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  1. JeffH
    That's not how options work. Here's an easy way to remember it: If, at any time during a given season, a player is on the 40-man roster, but not on the major league 25-man roster or the major league disabled list, he has used an option year. For example - Pie was placed on the 40-man roster yesterday. If, come next spring training, he's sent to the minors and doesn't spend one day in the majors in 2006, he still used an option year.
  2. JeffH
    I don't think Hendry ever thought Dubois and Hollandsworth would flourish, but he definately thought they'd hold down the fort until Pie/FA '06. Still an error, but not a huge error like basing the offense on them or something. It might be worth remembering that the LF platoon was slotted to hit 7th. It was not altogether unreasonable that they could have at least matched 2004 NL average production from that slot in the batting order: .256 / .317 / .402 / .719 Perhaps more questionable was relying on Nomar to match 2004 NL average production from the #3 slot in the batting order: .280 / .365 / .480 / .845 Hendry's mistake was building the 2005 club based on far too many question marks and needing to have best case scenarios in too many cases.
  3. JeffH
    cubs.com is !@#$%^& me off beyond belief. They finally get around to updating the 40-man roster so maybe - just maybe! - I can get some intel on guy #41 who was let go and they forgot to add Scott Moore and Macias is still on there!!! Lousy sons of buzzards!!!
  4. JeffH
    Hill would be a better back-up 3B than Jose Macias. Better back-up 3B than Jose Macias: Bobby Hill Rich Hill Rich Hall Darryl Hall John Oates John Denver Denver Pyle Gomer Pyle
  5. JeffH
    The fact they signed him is immaterial. He's still eligible for the Rule 5 draft. The key point is that nobody's going to pick him in the Rule 5 draft when they could have merely signed him as a six-year minor league free agent and not been restricted by the Rule 5 constraints.
  6. JeffH
    Likely $40/4 or so for a 31 year old who couldn't even reach 200 IP in a supposedly "great" year? Brutal. If Hendry wants to add a high salary starter and is scared off by Burnett, consider Derek Lowe ($28.5/3) or Javier Vazquez ($18/2). I don't want either of those guys, but please stay away from the wildly overrated Millwood.
  7. JeffH
    Please stay away from Kevin Millwood. Please.
  8. JeffH
    This post is directed at no one in particular. It's just for information. Before criticizing a GM for 40-man roster management, it may be helpful to keep in mind that, come April, there can be no more than 15 minor leaguers on optional assignment. So, for every optionable minor leaguer you have on the roster over 15 as of today, you'd better have a pretty good idea that... ...he's going to make the opening day 25-man roster... ...or... ...you can make a worthwhile trade involving him between today and either 1) the time you need to clear a spot for a new veteran acquisition or 2) the start of the season. If you add somebody today and you wind up either 1) trading them for less than fair value or 2) de-rostering them, that is true roster mismanagement. The Cubs currently have 20 optionable minor leaguers on the roster.
  9. JeffH
    At his age if he was waived and no team in MLB was willing to pick him up to put on the 25 man roster then I don't see why he would be worthy of a 40 man spot (especially not worthy enough for BP to call it "dumb" to trade him). I don't understand your point. Maybe it's me, sorry. Starting next April, he can never again be on a 40-man roster without being in the majors. It might have been worth it to the Cubs to carry him through spring training to see if he was good enough to make the team, good enough to get better value in trade, or unimpressive enough to make it through waivers so he could have another year in the minors to try to work things out. I'm fine with having traded him, but BP's point is valid (although the move wasn't "dumb") - even if they don't understand WHY it's valid.
  10. JeffH
    No way Leicester was going to make the 25 man roster and he is out of options so it would have been hasta la bye bye this spring anyway and at least Hendry got a PTBNL. This is not necessarily true. If Leicester were waived at the end of spring training, a team would have to put him on its 25-man active roster if they wanted him. There's a pretty good chance nobody would have wanted him that much and he'd have passed through waivers, at which point he could have been assigned to Iowa. Please refer to David Kelton, 2005 spring training. Hendry did this in part as a favor to Leicester.
  11. JeffH
    If he signed Eyre after the Rule 5 draft he would have had to put someone through waivers to clear the spot and that is a bigger risk to losing a prospect than through Rule 5 since the team picking the player up only has to add them to the 40 man, not keep the player on the 25 man all season. That's true, although there is another option to clear space. Trading the prospects, which it seems there is going to be lots of this winter.
  12. JeffH
    Do Arbitration eligible players count against the 40-man before they get their new contracts? Yes.
  13. JeffH
    I'm thinking they just don't have to assign him to a specific minor league roster right now, but have taken him off the 40 man, thus it's a DFA and they figure out where to put him later. No, it wouldn't be that. They'd just put him at Iowa. Anywhere else and they'd be at risk of losing him in the minor league phase of the Rule 5 draft.
  14. JeffH
    I could see Fontenot and Greenberg being selected. Zero chance Fontenot is taken in the Rule 5 draft.
  15. JeffH
    Greenberg was "designated for assignment" and the other guys were "outrighted". How does that work? It would seem that the process would be the same, up to a point. Put all the guys on revocable waivers. MF, RL, and RR pass through. They, therefore, are "outrighted" to Iowa. Somebody claims AG. Cubs can't pull him back right now - no room at the inn. So, he winds up "designated for assignment". This gives the Cubs a chance to see if they can work out a trade involving him or make room on the roster so they can pull him back. 1) If anybody knows, is that right? 2) If you don't know, does it sound right?
  16. JeffH
    Are you counting Eyre or not? Yes, I'm counting him.
  17. JeffH
    These moves leave the 40-man roster at 41. Someone else has been or will be removed or there is a trade pending. Release Macias!
  18. JeffH
    I imagine that this transaction was done partly as a favor to Leicester.
  19. JeffH
    Here is a question for ya. If you had to choose between getting Castillo and Furcal who would you choose. Assuming Furcal would cost us 5/50 and Castillo costing us Walker and Hill. Castillo would make about 4 million less per year than Furcal. Furcal.
  20. JeffH
    Yes, but let's release him instead. Preferably today to make room for Brownlie.
  21. JeffH
    He's now at the level where he'll probably get offers to start from hopeless small market teams Like the Cubs! Oh, wait - you said small market.
  22. JeffH
    This sets the market for Macias!
  23. JeffH
    Todd Walker - The Worst Defensive Right Fielder in the History of Major League Baseball
  24. JeffH
    I don't hate Jones as much as some here do, but I don't have any interest in him at the length of contract he's likely to get.
  25. JeffH
    "Still intact it is", said Yoda.
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