and he’s been effective in the past. Neither of those two statements are true of Colvin.

He is just constantly resentful of players with big contracts.

He calls Soriano a sunk cost that shouldn’t play because “he’ll be gone.” Irony being that Soriano will not be gone for a long, long time. It’s one thing if we had a handful of younger players ready to replace Soriano, Byrd, Pena, and Ramirez…but we don’t. Or I should say, we don’t have any talented younger players deprived of playing time at this point. If he’s really crying over not letting aging prospects have their chance, then he’s beyond help. The only player one could make a case for is Colvin, yet scouting reports on Colvin have him projected as, at best, a league average hitter (that’d be Marcel). Other systems (most notably CHONE and ZiPS) have him even worse.

Are we really supposed to be crying over a fringe fourth outfielder prospect with incredibly poor plate discipline? He’s like an Alfonso Soriano who can’t punish mistake pitches as well. That’s what we want? A worse Soriano? Yikes.

Furthermore, what is the fallback for not playing our veterans? Letting them steam on the bench for the duration of their contracts? The idea is ridiculous.

Many people, myself included, would like to see the Cubs as aggressive sellers at the deadline. Who is going to buy four veterans who play twice a week for one of the worst teams in baseball? Our only shot, slim as it is, is to let them continue to play and hope another team will take a chance at the deadline. It really isn’t that farfetched to assume Ramirez, a historically slow starter, will improve as the season progresses and the weather warms. And what is our only shot at dumping Soriano? Hoping he hits a couple hot streaks, approaches 30 homeruns, and an AL contender takes a risk on using him as a DH for the stretch. We’d still have to eat massive amounts of his contract, but it’d be better than eating the entire thing and having him sit on the bench 5 or 6 days a week.

Don’t bother arguing with the many personalities of TJ. He makes outlandish and broad-sweeping criticisms of everyone in the organization; if met with a contrary opinion, he merely turns to hyperbolic sarcasm to refute points rather than attempt logical discourse. I’m certainly a passionate pessimistic about this team and yet I find myself disagreeing with his criticisms because they’re based on nothing but broad generalizations and ignorant expectations.