Hendry on with Murph

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HAHAHH WHAT A JOKE!! "If we pitch it good enough and we catch it good enough we'll win our share of games". Great way to end the interview. This catching the ball bs from Hendry is getting a bit ridiculous.

 

Pretty sure he just said it to get that moran Murph to shut his pie hole.

No. actually he really meant it. He has been quoted in the past and I personally heard him say on a WGN interview he wants players who can catch the ball. There is no joke here unfortunately.

 

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As I said, Hendry played a large part in setting the market, and he set it way too high. He takes two of the most widely overrated relievers off the market (because they're not relievers in the long term that can sustain 2.something ERAs), which limits the number of remaining options, and he also pays for the privilege in both dollars and years. Other relievers use the Howry and Eyre deals to justify yet higher and longer demands, teams get nervous about the market moving and they panic buy, and the whole process repeats itself over. The biggest beneficaries are those free agents that sign last before the money runs out.

 

Doesn't it also benefit the Cubs if the market is high? Perhaps he overpaid for these 2 guys but he effectively knocked a lot of teams out of the FA pitcher market thus creating more of a demand for pitching via trades. If his intention was to drive the price up so high that teams with limited resources couldn't get players they wanted then I'd have to say it worked out pretty well in that he got the 2 guys he wanted and everyone else is left overpaying. The trick now will be to use that surplus pitching he has in trades for OF help.

 

A good point worth considering.