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  1. CubColtPacer
    That's not too surprising. The Cubs should still make a few hundred thousand back on this deal though.
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    Cedeno will probably come up in the next day or two as well. It will be Cedeno and Dempster up, a pitcher (probably Gallagher) and a position player (either Fox or Fontenot) down.
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    Assuming we are going to send Fox back down, I don't like burning one of his option years on 4 games. For the love of God, let Ward start!!! Fox is going to turn 25 tomorrow. This will be his first option used, so he will be 28 during the season when his options run out (assuming they send him up and down every season until then). If he's still being shuttled back and forth from the minors at 28, there probably won't be that much concern if the Cubs lose him.
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    I agree that Fox will likely be sent down in the next couple of days, and that Gallagher was probably the casualty for now. There's one more possibility though-how about Fontenot? He has really cooled down, and his ability to only play one position really hurts the Cubs flexibility. The Cubs might have decided that they need to get better against LHP-Fox can play in right field in those days, which allows DeRosa to move to second. Also, Fox can play third on the days that Ramirez takes off and DeRosa plays second. If not a trade, Gallagher is almost certainly going down today. I don't think it's a foregone conclusion that Fox will go down instead of Fontenot when Dempster is activated though.
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    No he's not. I'd definitely prefer to have my pinky toe cut off than my entire leg. Wait, so you would prefer that the Cubs get rid of Pagan before getting rid of Jones? No. I don't want either my leg or my toes to be amputated. I prefer that neither happen just as I prefer that niether Jones nor Pagan were on the team. There are 47 CF's with 100 or more plate appearances this year. Pagan is 13th in OPS out of those 47. To be fair, last year Pagan finished 34th out of 45 in CF's-but that would put him right in the middle of backups. As a starter, Pagan would be awful. I'm wondering how much more you can expect though for a backup OF that can play CF. If you look around the league, there probably aren't 5 backup CF's that have put up the numbers that Pagan has had for the Cubs in 2006/2007 combined (and if there are 5, I would wager there certainly aren't 10).
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    So that means the Cubs didn't actually take on any money whatsoever in this series of catcher trades. They saved about .97 million from Barrett, paid approximately 70K to Bowen for his month, and then are going to pay the remaining 900K in savings they got to Kendall. Go figure. So, can the Cubs still add salary? They keep insisting they can. I'm sure you heard the report on ESPN last night that they were assured that the Cubs had "a lot of flexibility to add payroll" at the deadline even with the ownership change. It remains to be seen what that really means.
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    So that means the Cubs didn't actually take on any money whatsoever in this series of catcher trades. They saved about .97 million from Barrett, paid approximately 70K to Bowen for his month, and then are going to pay the remaining 900K in savings they got to Kendall.
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    It certainly does point to the fact that the Cubs traded Barrett because of his ongoing feud with Z, which didn't seem to be over based on their reactions when Barrett was traded. A lot of people thought it was just a move to bring in more defense, but this move would indicate that's not the case. It must have gotten bad enough that the Cubs decided one of Z or Barrett had to go, and Barrett was the obvious choice there. Also, remember that the deal would be Barrett and Blevins for Kendall and Kyler Burke.
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    Well, Soriano has not been so good against Zito in his career. 5 for 36 with 1 2B, 4 BB's, and 12 K's. Ouch.
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    I've seen the Marshall report at one or two other sites, but the Bowen/Blevins deal is on many more sites. Plus, some people had to hear Jim Hendry's interview-if Marshall was dealt, there would have been a lot of outrage about it by now. Add to that the Cubs site says Bowen/Blevins, and that seems to be what it is. Hopefully Kendall can be more of the OBP guy that he was in earlier years. The Cubs catchers have a .265 OBP as a catcher this year (including Barrett's numbers with the Cubs). If Kendall can improve that with a .340 in the second half, then it will turn out to be a pretty good deal. If he doesn't, then there isn't that much risk to the deal.
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    It wasn't just the crowd on that Soriano hit-the pitcher thought it was gone as well from his reaction.
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    Pitch Counts Lincecum-97 Hill-70
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    Koyie Hill's OPS since the trade and Michael Barrett's OPS since the trade are now just about exactly the same :D
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    It seems like Soriano is the problem out there. He keeps coming after the ball even if somebody else calls it. I wonder if he even hears them out there (he may be using so much of his brain to try to catch the ball, because he doesn't have those outfield instincts of playing it for years and years, and so he may concentrate so much and tune everybody else out).
