Cut Eyre, bring up lefty Pignatiello

[Soriano12]

Well, have no fear...our GM is on this issue:

 

http://chicagosports.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseball/cubs/cs-070528cubsbrite,1,1452377.story?coll=cs-home-headlines

 

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It's something that's got to come out of themselves," Hendry said. "Nobody's hurt. Scott Eyre and Howry have been two of the best eighth-inning guys in the game the last couple of years. So hopefully they'll get better.

 

hmmm, Hendry is wondering why a guy's(who is on the wrong side of 30)

#'s are regressing and the only solution is he "hopes" they will get better.

 

No need to make a change, let's just cross our fingers....We are in good hands folks.

[seanimal]

:barf:

[seanimal]

"We've just got to get [Eyre] on track, and I'm not really worried about [Howry], he can figure things out for himself," Hendry said. "They've just got to make the right pitches and locate better."

 

wow

[sunnydoo]

Rapada is a LOOGY. Piggy is not.

 

Loogys do not exist- as evidence has shown, cause more problems than alleviate.

[SouthSideRyan]

There is noway Hendry is going to admit his mistakes you guys all know this. The best idea of future behavior, is past behavior.

 

People keep saying this and it's not true. Neifi was dumped last year. Latroy was dumped. Remlinger was dumped. Borowski was dumped. Matt Lawton was dumped a month after he came here.

[seanimal]

There is noway Hendry is going to admit his mistakes you guys all know this. The best idea of future behavior, is past behavior.

 

People keep saying this and it's not true. Neifi was dumped last year. Latroy was dumped. Remlinger was dumped. Borowski was dumped. Matt Lawton was dumped a month after he came here.

 

Perhaps, but several of those were dumps that came long after it was painfully obvious that it was necessary.

[NCCubFan]

There is noway Hendry is going to admit his mistakes you guys all know this. The best idea of future behavior, is past behavior.

 

People keep saying this and it's not true. Neifi was dumped last year. Latroy was dumped. Remlinger was dumped. Borowski was dumped. Matt Lawton was dumped a month after he came here.

 

Perhaps, but several of those were dumps that came long after it was painfully obvious that it was necessary.

And it's now long after it was painfully obvious that it's necessary to get rid of Eyre.

[Jehrico]

There is noway Hendry is going to admit his mistakes you guys all know this. The best idea of future behavior, is past behavior.

 

People keep saying this and it's not true. Neifi was dumped last year. Latroy was dumped. Remlinger was dumped. Borowski was dumped. Matt Lawton was dumped a month after he came here.

 

Neifi wasn't dumped. They found someone dumb enough to take his contract and give us a token prospect in return. Same with Lawton. Remlinger was only dumped late in the last year of his contract when it was obvious we we out of it (ironic how we get rid of crappy players once they've taken us out of the race, not when we're struggling to stay in it....). Borowski wasn't physically right, I don't recall if he had two years or one year on his deal when they cut him. They're nothing physically wrong with Eyre, he's got 1-2/3 season remaining on his contract. I don't think any of the aforementioned moves qualify as precedence in their willingness to cut Eyre. Borowski is the closest one, but that's the only one.

 

Our best hope is that Hendry can trade him. That might seem like impossible, but for all of Hendry's shortcomings, he has been able to pull off a couple of deals that are really mindboggling looking back (see: finding someone to take Neifi with two years on his deal, and actually getting a good return on Todd Hundley, both we thought were impossible).

[frostwyrm]

There is noway Hendry is going to admit his mistakes you guys all know this. The best idea of future behavior, is past behavior.

 

People keep saying this and it's not true. Neifi was dumped last year. Latroy was dumped. Remlinger was dumped. Borowski was dumped. Matt Lawton was dumped a month after he came here.

 

Neifi wasn't dumped. They found someone dumb enough to take his contract and give us a token prospect in return. Same with Lawton. Remlinger was only dumped late in the last year of his contract when it was obvious we we out of it (ironic how we get rid of crappy players once they've taken us out of the race, not when we're struggling to stay in it....). Borowski wasn't physically right, I don't recall if he had two years or one year on his deal when they cut him. They're nothing physically wrong with Eyre, he's got 1-2/3 season remaining on his contract. I don't think any of the aforementioned moves qualify as precedence in their willingness to cut Eyre. Borowski is the closest one, but that's the only one.

 

Our best hope is that Hendry can trade him. That might seem like impossible, but for all of Hendry's shortcomings, he has been able to pull off a couple of deals that are really mindboggling looking back (see: finding someone to take Neifi with two years on his deal, and actually getting a good return on Todd Hundley, both we thought were impossible).

 

I don't think we should count on another Neifi/Tigers type deal. That was astoundingly good luck. Maybe once every few years you get a gift like that. More likely scenario for Eyre is that he'll have to show he can still pitch before someone takes him. He's been so bad that he really does look washed up and not just slumping. He's awfully expensive too.

[Jehrico]

There is noway Hendry is going to admit his mistakes you guys all know this. The best idea of future behavior, is past behavior.

 

People keep saying this and it's not true. Neifi was dumped last year. Latroy was dumped. Remlinger was dumped. Borowski was dumped. Matt Lawton was dumped a month after he came here.

 

Neifi wasn't dumped. They found someone dumb enough to take his contract and give us a token prospect in return. Same with Lawton. Remlinger was only dumped late in the last year of his contract when it was obvious we we out of it (ironic how we get rid of crappy players once they've taken us out of the race, not when we're struggling to stay in it....). Borowski wasn't physically right, I don't recall if he had two years or one year on his deal when they cut him. They're nothing physically wrong with Eyre, he's got 1-2/3 season remaining on his contract. I don't think any of the aforementioned moves qualify as precedence in their willingness to cut Eyre. Borowski is the closest one, but that's the only one.

 

Our best hope is that Hendry can trade him. That might seem like impossible, but for all of Hendry's shortcomings, he has been able to pull off a couple of deals that are really mindboggling looking back (see: finding someone to take Neifi with two years on his deal, and actually getting a good return on Todd Hundley, both we thought were impossible).

 

I don't think we should count on another Neifi/Tigers type deal. That was astoundingly good luck. Maybe once every few years you get a gift like that. More likely scenario for Eyre is that he'll have to show he can still pitch before someone takes him. He's been so bad that he really does look washed up and not just slumping. He's awfully expensive too.

I would agree that we shouldn't count on it, but we are Cubs fans, and as such, we're defined by the type of blind faith and optimism that makes me disagree with you. :wink: