Our youngest has taken to watching “Learn Japanese” videos on YouTube, specifically one about medical conditions, on a loop. She is an incredible and talented kid, but I’m not sure how much she’s actually picking up. Also, she uses a device to communicate. So if she were actually going to learn and apply Japanese, we would have to program it onto her device for her. Then again, maybe there’s a translate function we can just turn on, and then everybody wins …
We haven’t talked a lot about Dustin May as an offseason target, which is understandable given the robust pitching market and May’s ugly 2025 season (4.96 ERA over 132.1 innings, 21.1% K, 9.6% BB, 9.2% barrel, 44.5% hard), and a fastball that declined a couple clicks from his younger days. He also missed almost all of 2023 and 2024 following flexor tendon and UCL revision surgery, and then an esophageal tear. He also missed most of 2021 and 2022 with the original Tommy John surgery. So, yeah, the track record there is not sparkling on the health or recent production side, and it therefore makes sense that we haven’t focused on him. HOWEVER, if you ever remember watching Dustin May pitch, you will know why he’s still going to get attention this offseason, especially at only 28 years old. Before the injury issues, and, heck, even in the midst of much of it, the guy was nassssssty. Some of the nastiest-looking stuff in baseball, and, yes, it often did come with outstanding results (3.10 ERA (26% better than league average), 3.77 FIP (14% better), and 49.9% groundball rate prior to 2024). If you COULD get him on track and healthy, you might find something special. And even down, his fastball velocity was still around 96 mph. He may have been dealing with an elbow issue in the second half, however, from which he says he is now fully recovered. Obviously there’s some incentive there to say as much, but if you’re talking reclamation project anyway, you already know the process is coming with some risk. That is all to say, I like May a lot as a pure reclamation play. It’d have to be paired with MUCH surer-thing moves in the rotation, and you couldn’t COUNT on getting anything from May. But having him in the organization with a chance to see what he can do, a year further removed from the surgeries, and maybe getting over the most recent elbow issue? Heck yeah. Why not? May got me looking back at the Trade Deadline a bit, as he was dealt from the Red Sox to the Dodgers for outfield prospect James Tibbs III (the 13th overall pick just the year before) and a second legit outfield prospect in Zach Ehrhard. How in the eff did the Dodgers get so much for May, whose story I note above, and he wasn’t exactly balling out in his return to the bigs in 2025? Then I thought a bit more about the price the Cubs paid for Michael Soroka (a guy who’d be another interesting lower-end extra signing type) – outfield prospect Christian Franklin and shortstop prospect Ronny Cruz – and that was really steep in retrospect, too! We already knew starting pitching was so expensive at this year’s deadline that very few starters were traded, but yeah, that’s just a reminder. … and a reminder to do everything you possibly can to make sure you have TONS AND TONS of capable starting pitching by the end of the offseason. Speaking of pitching, I don’t want to be misconstrued on this point about power pitchers, because I would OF COURSE love for the Cubs to sign Dylan Cease. I just think guys with his profile come with an extra concern at the price level they’re likely to command:Do you agree with this concern Brett has about potentially signing a pitcher like Dylan Cease?Listen to Ep. 38 of the BN Cubs Podcast (presented by @ankinlaw) here:YouTube: t.co/ak8Tuh2lyNApple: t.co/6KVK04sKddSpotify: t.co/Cc1vVvSu1f pic.twitter.com/cX0v4gjCMI
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