Texas just released right-fielder Victor Diaz.  Played parts of three seasons with the Mets and about 100 ABs for the Rangers last year.  Was supposed to be an up-and-coming slugger but never really panned out.  Memory's a bit hazy, but I seem to recall him hitting a key 3 run homer against the Cubbies a couple years ago.  Bottom line - getting cut from the Rangers is about as low as you can go.

And I'd still rather have him than Pods.

With any luck, St. Louis will pick him up.  Seems like a perfect kind of washed up slap-hitting outfielder that LaRussa likes to trot out there in the 8th inning...

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• Play center field
  
• Play right field
  
• Play anywhere but left field
  
• Hit for average
  
• Hit for power
  
• Take walks
  
• Stay healthy
  

Maybe at some point in his career he could do some of the above... but not particularly well, and those days are behind him.

Players who are in the Cubs organization who are currently more valuable as fourth/fifth outfielders than Scott Podsednik:

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• Matt Murton (if he isn't starting)
  
• Sam Fuld
  
• Angel Pagan
  
• Eric Patterson
  
• Josh Kroeger
  
• Jake Fox
  
• Omar Infante
  

This list is not complete; I welcome suggestions for additonal players.

But let me also note that this is the sort of thing that you get when a player gets a reputation for being better than he really is, because some of his peripheral stats (in Pods' case, SB) are pretty good, even when his overall numbers aren't. Plus, he was a World Series hero, winning a game with a walkoff HR, quite uncharacteristic of him (he hit ZERO HR in the regular season, but two in the 2005 postseason), thus raising his public image even further.

He's a bad baseball player. IllinoisCubs is absolutely right. Sam Fuld is a better player. I suspect Podsednik's career, which was far longer than it had any right to be, is over.

Signing him to a ML contract and having him waste a 40 man roster spot would be a horrible move.