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With the mediocre offense, they're going to need all the good starting pitching they can get in order to make the playoffs.

slappy, cf walker, 2b lee, 1b an extremely productive player, rf aram, 3b murton, lf barrett, c cedeno, ss

LaTroy has a bad habit of tipping his pitches. So many pitches to choose from.

Yes. Wait until everyone is gone instead.

How about Maggs? 4/60 doesn't look quite as bad as 5/75. I wonder what the Tigers would want for him.

He got on base at a .370 clip in the leadoff spot in 04. I don't see why his numbers would drop if he bats in the leadoff spot. A couple hundred games? Why?

Why don't you just resign Nomar to play SS and put Walker at 2B? It's unlikely Cedeno plays at all anyway.

Honestly, that top of the order makes me want to vomit. Especially when you consider the prospects you have to give up for them and the amount of money Soriano makes. Pierre and Soriano are quite possibly the 2 most overrated players in the game. And no more Burnitz plz.

Offense should be the top priority and RF is the biggest hole.

Why does he want to play for the Tigers?

Is Hermida part of the fire sale? =P~

Blow it up. Start over.

I was really hoping he'd follow the footsteps of Aramis Ramirez.

The Cubs have to make a choice, either sign Giles or sign Furcal. If we sign both that would leave us no money to spend on the rest of the team. The two of them would cost about 20 mil a year. When you add them to Lee and Ramirez we will have 4 guys making 40 mil. Then when you take into account all the other players were already have signed (Rusch, Nefi, Dempster, Wood, Zambrano, Maddux, Prior, Walker, Barrett, Williamson) the total for 14 players will be just under 90 mil. We still would have a lot of holes to fill and our budget will probably be 100 mil. Everything acquisition in baseball has to do with who is more valuable to this Cubs team with the money they'd be asking for. The answer, IMO, is Giles, seeing as we have no RF and we already have two in house options to play short and bat eighth in Nefi and Cedeno. A middle infield of Walker and Cedeno sounds pretty darn good to me. A good plan for this offseason would be to: 1) Sign Giles 2) Sign Lofton 3) Sign Dotel to set up Dempster 4) Sign or trade for a bat for the Bench. ie: Mark Sweeney or Chad Tracy A bullpen with Dempster, Williamson, and Dotel as your three horses is pretty good. Then all we got to do is fill in the rest of the pen with the guys we already have. Ohman, Wuertz, Novoa, Hill, Williams. The Bench is pretty simple also. Perez, Blanco, Hairston, Greenberg, Sweeney or Tracy, and Macias (only if he is the last option in to come off the bench though) If Tracy is on the team, he better be starting. Not on the bench.

That's the most ridiculous thing I've read all day. Wilkerson as a bench player...OML....that's funny as hell. he only hits .250 His OBP is 350 in a bad year! He consistently gets on base at 100 points higher than his average. He makes fewer outs than almost anyone the Cubs had on their team last season. He may not be an all-star, but he's certainly not a bench player. That's ridiculous. LOL, I agree. Was joking. I'd take Wilkerson in CF any day and twice on Sundays over Pierre.

That's the most ridiculous thing I've read all day. Wilkerson as a bench player...OML....that's funny as hell. he only hits .250

LOL. Why didn't we just get Tejada a couple years ago for 6/$72?

Pierre and Furcal are the 2 best leadoff hitters in the game?

Wow. No votes for David Weathers?

why are you always hurt whats wrong with u???!!!!!!1111

Man, how desperate do the Cubs look for Furcal?

How did he create the hole?? There's been a hole @ SS forever. Banks.

Don't worry. They're the Mets. They'll pay through the nose.

Neifimon. Gotta catch the ball.

He's not a CF though. Fantastic head of hair though, FWIW. I thought he cut the mullet.