December 2009
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Cubs After Vicente Padilla?
Here’s about as bare bones as a rumor gets: the Cubs are looking to sign Vicente Padilla. That’s it. That’s all I got on the details. La Prensa in Nicaragua reports that the Cubs and Cardinals are in the lead to sign free-agent pitcher Vicente Padilla, according to Cesar Batista, who is linked with the [...]
Oh Thank Jeebus – Braves Sign Saito
Last week, rumors swirled that the Chicago Cubs were considering signing near-40-year-old reliever Takashi Saito. The Cubs bullpen, already crowded, simply didn’t need another expensive option – the ghosts of Bobby Howry, LaTroy Hawkins, Mike Remlinger, Mark Guthrie, Scott Eyre, and the rest still haunt these grounds. Thank you, thank you Atlanta Braves. Just one [...]
BREAKING: Cubs Trade Jake Fox and Aaron Miles to Oakland A’s
The Chicago Cubs just traded utility players Jake Fox and Aaron Miles (that’s pretty much the only way you would ever hear them listed with the same descriptor) to the Oakland A’s for a few youngsters: right-handed pitcher Jeff Gray (edit, Gray is a 28 year old reliever, so yeah, not so much on the [...]
Chicago Cubs are Shopping Aaron Miles, May Shop Jake Fox
We’ve heard plenty this offseason about the Chicago Cubs’ targets, but very little about current Cubs headed out the door. Two of the players that make sense as trade bait are utility players Jake Fox and Aaron Miles. They make sense in that capacity for very different reasons, of course: Fox, because he’s cheap and [...]
Obsessive Bradley Trade Watch: Familiar Names, Burrell and Castillo, Continue to Swirl
There’s been so much smoke surrounding the Chicago Cubs’ efforts to swing a deal with Tampa Bay involving Milton Bradley and Pat Burrell that we’re all choking on it. Still no fire, but that could be coming as soon as next week, at the Winter Meetings. If Pat Burrell is already a foregone conclusion, perhaps [...]
Bruce Miles Defends the Harden Arbitration Decision – and Fails
The Chicago Cubs’ decision yesterday to not offer arbitration to pitcher Rich Harden has been the subject of much hand wringing. We’ve been no exception. So it is a credit to anyone who can cogently defend the move, as Bruce Miles has done. But that said, Bruce is just plain wrong. I really hate to [...]
Florida Putting on Full Court Press for Cubs
So, the state of Florida REALLY wants the Cubs to spring with them. So much so, that they’ve dispatched the governor, Charlie Crist, to help secure the team. Crist met in Tallahassee, Fla., on Tuesday with Cubs chairman Tom Ricketts, team president Crane Kenney and other team officials to discuss the team possibly moving from [...]
Jeff Gray, Ronny Morla, and Matt Spencer Are Chicago Cubs
By Brett on December 4, 2009
Welcome to the three news members of the Chicago Cubs organization, acquired yesterday for Jake Fox, Aaron Miles, and $1 million of wheel-greasing: reliever Jeff Gray, and prospects Ronny Morla and Matt Spencer. Gray is the guy you’ll immediately notice from this trade, because he’s very likely to be a part of the Cubs’ pen [...]
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