A: Albert Pujols B: Josh Hamilton, Adrian Gonzalez C: Adrian Beltre, Carlos Pena, Jay Bruce D: Manny Ramirez, GEOVANY SOTO, Carl Crawford, Joe Maur, Raul Ibanez
Koyie Hill has to have some dirt on Hendry or something. That or he is the best clubhouse presence ever and they're willing to pay him close to a million a year to suck ass at everything baseball related just because he's a chill dude.
Funny how all the old cubs.com forum trolls said that the Yankees would steal Prior and Wood from us, and now the Yankees have had both Prior and Wood.
Did our manager just make a tough decision and then back it with solid reasoning and have all three players happy with it? What the hell is this? Where is the fishing reference or....whatever it was Lou always did? Why didn't it drag on until the week before opening day?
Kerry Wood could certainly step back into the role, but doing so would probably move Cashner back into the bullpen, wouldn't it? I'd be much more happy if we hung on to Marmol at least for this season. We're planning on contending, and the bullpen should be one of our main strengths. We should keep it that way, at least until we're out of contention.
What? I think he means that since the Cubs were stupid last year, they constantly put Hill in when they were facing a good running team. I'm not sure if it is statistically true, though. I'm sure you could probably just take a look at how many stolen base attempts were made off of him.
I'm sure he's right on Wood. Pena is probably true in one aspect, but if he performs well it just makes him plan C, and if he doesn't it makes him plan F.
Greinke and Fukudome make the same money next year. If you could ship him off in a trade for Greinke and then add in a couple of top prospects it could be doable. Dependent on the Royals's need for Fukudome (and the fact that the Royals are probably looking at this more as a salary dump) it may have to be a 3 team trade.