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Young arms for the Cubs? 3:51PM ET Chicago Cubs Recommend0 Comments0 Email Dodgers pitching prospects 1. Zach Lee, RHP 2. Nathan Eovaldi, RHP 3. Allen Webster, RHP 4. Chris Reed, LHP 5. Garrett Gould, RHP 6. Angel Sanchez, RHP 7. Chris Withrow, RHP 8. Scott Barlow, RHP The Chicago Cubs are reportedly looking to stock their organization with young pitching in trades they make this month and Jon Morosi tweets that a deal with the Los Angeles Dodgers for right-hander Ryan Dempster will likely net the Cubs one or two young arms. Since the Dodgers are the club that appears to be in hardest on Dempster, let's take a look at the young pitching they have that could be sent to Chicago. Above rankings are organizational, and are based on Keith Law's Dodgers Top 10 over the winter. Lee, the club's top overall prospect, may be steep for a two-month rental, as might Eovaldi or any two of the above names. Though there is a chance the Dodgers could be trading for more than a rental, as Jon Morosi of FOXSports.com tweets Dempster "can insist on contract extension if and when players agreed upon." This is getting really interesting, isn't it?

Wouldn't a B or B- prospect be a good return for Soto? I know he said *might*, but lets just say it's possible. From Sickels list (before the season)... Angels had 2 B and 6 B- prospects. They are in order: Garrett Richards/Jean Segura/Taylor Lindsey/Kaleb Cowart/CJ Cron/John Hellweg/Luis Jimenez/Nick Maronde. Yes, I'd take any one of those guys for Soto straight up. Me too. I'd rather have Clevenger and Castillo catching anyway.

Why are you thinking there won't be another Paul Maholm on the market this winter? Maholms come and go. If you can sign one on the cheap and then trade for something with more longterm value, you do it. Then go out and try and sign one in the offseason when once again you have a buttload of money to spend. Agreed. The goal is to put together a winning team. If you can move Maholm for a good prospect, you do it. Who cares what the rotation looks like the rest of the season? They aren't looking to win this year anyway. Get as many prospects as you can, probably end up with a top 5 draft pick, then see what you can acquire in the offseason.

traded with dempster and vitters (didn't play tonight) for zach lee and matt kemp. I think the Cubs got Koufax and Drysdale in the deal too.......

Who knows, anything is possible at this point.

Love it. That is definitely encouraging when you hear a scout from another team make positive comments like this.

Yeah, I really enjoy the minor league thread too. I like the scouting reports that guys post on here too. The Cubs farm system had been bad for so long, it was probably difficult to get people interested in following it.

It'll be a first for a lot of us that have followed the Cubs. I just remember how excited I was about guys like Choi, Hill, Kelton, Montanez, etc.....and that didn't work out the way I was hoping. LOL.

No doubt! They sent the players a crazy CBA proposal, with one of the key items being 5 year max contracts, and then you have these owners offering up 14 year deals. The problem is the owners need to be saved from themselves! LOL. If this isn't trying to circumvent the cap, I don't know what is!!! The league said they were gonna crack deal on contracts like this.....guess that isn't going to happen. BTW, love your login name. Biittner was actually my favorite player as a kid. LOL.

Not sure how serious you were being, but I wouldn't compare the Hendry regime's evaluation abilities to the current one. Hendry was decent at it (at times), these guys are really good at it. Dew, I was joking.

LaHair will satisfy all their offensive needs.... Soriano could, with LaHair as a 3rd piece. I thought the Giants may take a chance on Soriano, if it's true that the Cubs are willing to pay almost all of his salary. He has hit some of the longest homers at AT&T that I have ever seen.

They seem like the logical team to trade with for sure. Sounds like Dempster wants to go there too. BTW, he has handled all this like a complete pro. I live in CA, went to a Cubs-Giants game years ago and Dempster was by the dugout signing autographs and talking to all the fans. Just a really cool guy. In fact, he was the only player out there that I saw doing that. Nice to see a good guy succeeding. Best of luck to him, wherever he ends up.

LaHair will satisfy all their offensive needs....

Same here. How the hell did Kupchak get Nash, Jamison, and looks like Howard, while basically losing Sessions, Bynum, and some other loser. He must have blackmail pics of all the other GM's!!!

If the past is anything to go off of, I'd rather LA than Atlanta. Don't want to get fleeced again and end up with another Micah Bowie and Ruben Quevedo. LOL. Yeah, because jose hernandez was such a stud for them. To Dusty, he was an all star. :D

If the past is anything to go off of, I'd rather LA than Atlanta. Don't want to get fleeced again and end up with another Micah Bowie and Ruben Quevedo. LOL.

