When Jed Hoyer announced that the Chicago Cubs were planning on improving the roster for the 2025 season, many believed that took Christopher Morel out of trade talks.

Throughout the past few months, even dating back to last offseason, Morel had been in trade talks for multiple high-end players.

The Cubs did eventually decide to trade him for Isaac Paredes, a player from the Tampa Bay Rays who’s better than Morel is right now.

It’s not necessarily a knock that they traded Morel, but he did have some struggles on both sides of the baseball.

His defense has never been great, even being regarded as below-average by many around the industry. He struggled a bit offensively throughout the year, too, finishing with a .199 batting average with Chicago.

However, given some of the trade talks that he was in throughout the past 12 months, one could argue that the Cubs sold low. And that’s exactly what Zachary Rotman of FanSided believes.

He took a look at three moves that Hoyer is going to regret, writing that trading Morel will be one of them in a few years.

“Not many, if any players were in trade talks more than Christopher Morel was over the offseason.

It felt as if the Cubs were in on any available big-name player and were using Morel as the centerpiece in all conversations.