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Exactly; let's cool it (I'm referring to the entire exchange, not just you).

Not necessarily. If Kendall struggles the rest of the season and somebody else steps up then Kendall may not be re-signed even with Hendry in charge. Hill has suddenly caught fire since the trade was announced. I don't expect that to continue, but IF it does that may influence the decision.

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Was he the one who broke the Moises urine story? I think it was Jon Miller. Gary Miller I was half right. :D

Never having traded for him in the first place would have been best of all. :D

I was in a Yahoo league last year (CubFanNotBudMan was the commissioner), and I do remember a Windy City D! from that league, so that's probably the league you're thinking of.

I said 2/10. I don't see him getting a 3-year contract, but he may get 2 years with a team option/buyout clause or maybe a vesting option based on gmes played or plate appearances during the second season. I'm sure that, as a starter, Hendry would pay him more than he's paying Blanco as a backup.

She said she suspects it will be someone nobody's even thought of yet, so that rules out Cuban as someone she thinks is likely.

Um, he already is up. Did you perhaps mean Soto had the good game? nope, it was koyie hill. It couldn't possibly have been. It was Soto that was sent down to make room for Kendall.http://chicago.cubs.mlb.com/news/press_releases/press_release.jsp?ymd=20070717&content_id=2092001&vkey=pr_chc&fext=.jsp&c_id=chc Hey look up, you might catch that joke as it's going over your head :wink: One of Iowa's games tonight was the completion of a suspended game... Koyie Hill played until the game was suspended, so he appears in the box score. D'oh. And I even knew there was a suspended game from reading this thread. :oops:

Um, he already is up. Did you perhaps mean Soto had the good game? nope, it was koyie hill. It couldn't possibly have been. It was Soto that was sent down to make room for Kendall.http://chicago.cubs.mlb.com/news/press_releases/press_release.jsp?ymd=20070717&content_id=2092001&vkey=pr_chc&fext=.jsp&c_id=chc

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Um, he already is up. Did you perhaps mean Soto had the good game?

India, and never Right, and wrong.

Was he the one who broke the Moises urine story? I think it was Jon Miller.

Nice to see the competition have their season destroyed by an injury to their ace for a change. It's happened to the Cubs enough in recent years.

There's another thread about the remaining schedule, and I believe the Cubs have the easiest remaining schedule in the league (or maybe it was just within the division). A substantial majority of the remaining games are against teams with losing records. So I'd say the Cubs have a very good chance at winning 90 games and a halfway decent chance at 95. 100, not so much.

Apparently about $900k. $5.5M of his $13M salary is being paid by the Pirates, half the remainder was already paid out by the A's this year, and they sent cash in the deal to cover a good chunk of the rest. So unless Blevins becomes the next Willis (:roll:), it's a no nothing deal with possible upside? Even if he does, that wouldn't affect this year, and since the Cubs are clearly in win now mode I think they're probably only thinking of the affect on this year. As far as this year is concerned I think the trade could be positive or neutral, but not negative. I think the worst-case scenerio is that Kendall is as bad as Bowen/Hill; I don't think he could be any worse.

I think they can wait until right before gametime tonight to announce the move, but everything I've read points to Soto going back down.

You think other teams are prejudiced against pagans? The Angels, probably. The Devil Rays, probably not. :D

That was last year. He was upset that the Royals expected him to compete for a spot in the rotation; he seemed to think that his 5-17 record and 5.80 ERA the previous year was good enough to automatically give him a rotation spot.

He's not a reclamation project in the same sense as Dempster/Williamson/Miller because he's recovering from mental issues, not injury. He had a good start this year as a starter, then faltered and was moved to the pen. Recently he's been pitching well again. I could see getting him with the idea of using him out of the pen the rest of this year and then giving him a chance to contend for a rotation spot in Spring Training next year.

While that is a unique characteristic of Oakland, then it would be within reason to expect his FB% to be high last year too. However, last year was right inline with his career. He has 104 FBs as opposed to 130 all of last year and right around 150 the previous years. I don't know anywhere that tracks pop fouls, but that'd have to be an awful lot of pop fouls this year over last to account for the disparity. Also, I wonder if those would be counted as infield fly balls (most of the extended foul territory is in the IF and rarely do corner OFs make it all the way past the line to make foul catches). Hes right inline with his career on that stat. Has anyone mentioned that Gerald Perry (Kendall's hitting coach last year), was heavily in favor of the trade. Maybe Perry has already pinpointed something that Kendall is not doing or believes he can easily get Kendall turned around? I haven't read many of the articles to see if there are quotes from Perry, but word is that this is a Gary Hughes acquisition. I imagine though that being the hitting coach and working with Kendall last year, Perry had a pretty decent say in the matter, so if Perry wasn't behind it, thge trade probably wouldn't have happened. Actually, if Perry wasn't behind it, Hughes most likely wouldn't have even been scouting Kendall. From today's Suntimes: http://www.suntimes.com/sports/baseball/cubs/470970,CST-SPT-cub17.article I wonder how long Hughes had been scouting Kendall. Bruce, have any idea? Is that what the three days of discussions is referencing? In an interview on CSN, Hendry mentioned that he got a call from Beane on Saturday offering Kendall. So I assume that started the 3 days of negotiations. That is what Hendry told Len & Bob in the booth yesterday. He did say that Beane contacted him. And that they had been in talks since Saturday. They were finally able to cut the deal yesterday. I'm guessing it took a few days to figure out the financial aspects. Plus, Beane was probably trying his hardest to get Marshall. Which would explain why Bowen was DFA'd before yesterday's game. They felt they needed a 12th pitcher in case Hill struggled, but they couldn't finalize the trade details before the game started, so they needed to cut somebody from the roster to make room for Petrick. Since they knew Bowen was going to be traded anyway and they still had Hill and Soto available for last night's game it made sense to DFA Bowen. Now that Kendall is here they can send either Hill (after he clears waivers) or Soto down.

There would be more scrutiny in this case, but couldn't the phantom injury come before the playoff rosters were set so they could get on? Yes they could, come to think of it.

Great minds think alike. :D

Let's drop it. The thread is already extremely long; we don't need to make it any longer with back and forth bickering.