最近两天无消无息，太无聊来翻译一下官网的文章，给版友增添一点讨论话题（？ 原文网址： https://reurl.cc/Q5XA7M 1. The Cubs are finally going for it. 小熊终於要梭哈冲击总冠军（了吗？ You can forgive Cubs fans if they were starting to lose a little patience. Sin ce they traded away the last remnants of their 2016 World Series team in 2021, the Cubs have played in exactly zero postseason games. They haven’t actually won a playoff game since 2017, if you can believe that. They certainly made s ome moves since then, acquiring the likes of Cody Bellinger, Dansby Swanson, S eiya Suzuki, Shota Imanaga and Jameson Taillon. A rebuilt farm system looks re ady to bear fruit. Yet they still looked like a team of supporting parts witho ut a centerpiece -- and seemingly no real plan to get one. (They were never a factor on Juan Soto.) 如果你是熊迷的话，最近几年你熊的表现应该会让你变得很没耐心。自从2021年小熊交易 掉最後一位2016的夺冠班底之後，小熊就没有进入过季後赛。严格来说，小熊在2017之後 就没有赢过任何一场季後赛了。当然，小熊也不是没有努力过。他们网罗了包含809、Swa nson、铃木诚野、今永昇太、Taillon。他们的农场也差不多到了可以收成验收成果的阶 段。但小熊仍然看起来像是一个缺乏核心，并且也没有计划要找到这样一位建队核心的打 算。（他们从来没有加入Soto争夺战之中。） Well, now they have one. Tucker instantly becomes the best player on the team -- the best player the Cubs have had since peak Kris Bryant? -- and exactly th e sort of player Cubs fans will love. We’ve continued to hear about an increa sed sense of urgency at Wrigley Field, but there hasn’t been much evidence of it. With Tucker in the fold but having just one year of club control remainin g, we sure have some now. The biggest question now: Will they flex their finan cial muscle to keep him past 2025? 现在他们总算迎来一位核心。Tucker的到来也让他成为小熊打线中最强悍的一位。可能是 继巅峰老大之後的另一支有影响力的棒子（？现在唯一的问题点就在於，小熊老板在2025 年愿不愿意打开钱包留着这位强打了。 2. The Yankees didn’t spend much time licking their wounds. 洋基没有花太多时间沈浸在Soto争夺战的落败之中。 There is no question about it: Losing Juan Soto, to their crosstown rivals no less, was a brutal blow to the Yankees, one we’ll be unpacking for years to c ome. But you have to credit the Yankees for not sitting around, feeling sorry for themselves. In the days since losing Soto, they have been incredibly aggre ssive, agreeing to an eight-year contract with left-hander Max Fried and now t rading for Williams, one of the best closers in baseball. 不可否认的是，在Soto争夺战中输给同城的梅子对洋基来说确实蛮伤。但不得不给予肯定 的是，洋基这次在plan B的部分表现的可圈可点。先是用8y/218M的合约网罗了阿炸，然 後有交易来联盟中最强终结者之一的Devin Williams。 While Tucker would have been a nice short-term replacement for Soto, that “sh ort-term” part of it might have scared them away; they did, after all, just t rade for a lefty-hitting outfielder only to wave goodbye to him a year later. (And remember: They’ll be among the top suitors for Tucker next offseason, to o.) The Yankees still seem a bat or two short, and it’ll be fascinating to se e how they address that (Alex Bregman? Cody Bellinger? Nolan Arenado? Pete Alo nso?), but it’s obvious, with how quickly they’ve worked post-Soto, that the y will address it: They’re not sitting around idly, even for a second. 虽然Tucker可能会是替代Soto的一个不错的短期方案，但是也正是因为这所谓的短期，可 能让洋基在Tucker交易案中比较却步的地方。毕竟去年换来Soto也就真的只让他在这边打 工一年。但可以预期的是，如果Tucker没有被绑长约，明年冬天洋基依然会是Tucker的主 要竞争者之一。摊开洋基打线来看，他们还缺少了一两只有影响力的打者。大家可以期待 看看洋基会怎样把这个洞补起来。（Bangman？809？纳豆？北极熊？） 3. Are the Astros punting, or shifting? 太空人的下一步会是什麽？ This is not the first World Series hero the Astros have said farewell to, as G eorge Springer, Carlos Correa and Charlie Morton can tell you. But this is the first one the Astros have traded away before (potentially) losing him to free agency, and, all told, Tucker might be the best of any of those guys. While i t does seem likely that the Astros would be outbid for Tucker after next seaso n, it’s still something quite different to actively trade him away when you’ re ostensibly trying to compete (and keep an eight-season playoff streak alive ). 这不是太鼓第一次跟他们的世界大赛英雄说掰掰了。之前的Springer、Correa、Morton都 是如此。但Tucker是唯一一位在成为FA前就被太鼓卖掉的人。虽然可以预期的是要是明年 让Tucker成为FA，太鼓高机率会抢输人家，但对於想要保持竞争力的太鼓来说还是不是寻 常的一件事情。（目前太鼓已经连续八年进入季後赛。） Are the Astros actively taking a step back or just realigning their roster? Th e answer may come with what happens over the rest of this winter. Houston land ed a third baseman (Isaac Paredes) and a third-base prospect (Cam Smith) in th is trade, perhaps spelling the end for another World Series-winning franchise stalwart, free agent Bregman. Assuming he leaves, do the Astros have any other big moves planned to help this incredible run of success going? 