MixmastaMiguel

Any way we can have the draft on like a Sunday night? We have baseball tryouts on that Monday night.

Anyone wanna start a fantasy baseball league?

That's a NASTY 1-5 they would have: 1) Hunter Pence 2) Miguel Tejada 3) Lance Berkman 4) Carlos Lee 5) Adam Dunn

I would say that this team is noticeably better than last season, and I'm tired of people saying we're worse. How are we worse?? Because we replaced Wood with Gregg? Um no, not any worse. Because we went from DeRosa and Edmonds to Miles and Bradley? Nope, still better there. We went from Marquis to Heilman?? To me there's another upgrade. Getting Harden, Guzman, Gaudin, and Shark for a full year over guys like Howry, Eyre, and Fox. Hoffpauir over Ward. Platoon Fukudome and Reed instead of just Fukudome all year. We didn't need to make any improvements this offseason, but we did, and it will make a big difference.

Marmol, Gregg, Gaudin, Cotts, Marshall, Guzman, Vizcaino, Samardzija. That's still 1 too many pitchers. We need to trade Vizcaino, or I'm afraid Shark will be starting in the minors. Or just get rid of Marshall and Guzman in the same trade for Peavy. Vitters, Marshall, Guzman, Hart, and Stevens for Peavy

He just traded a reliever who spent half the year in AAA and makes over a million dollars for two players who were Top 30 prospects a year ago. I think Guzman can replace Wuertz I believe they were top 30 prospects in the Oakland A's system, not the whole major leagues. I still think it's a fine trade though. Wuertz was out of options and I would rather have Guzman on this team, he has more upside. I would still like to see Vizcaino go.

Bako = Blanco Fontenot = Fontenot Reed = Reed Gathright = Pie Hoffpauir > Ward I don't see how our bench is any worse than last year. The only differences is that we have Miles instead of DeRosa which is the opposite of going from Edmonds to Bradley.

I don't see why we traded Cedeno if we were just gonna sign another infielder as a backup. That's why I really see Hoffpauir as the last roster guy. We only need 1 backup IF. And if that person gets hurt, we can call up Luis Rivas the next day.

The reason why I think Heilman would go over Marshall is because I think we'd want 2 lefties in our pen. When we had Olson, we would trade him for Peavy and have Marshall be our 2nd lefty in the pen. Now since we dont have Olson anymore, we'd have to trade Heilman in order for Marshall to be our 2nd lefty in the pen. But to me, I dont think it's really a big deal to only have 1 lefty in the pen. So lets trade Marshall and keep Heilman!

That's what Hart, Stevens, and whomever are for. I think a deal of Vitters, Heilman, Hart, Stevens, and Wuertz is good enough.

30 isn't old.

Yes Peavy was here this weekend. He was at O'hare on Monday, he left to fly back to SD on Monday morning at 11:30 on American Airlines. This was posted by a few posters on ChicagoCubsOnline.com. I think Heilman is more valuable than Olson, and the Padres want a veteran, cheap, young, SP. Maybe they like Heilman better than Olson. Or maybe they want Marshall over Olson, and this makes Heilman our insurance guy.

I think it says a lot that it is now posted on the Cubs website. Lets hope this gets done before the season starts.

I think in the 4 team scenarios, the Padres would have taken both Marquis and Cedeno. But they didn't want to eat any of Marquis' contract so that's where the Rox got involved. And if they truely don't want Cedeno then that's where Seattle comes in. Also I think the Cubs are reluctant to trade Marshall, so they would need to find another MLB read young SP, aka Heilman.

I really feel like the thing that is holding this up is getting a 3rd team involved (Seattle). The Padres want Vitters, Olson, Hart, and someone like Stevens or Castillo. The last guy they want is either Marshall or Heilman. I think the Cubs like Marshall better because he's a lefty and would be our lefty bullpen guy, so they are trying to work out a deal to send Cedeno and Wuertz/Vizcaino to Seattle for Heilman and then trade Heilman to SD. I really think the trade turns out to be something like this: Vitters, Olson, Hart, Stevens/Castillo, and Heilman for Peavy