MLB: Cubs Firesale
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I hope the Yankees and Rangers are legitimately interested in Dempster in order to give the Cubs some leverage. Although it's completely irrational, at this point I'd rather the Cubs keep Dempster rather than trade him to the Dodgers - just to spite both.
Yes, he has veto rights and blah, blah, blah. But when he vetoes a trade to a contending team, one of the accompanying risks to him is that he finishes the season with a 60-win Cubs team this year. If that's what he wanted, then fine - make him do it.
Yes, he has veto rights and blah, blah, blah. But when he vetoes a trade to a contending team, one of the accompanying risks to him is that he finishes the season with a 60-win Cubs team this year. If that's what he wanted, then fine - make him do it.
The Cubs traded and and signed a lot before, didn't they? I feel like they went through about 400 right fielders and 200 middle infielders.
God I love the sound of that question! The cubs are making moves to acquire young pitchers named Chapman...
I don't agree with making moves just for the sake of making moves, but if the team can acquire prospects that have a reasonable chance of helping the team contend three years down the road, then the moves should be made.
Obviously Hendry was done in by the long-term, no-trade-clause contracts he was so fond of using, but to say he never made moves to make the team better at the trading deadline is incorrect. In particular, the 2003 trade that brought Aramis Ramirez and Kenny Lofton to the Cubs in exchange for peanuts was an amazing deal that allowed the Cubs to make the playoffs, win a playoff series for the first time in a LONG time, and finally find stop the revolving door at third base.
CycloneErik
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I completely agree with you. That other guys comments were very dismissive, getting his first name wrong and stuff like that. Over the past month he was among the best pitchers in baseball.
Agreed. There have been a few trades that have actually improved the team. Most moves by Hendry were just head scratchers though.
Epstein is actually addressing needs and not bringing in garbage.
Apparently Jackson and Sappelt aren't getting called up, which I thought for sure it would be one of them. Sappelt makes the most sense.
I'm curious why they pulled Jackson from the game last night...unless they initially thought they would call him up.
Maybe if they make a deal to move Soriano he will get called up. Just not a certainty yet.
Hendry made some good trades over the years. He actually fleeced a lot of teams at the trade deadline.
However his big issue was big free agent signings. Soriano, J. Jones, Fukudome, Miton Effing Bradley. All were overpaid and signed for too many years. He made the mistake of overvaluing career years for most of them and trying to sign the "savior" of the team rather than signing reasonably priced yet talented players.
Oddly enough, he actually made some good signings for role players as well. He just completely struck out when trying to sign star players.
You're just like a hawk fan on cyclonefanatic only you're a Cardinals fan in a Cubs thread. It's gotten to the point that it's getting a bit ridiculous. We all get that you are a Cardinals fan and hate the Cubs... enough.
This site reviews Hendry's trade history and I forgot about how many really good trades he made.
Jim Hendry-Cubs: Reviewing Hendry's Trade History | Bleacher Report
Jim Hendry-Cubs: Reviewing Hendry's Trade History | Bleacher Report
It surprises me that fellow Cyclone fans in particular would be so spiteful and troll-like towards other Cyclone fans. We complain enough about Hawk fans acting like d-bags that I expect better.
Trust me, I know it's a rivalry and I will put in a jab or two once in a while, but blind seering hatred and venom gets old after a while and really makes you look like a **** wad.
Of course there is a huge contingent of baseball fans who just effing hate the Cubs, no matter what. My guess is they can't stand that there are so many Cubs fans even though the team sucks so much. If the Cubs had the fan following of the Royals, noone would care.
It seems like a lot of baseball "fans" hate the Cubs more than they actually like their team of choice.
Kind of pathetic.
