Padres 14, Cubs 4: Roster Decisions Made Easy

lemme guess – when a bandage is ready to come off, you take it off ever so s-l-o-w-l-y, right?

And you’d be dumping two contracts.

And you’d be getting a huge one back for a player that isn’t even that good, while also further delaying the ability to be better in the future. There’s a reason Texas wants to move him.

If Hendry could swing that trade I would do it in a NY minute. Young for at least the next couple of years should be good for 20hr – 80rbi .280avg.., Defensively, he’s had an up and down career but in between he’s won a couple of GG’s.

lets just be done with this crappy roster after this year…contention is a long shot…if need be lets just yank the bandaid off

Because honestly I can’t see him having much value beyond 2011. He has too little power for a corner IF spot, he has decaying range at 2b, and they have Castro at short.

I think the Cubs can do better than to throw more bad money at someone who is questionable to be productive in 2012.

I don’t think this team competes in 2011 for all that much. Yes injuries in the division open it up, but I don’t see this lineup, even with the addition of Young, doing much damage this year.

It’d be more bad paper.

Not this one.. thoe other one.. A good fielding 2b guy won’t cost us games and at least he has a potential future..

Right? I just am not convinced Cashner has the stamina to be a major league starter. I hope I am wrong, though.

He was pretty good last year, I don’t get why he wasn’t being considered.

to be part of the rotation. See, that’s what the problem is with the team. It’s run like an old boy’s club where certain people are accepted or rejected based upon some unmeasurable criteria. If we are to reach the success level of teams like the Red Sox and Yankees, changes must be made. Instead of selling a feel good sensation, decisions by management must be based upon doing good.

The team has numerous choices for the roster this year. If management chooses the likes of Hill and Silva and Shark and DeWitt when other better options are out there, it will be a clear signal that this organization just doesn’t get it.

Coleman is going to be a Greg Maddux like pitcher. I know that he has been compared to Maddux, and I’m wondering if Maddux will take some time to talk to him a little bit. I was hoping they would give Shark another shot at a rotation spot. We’ve heard that over the past two seasons, but this season we’ve not heard as much about that situation. Cashner will probably get it, but I figure that he will be used only for 4 to 5 innings at first, so the bp better be just as strong on the 5th day.

and then if they fall out of the race and he has pitched his innings they can shut him down and put Coleman there for the remainder of the year, that way Coleman gets to pitch most of the season in AAA and still get a look see at the end of the year. If they are in the race and Cashner is pitching well they leave him in the rotation.

That is sad.

Cashner should start wherever is best for him, not the club. Meaning, let’s not mess with the kid’s head if he is not ready.

Between DeWitt, Baker, and Barney. I don’t care who wins or what platoon plays as long as they don’t “hurt” the team. Any positives out of second would be a plus. (What year was it that the Cubs left ST with three or four 2nd basemen I wanna say Jerry Hairston and Tony Womack were two of them)? It’s beginning to remind me of that then.

by midseason he’ll have a mediocre .600 OPS and folks will be discussing his scappiness. If you can somehow get an aging Young without further raping the farm system then go for it. Other than Marmol, this team does nothing particularly well. The current Vegas over/under on the ‘11 Cubs is 81.5 wins which at this point looks like a pipe dream. I predict 72 wins out of our current collection of ’no hit, no field’ misfits.

But I’d still be pissed I’d have to fork over my left arm to see him pitch every 5th day

… Listach may have slipped. It would seem the logical thing, to dump Silva and give Cashner the slot. We already know Silva’s not headed to the bullpen. Randy Wells has won the #4 spot, so that’s the only conclusion that makes sense.

 He’s a detriment to the team. He hasn’t improved 1 little bit. Forget the money and worry about the quality of this team.

Dump Shark, Koyie Hill, Silva, Baker or Dewitt. Keep Cashner, Ramirez, Barney, and Reed. Colvin needs to be staryting even if its over Soriano. Send Castillo down to be an everyday starter.

Why can’t they do that, I never read the “we can’t release Shark thread” so forgive my ignorance.

Either last year or the year before.

can and would waive his NTC and be part of that trade.

I thought the Phillies also landed Ruthven in the Mathews deal?

That way we keep Ramirez since he WILL get claimed off waivers, Castillo gets regular at bats at AAA and will be ready if Soto or Ramirez gets injured, and our young catchers benefit from Hill on his one skill which is how to make pitchers like you. No brainer, hire me as GM.

If he were to admit that the roster he has put together is sub-par for a third straight season it would be akin to admitting he’s not good at his job.

as for the other three………..