Cubs trade Carlos Zambrano to Marlins for Chris Volstad

[dabynsky]

Finally! He's gone. :crazydance:

Again I am looking forward to lack of talent finally being recognized as the reason this team isn't very good at baseball.

 

[DewsSox79]

Its good for payroll reasons. obviously the cubs are shedding salary and trying to build from within at a cheaper scale. I know the cubs arent hurting financially....

Will be interesting if they trade garza now.

what does this rotation look like?

garza
dempster
wells

and before anyone says it....edwin jackson isnt coming.

 

[dabynsky]

Its good for payroll reasons. obviously the cubs are shedding salary and trying to build from within at a cheaper scale. I know the cubs arent hurting financially....

Will be interesting if they trade garza now.

what does this rotation look like?

garza
dempster
wells

and before anyone says it....edwin jackson isnt coming.

How is this good for payroll reasons? The Cubs aren't saving any money this year.

2012 Cubs Rotation as of now has to be something like this:
1.Garza
2.Dempster
3.Wood
4.Volstad
5.Wells
6.Cashner (Could see a flip flopping of Wells and Cashner but not likely given that out of the first five listed I think only Wood could be sent down without exposing to waivers)
7.Sonnastine
8.Coleman

 

[DewsSox79]

Cubs eating all the money minus minimum salary... and taking on Volstad's.

What!?!?!?!?!?!? how the **** did miami get away with that? jesus christ!! what a fucking deal for the marlins.

 

[Uman85]

Again I am looking forward to lack of talent finally being recognized as the reason this team isn't very good at baseball.

LOL


Nobody ever said this team was going to be talented next year. Getting rid of assholes like Zambrano is still reason to celebrate as this team looks toward the future.

 

[CODE_BLUE56]

How is this good for payroll reasons? The Cubs aren't saving any money this year.

ya...and the cubs have to eat 15 M of z's contract

but atleast we are getting rid of it

 

[JosMin]

Think of it this way -- at least we aren't in the same boat as Houston. They've traded away virtually all their assets and have absolutely nothing to show for it. With all of their trades over the last few years (Hunter Pence, Michael Bourne, etc.) their farm system and young talent is scarce, at best.

I'm still a little scared of our starting rotation, especially if we end up trading Garza. I'm assuming we'd roll out Dempster, Wells, Wood, Volstad and Cashner. Yeesh... a #3 starter on his best day throwing out our first pitch in 2012. :bizarro:

 

[DewsSox79]

How is this good for payroll reasons? The Cubs aren't saving any money this year.

i assumed the marlins would eat some of this. im still in shock that miami walked into the bank, took 3,039,533,721.22 in 15 secs. talk about a stick up

 

[dabynsky]

LOL


Nobody ever said this team was going to be talented next year. Getting rid of assholes like Zambrano is still reason to celebrate as this team looks toward the future.

yourself

Did I say that you were arguing that this team was going to be talented next year? No I said I am looking forward to when we can ignore dumb reasons like Carlos Zambrano being a bad teammate as why this team was bad and finally focus on the real problem of the lack of talent on the major league roster.

 

[DewsSox79]

now im pissed at my GM for not fucking calling on zambrano at that deal. god dammit

 

[Rice Cube]

Cubs basically broke even. I think Volstad is due for an arbitration raise?

 

[dabynsky]

Cubs basically broke even. I think Volstad is due for an arbitration raise?

Yeah MLBTradeRumors put his estimated number at 2.6 million I believe. I would have to figure that the money is going to work out to be within several hundred thousand.

 

[cubsneedmiracle]

Goooooooood

 

[CODE_BLUE56]

Cubs basically broke even. I think Volstad is due for an arbitration raise?

i think its a long term win with volstad

and of course we arent the astros...that doesnt make me feel any better about anything though

 

[Rice Cube]

At this point Volstad is a younger pitcher who can be a good reclamation project. He has good peripherals, just needs to figure out how to keep the ball in the park. So the Cubs didn't trade for pure crap, but it's a bit of a stretch to call it a long term win at this point. He may easily fizzle out and be a non-tender guy and/or sent to the minors.

 

[Capt. Serious]

LOL at people thinking they were getting LoMo.

Quit huffing glue.

 

[Uman85]

yourself

Did I say that you were arguing that this team was going to be talented next year? No I said I am looking forward to when we can ignore dumb reasons like Carlos Zambrano being a bad teammate as why this team was bad and finally focus on the real problem of the lack of talent on the major league roster.

Haha.

Zambrano was a problem for who he was and how big of a problem he was in the clubhouse as was the lack of talent. Again, it blows my mind how people were still going to give him a chance this year. That is just horribly stupid and funny.

 

[IvyPickin87]

now im pissed at my GM for not fucking calling on zambrano at that deal. god dammit

Why he would ever use it, but he could use his NTC to **** the cubs and make them pay him to do absolutely nothing. If you are the Cubs you want to trade him somewhere he will want to play, he likes ozzie so he will play there. I'm sure he would waive it anywhere to play, instead of sit. But if you are the Cubs you make sure its somewhere he will want to go.

 

[CODE_BLUE56]

LOL at people thinking they were getting LoMo.

Quit huffing glue.

WGAF?

 

[dabynsky]

Haha.

Zambrano was a problem for who he was and how big of a problem he was in the clubhouse as was the lack of talent. Again, it blows my mind how people were still going to give him a chance this year. That is just horribly stupid and funny.

Wow want to make up more stuff about what I said. Again the only thing I said as I am glad that we can finally focus on the real issue this team has been facing the past several seasons which is a lack of talent.