Let's be realistic

[oldstyle81]

there are a whole lot of assumptions there.

the cubs history pretty shows they will not deal for tejada, cabrerra or arod.

it's possible but until it's done...let's not even consider it.

jones is here to stay, he is not platooning for 6 mil a year..no one wants him at that price for that long. we might be able to deal him at the deadline of his 3rd year.

pie will be up unless pierre takes off. pie is not a lead off man. we will be back to the cpatt situation with a younger less proven player, unless we sign a 2B to lead off. hendry has shown this is not a priority. it took him 3 yeasr to get pierre and balked at signing furcal. look at our obp and that will tell you he does not see the importance of it.

we will have zambrano, marshall,and prior. i woory that hendry will sign wood. maddux will not be back..i am not sure he will be dealt though.

this will leave us terribly short in the rotation. prior could be hurt we means we will look a lot like this year with williams,hill and guzman or rusch in there...not good.

cedeno, aram, lee and barrett.

a very good beack end of the bullpen...a not so good front end. unfortunately with our starters we will see lots of them.

 

I think Jones can be dealt with the Cubs eating part of his salary. He is owed $5 million per year for 2 more years. That's not too outrageous, but if the Cubs eat 1-2 million, then I think a lot of teams might be interested. I'm getting the feeling that Womack will be our 2B and leadoff hitter for the 2nd half and maybe 2007.

 

we could almost field a entire second baseman team the way hendry has a fetish for people who play the position

[Backtobanks]

There's no chance in hell Baker gets extended as long as this mess continues. Period.

 

This isn't just bad performance, it's abyssmal.

 

We're all hoping you are right, but the title of the thread is "let's be realistic". Being realistic, Dusty will be back.