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Yahoo! Sports: MLB - Cubs have tentative $23.5 million, four-year deal with Todd Hundley
Cubs have been active, which is good to see. They, historically, have seemed awfully timid for a team with so many resources, sort of like the Phillies.
The Cubs should get Hundley about 50 games at catcher against teams that can't run (Mets, Giants, Expos, Brewers) and then 90 games at first base. I wouldn't be opposed to more games behind the plate, but people seem hung up on opponent's stolen bases.
The pitching moves the Cubs made getting Fassero and Gordon don't do a whole lot for me. Gordon is going to take some time to get going and the Cubs are paying $5m for the honor of rehabbing him and taking all of the risk. Jeff Fassero's ERA was league average last year, but they were high maintenance innings in every sense. He had 23 starts and 113 innings in the rotation, about 5 innings a start. He might be worth $2.5m as a reliever, but it seems like an awful risk to take.
The Cubs have a ways to go till they're competitive, so why not try to find a long-term lefthanded reliever.
Cubs have been active, which is good to see. They, historically, have seemed awfully timid for a team with so many resources, sort of like the Phillies.
The Cubs should get Hundley about 50 games at catcher against teams that can't run (Mets, Giants, Expos, Brewers) and then 90 games at first base. I wouldn't be opposed to more games behind the plate, but people seem hung up on opponent's stolen bases.
The pitching moves the Cubs made getting Fassero and Gordon don't do a whole lot for me. Gordon is going to take some time to get going and the Cubs are paying $5m for the honor of rehabbing him and taking all of the risk. Jeff Fassero's ERA was league average last year, but they were high maintenance innings in every sense. He had 23 starts and 113 innings in the rotation, about 5 innings a start. He might be worth $2.5m as a reliever, but it seems like an awful risk to take.
The Cubs have a ways to go till they're competitive, so why not try to find a long-term lefthanded reliever.
posted by Sean Foran # 3:50 PM 
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