will that work?

can we please just place a lifetime banishment for anyone that starts a post with his name in it.

The Cubs have a window of opportunity to win a championship now. Yes, those minor leaguers may help down the line. With the Cubs still having a chance this season, I’d rather have DeRo than those pitchers.

It is plausible that 2 of these three could potentially help us as we near the end of the season and if our bullpen woes continue.

back up all over instead of DeRo

…if he was still a Cub. After all, he did go to a new league with different pitchers to adjust to. Also, you never know if going to Cleveland affected him mentally — He seemed happy with the Cubs and he meshed well with the players.

What bugs me is that DeRosa was basically traded for Milton Bradley. IMO, Hendry jumped the gun — He coughed up $30M for a corner outfielder about a month before the other prized corner outfielders, Abreu and Dunn, signed for WAY less.

.253, with 51 runs produced. How many runs have Fontenot and Miles contributed,? or in that case add Bradley.
 DeRosa probably has them all beat combined.

and the Cubs didn’t seal the deal. I think the window’s beginning to close, Blue Mike. This team has more problems that just missing one player, and in your most critical, negative points, you’ve offered that same line of thought.

Fontenot needs to find his stroke, Iowa is nice this time of year. Get his head together. The bigger problem is Miles

Castro is 19 years old and in the Florida State League.

Blanco could get called up, except that Blanco played three seasons in Kansas City and was awful. I don’t know why we would expect him to be better now, although he is only 25.

I hope Bradley produces. If he does, the deal looks a lot better. Obviously, we couldn’t have anticipated Ramirez’s injury and thus the need for someone like DeRosa.

Yes, they might be good later. But what if DeRo comes back and the Cubs win in part because of that? We’d all take that.

…is a real breath of fresh air. More of this and less chest-beating, hair-pulling angst, please!

Oh, and rec’d and greenified…

We’d all rather have DeRosa at 3B, but DeRosa wasn’t going to sit on the bench waiting for Rami to get hurt. I think the question of DeRosa is confused by three things right now.
1) We wish we had a 3B, but no one has a bench player like DeRosa waiting around for injury, unless they have one of the handful of top 3B prospects ready to go at AAA.
2) Miles and Fonty’s overall lines look bad; and yet taken as a platoon, they actually exceed DeRosa’s production.
3) Hendry suggested moving DeRosa was about saving money for Bradley and Bradley hasn’t hit; except that DeRosa’s money went mostly to Miles and Bradley should be able to turn this season around unless he’s playing through injuries.

Interesting. I’d be glad to have a full citation for that story and wonder what Soto would be willing to talk about in regards to his struggles if he was interviewed. Does he feel like he needed to do more to prepare?

had places to get prepared, stop making insane b.s. excuses for Soto. The WBC is not why he is not playing well in MAY. If he was not in shape because he did nothing to prepare from Late October until February, that is not the WBCs fault, that is Soto’s fault.

and Puerto Rico is not part South America

is having a great season.

And they are doing the rueing NOW ..

a bird pooping on Rich Hill.

there were THREE Peavy/White Sox posts up there just yesterday (two still remain). That’s just silly.

…if those guys had all panned out for the Indians (unlikely), then the Indians couldn’t have afforded them anyway and we could have picked them up then.

Gee, seems to me we could use someone exactly like that.

As it stands now, he’s making $3M more than Aaron Miles. There’s no way that gap is going to get smaller after DeRosa finishes his (very productive) contract that Hendry gave him in 2007.

The idea that the Cubs, a rich, big market team, should be trading their key contributors for guys whose upside is “MLB middle reliever” is kind of ridiculous. We can buy MLB middle relievers (and have, repeatedly.)

1. Keep DeRosa, pay him $5.5M in ‘09.
2. Trade DeRosa for 3 Indians prospects, *don’t* sign Miles, go into 2009 with Cedeno backing up the infield at MLB minimum.
3. Trade DeRosa for 3 Indians prospects, pay Miles $5M over 2 years.

Losing DeRosa and giving his $$ to Miles is the worst of all worlds.

but only if we eat a lot of the contractsw, since we dont want to be unfair to NYY with the price tags. Can we also get a PTBNL in the deal?

I think this is right on the money.

I hated the DeRosa trade and still do to this day. He was my favorite Cub in a long time because he added a lot to this club. A leader, diversity on the field, very solid and reliable hitter. We need all three of those characteristics right now.

And Cleveland will willingly deal DeRo, sadly it won’t be to the Cubs. I don’t think Hendry’s ego can handle being wrong, which is why I feel when DeRo is “officially” on the market he’ll let someone else pick him up and he’ll settle for the second best utility man to DeRosa. That’s what he did the entire offseason, and that’s why we’re not the kind of force we should be in this division. It’s not just DeRosa. Hendry missed a lot of good chances this past offseason and made some pretty horrendous trades.

Guess who needs an infielder? The Cardinals need a third baseman (according to MLBTR) and the Brewers need a second baseman. If Hendry were smart he’d bring DeRosa back before those teams get at him, because I can almost guarantee one of them will pick him up. But I have a feeling all Hendry will do is sit on his hands and wait too long, maybe make another unnecessary attempt at Jake Peavy.

It sounds silly, but given Hendry’s track record, would you be surprised?