Peavy to Chicago (wrong side of town)?

San Diego Union Tribune has an article about the Sox trading for Peavy.

if Peavy waives his NTC. But is the 80-ish million due to Peavy (I’ll assume he requires the $22M 2013 option to be picked up for him waiving his NTC) too rich for Jerry and Co., knowing they have other glaring issues?

Here’s Peavy’s monies due (assuming he requests the ’13 option be picked up for waiving the NTC):

09: $11M, 10:$15M, 11:$16M, 12:$17M, 13:$22M club option ($4M buyout)

So for pro-rata 2009, we’re talking about $77.5M total liability for the Sox.

At least the Brewers or St.Louis won’t get him.

I won’t ever have to hear about Jake Peavy again.

http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/may/20/n70258234820-peavy-trade-chicago-white-sox-may-be-/?padres

"Within the clubhouse, though, Peavy referred to the situation as ’something to think about’ yet also restated his desire to stay in the National League. One of Peavy’s teammates said he believes Peavy respects the Sox’s aggressiveness in pushing for him but may have reservations about pitching for Ozzie Guillen, the White Sox’s volatile manager."

I guess any pitcher would miss Petco.

These statistics were all bright to our attention back in the winter, but it needs to be noted again how his numbers look away from Petco.

His ERA is a full run higher in away games (yes, his away numbers are still very good). That was the biggest difference in home/road era amongst any of the top pitchers that I looked at (Webb, Santana, Halladay, Sabathia, Haren, Carpenter). After you factor in the switch to the AL, and factor in playing half of your games in the U.S. Cellular launching pad, maybe he beomes a bit more average.

He is still a good pitcher and would look good in Cubbie blue or White Sox black.

I’d rather see them burn their payroll than us burn ours.

Ass-hat White Sux fans rubbing this in our faces all year. Great

Realistically, the Cubs were never gonna get Peavy. In that case, better he go to the Sox than to some NL contender, where he could actually do some damage to the Cubs’ chances. And, honestly, the Sox aren’t really a World Series contender with or without him, so it’s not like his presence is gonna give Sox fans any real bragging rights.

is a different pitcher away from Petco.

I think his reluctance to go to the White Sox is due more to the launching pad home ballpark than Ozzie’s outbursts.

….is going to have the ledgejumpers out in full affect. I may be taking a break from BCB for a while.

… Will Carroll at Baseball Prospectus, Peavy has until tomorrow to approve the deal.

My guess is he’ll take as much time as he is allowed, so we’re not likely to hear anything today.

it would be to the Sox if he said No Thank You.

said he talked to Linebrink who spoke with Peavy yesterday. That would mean either Sox brass encouraged him to help recruit or Jake wondered himself.

I could see Peavy wrinkling his nose at the White Sox. They’re not exactly awful, but not really hands-down contenders either. The NL thing and going to a hitters park are also negative factors.

But who knows. Maybe a roll of the dice with the Sox would be preferable to suffering a long, turgid season with the floundering Pads. I wouldn’t mind Peavy not being on the mound tomorrow night.

of reading the comments to the article on the Sox site. Most of them (not surprisingly) are disses to the Cubs. Not a lot of love for the possibility of the Sox getting him, but for the Cubs NOT getting him. Typical.

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… but wanted to restate here.

This deal (Peavy to the Sox) may hurt our collective pride (we courted the dude all offseason and couldn’t get it done) but doesn’t run the risk of damaging our record. That record is what is important.

It stings a little that its our crosstown rival, but for all practical purposes, this affects us no more than him staying in SD. We’ll face him one or two times a year. At least he won’t be with the Cards or Brewers.

On the one hand, the Cubs would lose out on him.

On the other hand, the White Sox (of all teams) would get him

On the third hand, he wouldn’t go to another NL Central team, which would be the worst of all outcomes.

My gut tells me that if he does go to the White Sox, there would still be other starting pitching options made availible by other teams. I’m really not worried that.the Cubs are “losing out” on anything. From a Cub fan perspective, this might actually be a good thing.

But I still don’t want him to become a White Sox player. I wish the Twins would become a player in this.

I consider this a win for the Cubs.

We don’t need to spend any of our prospects for a Starting pitcher. We need infield and bullpen help.

The Cardinals and Brewers don’t get him.

Real Cub fans are more worried about the Cardinals or Brewers getting him than the White Sox. The Cards and Brewers are our real rivals not the Sox.

The Sox just traded for Brian Roberts.

I’m not arguing that the Cubs have any chance to get him right now. But this idea that we don’t need him boggles the mind. Exactly how many of our starters right now look like the pitcher you could hand the ball to in a playoff game and count on him shutting the offense down?

“We need to help the bullpen.” – Moving one of our startrs to the ‘pen wouldn’t help the ’pen?

I still expect that by the end of the season (assuming no other moves are made), the piece we will most wish for is top-level starter.

While Peavy is a fantastic pitcher his lines away from the pitchers mecca of petco I dont think justify his pay. Plus this way we can all stop having multiple-orgasms over the possiblity of Peavy coming here. And to the answer of who I would be willing to put in a situation to shut another team down I would have to go with either Zambrano, Dempster, Lilly, or Harden. Marshall is useable 5 pitcher maybe move Wells to the pen.

/www.jsonline.com/blogs/sports/45706107.html

… over what would happen if he had to face AL lineups regularly. He wants the ease and fluffed stats from pitching in the weaker NL.

Good riddance then!