Awesome.

I love this move. Anyone that played fantasy baseball with me know how much I loved Rizzo. He struggled last year when he got called up but the guy is going to be a stud.

I have MANY years of experience in trying to appreciate steaming piles of dogshit.

JIM BOWDEN
Josh Byrnes just told us @mlbnetworkradio that Andrew Cashner will pitch in the back end of their bullpen for the Padres this year

So you get the 1B of the future for a bullpen arm.

Love it more and more.

I would cover for SHARK, Drop In, Dave in Champaign, my Mom, and Urlacher's Missing Neck. After that, the list gets pretty thin. There are a few people about whom I would definitely fabricate charges.

PWSullivan Paul Sullivan
Jed says Rizzo will start the year at Triple A Iowa and LaHair will be starter at 1B

I would cover for SHARK, Drop In, Dave in Champaign, my Mom, and Urlacher's Missing Neck. After that, the list gets pretty thin. There are a few people about whom I would definitely fabricate charges.

Awesome.

This means Fielder won't be coming here.

Thank you, Captain Obvious.

Awesome.

Anytime. It also means his price dropped.

So rizzo is 7 years younger,but are they just going to hand him a job? Was his stats better than LaHairs last season?

LaHair had good MLB stats LAST SEASON.

rpb is wrong. Phil McCracken is useful.

RPB is right. You suck.

Unrelated but Levi Johnson is CLH not Douchebag I believes.

Guy hit 39 taters at AAA,did OK at the ML level in limited play. So what's wrong with giving him a chance?

I have MANY years of experience in trying to appreciate steaming piles of dogshit.

Guy hit 39 taters at AAA,did OK at the ML level in limited play. So what's wrong with giving him a chance?

They are giving him a chance Jimmy. Keep up around here. Reports are LaHair starts the year at 1B with Rizzo in AAA.

Anthony Rizzo was “ecstatic” at the news that he’d been traded again, and was going to the Cubs. He’s back with the group that originally drafted him when Theo Epstein, Jed Hoyer and Jason McLeod were in Boston.

“I got called up to the big leagues last year and struggled a little bit,” Rizzo said Friday. “I wouldn’t say some people wrote me off, but some people I guess lost some faith in me. For them to still have that faith, with everything they helped me through, it just shows me how loyal they are and how honored I am to play for them.

“This is such a big business,” Rizzo said. “I’ve seen it now for the last five years how much of a business it is. Everyone I’ve spoken to talks about how professional Theo is, how straightforward he is with everyone. It means a lot to me to be with them again.”

When the Padres dealt for Yonder Alonso, did Rizzo think he might get traded again?

“I couldn’t even tell you,” Rizzo said. “I figured something would happen, but I wasn’t completely sure. I just went on with my offseason and trained as hard as I’m training to prepare for next year, wherever it was. Now I’m a Cub and hopefully will remain a Cub for many years to come.”

In 2008, Rizzo was limited to 21 Minor League games after being diagnosed with Limited Stage Classical Hodgkins Lymphoma in late April. He returned in ’09 to lead all Red Sox Minor Leaguers with a .368 on-base percentage and ranked third in the system with a .297 batting average between Class A Greenville and Class A Salem.

“From the very bottom of the organization to the very top, to the ownership, when I was sick, they didn’t only help me out, they helped my family out and made sure everything was going to be OK,” Rizzo said of Epstin & Co. “To be back with the main people who were around me is just an honor. It’s a real exciting opportunity and I hope to make the best of it.”

– Carrie Muskat

I have MANY years of experience in trying to appreciate steaming piles of dogshit.

I did read that. So if he flops,they have Rizzo. I just don't get why the guy is mocked on here. If (or when) he fails,than start giggling. It has not happened yet.

rpb is wrong. Phil McCracken is useful.

RPB is right. You suck.

Believe me,Phil,I DO know what you mean. I was just going through a box of old baseball cards. Some of those Cub Future Prospects made me laugh and cry.

rpb is wrong. Phil McCracken is useful.

RPB is right. You suck.

Believe me,Phil,I DO know what you mean. I was just going through a box of old baseball cards. Some of those Cub Future Prospects made me laugh and cry.

A career AAA player at 29 is not the future. He's serviceable, but I wouldn't be expecting much.

Bryan LaHair - the new Micah Hoffpauir.