究竟太鼓是确定要打掉重建，还是他们只是想要进行所谓的retool，可能要等到今年休赛 期结束之後才会知道答案了。太鼓在Tucker交易案中获得的Paredes以及新秀Smith都被视 作是Bangman离开後的潜在替代人选。不晓得太鼓在Bangman真的确定离开的情况下，下一 步将会何去何从？ 4. Who in the AL West will step up? 谁将会是美西下赛季的霸主？ Even if the Astros bring back Bregman -- which, again, is far from assured -- losing Tucker clearly brings the club back toward the pack in this division. S o, who will take advantage? The Rangers have already made some moves this offs eason, re-signing Nathan Eovaldi and bringing in Jake Burger and Kyle Higashio ka, and they’re expecting some more progression from their young players. The Mariners always seem just about to break through: Maybe this pushes them to g o get some more much-needed hitting? 即使太鼓最终成功签回Bangman，失去Tucker对他们来说还是在美西的竞争力排名掉了一 个档次。那麽剩下的四支球队中，谁会取而代之登顶呢？游骑兵已经在今年休赛期有了几 个动作，包括签回Eovaldi，盘来Burger以及东岗。同时游骑兵的新秀也预期会持续有所 成长。一直以来水手都被认为差了那麽临门一角，或许太鼓的竞争力流失会让他们更愿意 去提升自己的打线（？ And don’t forget how active the other two teams have been already, with the A ’s signing Luis Severino and the Angels bringing in Yusei Kikuchi, Kyle Hendr icks, Travis d’Arnaud, Jorge Soler, Kevin Newman and Scott Kingery. All this activity confirms what the Tucker trade made clear: The AL West smells blood i n the water. Finally. 也别忘了剩下的天使以及绿帽在今年休赛期同样积极。这些都让明年的美西战场变得更加 扑朔迷离。（美西总算等到一些drama可看了？ 5. Bellinger and Arenado are probably about to be traded. 809和纳豆极有可能是接下来被交易掉的对象。 The Cubs have been trying to offload Bellinger since he declined to exercise h is opt-out clause after the season, and now that they have Tucker, that may ha ppen sooner rather than later. (Particularly now that they have so many left-h anded hitters in the lineup.) 自从今年冬天809拒绝跳出他的PO之後，小熊就一直希望处理掉他的合约。而现在小熊盘 来Tucker之後，可能会加速小熊卖掉809的进度。 Meanwhile, the Cardinals -- who have promised a bunch of moves this offseason but so far haven’t made any -- may now see the perfect opportunity to find a market for Arenado among the teams who missed out on Tucker. One wonders if th ey might try to talk Arenado into including the Yankees on the list of teams h e’d waive his no-trade clause for, because if New York doesn’t get Bregman, Arenado would fit in nicely there. The point is: Friday was hardly the end of trade season. It was just the start. 与此同时，向外界放话今年会有很多大动作的红鸟，到现在依然静悄悄。Tucker交易案结 束以後或许会让红鸟给没有得标Tucker的球队更多机会。市场上有传言称红鸟正在游说纳 豆把洋基也加进愿意让他放弃NTC的候选之一。因为要是洋基没有抢到Bangman，纳豆也会 是个不错的替代人选。休赛期还长呢，可以继续等着看。 6. This will probably work out in some way for the Brewers. 酒鬼或许会开始有不一样的发展方向。 Does veteran starter Nestor Cortes and prospect Caleb Durbin feel like a big e nough return for Devin Williams? It doesn’t, right? Well, if that makes you t hink the Brewers, who did just win the NL Central after all, are somehow out o f the picture now, you don’t know the Brewers. They have other options in the ir ’pen, and Cortes is actually a nice fit for a rotation that had gotten too right-handed. 小胡子以及新秀Durbin对於交易掉Williams的回报来说，会不会有点少了？如果交易掉Wi lliams会让你对酒鬼下赛季失去信心的话，那就太不了解酒鬼了。酒鬼的牛棚会有其他的 替代人选，而小胡子的到来也解决了酒鬼先发太多右投的问题。 But more to the point: It was just a year ago that the Brewers lost Corbin Bur nes and manager Craig Counsell, and we all assumed we could thus count them ou t of the NL Central race. And then they went out and won it, fairly easily. Di scount them very much at your peril. 话说回来，去年酒鬼也失去了Burnes和Counsell（总教练），大家都以为酒鬼要失去竞争 力了。然而今年他们就是做到在国中出线了。不要失去对酒鬼的期望。 7. Tucker is “The Most Underrated Player in Baseball” no more Tucker不再是联盟中最被低估的球员了 To watch a telecast, you’d think “Underappreciated” and “Underrated” were somehow parts of Tucker’s given name. But he’s about to play right field at Wrigley Field for a whole season, for one of the most beloved and famous spor ts teams on the planet, in his walk year as everyone salivates over his pendin g free agency. Kyle Tucker will go unnoticed no longer, and never again. 如果你一直都有在follow棒球，可能会发现Tucker一直以来都被认为是最被忽视，被低估 的球员。但下赛季他将在Wrigley Field打满一整季（除非小熊没有竞争力在季中交易掉 他）。而小熊一直以来都是地球上最挺自家球员，拥有最热情球迷的球队之一，Tucker将 不再被忽视了。 ——————————————— 以上纯属翻译，不代表个人立场。 官网的报导文章有些看看就好，只是提供对方观点以及可能性，并非引战。 --

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