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  1. USSoccer
    future me: "I love our infield" future me: "....drool...." I think getting Rowand and holding Kenny Williams hostage for him is step one in any major deal. We could pluck one of their pitchers from them and then flip that guy along with others for an impact player.
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    Would that really surprise anyone at this point? Heck yes. Less so for Tejada, but if he pulled off an ARod deal and didn't cripple our farm system, I'd be floored.
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    He's going to trade for ARod or Tejada and have them play SS, which is why Lugo would play CF. /tinfoil hat.
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    What's bothersome is we could have bumped the Blanco thread from 2004 and the Neifi thread from 2004 and just changed his name to DeRosa, and no one would have noticed. It's the same. mistakes. over. and. over. Wasting money on marginal talent will result in a marginally okay team. Maybe.
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    So at what point do we begin to deal or deroster the 13 catchers on our 40 man? I stilll see no reason that Blanco was retained. Hill pitched very well to Soto, Soto makes league minimum and will probably put up similarly bad offensive numbers. The fact that Blanco was retained at that cost is just insane.
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    I would really like to see the acceptable fans' list. From what I can tell, this board has narrowed Hendry's acceptable signing list to JD Drew and everybody else is subpar or a waste of money. Free Agents: Drew Soriano, depending on the contract Igawa Schmidt, depending on the contract Lugo, if we move one of our no-hit middle IF's. Roberts, if we upgrade RF Trade Targets: Westbrook Burrell A. Jones Tejada ARod V. Wells But seriously, it's about the contracts, not so much the players themselves. Sign DeRosa to a contract around $2-3m per for 2 years to be a utility guy, that's fine. Sign Blanco to a $15m deal? Whatever. Sink $6.8m into these guys? Make one a starter? Insanity.
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    Penny wise, pound foolish.
  8. USSoccer
    co-sign echoed. So of course we'll get Lee.
  9. USSoccer
    Agreed. This is an eh move but you're right Soto could have been our backup. And no eh move means much on its own. The problem comes in when you have a series of eh moves and you end up spending $10-15 million on worthless ballplayers that could easily be replaced for a handful of guys combining to make $2 million. And thus far we have 2 eh moves that are eating up $6.8m of payroll, when we arguably have able replacements at league minimum. Hendry is repeating past mistakes.
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    Jeez. $2.5m per? Our payroll better be upwards of $120m at this rate. I really think Soto could have done whatever Blanco is going to do at a tenth of that cost.
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    For $10m per? Insane.
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    Come on, now. No one here is going to boo DeRosa because he got overpaid. I think people are concerned that they're going to see a recurrence of the Hendry pattern of outbidding himself for mediocre. I hope DeRosa puts up a line similar to his 2006, but I'm still going to think critically about the decision to sign him. I think we could have done better for less, but it won't kill us, unless it helps prevent us from making the moves that matter.
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    ARod is the best player involved. We'd be giving up someone else's starter, Prior, Howry (expendable and redundant thanks to Wood) and Marshall, who might end up a #4 starter if all goes well. There's no reason to ask for anything other than ARod back.
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    Especially when you have a guy who can do as good or better for $500,000. Theriot might do as well or better. Probably not, though. Will he do $4m worse than DeRosa's career averages?
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    DeRosa provides the Cubs with some insurance, if one of their key players get injured this year. By having a guy that can play so many positions, it will allow Hendry to call up the best available replacement and move DeRosa around if necessary. On a side note, does this signing mean that the Cubs don't have Eric Patterson in their future plans? Quite the contrary I think Derosa gives them a 2nd baseman that they can push into a utility roll easily when they decided Eric is ready. $4.3m. For a utility player. That's wasteful.
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    That a pretty signifigantly lesser scale, then.
  17. USSoccer
    Thanks for posting that Hoops, I think this is what Jim and Lou have in mind for DeRosa. I dont doubt that he will play some 2b but I think he's mainly being brough aboard to platoon with JJ. I think he's a great platoon partner for JJ and also strengthens our bench a great deal. At least that how I hope Lou will use him... Again: A $4.3m platoon parter?
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    Then good for the Phillies. Let them overpay for a utility IF. Let's be clear: We didn't overpay for JD Drew or Barry Zito or someone who's actually good. We overpaid for a player who's somewhere between Mark Grudzielanek and Neifi Perez.
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    Unless Lou asked Hendry to beef up the bench big time due to the day games and this might put a couple of young guys on the bench to save some dough.. Ding ding ding ding! I think you hit the nail on the head. But you still didn't have to run out and pay him 3x what he deserved. We way overpaid. If we paid him about $2m, I wouldn't care. If that extra $2m per is the difference between a crappy OF and JD Drew, I'm going to be bloody ticked. If we paid him 2 million, we wouldn't have gotten him. I'm not sure if that's what we would have wanted at that point, but he wasn't coming here for 2 million dollars. Then I'd live with missing out on him. He made $675k last year. He would have taken $2m, because I cannot imagine another team giving him more per.
  20. USSoccer
    Unless Lou asked Hendry to beef up the bench big time due to the day games and this might put a couple of young guys on the bench to save some dough.. Ding ding ding ding! I think you hit the nail on the head. But you still didn't have to run out and pay him 3x what he deserved. We way overpaid. If we paid him about $2m, I wouldn't care. If that extra $2m per is the difference between a crappy OF and JD Drew, I'm going to be bloody ticked.
  21. USSoccer
    I like him as a back-up to Ramirez. You like paying him $4.3m to back him up? yes, but not just 3B. I like an .800+ OPS to get 450 AB's at various positions. He's being paid like a regular. Even the Yankees don't have super expensive bench guys.
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    I like him as a back-up to Ramirez. You like paying him $4.3m to back him up?
  23. USSoccer
    A $4.3m platoon player/utility guy? That's crazy talk. We overpaid for mediocrity again. It's a good thing the payroll is higher. It's Perez and Macias all over again. We're actually paying DeRosa a little more than what we paid both Macias and Perez in 2005. And being able to play 6 different positions is useless if you're bad at all 6. I could play 6 different positions (badly), do I deserve this kind of deal?
  24. USSoccer
    A $4.3m platoon player/utility guy? That's crazy talk. We overpaid for mediocrity again. It's a good thing the payroll is higher.
  25. USSoccer
    Still can't believe they gave so much playing time to a career .298 OBP Oh God. He found a replacement Neifi.
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