I think the Cubs in a unique spot to still possibly maximize Marmols trade vaule. With eating a good portion of his paycheck he could be tacked on to a Garza deal with the Tigers. Getting value for Marmol and flipping Madson at the deadline would a great way to help Theo and company accelerate the rebuilding process. I
Why not just go after Grienke and up the ante a little? I think between Wells and Gorgz you could get some pieces to help send over in a deal to the Royals. Grienke Zambrano Dempster Webb ? Silva/Cashner/Shark/Coleman
Assuming Tom G is on his way out and we sign Webb. Z Dempster Webb Silva Cashner/Shark/Archer/Coleman/Diamond/ Does Hendry have enough depth to trade Wells in a package with Fukodome somewhere to help net more salary relief?
http://sports.espn.go.com/chicago/mlb/news/story?id=5896458 No interest at all in a three year deal. Hendry having a second meeting with both Pena/Webb today things are heating up.
Johnson would be a nice pickup it would have to take more than Theriot to even get the Cubs to the table. 1B free agent 2B Johnson SS Castro 3b Ramirez C Soto pretty nice offensive potential from the Cubs infield next year.
5m is way too much for a guy coming off an injury riddled season in which he only played in 50 games. Makes me think Byrd won't have any trouble getting 8-9 from someone.
Capps wants a multi year deal and he wants to close. Danny Baez,Chad Bradford, Kiko Calero, Dotel, Escobar,Herges, are cheaper, one year options i would rather gamble on then overpay again for multiple years.
I don't understand this signing for the A's at all . I would not be surprised to see Davis being shipped to be the northside before the weekend is over. Getting a cheap Cf'er gives me hope Hendry will upgrade the middle infield with the free agent market flooded with upgrades.
I'd Prefer to go a cheap one year deal with Crisp or go the Reed Johnson/Ryan Church route . Spend the rest of the dollars on trying to improve are poor fielding light hitting middle infield. Uggla, Lopez,Ocab, Tejeda, Derosa,Hudson are still on the market.
What is it 9 teams in ten years? Milton is sooooooo talented and his behavior isn't a problem but teams just keep giving him away. This wasn't a Cubs problem it's a Milton Bradley problem and sadly because Milton lacked a home life growing up no can tell Milton that because if you do your racist or out to get Milton. I love how message board posters , who never played in the bigs can pretend to know what goes on in these clubhouses with such certainty .Again not defending Jim Hendry or Carlos Silva, but if all of major league baseball wouldn't gamble on the great Milton Bradley unless it was the Cubs paying the entire bill it goes to show that Major League teams might just get Milton just a little bit better than us.