Cubs acquire Jeff Baker

[YearofDaCubs]

My predictions for upcoming roster moves (barring any intervening trades):

 

1. When Aram is activated, Blanco goes down (Fox has CLEARLY won a spot on the team for now).

 

2. When Guzman is activated, Patton goes on the DL since he will have met the Rule V provisions.

 

3. When Johnson is activated, Fuld goes down.

 

4. When Miles is activated, I'm stumped (assuming Fox is still producing enough to force the Cubs to keep him up).

All those moves sound good to me. It would also be awesome if we could find away to sneak Aaron Miles into a deal for a bullpen arm. Maybe other teams don't realize he's Aaron Miles...

Hendry has to man up and cut his losses with Miles. He shouldn't have been signed in the first place. He can barely play SS so what kind of bench option is he really? I'd rather have Blanco on the team. It's so frustrating seeing Miles have so many at bats this season.

[RedFlash]

My predictions for upcoming roster moves (barring any intervening trades):

 

1. When Aram is activated, Blanco goes down (Fox has CLEARLY won a spot on the team for now).

 

2. When Guzman is activated, Patton goes on the DL since he will have met the Rule V provisions.

 

3. When Johnson is activated, Fuld goes down.

 

4. When Miles is activated, I'm stumped (assuming Fox is still producing enough to force the Cubs to keep him up).

All those moves sound good to me. It would also be awesome if we could find away to sneak Aaron Miles into a deal for a bullpen arm. Maybe other teams don't realize he's Aaron Miles...

Hendry has to man up and cut his losses with Miles. He shouldn't have been signed in the first place. He can barely play SS so what kind of bench option is he really? I'd rather have Blanco on the team. It's so frustrating seeing Miles have so many at bats this season.

 

Yep. Blanco's glove is really good with his bat being similar to Miles. Push come to shove I much rather have Blanco then Miles (and that is before contract's come into play).

[Old Style]

My predictions for upcoming roster moves (barring any intervening trades):

 

1. When Aram is activated, Blanco goes down (Fox has CLEARLY won a spot on the team for now).

 

2. When Guzman is activated, Patton goes on the DL since he will have met the Rule V provisions.

 

3. When Johnson is activated, Fuld goes down.

 

4. When Miles is activated, I'm stumped (assuming Fox is still producing enough to force the Cubs to keep him up).

All those moves sound good to me. It would also be awesome if we could find away to sneak Aaron Miles into a deal for a bullpen arm. Maybe other teams don't realize he's Aaron Miles...

Trade him to St. Louis for DeRosa.

[bcl412]

My predictions for upcoming roster moves (barring any intervening trades):

 

1. When Aram is activated, Blanco goes down (Fox has CLEARLY won a spot on the team for now).

 

2. When Guzman is activated, Patton goes on the DL since he will have met the Rule V provisions.

 

3. When Johnson is activated, Fuld goes down.

 

4. When Miles is activated, I'm stumped (assuming Fox is still producing enough to force the Cubs to keep him up).

All those moves sound good to me. It would also be awesome if we could find away to sneak Aaron Miles into a deal for a bullpen arm. Maybe other teams don't realize he's Aaron Miles...

 

There are some dumb GM's who like scrappiness (is this a real word) and those GM's would most likely be in control of bad teams who are looking to sell. Maybe we can sell that somehow.

[dew1679666265]

My predictions for upcoming roster moves (barring any intervening trades):

 

1. When Aram is activated, Blanco goes down (Fox has CLEARLY won a spot on the team for now).

 

2. When Guzman is activated, Patton goes on the DL since he will have met the Rule V provisions.

 

3. When Johnson is activated, Fuld goes down.

 

4. When Miles is activated, I'm stumped (assuming Fox is still producing enough to force the Cubs to keep him up).

All those moves sound good to me. It would also be awesome if we could find away to sneak Aaron Miles into a deal for a bullpen arm. Maybe other teams don't realize he's Aaron Miles...

Hendry has to man up and cut his losses with Miles. He shouldn't have been signed in the first place. He can barely play SS so what kind of bench option is he really? I'd rather have Blanco on the team. It's so frustrating seeing Miles have so many at bats this season.

 

Cutting Miles at this point wouldn't give us any real benefit. Cutting him just to "admit a mistake" or to "man up" isn't a good way of doing things. The contract shouldn't have been handed out, but Miles provides depth and is as good or better than any backup infield option we have (save, maybe, for Jeff Baker).

 

He's been incredibly unlucky this year and still is just slightly worse than Blanco offensively. If Miles can get any sort of luck he'll be better than Blanco on offense. If we can trade him, fine, but cutting him isn't going to recover the $4.9 million he's under contract for and will only give us less depth.

