July 2010
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Lukewarm Stove: Giants Want Tom Gorzelanny, Probably Don’t Want Ryan Theriot
The San Francisco Giants are in a battle out West, and are falling slowly out of the race. Thus, they’re looking to shore up their team as baseball heads into the second half. The Giants also are in the market for pitching and they had a scout at Wrigley Field last week watching Tom Gorzelanny, [...]
Enhanced Box Score: Cubs 0, Dodgers 7 – July 11, 2010
A fitting end to the first half – though I guess typically, the starting pitching was much better. At least there was some excitement in the form of an ejection (Silva) and throwing at dudes (Padilla-Byrd, Cashner-DeWitt).
Lukewarm Stove: Mets May Want Lilly, but Can’t Add Payroll
While the New York Mets remain a possible destination for Chicago Cubs pitcher Ted Lilly, they might not be able to take on much, if any, of his remaining $5 million owed this year, according to Buster Olney. That means that, in order to trade Lilly to the Mets, the Cubs would have to eat the [...]
Lukewarm Stove: Cubs Continue to Shop Kosuke Fukudome
A reminder for newer readers: the Lukewarm Stove, as the name suggests, features Chicago Cubs rumors that are either very thin in terms of detail, or very thin in terms of likelihood. Get it? Not quite Hot Stove – but lukewarm (I’m clever). But damnit, you deserve to have all the Cubs rumors you can [...]
Jim Hendry All But Confirms that the Cubs Will Be Sellers
As if there were any doubt that the Chicago Cubs – if they make trades at all – will be sellers this year, General Manager Jim Hendry has effectively removed all such doubt. “Anything we will do, we’ll try to set us up better for the future,” Hendry said this weekend. While he is bitter [...]
Enhanced Box Score: Cubs 7, Dodgers 3 – July 10, 2010
Geovany Soto continues to rake (from the 8-hole), and he’s starting to make me wonder why he wasn’t included in the All-Star snub discussion, let alone the actual All-Star discussion. Yadier Molina, proving that the fans voting for All-Stars are morons, currently sports a .593 OPS (no, that is not a typo). The only other [...]
Ted Lilly to the New York Mets?
Now that Cliff Lee is off the trade market, Chicago Cubs starter Ted Lilly becomes the best available lefty starting pitcher on the market, and remains one of the best two or three available overall. It seems highly likely that, if the Cubs decide to move Lilly and he’s amenable to waiving his limited no-trade [...]
Texas Rangers Have “Strong Interest” in Xavier Nady
Despite going balls to the wall in their acquisition of Cliff Lee late yesterday, the Texas Rangers apparently aren’t done making moves. They might like to add a first baseman after moving Justin Smoak, and that first baseman might be Xavier Nady. The Cubs are in a listening mode for other veterans, including outfielder/first baseman [...]
