Favorite "Didnt he play for the Cubs once" player

[Little Slide Rooter]

With Jim Edmonds coming to The Cubs for what promises to be a single season stint, who is your favorite one point star player to do a short stint with the Cubbies?

[jersey cubs fan]

With Jim Edmonds coming to The Cubs for what promises to be a single season stint, who is your favorite one point star player to do a short stint with the Cubbies?

 

This is more like a list of names LLF remembers playing with the Cubs for brief periods of time since he started following the team than a list of one time star players.

[Schwarber Fan]

Nevin played better than I expected

[Rusch33]

I'll vote for other, and say Randall Simon.

[bukie]

Lou Brock

 

EDIT: And if not Brock, Jimmie Foxx, Tony Lazzeri, Dizzy Dean, Kiki Cuyler and Dennis Eckersley are up there for me, too.

[rawaction]

Hideo Nomo.

[Sammy Sofa]

With Jim Edmonds coming to The Cubs for what promises to be a single season stint, who is your favorite one point star player to do a short stint with the Cubbies?

 

This is more like a list of names LLF remembers playing with the Cubs for brief periods of time since he started following the team than a list of one time star players.

 

No kidding. It's like the Cubs have only existed for 5 years with that list.

[Little Slide Rooter]

With Jim Edmonds coming to The Cubs for what promises to be a single season stint, who is your favorite one point star player to do a short stint with the Cubbies?

 

This is more like a list of names LLF remembers playing with the Cubs for brief periods of time since he started following the team than a list of one time star players.

 

Ive been following the team none stop since 1984 when I was 8, and going to games since I was 5, thank you.

 

These are (one time) star players who had a short, often unremarkable stint with the team. Sure, there have been more in the past, but it wasnt really until the Sosa years where the started the trend of aquiring fairly big names to help out for short periods of time.

[Sammy Sofa]

With Jim Edmonds coming to The Cubs for what promises to be a single season stint, who is your favorite one point star player to do a short stint with the Cubbies?

 

This is more like a list of names LLF remembers playing with the Cubs for brief periods of time since he started following the team than a list of one time star players.

 

Ive been following the team none stop since 1984 when I was 8, and going to games since I was 5, thank you.

 

These are (one time) star players who had a short, often unremarkable stint with the team. Sure, there have been more in the past, but it wasnt really until the Sosa years where the started the trend of aquiring fairly big names to help out for short periods of time.

 

Most of those names are nowhere near being "fairly big."

 

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[Little Slide Rooter]

With Jim Edmonds coming to The Cubs for what promises to be a single season stint, who is your favorite one point star player to do a short stint with the Cubbies?

 

This is more like a list of names LLF remembers playing with the Cubs for brief periods of time since he started following the team than a list of one time star players.

 

Ive been following the team none stop since 1984 when I was 8, and going to games since I was 5, thank you.

 

These are (one time) star players who had a short, often unremarkable stint with the team. Sure, there have been more in the past, but it wasnt really until the Sosa years where the started the trend of aquiring fairly big names to help out for short periods of time.

 

Most of those names are nowhere near being "fairly big."

 

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By the time they got the Cubs, no, but if your going to say that McGriff, Burnitz, Edmonds, Garciaparra, Lofton, White, and Nevin werent at least fairly big names in their primes, you dont know half as much as you think you do, but then again, there are Harvard professors who dont know half as much as you think you do.

[Sammy Sofa]

I'm going to safely say that White, Gordon, Burnitz, Deshields, Nevin and Lawton are about as also-ran as you can get. Christ, sticking with your era, Hollandsworth and Gerut had as much "heat" or more as some of those humps.

 

In short, it makes no sense to lump them in with Nomar and Lofton in terms of the profile of the acquisition. I'm not saying that those other guys are complete nobodies, but your list is rather arbitrary and nonsensical.

[Little Slide Rooter]

I'm going to safely say that White, Gordon, Burnitz, Deshields, Nevin and Lawton are about as also-ran as you can get. Christ, sticking with your era, Hollandsworth and Gerut had as much "heat" or more as some of those humps.

 

In short, it makes no sense to lump them in with Nomar and Lofton in terms of the profile of the acquisition. I'm not saying that those other guys are complete nobodies, but your list is rather arbitrary and nonsensical.

 

This is a list of players aquired to fill a short term need, and YES, these were fairly big names. In each case, the Cubs could have just as easily promoted someone from the farm to fill the need, but since there were available proven, above average veterans, they decided to go for them, if not to give them a better chance at winning, to make the fans think they were. Every one of those players experienced some degree of long term success in the majors, but for most, there best days were well behind them by the tim we got them. Aside from Nomar, and maybe McGriff, none of these guys will ever make it to Cooperstown, but the aquisitions were all with a similar motive. Its not like Im lumping Ben Grieve and Kal Daniels in there.

