To remove Soriano and Zambrano from the roster,the Cubs will have to send a great deal of money along with them. Sori is owed 59 M & Zam 16 M. That's 75M. If he can move them and pay out about 65 M to the teams taking them,he saves the Cubs 10M. He can in turn use that 10M to get reasonable replacements for one or both. This is what I said over two years ago before Ricketts took over. Number one is to get rid of Big_Z. Actually,Soriano had a decent year in 2011. Quade had him in the 7 hole and used a defensive caddie for him in the late innings all season. If he comes back in 2012,it would not be the worst thing but I would prefer a real LF.

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

You'll be lucky to get a good starter alone for that 10 million you propose.

I would be calling Ozzie immediately to see just how much the Marlins are willing to pay. If they will pay 6 million of it, run towards that deal.

You can live with Soriano

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Why pay Zambrano slightly less to pitch for someone else? Might as well pay him to email his brother all season and say goodbye at the end of the year.

I think you could find an AL team willing to pay like 5 million a year for Soriano to DH for a couple years.

If Loria is letting him make that move, Id ask about some more deals.

He can and will do something creative with both instead of just eating that money and cutting them. Soriano is brutal in the NL but I am guessing that if you took all the DH stats from the AL and threw him in the mix he would be in middle in offensive productivity. I think he can execute a trade that will have him eating a portion of the contract and gettin a square peg back from another team that may work for the Cubs As far as Z.....I might let him come back. I can understand how a competitor loses his mind being on a garbage uncompetitive team. Maybe the scenery that has changed around him be good for him.

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He's been crazy when the team is bad and crazy when the team is less bad. You don't want Zambrano back. Subtract the crazy, he's not even good.

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And men have lost their reason.

They need starters though. There was no one in AAA last year that should ever see a big league mound as a starter. Not much in AA either and McNutt isn't ready and probably will be in Boston anyways.

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They would have to keep him on the 40 man roster. They need that space for prospects. He either stays and plays or goes somewhere else. I think he will be easily moveable. He's really not that bad in the grand scheme of pitching in MLB. Just not worth his current contract. But at $9M for a year, he is a bargain.

Soriano is pretty much not tradeable in my eyes. I think his numbers are misleading. His BA and OBP were just atrocious. He cannot play the outfield. Most AL teams look for their DH to be a big bat in the middle of the order, not a 7,8,9 hitter.

I see Z getting traded and Soriano getting cut. Having either of them on the roster when the Cubs have absolutely no use for either one in the future is just wasting time and roster space.