Cubs add four to 40-man roster; DFA Bryan LaHair

[Guest]

LaHair is 30 years old, can only play 1B, and was awful at the plate once pitchers had a couple weeks of tape on him. Maybe the FO chose to sell him to Japan instead of trading him for a minor leaguer, but that minor leaguer would have been no one of consequence(read: not top 30 or Top 50). He didn't have any value.

 

Well, yea. I didn't mean to suggest otherwise.

[UK1679666180]

LaHair is 30 years old, can only play 1B, and was awful at the plate once pitchers had a couple weeks of tape on him. Maybe the FO chose to sell him to Japan instead of trading him for a minor leaguer, but that minor leaguer would have been no one of consequence(read: not top 30 or Top 50). He didn't have any value.

 

They exposed the fact he could only hit FBs pretty quickly.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

I'm curious as to why it took a month for MLB pitchers to figure out not to throw fastballs to the AAAA hitter.

 

I'm not saying the "they got tape on him" isn't the real explanation, but I need a little more than just "the timing matches up" before I fully believe it.

[Sammy Sofa]

That was something hardly unique to LaHair; baseball is littered with flash in the pan-guys who, in hindsight, were easy to figure out yet inexplicably had weeks or months of regular success. Probably mostly based out of pitchers thinking something along the lines of, "yeah, but this turd won't be able to hit MY fastball." Edited November 23, 2012 by Sammy Sofa

[Irrelevant Dude]

This is a good deal for both sides. The Cubs get $950k and Lahair turned a couple good months into a contract that could set him up for life. I'm sure he would prefer to be playing in MLB, but with his age and service time he was never going to get a good payday even if he was able to stick around for several years.

[Backtobanks]

This is a good deal for both sides. The Cubs get $950k and Lahair turned a couple good months into a contract that could set him up for life. I'm sure he would prefer to be playing in MLB, but with his age and service time he was never going to get a good payday even if he was able to stick around for several years.

 

He could become the next Tuffy Rhodes.

[jersey cubs fan]

I'm curious as to why it took a month for MLB pitchers to figure out not to throw fastballs to the AAAA hitter.

 

I'm not saying the "they got tape on him" isn't the real explanation, but I need a little more than just "the timing matches up" before I fully believe it.

Baseball people/players are both dumb and cocky. They are slow learners and even slower to accept what they learn.

[Clem Fandango]

Wise financial decision for LaHair

 

Bryan LaHair has agreed to a contract with the Softbank Hawks of the Japanese Pacific League.

The deal will pay him a total of $4.5 million over the next two seasons. It's a nice score for LaHair, who was designated for assignment by the Cubs earlier this week and would have made close to the league minimum had he remained in the major leagues. The 30-year-old first baseman posted a .259/.334/.450 slash line in 2012.

[Little Slide Rooter]

New plan: Sign all of the Bryan LaHairs we can get our hands on to minor league deals and sell them off to Japan for $750,000-1,000,000 per.

[Backtobanks]

New plan: Sign all of the Bryan LaHairs we can get our hands on to minor league deals and sell them off to Japan for $750,000-1,000,000 per.

 

And then raise ticket prices and sit on the money for a few more years.