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Say it with me. Seven, B as in Billion, Dollars. Seven Billion Dollars. That's before they sell a single ticket or receive any money from the national tv deal or MLBAM.
Olney reported Cubs paying bulk for a lower tier pitching prospect. Doesn't compute to me.
save cash, not competing for anything for at least another couple years.
Say the Yanks are eating $6M of the $24Mish left on his contract. Can you see the Cubs getting something better from someone else?
I understand whats going on, but I look at it this way. Assuming the Cubs aren't getting much back, is Soriano worth $6 million extra to play for you (assuming you take the other $18 million or so as a sunk cost)? I'd say he is worth $6 million especially just looking at their roster and they don't have a lot of money on the books. Not familiar with their system and if Soriano is blocking a young player but beyond that, $6 million and a throwaway doesn't seem worth it for Soriano.
That $6 mil will be better spent when the team is ready to compete. Soriano is useless on this team.
Cubs fans have been complaining about Soriano for five years and proposing every unrealistic option for shipping him out of town. When it finally happens, then they complain that the return wasn't good enough.
Not a Cubs fan. Hope that helps. $6 million just never seemed like a big deal to a team like the Cubs. Heck, I didn't understand the Michael Young trade. The Rangers are paying $10 of his $16 million dollars and they got back 2 relievers who don't look like much. I think I'd rather just keep him at that price.
From the Cubs perspective, there's an opportunity cost of keeping Soriano in the everyday lineup. It's better in the long run to see if Junior Lake can handle the job. Maybe give some ABs to Julio Borbon or Sappelt to see if either is a worth keeping as a 4th OF. Maybe give Brett Jackson a chance to rack up some more strikeouts. Soriano won't be around if and when the Cubs window opens, Soler or Jae Hoon Ha might be.sporthenry said:
Reports from scouts on - have been underwhelming. The Rangers have been the only team linked to -, though their senior-level decision makers were not in attendance at his recent workout in Mexico, where teams have reported that his conditioning appears to be an issue. Teams have no performance data or game video to work off from - in more than a year because he was suspended for the 2011-12 season in Serie Nacional. The last time any scouts could have legally evaluated - was in June 2011 in Rotterdam, where scouts seemed lukewarm at best on him. He's shown plus raw power and hit well in Cuba for a year before his suspension, but there are question marks about both his bat and his rawness in the outfield.Sweet, we signed the best long man out of Cuba. Nice work Rube.
who?
Best pitcher on my staff. The only guy I don't play match-ups with. Doesn't try to just blow guys away with stuff, like so many youngsters; He came up knowing how to pitch.
So he was an All-star with a small sample size, and now he's terrible with an even smaller sample size?
Are you insinuating that he's not doing anything to deserve it?
you were saying?
Admittedly it was an even smaller sample size, but I was not impressed at all with Puig when the Dodgers came to DC. It wasn't just that the numbers sucked: 0-8 with 5 Ks and benched for the finale, even while his team was sweeping the series. It was how easy it was for the Nats to find holes in his swing- I don't think he barreled the ball all weekend. After his second at bat of the first game of the series I wasn't even scared of him any more. Whatever it is that the Nats saw, other teams are gonna figure it out. I say he ends up as the Cuban Jeff Franceour.
