they have gotten a good one in THEO
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Do they??
- John Lackey, $80+ mil
- Carl Crawford $110+ mil
- JD Drew $75+ mil
- Daisuke Matsuzaka $50m to talk and another $50+ contract
- Edgar Renteria, couldn't play a lick in Boston, $60+ mil (I think)
- Julio Lugo, another $10m/year or so
- Bobby Jenks, $12m for a mediocre 7th inning guy
- Josh Beckett, who makes $15+ mil
I stole this from another site so I could be wrong on the numbers. It's easy to be a GM when somebody hands you a book of blank checks. He wont have that in Chicago, and they have a lot of money locked up in mediocre talent. The kicker is they think they are gonna sign Pujols. Good luck. This will be fun watching from a few hours south.
- John Lackey, $80+ mil
- Carl Crawford $110+ mil
- JD Drew $75+ mil
- Daisuke Matsuzaka $50m to talk and another $50+ contract
- Edgar Renteria, couldn't play a lick in Boston, $60+ mil (I think)
- Julio Lugo, another $10m/year or so
- Bobby Jenks, $12m for a mediocre 7th inning guy
- Josh Beckett, who makes $15+ mil
I stole this from another site so I could be wrong on the numbers. It's easy to be a GM when somebody hands you a book of blank checks. He wont have that in Chicago, and they have a lot of money locked up in mediocre talent. The kicker is they think they are gonna sign Pujols. Good luck. This will be fun watching from a few hours south.
Hard to see how he can be worse than the GM's there for the last 105 years.
quote:Originally posted by luv baseball:
Hard to see how he can be worse than the GM's there for the last 105 years.
You raise a very good point!
Theo can seal his legacy if he can turn this franchise around and bring a World's Championship. Then nobody will remember the bad signings in Boston. I think in a situation like Boston or the Yankees, the general manager can actually afford to be slightly less careful about his overpaying players for two reasons. One, these teams can just make up for mistakes by throwing more cash out there and eating bad contracts, and two, it is the fans and media who often FORCE dumb moves by demanding the general manager do SOMETHING in response to the other club's moves.
Theo will have his work cut out for him with some of the albatross contracts the Cubs have but I like the fact that he left a place where he was comfortable and accepted a daunting challenge. He didn't have to do this. Why not hire one of the most energetic, youthful, sabermatic savvy and successful general managers while he is in his prime. The Cubs could have settled for the status quo and gone with someone unproven or a recycled failure but instead they put their money where their mouth is and are going to rebuild their team model perhaps based on more successful teams such as the Red Sox.
Theo will have his work cut out for him with some of the albatross contracts the Cubs have but I like the fact that he left a place where he was comfortable and accepted a daunting challenge. He didn't have to do this. Why not hire one of the most energetic, youthful, sabermatic savvy and successful general managers while he is in his prime. The Cubs could have settled for the status quo and gone with someone unproven or a recycled failure but instead they put their money where their mouth is and are going to rebuild their team model perhaps based on more successful teams such as the Red Sox.