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    Pitch Counts Lincecum-32 Hill-22
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    Well 1 worthless bat gone. Jesus that Barret trade was horrible! Pretty much a DFA. At least Hendry can admit he's wrong. Hopefully Kyler Burke turns into something useful. :lol: He has what? one hit since he joined our system? He was something like 0 for his first 22 since joining the Cubs and now 10 for his last 21. The Barrett trade so far has been nothing for nothing. The Padres got a catcher who has an OPS under .600 since he's been there and an OBP of .264 with defensive problems. The Cubs biggest acquisition was a roster spot, which allowed Soto to come up and hopefully be the starter, along with a possible backup catcher in 2008 and a prospect that may pan out.
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    Well 1 worthless bat gone. Jesus that Barret trade was horrible! Pretty much a DFA. At least Hendry can admit he's wrong. Then why is Izturis here, with Cedeno hitting everything in sight at Iowa?? Same with Jones and Pie?? They are working hard to trade Izturis right now. As for Bowen, he'll be in Iowa soon. He still have a chance to contribute to the Cubs next year if he can get his bat more like it was for San Diego 2006/San Diego 2007. If Soto ends up starting, he has a decent chance to outproduce Barrett with the way Barrett is playing now. The fact that the trade opened up Soto to start may make it a decent one, even if Bowen and/or Burke never pan out (and Burke is starting to play better).
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    Probably just because Hill hasn't started in over a week, and hasn't played in that long (not including yesterday). I think most people understand why Lou would want to get him in the lineup tonight. Petrick is coming up though, and Hill was easily the most likely option to go down in his place. Now that we know that Hill is not going down, Soto becomes the most likely option to go down, and of course most people don't want that.
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    I'll say Jones is in center tonight, but I agree with everyone else.
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    Back on track? The bullpen has been amazingly effective for about a month. Dempster coming back to pitch his one inning (rarely with inherited runners on) when they have a lead in the 9th isn't going to make much of a difference. He's an average pitcher who has had success at times. By back on track, I mean get everybody pitching where they're supposed to be pitching. I wasn't denying that they have been good. Understood. I just don't really buy into the whole defined roles (setup, closer, etc.) in the bullpen thing. Use your best pitchers when you really need the outs and use your less talented guys when you can maybe afford to give up a run or two. Just my opinion. Which is exactly what they are doing (like this quote from yesterday): Dempster still adds another good arm to the back of that bullpen. The Cubs have been hurting for good arms, because they only have had 3 dependable arms down there (Marmol, Howry, Wuertz) and 1 LOOGY (Ohman) along with Petrick (who cannot pitch on back to back days) when he has been up. Now with Marmol, Howry, Wuertz, and Dempster, they can handle most of the close games without tiring out as much.
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    You don't care about getting a player back who's only allowed runs in 1 of his last 16 outings? Dempster coming back and being a closer makes the bullpen even better by moving everybody else down a spot.
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    Transaction #1 (second half) Drop Morgan Ensberg, Add Brad Hawpe
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    Dempster's still on schedule. He should be back later this week. This is probably a move just to help them until then. Koyie Hill is the only guy likely to be sent down (after passing through waivers). It's either him or a trade. Could be Floyd to the DL too. Yeah, that's true as well, but the last news on Floyd was that he'd be available to play either tonight or tomorrow night (of course he won't start if it's tomorrow because it's Zito on the mound). It would be a surprise if he suddenly went to the DL now.
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    Dempster's still on schedule. He should be back later this week. This is probably a move just to help them until then. Koyie Hill is the only guy likely to be sent down (after passing through waivers). It's either him or a trade.
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    Those are my thoughts as well. The fact that they finally found something wrong and he had surgery makes me feel a little bit better about it. Who knows how affective he'll be though. I doubt that he'll be at all effective during his first year back from major surgery. On the plus side, that would make him easy to re-sign for his comeback. Then the only question becomes-is he willing to re-sign with the Cubs for 2009? There has been some rumored bad blood between Prior and management, and it's hard to tell if he would jump ship at that point after the Cubs finished rehabbing him and go to another team.
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