Thinking about how much of a bad streak Hendry has been on recently (the Bradley signing, the 2-year deal for John Grabow, not offering Rich Harden arbitration, etc.) I feel bad for Jim, and wanted to see what I can do to help him......Right now the Cubs bullpen looks like this:
CL -- Carlos Marmol
SU -- Angel Guzman, John Grabow
LR -- Sean Marshall
MR -- Justin Berg, Esmailin Caridad, Jeff Samardzija or Jon Gaub or Jeff Stevens
While I feel comfortable about the front 4 (even though Hendry waaaay overpaid Grabow and doesn't seem to pay any attention to a pitcher's WHIP), I'm ...
I've written about this elsewhere, but I really don't think a Fontenot/Baker platoon would be the worst thing in the world. Fontenot has hit righties well, except for last year, which Goat Riders of the Apocalypse has shown to be a fluke:
"To demonstrate, look at the league average in BABIP for the past three years, compared to Fontenot's BABIP. I'll drop his OPS in, too.
2007: League - .306, Mike - .330, Mike's OPS - .738 2008: League - .303, Mike - .355 (!), Mike's OPS - .909 2009: League - .302, Mike - .281 (...), Mike's OPS - .677
One other ...
With things so quiet on the trade front, you have to assume that the winter meetings will start the momentum of the offseason going—someone will overpay for a reliever that had a career year or a position player that was great two years ago but has been injured since. The question for us is, what will Jim Hendry do?
Yes, getting rid of Heilman was a good move and saved $2 million, but once again Hendry overpaid for a middle-of-the-road reliever: $3.75 million a year for John Grabow is another bad bullpen move. This is like Danys Baez, or Ron Mahay, or ...