[KingCubsFan]

My predictions for upcoming roster moves (barring any intervening trades):

 

1. When Aram is activated, Blanco goes down (Fox has CLEARLY won a spot on the team for now).

 

2. When Guzman is activated, Patton goes on the DL since he will have met the Rule V provisions.

 

3. When Johnson is activated, Fuld goes down.

 

4. When Miles is activated, I'm stumped (assuming Fox is still producing enough to force the Cubs to keep him up).

All those moves sound good to me. It would also be awesome if we could find away to sneak Aaron Miles into a deal for a bullpen arm. Maybe other teams don't realize he's Aaron Miles...

Hendry has to man up and cut his losses with Miles. He shouldn't have been signed in the first place. He can barely play SS so what kind of bench option is he really? I'd rather have Blanco on the team. It's so frustrating seeing Miles have so many at bats this season.

 

Cutting Miles at this point wouldn't give us any real benefit. Cutting him just to "admit a mistake" or to "man up" isn't a good way of doing things. The contract shouldn't have been handed out, but Miles provides depth and is as good or better than any backup infield option we have (save, maybe, for Jeff Baker).

 

He's been incredibly unlucky this year and still is just slightly worse than Blanco offensively. If Miles can get any sort of luck he'll be better than Blanco on offense. If we can trade him, fine, but cutting him isn't going to recover the $4.9 million he's under contract for and will only give us less depth.

I can't think of any option that is worse than Miles. He's not good offensively or defensively. At least the other options have at least one strength.

[dew1679666265]

My predictions for upcoming roster moves (barring any intervening trades):

 

1. When Aram is activated, Blanco goes down (Fox has CLEARLY won a spot on the team for now).

 

2. When Guzman is activated, Patton goes on the DL since he will have met the Rule V provisions.

 

3. When Johnson is activated, Fuld goes down.

 

4. When Miles is activated, I'm stumped (assuming Fox is still producing enough to force the Cubs to keep him up).

All those moves sound good to me. It would also be awesome if we could find away to sneak Aaron Miles into a deal for a bullpen arm. Maybe other teams don't realize he's Aaron Miles...

Hendry has to man up and cut his losses with Miles. He shouldn't have been signed in the first place. He can barely play SS so what kind of bench option is he really? I'd rather have Blanco on the team. It's so frustrating seeing Miles have so many at bats this season.

 

Cutting Miles at this point wouldn't give us any real benefit. Cutting him just to "admit a mistake" or to "man up" isn't a good way of doing things. The contract shouldn't have been handed out, but Miles provides depth and is as good or better than any backup infield option we have (save, maybe, for Jeff Baker).

 

He's been incredibly unlucky this year and still is just slightly worse than Blanco offensively. If Miles can get any sort of luck he'll be better than Blanco on offense. If we can trade him, fine, but cutting him isn't going to recover the $4.9 million he's under contract for and will only give us less depth.

I can't think of any option that is worse than Miles. He's not good offensively or defensively. At least the other options have at least one strength.

 

He's better than Blanco offensively, Blanco is much better defensively.

 

Overall, Blanco is probably the better option, but not by enough to outright cut one of only three players who Lou is prepared to play at SS. If we cut Miles and Blanco gets hurt, there's no one in the organization left to backup Theriot. Plus, we'd still have to pay Miles his salary either way - where's the benefit to the team?

[bukie]

My predictions for upcoming roster moves (barring any intervening trades):

 

1. When Aram is activated, Blanco goes down (Fox has CLEARLY won a spot on the team for now).

Two problems with this plan:

 

1) If this happens, the Cubs have zero backup SS on the roster.

2) Blanco doesn't have options, and as such can't go down without clearing waivers.

 

A more likely option that keeps Fox up is to send down Fontenot and play Blanco at 2B every day (or maybe...Soriano?).

[Hawk4Hall]

Baker isn't much better than Freel.

 

I'm so glad Hendry decided the Cubs needed a change at 2nd in the offseason.

[Coach C]

Baker isn't much better than Freel.

 

I'm so glad Hendry decided the Cubs needed a change at 2nd in the offseason.

 

I'm glad he decided to trade away DeRosa.

 

Oh wait....

 

#-o

[Sammy Sofa]

Good God, people.

[Backtobanks]

Baker isn't much better than Freel.

 

I'm so glad Hendry decided the Cubs needed a change at 2nd in the offseason.

 

I don't think Baker is the second coming of Sandberg, but Baker has been injured most of the season and is just coming back. Let's give him a few more ABs before saying he's worthless.

[Bull]

Baker isn't much better than Freel.

 

I'm so glad Hendry decided the Cubs needed a change at 2nd in the offseason.

 

I don't think Baker is the second coming of Sandberg, but Baker has been injured most of the season and is just coming back. Let's give him a few more ABs before saying he's worthless.

 

he didn't. He said he was better than freel.

[17 Seconds]

Baker isn't much better than Freel.

 

I'm so glad Hendry decided the Cubs needed a change at 2nd in the offseason.

 

I don't think Baker is the second coming of Sandberg, but Baker has been injured most of the season and is just coming back. Let's give him a few more ABs before saying he's worthless.

 

 

how many more at-bats do you want to waste on him? we have to win right now. we can't afford to be giving a crappy player 4 at-bats every night just to see if he might end up being slightly less crappy

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Baker isn't much better than Freel.

