You just completely pulled that out of your ass. How do you know the reports are false? Is every newspaper article (or on a newspaper's website) a lie?
I read that the Cubs think Silva can be a good back-of-the-end guy in one of these articles. So they may want to keep him anyway, it is just one year.
I'm not saying it is a lie. I bet Quade and Riggins love Cashner, but it's not their decision. It's Jim Hendry's and Tom Rickett's. They are the ones that run this team.
Why would they want to keep him if we are paying him 6 million to be in the bullpen? That makes no sense at all.
What happened to not caring about player's feelings? You said you don't care if Cashner's confidence could be ruined and now you care if Silva gets mad?
It's helping Cashner in the long term... he can get over that, plus I would have to think that Cashner wants to start... if AAA is where he needs to go to become an MLB starter, I don't see him having a problem with that. If Silva is mad, he is going to suck. It's not the same with Cashner. This really isn't a hard concept to understand.
If he gets a starting rotation position, he obviously stays...? I'm not even sure that that was a question. I meant that if he's going to be a starter, he needs to start. And if he doesn't start in Chicago, have him start in Iowa. It's not going to hurt anything.
If the difference between Cashner and Silva starting is wins, then that takes precedence over money. So if Cashner pitches well enough to earn the one of the two remaining rotation spots, then yeah, we'll be overpaying a reliever. But that shouldn't matter because Cashner is pitching better than Silva.
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While I think the 10 wins may have been a fluke, it doesn't make any sense to get into Silva's head about that. It's just distracting.
It's not about pitcher wins though... it's about the amount of value they provide the team. BUT that's not the point here. The point is that if we want any chance of getting rid of Silva, we need him starting. Unless you want to pay him 6 million dollars to be a pissed off long reliever all year... in which case you are Special person.
Nobody's saying what SHOULD happen, except CO. I'm just saying the Cubs WON'T send Cashner down.
And he's all but locked up a spot according to this article, but CO just claims the newspaper made it up, so...
You simply don't know that the Cubs won't send him down. I never once said they made it up.
Silva's gone after this year anyways.
Not the point. The point is that we need to get rid of him, so we don't have to pay his whole salary. In order to do that, he needs to start.