[Sammy Sofa]

So it's only been since the "Sosa years" that they've been doing these kind of signings? Come on.

[Little Slide Rooter]

So it's only been since the "Sosa years" that they've been doing these kind of signings? Come on.

 

OK, late '90's-present.

[Sammy Sofa]

...

 

BOO THIS THREAD.

[jersey cubs fan]

YES, these were fairly big names. .

 

Some of them were stars. Most of them don't even come close to fairly big names.

[bukie]

So it's only been since the "Sosa years" that they've been doing these kind of signings? Come on.

 

OK, late '90's-present.

 

Except the oldest signing you have on here is from 2001 (DeShields...who is a huge stretch to be called a star).

 

The Cubs have done this for their entire history, players like Rick Aguilera in 1999 all the way back to guys like Rogers Hornsby and Dizzy Dean in the 30's.

[Little Slide Rooter]

Hideo Nomo.

 

He never made it passed spring training. Just another stop on his mission to wear every major league uniform at least once.

[bukie]

Hideo Nomo.

 

He never made it passed spring training. Just another stop on his mission to wear every major league uniform at least once.

 

Didn't realize Spring Training went all the way through April 23 in 1999.

 

April 2, 1999: Signed as a Free Agent with the Chicago Cubs.

 

April 23, 1999: Released by the Chicago Cubs.

[Little Slide Rooter]

So it's only been since the "Sosa years" that they've been doing these kind of signings? Come on.

 

OK, late '90's-present.

 

Except the oldest signing you have on here is from 2001 (DeShields...who is a huge stretch to be called a star).

 

The Cubs have done this for their entire history, players like Rick Aguilera in 1999 all the way back to guys like Rogers Hornsby and Dizzy Dean in the 30's.

 

Rajah and Dizzy played several years for the Cubs. They were more Mike Morgan/Henry Rodriguez types. Jimmy Foxx would be more properly lumped with this group.

[Little Slide Rooter]

Hideo Nomo.

 

He never made it passed spring training. Just another stop on his mission to wear every major league uniform at least once.

 

Didn't realize Spring Training went all the way through April 23 in 1999.

 

April 2, 1999: Signed as a Free Agent with the Chicago Cubs.

 

April 23, 1999: Released by the Chicago Cubs.

 

I didnt even realize that. I gues he made no impact. In my defense, I was going to college in Wisconsin at the time, and didnt have much access to Cubs TV. However, I do remember watching the Wood game in a room full of Cubs haters.

[Sammy Sofa]

So it's only been since the "Sosa years" that they've been doing these kind of signings? Come on.

 

OK, late '90's-present.

 

Except the oldest signing you have on here is from 2001 (DeShields...who is a huge stretch to be called a star).

 

The Cubs have done this for their entire history, players like Rick Aguilera in 1999 all the way back to guys like Rogers Hornsby and Dizzy Dean in the 30's.

 

Rajah and Dizzy played several years for the Cubs. They were more Mike Morgan/Henry Rodriguez types. Jimmy Foxx would be more properly lumped with this group.

 

So there's a timeframe in terms of how long they play for the team?

[jersey cubs fan]

Hideo Nomo.

 

He never made it passed spring training. Just another stop on his mission to wear every major league uniform at least once.

 

Didn't realize Spring Training went all the way through April 23 in 1999.

 

April 2, 1999: Signed as a Free Agent with the Chicago Cubs.

 

April 23, 1999: Released by the Chicago Cubs.

 

He never actually played for the Chicago Cubs though, right?

[Little Slide Rooter]

So it's only been since the "Sosa years" that they've been doing these kind of signings? Come on.

 

OK, late '90's-present.

 

Except the oldest signing you have on here is from 2001 (DeShields...who is a huge stretch to be called a star).

 

The Cubs have done this for their entire history, players like Rick Aguilera in 1999 all the way back to guys like Rogers Hornsby and Dizzy Dean in the 30's.

 

Rajah and Dizzy played several years for the Cubs. They were more Mike Morgan/Henry Rodriguez types. Jimmy Foxx would be more properly lumped with this group.

 

So there's a timeframe in terms of how long they play for the team?

 

Good God. I dont know what Dizzy Dean or Rogers Hornsby did for the Cubs. I dont know the circumstances behind the aquisitions. Aside from Nomar, these are guys who played for the Cubs for 1 year, 2 years max. This is recent memory. add Benito Santiago, Jeff Blauser, whoever.

[killthegoat06]

Nomar. I remember I was euphoric when I heard about the trade...ah the days of good Hendry