 

I'm so glad Hendry decided the Cubs needed a change at 2nd in the offseason.

 

I don't think Baker is the second coming of Sandberg, but Baker has been injured most of the season and is just coming back. Let's give him a few more ABs before saying he's worthless.

 

 

how many more at-bats do you want to waste on him? we have to win right now. we can't afford to be giving a crappy player 4 at-bats every night just to see if he might end up being slightly less crappy

 

What's the alternative? Miles? Blanco? Scales? Fontenot against a LHP? There's not much lost by seeing if Baker can get some hits against LHP.

[17 Seconds]

Baker isn't much better than Freel.

 

I'm so glad Hendry decided the Cubs needed a change at 2nd in the offseason.

 

I don't think Baker is the second coming of Sandberg, but Baker has been injured most of the season and is just coming back. Let's give him a few more ABs before saying he's worthless.

 

 

how many more at-bats do you want to waste on him? we have to win right now. we can't afford to be giving a crappy player 4 at-bats every night just to see if he might end up being slightly less crappy

 

What's the alternative? Miles? Blanco? Scales? Fontenot against a LHP? There's not much lost by seeing if Baker can get some hits against LHP.

 

yes, i'd take blanco or scales over baker right now.

[cubsfan26]

It's not like Baker didn't have a 790 OPS last year or a 926 OPS against LH pitching. Or put up strong numbers in the minors his whole career. I guess he should be judged on his 38 AB's this season and going 3 for 15 since coming off the DL. I just don't get some of you people sometimes.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

how many more at-bats do you want to waste on him? we have to win right now. we can't afford to be giving a crappy player 4 at-bats every night just to see if he might end up being slightly less crappy

 

What's the alternative? Miles? Blanco? Scales? Fontenot against a LHP? There's not much lost by seeing if Baker can get some hits against LHP.

 

yes, i'd take blanco or scales over baker right now.

 

That's not an indefensible position, but can you really blame people who want to give Baker a shot?

[17 Seconds]

It's not like Baker didn't have a 790 OPS last year or a 926 OPS against LH pitching. Or put up strong numbers in the minors his whole career. I guess he should be judged on his 38 AB's this season and going 3 for 15 since coming off the DL. I just don't get some of you people sometimes.

 

maybe it has something to do with the fact that he had a .901 OPS at coors last year and .646 OPS away from it.

 

btw, are you still yelling at people who criticize Hendry's offseason moves and telling them to "give him the benefit of the doubt"?

[17 Seconds]

how many more at-bats do you want to waste on him? we have to win right now. we can't afford to be giving a crappy player 4 at-bats every night just to see if he might end up being slightly less crappy

 

What's the alternative? Miles? Blanco? Scales? Fontenot against a LHP? There's not much lost by seeing if Baker can get some hits against LHP.

 

yes, i'd take blanco or scales over baker right now.

 

That's not an indefensible position, but can you really blame people who want to give Baker a shot?

 

i don't know. he's going to have to start showing something really soon because he has looked atrocious.

[cubsfan26]

maybe it has something to do with the fact that he had a .901 OPS at coors last year and .646 OPS away from it.

 

I don't buy Coors was the reason alone for his numbers to be that good. Plus Coors isn't THAT much of a better hitters park then Wrigley in the hot summer.

 

 

btw, are you still yelling at people who criticize Hendry's offseason moves and telling them to "give him the benefit of the doubt"?

 

It's been a bad offseason as of right now, but not a horrorible one. Most of the reason were not doing good is just good players aren't preforming. If Soto, Soriano and Bradley are hitting like there capable this team is in first place right now. If this team misses the playoffs then I will say it was a crap year. But unlike other people I'm not gonna panic, and still think this team has a good chance to make the postseason.

[17 Seconds]

maybe it has something to do with the fact that he had a .901 OPS at coors last year and .646 OPS away from it.

 

I don't buy Coors was the reason alone for his numbers to be that good. Plus Coors isn't THAT much of a better hitters park then Wrigley in the hot summer.

 

 

btw, are you still yelling at people who criticize Hendry's offseason moves and telling them to "give him the benefit of the doubt"?

 

It's been a bad offseason as of right now, but not a horrible one.

 

wow

[cubsfan26]

Thats your opinion and its fine. Yes there has been alot more bad then good so it was a bad offseason. But I'll make my final judgements on the season and the offseason leading up to the season when the season is over with. There's still alot of baseball to play. But If the Cubs do miss the playoffs though, I wouldn't mind Hendry being a pretty short leash next season. Because with how much money this team is spending and with the talent on the roster there's no excuse not to be in the postseason.

[haubrich91]

Getting Baker was pointless. All it's done is create chaos on deciding who to send down.

[SouthSideRyan]

Getting Baker was pointless. All it's done is create chaos on deciding who to send down.

 

That makes no sense. There's no chaos if you feel the team is better without Baker. You send down Baker.