O' Samardzija, Where Art Thou? Updated: Called Up.

[mikeyt34]

Unless the Cubs can trade Vizcaino for something of value they in effect gave Marquis away for nothing and are still paying part of his salary. Unacceptable.

 

Complete misuse of assets, a Hendry trademark.

 

Or still have Marquis on the roster, not starting, grumbling about being in the bullpen, and paying him I believe 7 million this year. The original Marquis deal was 3 years 21 million if I remember right. It was a bad situation and Hendry did his best to rectify it, but it's like putting makeup on a pig. Marquis should have never been signed for that kind of money to begin with, but losing Vizcaino is not a big concern, just the cash, which is potentially 4.5 million. Look at the bright side, the Cubs saved 2.5 million off the Marquis contract, although they have nothing to show for it.

[CubColtPacer]

Unless the Cubs can trade Vizcaino for something of value they in effect gave Marquis away for nothing and are still paying part of his salary. Unacceptable.

 

Complete misuse of assets, a Hendry trademark.

 

Or still have Marquis on the roster, not starting, grumbling about being in the bullpen, and paying him I believe 7 million this year. The original Marquis deal was 3 years 21 million if I remember right. It was a bad situation and Hendry did his best to rectify it, but it's like putting makeup on a pig. Marquis should have never been signed for that kind of money to begin with, but losing Vizcaino is not a big concern, just the cash, which is potentially 4.5 million. Look at the bright side, the Cubs saved 2.5 million off the Marquis contract, although they have nothing to show for it.

 

They actually shaved about 5 million from the contract of Marquis. Marquis did get a 3 year 21 million dollar deal, but the Cubs through backloading had only paid slightly more than 11 through the first two years. 4 went to Vizcaino, a little less than a million went to the Rockies, and the Cubs pocketed 5 million off of it.

[mikeyt34]

Unless the Cubs can trade Vizcaino for something of value they in effect gave Marquis away for nothing and are still paying part of his salary. Unacceptable.

 

Complete misuse of assets, a Hendry trademark.

 

Or still have Marquis on the roster, not starting, grumbling about being in the bullpen, and paying him I believe 7 million this year. The original Marquis deal was 3 years 21 million if I remember right. It was a bad situation and Hendry did his best to rectify it, but it's like putting makeup on a pig. Marquis should have never been signed for that kind of money to begin with, but losing Vizcaino is not a big concern, just the cash, which is potentially 4.5 million. Look at the bright side, the Cubs saved 2.5 million off the Marquis contract, although they have nothing to show for it.

 

 

They actually shaved about 5 million from the contract of Marquis. Marquis did get a 3 year 21 million dollar deal, but the Cubs through backloading had only paid slightly more than 11 through the first two years. 4 went to Vizcaino, a little less than a million went to the Rockies, and the Cubs pocketed 5 million off of it.

 

Thanks. I knew there was some manuvering of the monies somewhere with that deal.

 

As far as Shark being the first one called up to replace an injured starter, probably the case, but I personally think Shark will be most valuable being used in the 7th or 8th, and they can use Heiliman as the spot starter.

[dew1679666265]

As far as Shark being the first one called up to replace an injured starter, probably the case, but I personally think Shark will be most valuable being used in the 7th or 8th, and they can use Heiliman as the spot starter.

 

They'd have to get Heilman stretched out really quickly for that. He's only been a 1 inning a game guy and that is not a recipe for being a spot starter.

 

The first options in case one of our starters go down would likely be Mitch Atkins or Kevin Hart since they called up Shark for the pen.

[Guest]

The other thing that was weird is the way Hendry framed this whole call up thing.

 

The first thing that I remember that he said after he said Shark was being brought up is that Cotts' roster spot was safe. Then he went on to say that they would make the official announcement the next day, making everyone wonder who in the heck it was that was losing their roster spot.

 

Just weird that he made an announcement that he was going to make an announcement, while actually name dropping a little bit.