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+1 Of course this means that he's the next Cub GM.

search.php?keywords=cherington&terms=all&author=southsideryan&sc=1&sf=all&sk=t&sd=d&sr=posts&st=0&ch=300&t=0&submit=Search He's also in my top 5, closer to top 3.

Who gives a crap what Boers and Bernstein say about what Kenney considers himself. The guy is a business executive for a company whose primary business is to play baseball. He is a baseball executive. So freaking what. He's a baseball exec but is he a BASEBALL MAAAAAN!?!?!

Mark Shapiro and Paul DePodesta are two guys I know who've admitted the same thing. Kenney isn't a GM or even baseball ops FO guys like those guys are... I understand that. I was just trying to speculate on why people randomly hate him. Because he's a suit, and people are conditioned to hate the suits. The term baseball guy gets bandied about because all you really have to do is be around long enough. Outsiders are hated. He's tied in with the Tribune and people blame the tribune for the failures of the baseball team The term "baseball guy" has become one of my least favorite sayings in the sport this year. Tf does that even mean? I read it, especially on BCB back when I tried that dump out, and I don't even think the people who use it really know wtf it means. It just sounds good to their ears. There's nothing more annoying in sports than fans giving power to buzzwords... Kenney is fine with me so long as he remains in the background, as he has for the most part.

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Mark Shapiro and Paul DePodesta are two guys I know who've admitted the same thing. Kenney isn't a GM or even baseball ops FO guys like those guys are...

Talk is cheap. Ricketts should have pulled the trigger months ago. Why the delay until now? Kenney needs to go too. The guy is a bean counter, not a baseball guy. I don't want him anywhere near an evaluation of anyone. I'm not as up on some of the GM prospects as some are, but I always thought the Twins organization has done a very good job of evaluating talent with a limited payroll. I got no horse in the race, just want the best person for the job. Yeah, why is Clown Kenney being retained? According to Boars and Bernstein on the Score, Kenney thinks of himself as a baseball executive and will be a part of the GM hiring process. What real GM will want to work for the Cubs if Kenney involves himself with the baseball operations??? Lol what does Crane Kenney even do that inspires so much anger? Exist? Something about the name Crane Kenney that makes one want to punch him in the face. It is kind of a dumb name but most Couldnt pick the guy out of a lineup of white men in ties, let alone tell us what he does.

Talk is cheap. Ricketts should have pulled the trigger months ago. Why the delay until now? Kenney needs to go too. The guy is a bean counter, not a baseball guy. I don't want him anywhere near an evaluation of anyone. I'm not as up on some of the GM prospects as some are, but I always thought the Twins organization has done a very good job of evaluating talent with a limited payroll. I got no horse in the race, just want the best person for the job. Yeah, why is Clown Kenney being retained? According to Boars and Bernstein on the Score, Kenney thinks of himself as a baseball executive and will be a part of the GM hiring process. What real GM will want to work for the Cubs if Kenney involves himself with the baseball operations??? Lol what does Crane Kenney even do that inspires so much anger? Exist?

I think the Cubs stayed pat at the deadline because getting someone like Aaron Baker for Carlos Pena makes no sense for them. I really don't think teams were offering anything worth taking, and selling MLB talent for pennies on the dollar would be stupid if they want to make this team good again, quickly.

Hendry has a lot of friends in the baseball world. He may never get another GM gig, but he'll get some kind of executive position. I actually expect he'll land a high profile farm system job somewhere. He's not the idiot he's been painted as, and it's weird for me to say that since I spent the better part of last decade ripping him.

Two things I want from the next Cubs GM: - A more numbers oriented approach. - Preferably from the Yankees or Red Sox organization. Please. This includes someone who worked closely with people in there but left, like Kim Ng, who won't get the job. This GM search should be fuuuuuuuun. Not a bad day to be a Cubs fan. I really hope Hendry lands a job soon though because I went from hater to not pretty quickly, and I really do respect that new GM will come in with money to burn and a solid farm system.

Awesome. Now who to hire? Theres plenty of candidates. I'm goig Friedman, Cashman, Chrrigton, Oppenheimer, Hahn, most everyone else. This is no offnee to Hendry...alot of dumb things happened but overall were not in too bad a spot.

