Two minor bits of news yesterday. In case you thought this had already happened, the Cubs signed Korean pitcher What’s-His-Face:
The Chicago Cubs’ agreement to sign Korean reliever Chang-Yong Lim has been finalized. It is a two-year, split contract, with a much lesser commitment than was originally reported.
Reports from Korea said it was worth $5 million but a Cubs source said Lim signed for $100,000 and will receive minor-league salaries for up to two seasons. Lim was not placed on the 40-man roster.
Just to re-cap, this is the almost-37-year-old pitcher coming off his second elbow surgery who won’t be able to pitch until at least the second half of the season (which could mean 2013 or 2014, depending on who you believe). So we’ll all be excited waiting for him to get fit.
Second, don’t get too excited about Rick Porcello:
That’s pretty much what we’re working with this morning. Oh, and this:
The Cubs announced that they designated left-hander Jeff Beliveau for assignment. The move creates roster space for Ian Stewart, whose one-year deal became official today.
Continuing a common theme here lately… I have no idea who Jeff Beliveau or Rick Porcello are.
We’re going with, “Because we have to.”
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There’s always:” The Chicago Cubs: Frustrating the Faithfull for Over 100 Years.”
I still think we will sign another starter
I expect the Cubs to sign another starter and probably another outfielder. But you shouldn’t expect either of those signings to be anyone significant.
Yeah at this point I don’t expect anything big unless of course price falls on a Marcum, Jackson, Liriano, or even Michael Bourn.
I still think at some point we see some large scale movement within our 40 man roster.
I took a peek at the Rockes depth chart this morning….
starting RF – Tyler Colvin
starting 2B – DJ LeMahieu
2 regulars we traded for an infirmary commando.
Great deal guys!
Oh and you’re bringing him back AGAIN???
MORE good news!
That is more an indictment of the Rockies than it is of the Cubs. Those guys are marginal players, at best, at positions where the Cubs have players who are just as good (DeJesus) or better (Barney).
Granted Barney is better than DJ right now but….
Tyler Colvin is gonna be twice the player DeJesus is/was/will be. Tyler’s stats last season project to 27 HR and nearly 100 RBIs over 600 AB’s. I think the Rockies are gonna give them to him this year.
Still… two useful players for a Major in the Bandaid Brigade is just not good business.
Colvin is a platoon player playing in a massive hitters ballpark. His #2 most similar player on B-Ref is Brant Brown. I’m not crying at all over the loss of Tyler Colvin.
Don’t bother with logic with my friend dabird guy. He is impervious to it.
Colvin’s also a guy with a career OBP less than .300
And he’d still be one of the Cubs best players.
If you look at it, the Rockies fall from competitiveness has been faster and even more dramatic than the Cubs has been. And looking at their roster, they have had more talent the last few years than the Cubs did. Colvin and LeMahieu are not part of the roster that I would consider high talent. The Rockies are looking for placeholders and that is all Colvin and LeMahieu are…nothing more than the Cubs are doing right now. They are both part of the reason the Rockies aren’t very good right now. If the Rockies become competitive again, you can probably guarantee that neither of those guys will be everyday players for that team.
Tyler Colvin can’t hit leadoff and his defense is suspect at best. Dime a dozen type player!
The Rockies had both of those guys starting a lot last year…and they were only 3 games better than the Cubs. I’m not sure what your point is.
Besides…we got Casey Weathers in that trade and he only gave up 50 some odd walks in 30 innings this past year in AA.
I keep seeing these kinda post all over the place. The picking apart of trades. While its fun in some sense the important thing to remember is we have the advantage of hindsight etc.
Colvin and LeMahieu are the type of players who are a dime a dozen and both play fairly easy postitions to find.
No matter what the result at the time of the trade ML Third Baseman were hard to find(hich holds true today). Matter of fact I would almost guess their harder to find than qaulity LH Pitching.
Taking a chance on a once highly regarded 3B that cost minimal $$ for 2 waiver wire type players that you can have for near nothing, daily was absolutely the right decision to make.
We also had Lahair who was an ALL-Star the 1st half.
Let’s do a KC Cougars LOHO night this season. Or 3.
That went over well
Ok I’ve officially seen enough coverage of the tragic events from last week. Enough is enough already!
No. We cannot let this tragedy be forgotten and have it drop off our minds until some steps are taken to try to prevent something like this from happening again. As a nation we’ve done very little in reaction any tragedy since 9-11 and that is sad. Don’t let the lives of these 20 kids be lost for no reason.
I’m not promoting one political agenda or another here, but this tragedy cannot be forgotten as quickly.
Unless you were talking about the Anabel Sanchez trade disaster…then, yes, all coverage of that tragedy needs to cease immediately.
I’m not advocating that it be forgotten, but as a parent who has buried a child….privacy is needed. You can only hear I’m sorry for your loss so many times or is there anything I can do etc. Take the mother fucking cameras out of their god damned faces and leave em alone for a bit. Sorry I just get tired of seeing families cry their eyes out etc. I mean we get it, we all do it…..we don’t need to see it daily.
Since I feel like I can have an intelligent conversation with you Doc…..really man what do you want anyone to do? I mean I get the whole gun argument deal. But that isn’t gonna stop something like that. I’ve worked in law enforcement field for a long time and even I’m dumfounded over this one. Hell I was 10 miles away when Mcveigh took out the Fed Building….how many guns did he use?
What I think will eventually come of this is there will be all coded/locked doors on each and every door in every school. They will rename the school after them and do some commenarative stuff elsewhere.
I just don’t see what else can be done. His mother by all accounts was a class lady with no criminal history etc. She legally owned some weapons and her own son stole them and went on the most heinous shooting spree I think I have ever seen/heard about it.
She legally own weapons that probably should have been illegal.
It’s a matter of access.
Yes, you can’t prevent a person from getting their hands on weapons, but you sure as hell can make it more difficult for them to get their hands on weapons who’s soul purpose is to kill massive numbers of people.
But that is only part of the issue. There is a mental health aspect of this as well and there needs to be as much of a conversation about that as there does about guns.
And an argument about McVeigh not using guns to perform his hideous massacre is not a relevant argument. Because one person killed people withoug using guns doesn’t justify a completely misinterpretation of the 2nd amendment.
The whole weapons argument is kinda silly really. It’s pretty much a back and forth deal that will go on forever. Hell I’ve said for years if you wanna legally own a gun you should also have to take weapons retention and self defense courses also. Hell even if you throw in a mental health evaluation it still don’t prevent something like this happening. Everyone is focusing on the how he did it instead of the why.
She was utterly irresponsible about her weapons. By all accounts she was growing wary of his increasingly erratic behavior and (obviously) knew he’s struggled with emotional/behavioral issues his entire life. Those weapons should have been in a combination-locked safe. And she sure as HELL shouldn’t have taken him target shooting. From what I’ve seen/heard/read he was sickeningly accurate in his fire.
Come on, you guys. Seriously?
Conversation was bound to happen…might as well let us get it out of our systems. Besides theirs nothing else to talk about.
this is the third day in a row we’ve had to deal with this hear. Go talk about it somewhere else.
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Whatever
That was a bit snarky
Yes…seriously.
Edwin Jackson….
That’s the new rumor.
Are we allowed to talk about that?