Category: Transactions
No one can devalue an asset (or is it overstate a liability?) and still get someone to give him something in return like Jim Hendry can. Of course, Silva can't pitch. Can he play centerfield?
Cubs have deal to ship Bradley to Mariners - Sporting News
As Mike Emeigh at Baseball Think Factory writes, "You have to take some not-so-good with the good, I suppose."
Jim Hendry was able to rid the Cubs of another of his multi-million dollar, light-hitting, veteran middle infielder mistakes (see Neifi Perez) by trading him to his favorite trading partner, the Oakland A's, apparently part of the price for the A's receipt of Jake Fox. The Cubs will contribute $1M toward Miles' $2.7M salary in 2010.
Hill's tenure with Cubs comes to a close - The Cubs and Orioles have reached an agreement on a trade to send left-hander Rich Hill to Baltimore. The deal was officially announced Monday morning, with the Orioles sending a player to be a named to Chicago. [MLB.com Chicago Cubs News]
The Cubs traded Michael Wuertz, who always seemed to me to be the same pitcher as Joe Borowski (decent but not great fastball, living off of a good slider), to the Oakland A’s today for two minor leaguers, outfielder Richie Robnett and infielder Justin Sellers. The Cubs added Robnett, the 26th overall pick in the 2004 draft, to the 40-man roster.
Wuertz was set to make $1.1 million this year, but was facing a crowded bullpen competition.
In 2008, Wuertz posted had his fifth straight year with an above-average ERA. However, his K/9 ratio fell to 6.1. It had been above 9.3 in each of his previous four seasons.
Fox headed to DL; Ascanio to get call-up - HOUSTON -- The Cubs' pitching carousel continued Monday night with the news that reliever Chad Fox will go on the disabled list today with irritation in his pitching elbow. Prospect Jose Ascanio will be called up from Class AAA Iowa to take his place.
[Chicago Sun-Times]
Chad Fox's injury history continues. Ascanio is the better pitcher, anyway. Ascanio debuted with two scoreless innings in tonight's 4-2 loss to the Houston Astros.
From the Wire....Cubs Sign Jim Edmonds - It's official....Jim Hendry announced moments after Wednesday night's game, during a press conference, that the Cubs have agreed to a contract with outfielder Jim Edmonds. Felix Pie was optioned down to Triple-A and will join the I-Cubs in Round Rock on Thursday.
Jim Edmonds will be in a Cubs' uniform for Thursday's game against the Padres.
As expected, the Cubs demoted Rich Hill to triple-A Iowa today, reports the Daily Herald. They called up Sean Gallagher to take his spot on the roster. Gallagher will go to the bullpen and Jon Lieber will go to the rotation. Sean Marshall remains in the bullpen, despite the fact that after last night's game Lou Piniella said, "I would think that if we did something, we'd put Marshall in the rotation, for now." Marshall has not thrown more than an inning in a game this year since being recalled, though, and in his last four appearances he has faced just five batters. It would take some time before he was fully stretched out. One of the strange things that occurred this spring was the Cubs not giving Marshall a chance to make the rotation.
The last time Hill was at Iowa, in 2006, he was utterly dominant in 100 innings.
The Cubs have signed Jon Lieber, reports the Chicago Sun-Times. MLB.com (no article yet) reports the deal is worth $3.5M. The S-T speculates that "the move could pave the way for the Cubs to trade young pitchers to Baltimore for Brian Roberts." Ken Rosenthal speculates that this "could signal a trade of right-hander Jason Marquis or the return of righty Ryan Dempster to the bullpen." (Hat tip: Wrigleyville23.)
I appreciate Lieber's service to the Cubs from 1999-2002 as much as anyone. But why this now? Lieber will be 38 in April. Over the past two seasons for the Philadelphia Phillies, Lieber has thrown 246 innings with a 4.87 ERA.
Guaranteeing Lieber's contract almost certainly means that Sean Marshall (who was 34th in adjusted ERA out of 127 starting pitchers with at least 100 innings pitched last year) is out of the rotation and perhaps gone from the team in a trade for Roberts, unless the Cubs find someone to take Marquis' contract and move Dempster back to the bullpen (which likely means putting him back in the closer role). Oh, and Sean Gallagher and Kevin Hart do not get chances to compete for the starting rotation.
Chad Fox is back with the Chicago Cubs after they signed him to a minor league contract on Friday, reports the AP. In April 2005, Fox went from being the Cubs' possible new closer (after another LaTroy Hawkins blown save) to a "career-ending injury" in matter of two days. Given this comeback attempt, Fox is trying to show that the injury was not, in fact, career-ending.
The Cubs traded Felix Pie's possible centerfield platoon partner, Angel Pagan, to the New York Mets today for minor leaguers right-handed pitcher Ryan Meyers and outfielder Corey Coles. Pagan was the one player on the Cubs roster who allowed the Cubs to avoid playing Pie against left-handed pitching. It's now Pie's job, and his alone.
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