Whut. Millions dead. Ooooooh the prospects lost!!!!111 If we kept those 3 backups, a pitcher that can't walk less than 5 per 9, and a now High A SS we coulda had a top ten farm!!! Oh the huge manatee!!! Hendry fired!!!!

I already said it'd be a couple of years before he got the shot again. Even then, it probably wouldn't be crazy to try it next ST if they told him say...this October to be ready for it (which won't happen).

Meh on Cuddeyer. As a secondary signing, maybe, and not as a 1B. If they fail on the 1B then it's probably Pena. If that doesn't happen then we're probably screwed unless some kind of badass trade happens.

Personally, alot worse than not firing Hendry can happen this offseason. Missing on signing a big ticket FA (or two or three) would be insanely worse for this franchise both in the long and short term.

The fact is, if this team is going to compete next year, wholesale upgrades are necessary. 1B is one of the best places to do so with the best available options, unless we want to spend similar money on a perenially injured Jose Reyes or a bit less on a 35 year old Carlos Beltran. Sabathia would also be an intriguing option, but a very expensive one, but The Tigers have shown us how valuable it is to have one shutdown ace no matter how meh the rest of your pitching staff is, of course we don't have the Tigers offense. I know, Penas a great clubhouse guy, but 10 mil is a steep price for a youth mentor. Couple things: - 35 year old Beltran will cost alot less than Pujols/Fielder. That said, he should only be an option AFTER bringing one of those two in. He'd be a great piece to the puzzle, but only if a really big key piece is there to help make him a secondary acquisition rather than a primary one. - The Tigers' offense has 5 of 9 starters currently posting above average OPS'. It's built around one superstar bat (Cabrera), a couple solid vets (Martinez, Peralta), and then a couple of upstart young guys (Boesch and Avila). I think the 2012 Cubs can pull that off if they added a superstar bat. There's talented bats in this lineup (Ramirez, Castro, Soto, and to a much much lesser extent nowadays Soriano), but no one to spearhead the operation of destroying other teams' pitching. - Agreed that Sabathia is a pipedream. To throw some optimism into that situation....He really liked the NL, he really liked hitting, and the NL would give him a great chance to put up some HOF type numbers to close out a potentially HOF career (which might have a good 8-10 years on it, maybe).

Whut. Sorry I don't post often enough here to know how this board feels, but the bitchfest on another Cubs board will always have me saying something like that about the trade. The loss of Archer/Lee devastated the Cubs fans who don't really follow the minors and therefore had/have trouble putting perspective on those prospects (plus the three older backup types).

it probably has, because they've jerked him around between starting and relieving a lot, and it's taken this long to get him to a point where he's actually an asset to the team. while that $3-3.5m would look a lot nicer over 200 effective innings, I'm not sure that would happen without a decent changeup and better command. Well he's only got 150 ML innings over the past 4 years so I'm not sure what they've been doing to him has been too damaging. Plus, I like his mechanics when he has them together and he looks like has the frame to handle a starters load if he perfects the rest of the art of pitching.

Given how athletic and relatively young he is as a pitcher....hell no. It's just not happening for at least another couple seasons IMO.

Many teams can match....the problem is cheap owners choose not to. The Cubs aren't being built from the ground up anyway. There is clearly a long range plan, but I'm not sure it's as prospect oriented as Rogers painted in the article. The Cubs have shown a willingness to trade prospects (the devastation of the Garza trade) as well as develop and promote (Soto and Castro as well as Barney and the relievers). That's how a rich team should be using propsects/the farm. I think he's wrong on the Fielder/Pujols thing....it's very, very, very likely the Cubs will be big players in that sweepstakes.

3 million isn't really alot for a good young pitcher. If they can get him cheaper, then sure, but jersey cubs fan said it's probably not worth the effort to try to get him cheaper. He should definitely be back, and I think he's still got some upside left. His stuff is arguably the best in the pen when it's on, and he's definitely got the best fastball on the currently healthy roster (so no Cashner).

Or at all, yeah.

Video of Acosta: To have an opinion at all on it: For 16 year old he's got a decent looking swing.

Based purely on age...to be completely honest I just see him as an elite player trying to age gracefully and win. What does that mean? "Not suck."