YearofDaCubs

Gallagher after Marmol?

Pie gets the job done.

Jones and Izturis..Dead weight.

Less AB by Jones means more for Murton and Floyd, who are both better than him. True, but that makes the best solution benching him. I admit that it won't happen under Pinellia and Hendry, but neither will DFAing him, so I assumed we were speaking in hypotheticals. Not necessarily. He's redundent while the team is lacking infield help. If you dump him for Fontenot, he might give you less production, but he can play positions Jacque can't play, and that's a need. Jones is not outperforming any other OF on the team. His numbers could very easily stay as bad as they are, and if they are, or even close, he's clearly the worst OF on the roster and the obvious candidate for getting rid of him. But the fact that he makes the money he makes only encourages Lou to use him more, so talking about DFA vs bench isn't realistic. Do we really need to drop Jones to get another IFer? Ramirez is only down until Monday, so we'd be dropping him just to get an extra infielder for a few days. I don't think that is a compelling reason. The OF is too crowded right now and all of our RF options pretty much suck defensively. I would rather have Floyd or Murton in the lineup over Jones right now. With Floyd here, one of them is redundant. We can't keep both of them. I can understand playing Murton against lefties but what about against RHP? Split time between Jones (who sucks really bad right now) and Floyd? Somebody has to go. Pagan is here to play CF if something happens to Pie so we have too many OFers.

I just saw that too. I guess it all depends on how good he is right now.

Agreed. He was nasty.

Nobody wants Jones, if we know he sucks so do other competent GM's. I would take Floyd over Jones right now. We have Pagan who could play backup CF for us. But I think that the only way I've moving him is to release him outright and I don't see that happening unfortunately.

http://rotoworld.com/content/features/column.aspx?sport=MLB&columnid=13&articleid=28337 According to this, there could be a very good chance he could be up for good.

From last year: Cubs | Guzman leaves minor league start with cramps Fri, 21 Jul 2006 20:30:29 -0700 Chicago Cubs minor league P Angel Guzman (cramps) had to leave his last start for Triple-A Iowa, Tuesday, July 18, against Oklahoma, because of cramps in his forearm, according to Carrie Muskat of Chicago.Cubs.MLB.com. Athletic trainer Mark O'Neal said the problem was dehydration. Guzman had struck out eight batters through 3-2/3 innings. Cubs | Guzman leaves game early Sunday Mon, 4 Sep 2006 10:28:31 -0700 Carrie Muskat, of Cubs.MLB.com, reports Chicago Cubs SP Angel Guzman (forearm) left the game early Sunday, Sept. 3, with cramping in his right forearm. He is not expected to miss his next start.

With Howry getting his velocity back, using Wuertz, Demp looking better and not using Eyre our bullpen has been more solid so far. We're playing good.

CUBS WIN!!

Demp pitching good! Here comes JOnes.

I can't believe how the Braves just stole Soriano from Seattle.

How many pitches? 108 or so. I say bring in Demp.

He was dealing tonight. His curve was just nasty and his accuracy was great.

Someone was complaining about Hill's K's last time ,well, now he's close to 12 :)

Hill was dealing that inning.

Sounds like they are having a good draft.

Coming late to the party. Pie with another RBI. He has done well so far.

You mean guys like Vernon Wells and Michael Young? Oh, and not to mention Nomar, who he wanted but was overruled on at the last minute. Nope, Wilken can't identify special talent. It's too early to see how the picks pan out as of right now. Maybe in a couple of years we'll know how Wilken did. As far as Samarjiza, was he more of a Hendry pick or Wilken pick considering Hendry's ties at Notre Dame.

There must be a reason why so many teams are passing on Harvey and Burgess then.

Interesting.

So needs work as a catcher and is aggressive? I don't know about this one.

Agreed. This is really boring.

Wow, they are set.