This is actually a good rule for if you trade or take on a guaranteed contract you can’t unload if you decide to cut him. Now if you are foolish and cut him and someone rents him for the minimum it only subtracts the minimum of time used from the guaranteed contract.

As for the spy thing…what an imagination….

Hoffpauir looked overmatched at the plate…swang through and over three sweeping breaking balls in the dirt.

Think about it—if the Cubs bring up someone from AAA (call him “Felix Pie”, for example), they pay him the ML salary for the time he’s on the roster. That’s generally called a “split contract”; the player gets the ML salary while he’s on the ML roster, gets paid a minor league wage when he’s in AAA.

Edmonds essentially has a “split contract” - he gets paid the minimum by the Cubs while he is on the Cubs’ roster - the rest is paid by StL and SD, since they are on the hook for the guaranteed deal he signed in the offseason.

All signs show he’s headed back to Seattle to finish his career. Plus, he would displace Dome from his natural position, and I’m not sure Jocketty would want to lift a finger to help the Cubs. Come to think of it, I can’t believe Hendry would give potentially valuable young players to a team that, if not ruined by Dusty Baker, could actually give the Cubs a lot of trouble over the next few years.

we already have the right players,Lou needs to stop over managing,and coach the ones he has got

and the Cubs don’t care who knows it, or rather, the Cubs actually want everyone to know it.

That guess hitting hack is do a good job guessing.

daughter write your material because it seems sort of childish.

He hit like you wish you could have back when you “played college ball”. That includes intramural, right?

So he’s here to tell Reed that he made a nice catch in DC? That he likes the goatee? That Reed’s a snappy dresser? Hell, I’ll do that for half what they are paying Edmonds. Anything beyond that, I’m still skeptical – but I hope that I’m wrong.

Pot, meet kettle.

YOU said Edmonds had a future with the Cubs, or maybe you should read the litany of ignorant, uninformed lunacy you’ve been spewing about him.

Reading is a skill and one you should use on your own comments. To wit:

Funny how people are already primed to write off Jim Edmond’s future with the Chicago Cubs.

He gets his timing in line and he will help this club. That much I’m convinced. A tag team of Reed Johnson and Edmonds in CF is going to be a good thing for this club.

Minimal risk for the Cubs and a lot of upside potential. Edmonds FITS what the Cubs, and importantly Piniella insists, this team needs.

YOU said those things. Maybe if your actually believed reading to be fundamental, you wouldn’t post your laughably contradictory comments day after day.

You are a Soriano basher, even when he is mashing and winning games single handedly. Yet you support a washed up 38 year old CF who has very little to offer.

Your only real difference maker between the 2 comes down to the large contract for Soriano and the minimal financial investment made to get Edmonds.

Your logic is extremely narrow.

Signing Edmonds isn’t in the same class with trading Lee Smith to Boston for Al Nipper and Calvin Schiraldi in the history of bad Cubs moves. Because Edmonds is not costing the Cubs a lot of money, this is not a terrible move. However, I still don’t like it. I would have preferred the Cubs to have kept Pie in Chicago. I don’t see Edmonds being a quality complement to Johnson. If Edmonds doesn’t work out, the Cubs can release him and aren’t out a lot of cash.

must be a Card.fan!!