Huge week ahead for Hendry

[CubfaninCA]

I am starting to believe more and more that Hendry's plan is to acquire Furcal and have a middle IF of Furcal and Neifi. I'm not real sure what his plan is for Cedeno. He could be trade bait. At the end of the season there was talk of having him play 2nd in Venezula. Thanks to the updates from UBlink, we know he hasn't played an inning there. He is have a good Winter season after a slow start.

 

As for the rest of Hendry's plan, I have no idea. There are rumors about Piere but not much else. The frustrating thing for me is that He doesn't seem to be addressing RF. I am begining to beleive it may become like 3rd base after Santo left.

 

I can't wait for next week. Think of all the great rumors we can have useless debates about.

 

Quite dramatic. Guess we should disregard the reports of Hendry inquiring about Abreu, but regard the reports that Hendry has no interest in Giles. Nice glass half empty filter.

[CubfaninCA]

CubsfaninCa wrote

 

It's still too early to panic. Abreu, Dunn, Wilkerson, Floyd and Bradley could all be available via trade & the Cubs have lots of assets to deal. Lets see what happens @ the winter meetings first....

 

out of that list could Dunn or Floyd handle RF? I am absolutely convinced we will have nothing to do with Bradley( not that i think that is a good thing). So that would leave Wilkerson which goes back to the point, is there isn't alot to choose from and the price could outweigh the gain. Sign Giles Hendry...........

 

Hasn't Floyd played RF in the past?

 

Even if the Cubs wanted Giles, he's a long shot. Chicago is not New York or Southern California. Sorry.

[WrigleyinEngland]

I haven't read anywhere that hendry has inquired about abreu. I know that Bruce mentioned he would be interested should he become available but that isn't exactly the same.

[CubinNY]

I am starting to believe more and more that Hendry's plan is to acquire Furcal and have a middle IF of Furcal and Neifi. I'm not real sure what his plan is for Cedeno. He could be trade bait. At the end of the season there was talk of having him play 2nd in Venezula. Thanks to the updates from UBlink, we know he hasn't played an inning there. He is have a good Winter season after a slow start.

 

As for the rest of Hendry's plan, I have no idea. There are rumors about Piere but not much else. The frustrating thing for me is that He doesn't seem to be addressing RF. I am begining to beleive it may become like 3rd base after Santo left.

 

I can't wait for next week. Think of all the great rumors we can have useless debates about.

 

Quite dramatic. Guess we should disregard the reports of Hendry inquiring about Abreu, but regard the reports that Hendry has no interest in Giles. Nice glass half empty filter.

 

I've not read any rumor where Hendry has made any inquiry about Abreu. All I've read is that Hendry would talk to the Phillies if Abreu becomes available. Could you enlighten us all with your insight?

[biittner77]

The Greenburg situation reminds me of the Mathews Jr. debacle. This move really bugs me because I think Greenburg will be a serviceable 4th OF, especially for this team.

 

I remember that. Wasn't is because they wanted to make room for Delino F. DeShields?

 

I think it was that they wanted to keep Augie Ojeda because the SS (whose name escapes me) was banged up and they felt that Ojeda could help the team more.

 

The worst part of the move may have been that by releasing GM Jr. it necessitated promoting Patterson to rot on the bench instead of playing every day in Iowa.

 

Could it have anything to do with the fact that Sarge Jr. couldn't hit for crap?

 

Sure but at the time neither could Patterson. GM JR was a very good CF and the team's ERA suffered after he left. Given the choice, I would rather have GM JR riding the pine and Patterson in the minors.

 

Defense helps, but if you have a team of 8 guys (excluding the pitcher) who are all gold-glove defenders, but can't hit for crap, you'll lose 95 games.

 

A guy like that is ok if you have big bats in the lineup around him. But you can't have a bunch of guys like that as some people around here seem to want.

 

Defense + hitting > hitting and average defense> defense alone.

 

I wouldn't consider GM Jr as starting material- nor did I then. However, a switch hitter with tremendous speed is not a bad thing to have in a 4th OF.

 

In the context of that particular season, the Cubs added offense in CF but tanked anyway, partly due to a noticeable rise in XBH. Maybe they still tank with GM Jr. in CF, who knows.

[CubsWin]

I am starting to believe more and more that Hendry's plan is to acquire Furcal and have a middle IF of Furcal and Neifi.

That is certainly possible knowing Dusty, but it would go against every report I have read so far and Neifi's own words. According to Neifi, he signed with no expectations of being a starter.