before signing any deal.
#WHATEVER HAPPENED WITH BRYCE HARPER CONTRACT SERIES#
Specifically, the uncertainty of streaming compatibility with Marquee, in combination with Disney’s divestment of a series of regional sports networks it acquired from FOX, was causing the Cubs’ financial side to downgrade long-term revenue estimates. One is uncertainty as to how much revenue the new regional sports network ( allegedly to be named Marquee) could be expected to bring in. If that is indeed the case, I suspect there are two logical culprits for sudden poverty. The first part still seems to be true, but any appetite for adding to the payroll may have been sated by a genuine lack of money. I did believe that Cubs management was genuinely interested in going after Harper and that fear of a big contract was not the issue.
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