Cubs sign Estaban German to minor league deal

[Little Slide Rooter]

Why do the Cubs rarely have a good bench, they just have a bench that suck at a wide variety of position. When was the last time we had a GREG DOBBS.

When did they have someone as good as Dobbs? Was last year that long ago? Last year they also had a good bench in case you were kidnapped by the Taliban and missed it.

 

Mike Fontenot and Reed Johnson were both very great off the bench last year, and Ward/Hofpauir, Blanco, and Cedeno rounded out one of the more solid benches in the league.

 

Miles, Gathright, Hoffpauir(hopefully), and Johnson/Fukudome will be a better bench than a lot of people think. Granted Bako will be a waste of space aside from the 1 day a week he catches. We wont have the power we did last year, but it will be better than a lot of teams have.

 

No, that bench still doesn't look like it's any good. I feel like you're almost just throwing out random names. Let me try. "McKinley, Roosevelt, Harding, Coolidge, Taft, Hoover, now there's a bench with some depth and versatility."

 

Roosevelt was in a wheel chair. Coolidge couldnt lay off the high heat, and Taft had a career OPS <.700. Bad comparison. Hoover had some good years in the Senators/Twins organization though before he started having achilles problems.

[Springfield_CUBBY]

Roosevelt was in a wheel chair. Coolidge couldnt lay off the high heat, and Taft had a career OPS <.700. Bad comparison. Hoover had some good years in the Senators/Twins organization though before he started having achilles problems.

LMAO! Now THAT was funny!!! :rotfl:

[jersey cubs fan]

Let me get this straight with the mods. Me calling this post, and this style of rebuttal, [expletive] would qualify me as the offensive poster instead of posters that use random nonsense when their argument is shown to lack simple comparative observation skills? Got it.

 

Back to topic. You badnews (I get the moniker clearly now) say something about wishing for Greg Dobbs. A couple of people point out that they have had someone as good as Dobbs as recently as last year. You also add, "they just have a bench that suck at a wide variety of position." Again, it's pointed out that you have no clue because the Cubs bench was among the best in the NL and all you have as a retort is to change the argument to some sublime rattling off of dead presidents?

 

Yeah, I should be banned for calling that style of discussion [expletive].

 

Maybe if you just don't use the word [expletive].

[twothousandfive]

DeRosa was a great signing as it turned out. No argument there. Fontenot sat in the minors when he was ready though behind some horrible players. Now you have crap like Miles and Rivas in camp and Cedeno traded for nothing. What is the point of that?

Fontenot basically sat behind DeRosa. Cedeno (with Pie) brought Hielman, not exactly nothing.

 

Is it your belief that Miles, at the age of 31 vastly improved his baseball abilities, and at the same time Esteban German's baseball abilities careened off of a cliff at the age of 30?

 

30 would be a good age to pick for decline, especially for someone who's "peak" wasn't much. DeRosa is a notable exception to that common drop-off.

 

If Hendry was shrewd in determining that DeRosa's uptick would stick, perhaps he is also expecting Miles to continue to produce, based on something other than stats.

 

If all of the Cubs infield moves are seen through the lens of "why'd they trade DeRosa" then of course they are poor. The DeRosa trade doesn't make much sense, but it's done with. Grabbing additional middle-infield depth, especially depth that can be stashed in the minors, is wise. The Cubs just might have a couple of injuries this year. And maybe German or Miles is the next DeRosa.