As reported in this diary, Corey Patterson is now a Baltimore Oriole.
Here's the official press release from the Orioles.
The Cubs receive Nate Spears, a 20-year-old SS who played last year in the Carolina League, and Carlos Perez, a 23-year-old lefthanded starting pitcher who was in the South Atlantic League in 2005.
It's over.
And it's sad, really: that someone with the athletic gifts -- the "tools" we always heard about, but rarely saw -- of Corey Patterson, simply didn't have the head, or the heart, to make it as a major league player.
Good luck to him. Seriously. I don't wish him ill.
I'm just glad he's not a Cub any more.