Hendry's unwillingness to Trade Pie.

[Fred Hornkohl]

I'm just hoping to get some help from people to explain to me why Hendry still won't trade Pie. We traded two solid pitching prospects for Pierre to play center so we have to assume Hendry sees him as more than a one year rental. We signed Jacque Jones for 3 years so we are stuck playing him. Then we have Murton in Left. I just don't see where Pie fits in. Which leads me to believe that we should now be trading Pie. The only logic I see in keeping Pie is that maybe Hendry thinks that eventually Murton and Jones will platoon.

 

Anyone else got an explanation for me? This refusual is now making me mad because it doesn't seem logical to me. We could be using Pie to land Tejada and not forcing us to add Prior into the deal.

 

Even if you sign Pierre to a longer deal, it doesn't mean that you can't deal him or Jones after June 15th, I think.

If Pierre works and you can live with Jones and Murton has high trade value and Pie is tearing it up, maybe Dusty can't get Jim fired.

 

That June 15th limitation applies to Jones, who was signed as a free agent. Pierre was under contract to Florida and came to the CUBS via a trade of contracts. He was not signed as a free agent, and signing him to an extension will not change anything.

[CubfaninCA]

I'm just hoping to get some help from people to explain to me why Hendry still won't trade Pie. We traded two solid pitching prospects for Pierre to play center so we have to assume Hendry sees him as more than a one year rental. We signed Jacque Jones for 3 years so we are stuck playing him. Then we have Murton in Left. I just don't see where Pie fits in. Which leads me to believe that we should now be trading Pie. The only logic I see in keeping Pie is that maybe Hendry thinks that eventually Murton and Jones will platoon.

 

Anyone else got an explanation for me? This refusual is now making me mad because it doesn't seem logical to me. We could be using Pie to land Tejada and not forcing us to add Prior into the deal.

 

Jacque Jones will be traded next winter if Pie is ready. He should be pretty tradeable at $10 million over 2 years, since 3 teams offered him more than $15 million over 3 years.

 

Good point. There will be interested teams. RF is not an easy position to fill.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

I'm just hoping to get some help from people to explain to me why Hendry still won't trade Pie. We traded two solid pitching prospects for Pierre to play center so we have to assume Hendry sees him as more than a one year rental. We signed Jacque Jones for 3 years so we are stuck playing him. Then we have Murton in Left. I just don't see where Pie fits in. Which leads me to believe that we should now be trading Pie. The only logic I see in keeping Pie is that maybe Hendry thinks that eventually Murton and Jones will platoon.

 

Anyone else got an explanation for me? This refusual is now making me mad because it doesn't seem logical to me. We could be using Pie to land Tejada and not forcing us to add Prior into the deal.

 

Jacque Jones will be traded next winter if Pie is ready. He should be pretty tradeable at $10 million over 2 years, since 3 teams offered him more than $15 million over 3 years.

 

Good point. There will be interested teams. RF is not an easy position to fill.

 

Teams may still be interested, but it's also worth pointing out he'll be a year older. Also, teams may be interested because Jones didn't cost anything in players. Of course we don't have to ask for anything in return...