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Yeah, he has done a pretty good job. The Cubs have options to close, that wouldn't be the problem.
Yeah, he has done a pretty good job. The Cubs have options to close, that wouldn't be the problem.
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He has three saves in his career. One in each of 2008, 2010, 2011.
You just don't want to run into the LaTroy Hawkins type thing.
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This.
Why does that matter? The Cubs aren't going anywhere immedietly. They need help to rebuild the team/organization. A guy that can help "immedietly" may not even be around to help the team by the time they are ready to make a run at the WS.
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I dont think the Cubs would get a fair package for Marmol. Teams dont like to give up tons for RP. Marmol is still young enough why wouldnt he be around for Cubs to be contenders? Aftero 2006 season noboday thought they contend anytime but Cubs went had great offseason and won back to back divisions. Cubs have ALOT of money coming off books, if they do what a Big Market is supposed to do then they could contend in the next couple of years which Marmol still could be part of. So i wouldnt go trade Marmol
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They should've traded him before that extension was signed. But I fear we're just repeating ourselves 
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Cubs couldn't trade Marmol for a piece of gum right now.
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Absolutely. Please make it happen ASAP.
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That's why they should've traded him two years ago.
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Look at this Special person
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Buy low sell high.
Even on baseball players.
Too bad Jim couldn't sell high
Even on baseball players.
Too bad Jim couldn't sell high
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That's not really true. Hendry sold high on DeRosa and eventually turned him into Matt Garza. He did mostly dumb stuff but there was good in there. You just really have to dig :lol:
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I'm sure I was saying something similar at the time.
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Buy low sell high.
Even on baseball players.
Too bad Jim couldn't sell high
Yeah seeing what his low is.. my gosh.
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He didn't sell high on Marmol.
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Nope. Extended him. Bad idea.
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Meh. Even extending him wasn't a terrible idea. It gives teams a price of control.
Unless Hendry extended over team's controlling years :lol:
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The extension covered the last two years of arbitration plus a free agent year. Essentially he saved a minimal amount of money, if that. Had he just given Marmol his arbitration salary the other team would have been allowed to decide what he was worth the following years and they could have extended him to whatever. His trade value was clearly best before the extension. The extension was also unnecessary given the context of the team, because there weren't going to be all that many save opportunities during that contract (a bit of hindsight and also a bit of foreshadowing given how bad the offense was) so all told it was a waste of money.
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