forget lee, make bay a cub

[vance_the_cubs_fan]

While we getting Bay instead of Lee, why not get Miquel Cabrera, Brian McCann, ARod, Peavy, and Papelbon since those are all just as likely to be traded as Bay.

 

are they? How do you figure Papelbon will be traded with the Red Sox payroll? ARod is much more expensive, older, and does not play LF. Peavy would be a nice addition but pitchers are too risky to make a huge investment. Cabrera would be a great addition and is far more likely to be traded than Bay.

 

What exactly is your point anyway? You wouldn't want Bay or a Baylike player? I'm not entirely certain why people feel inclined to make sarcastic comments in these threads - the fact that Bay is under contract through 2009 is now well documented. That doesn't change the fact that he would be a perfect fit for the Cubs and Hendry should be on the lookout for how to obtain such players.

 

I apologize for my sarcasm. I agree if there were a Bay-like player available in a trade that Hendry should be all of it. My opinion is that Bay, himself is not tradeable. Pittsburgh has him signed to a contract which should not become overly burdensome and so I'd seriously have doubs to his availability.

[goonys evil twin]

I apologize for my sarcasm. I agree if there were a Bay-like player available in a trade that Hendry should be all of it. My opinion is that Bay, himself is not tradeable. Pittsburgh has him signed to a contract which should not become overly burdensome and so I'd seriously have doubs to his availability.

 

Between Bay and Brian Giles they've signed some of the most reasonable deals for big time producers over the past decade. My guess is the first chance you'd get to trade for Bay is post-2008, if the team is still crap and Bay is looking for a mega deal.

[kroth1342]

While we getting Bay instead of Lee, why not get Miquel Cabrera, Brian McCann, ARod, Peavy, and Papelbon since those are all just as likely to be traded as Bay.

 

are they? How do you figure Papelbon will be traded with the Red Sox payroll? ARod is much more expensive, older, and does not play LF. Peavy would be a nice addition but pitchers are too risky to make a huge investment. Cabrera would be a great addition and is far more likely to be traded than Bay.

 

What exactly is your point anyway? You wouldn't want Bay or a Baylike player? I'm not entirely certain why people feel inclined to make sarcastic comments in these threads - the fact that Bay is under contract through 2009 is now well documented. That doesn't change the fact that he would be a perfect fit for the Cubs and Hendry should be on the lookout for how to obtain such players.

 

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[TruffleShuffle]

While we getting Bay instead of Lee, why not get Miquel Cabrera, Brian McCann, ARod, Peavy, and Papelbon since those are all just as likely to be traded as Bay.

 

I would say Cabrera is much more likely to get traded than Bay. Bay is signed on the cheap, Cabrera is not. He's at the stage in his career that Pujols was at when he signed his monster deal, and he's putting up comparable numbers. Miguel's list of similar batters at this age is littered with hall of famers (Hank Aaron, Frank Robinson, Mickey Mantle) and future hall of famers (Griffey and Pujols). He is putting up these numbers in a pitchers park.

 

Jeter and Soriano got over $5m in their first forays into the arbitration process, and both were years ago, while neither was as good as Miggy.

 

I say he could easily get $7+ million in arbitration, and might flirt with the $10m mark set by Soriano last year. A good agent should be able to get him a deal that comes close to what Pujols signed in 2004, 7/$100.

 

I would think his agent would want to find a trade. And I would think Florida would still want to keep costs as low as possible. Give them solid young players/prospects still a couple years from arbitration, and throw in some cash and I bet they'd deal.

 

And the Cubs are exactly the type of team that should do whatever it takes to make such a deal.

 

I agree with this post completely. The Cubs are horrible, why not just throw the kitchen sink at the Marlins and hope they take it for Cabrera? They could do that or they can sit and watch their crap nucleus try to take a run at .500 once or twice in the next 5 years.