Cubs lineup will actually look more like

CF Donnie Murphy
2B Barney
SS Castro
1B Rizzo
RF Shierholtz
C Castillo
3B Valbuena
LF Sweeny

Should be good for 100 Losses.

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Cubs lineup will actually look more like

CF Donnie Murphy
2B Barney
SS Castro
1B Rizzo
RF Shierholtz
C Castillo
3B Valbuena
LF Sweeny

Should be good for 100 Losses.

I don't want to rain on your guys parade with some Sox fan anti-Cub post so this is not it. I am dead serious about what I am about to write and it is quite possible that Theo and Jed also know this. For the next year or two even with a lineup and bad tradeable major leaguers or one of the recently posted mostly new rookie one the Cubs are about to get pounded. I make no comment on their players or management moves. I just expect and maybe that is why management moving slower that they will get beaten a lot by Cards, Reds and Pirates.

You're vastly underestimating the impact a full season of Jake Arrieta will have for the 2014 Wild Card champion Cubs. Not to mention Renteria can speak spanish with Castro. Boom shaka laka.

rpb is wrong. Phil McCracken is useful.

RPB is right. You suck.

Cubs sign LH reliever Wesley Wright.

By Steve Adams [December 9, 2013 at 4:28pm CST]
4:28pm: Adam Kilgore of the Washington Post (Twitter links) hears from a source that the Nats would listen to offers on Storen, though any talks with the Cubs are in the very early stages at this point. Kilgore identifies Nate Schierholtz and James Russell as a couple possible fits for Washington if negotiations became more serious.

4:00pm: The Cubs are looking to the trade market in their search for relievers and have eyed both Tyler Clippard and Drew Storen of the Nationals, among others, according to Gordon Wittenmyer of the Chicago Sun-Times (on Twitter).

Clippard, 28, is controlled through the 2015 season and has a 2.73 ERA with 10.3 K/9 and 3.6 BB/9 over the past five seasons. Storen, 26, may have fallen out of favor to an extent with the Nats in 2013 following a career-worst 4.52 ERA and a brief demotion to the minors. The former No. 10 overall pick owns a career 3.40 ERA with 8.4 K/9 and 2.8 BB/9 since being promoted in 2010, however.

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

Outfield: With left-handed hitters Nate Schierholtz and Ryan Sweeney under control, a right-handed hitter could be essential for balance.

This could be the last opportunity for Josh Vitters and Brett Jackson, although they appear better served in another organization with Almora and Soler part of the team’s building blocks.

This could be the last opportunity for Josh Vitters and Brett Jackson, although they appear better served in another organization with Almora and Soler part of the team’s building blocks.

Once again, I'll say: Bring this irritant Vitters up, play him and let him fail and cut him. He's like baseball Harvey Unga. Always hanging around.

You probably have to give him a shot this year - both him and Olt are washouts thus far as 3B's. One of them has to get a shot to play every day in the majors and succeed or fail.

rpb is wrong. Phil McCracken is useful.

RPB is right. You suck.

I don't want to rain on your guys parade with some Sox fan anti-Cub post so this is not it. I am dead serious about what I am about to write and it is quite possible that Theo and Jed also know this. For the next year or two even with a lineup and bad tradeable major leaguers or one of the recently posted mostly new rookie one the Cubs are about to get pounded. I make no comment on their players or management moves. I just expect and maybe that is why management moving slower that they will get beaten a lot by Cards, Reds and Pirates.

Lots and lots of chatter about a Samardzija deal possibly going down today. Jed meeting with his agent about an extension this morning might be a last chance to stay with the team sort of thing.

I'm so dumbfounded Shark is considered a hot commodity.

Well, it seems Shark wants almost David Price money but the Cubs are telling him he's not worth that yet they are trying to trade him as a Diet David Price. Something's got to give.

Well, it seems Shark wants almost David Price money but the Cubs are telling him he's not worth that yet they are trying to trade him as a Diet David Price. Something's got to give.

Lots and lots of chatter about a Samardzija deal possibly going down today. Jed meeting with his agent about an extension this morning might be a last chance to stay with the team sort of thing.

I think you guys are either over rating David Price or underrating Samardzija


He's a poor man's Price. It's a good comparison

Well, I guess they are both 28. I think the similarities stop there.

It's not a 1:1 comparison though.

He's a young strikeout pitcher who throws a lot of pitches. Just not as good as Price.

Not a lefty, thrown 200 innings once (and faded when doing so), AL vs. NL, highest ERA 3.49 vs. lowest 3.81 (merits of ERA can be debated later) worse SO/BB.

The only similarities seem to be age and strikeouts. I guess a very poor right-handed David Price is a good comparison.

It's more fun to be a victim

There will never be an effective vaccine. I'll never get one anyway.

DBacks are in on Garza. Hope that doesn't stop the Samardjia trade.