so, 5 years 90 million?

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I am going to post this here away from the hysteria. That's a pretty risky proposition but I don't see that the Cubs had any choice. Developing pitchers and keeping them healthy is so key to winning in MLB these days.

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If they didn't lock him up, they'd have Lilly as the ace with another second tier pitcher as the #2. I agree, they did what they had to do.

[rawaction]

I'm happy with the deal, despite the strong chance that Zambrano is injured for at least 1 of those 5 years and probably not worthy of the money in at least the last year of that deal.

 

The Cubs really have nothing in the minors like they did when Z came up. There's no Prior, Wood, Cruz, or the potential of the great draft picks (Sisco, Jones, Petrick, etc) anymore. Unless they traded him before July 31, for good younger pitching, they had no choice but to sign him to whatever he wanted. I'm happy it's just 5 years.

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I'm happy it didn't go into the open market with the Yankees, Red Sox, and Mets all opening the vault for him.