Source: Dodgers after Ryan Dempster Jul 19, 2012 8:43 PM ET | By Bruce LevineESPNChicago.com 0 0 0 Email Print CHICAGO -- The Los Angeles Dodgers have proposed a trade for Chicago Cubs starter Ryan Dempster, a baseball source told ESPNChicago.com on Thursday. ESPNChicago.com Cubs blog Baseball blog The latest Cubs news from ESPN Chicago. Blog The Cubs have been clear their top priority on the trade market is adding young pitching. It is unclear whether Zach Lee, the top-rated arm in Los Angeles' farm system, is included in the offer. The Cubs appear to be making contingency plans in case a Dempster trade is completed. A major league source told ESPNChicago.com that talks are fluid and the team is preparing to have replacements in St. Louis this weekend in case a deal is completed for the veteran starter. In what could be the first move of an active stretch, the Cubs acquired pitcher Justin Germano from the Boston Red Sox for cash considerations Thursday. In a corresponding transaction, right-hander Jairo Asencio was designated for assignment. Germano, who turns 30 on Aug. 6, is 8-20 with a 4.91 ERA in 80 major league games. He is expected to be with the club on Friday in St. Louis. Right-hander Casey Coleman also reportedly will be on hand to pitch in case Dempster is traded or Germano has any travel issues. Dempster represents a valuable trade chip for the Cubs. The 35-year-old has not allowed a run in his past 33 innings, spanning five starts. His 1.86 ERA is the lowest in the majors. Dempster has 10-5 trade protection rights, meaning he must approve any trade before it can be executed. He is making a prorated amount of the $14 million he is owed in the last year of a four-year contract.

Soriano and Drew Henson were both mentioned in that trade for Sosa that never happened. Funny, I just pulled up an old Buster Olney article about this. Back in June of 2000. So was Lilly, IIRC. Soriano, Lilly, Ledee, and a minor leaguer or two I think was the deal before it got cancelled at the last minute. I don't think Lilly was involved... Westbrook was the big pitcher the Cubs demanded and Alex Graman. The Yanks offered Ledee, the Cubs wanted he and OF Jackson Melian IIRC. The sticking point and the reason the Yanks walked away is because the Cubs demanded their top two positional guys Alfonso Soriano and DeAngelo Jimenez and the Yanks told the Cubs either or. Yanks offered: 1 of Soriano/Jimenez, Ricky Ledee, Jackson Melian and Jake Westbrook Cubs demanded: Alfonso Soriano, DeAngelo Jimenez, Ricky Ledee, Jackson Melian and Jake Westbrook I don't think the Yanks ever made Drew Henson available at least I remember thinking that the Cubs were resigned to the fact that they weren't going to acquire Henson. Yeah, it said the Cubs asked about Henson and the Yankees weren't going to include him. I remember this dragging out for what seemed like forever, and then nothing comes of it. Look at it this way, we could have had Soriano when he actually put up the huge numbers they are now paying him for. :D

LOL. Arrested Development. That show was awesome!!

From the prospect that they won't trade for Soriano, if I'm reading him correctly. What we don't know regarding Soriano is what the asking price has been. It's been reported that teams want the Cubs to pay all but 2 million of his remaining salary. If that's the case, than it's not worth it to the Cubs unless they get a player that actually has some legitimate upside. Think of it this way: if roles were reversed and the Cubs were trying to get someone like Soriano, who from our minor league system would you be willing to give up if the other team ate virtually all of the player's salary? That's the way I see it too. Soriano can still hit 25-30 HR, and drive in 80-100 runs. If the team that trades for him is only paying him $2M a season, that is a bargain, and they should give up a decent prospect for him.

Soriano and Drew Henson were both mentioned in that trade for Sosa that never happened. Funny, I just pulled up an old Buster Olney article about this. Back in June of 2000.

I think it was Barry Foote that bounced one off the street and threw one of the apartment windows. They did a slow mo of the HR, and the dude had the game on TV. He held the ball out of the window for everyone to see. Was pretty classic.

Before I even clicked on the link, Hill's HR popped into my mind.

30.2. http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/gl.cgi?id=lancale01&t=p&year=1989 Zimmer beat the [expletive] out of him that year. The last memory I have of Lancaster is him giving up a home run to Robby Thompson in the playoffs. He commented how it was a 3-0 pitch, so he just put it right over the middle of the plate. The reporter informed him the count was 2-0, and Lancaster said if that's true, that he'd made a huge mistake.

They are playing LA the weekend series before they play the Padres Mon-Wed. I live in San Jose, would love to drive down to LA and catch a game, then drive to San Diego, but not sure I can pull that off. Will probably end up flying to San Diego Monday morning, see the first 2 games, then fly back on Wed. Rizzo definitely gives us something to look forward to. Now we just need about 10 or 12 prospects as good as he is. :D I love Petco and can't stand Dodger Stadium - I definitely would have gone to a Padre game if they weren't playing down there midweek. Of course even Rizzo might not be able to hit a HR there. I've never been to either stadium, but have heard the same thing you just said. Definitely looking forward to Petco. Not sure if you've been to a Giants game, but AT&T is a really nice stadium. Yeah, he'll have to hit a shot to get the ball out of that park!