Theo goes to the Cubs

In what way are the Yankees and Red Sox set at DH with Posada and Ortiz, two plus-35s who don't have contracts for 2012?

 

Can't see either Pujols or Fielder moving into full-time DH roles.

That said, I don't see either one in Chicago either.

 

Yanks have Jesus at DH, with ARod dhing once a week and possibly Jeter dhing once a week.

 

Yep and Ortiz is still going strong.

 

Really? A guy with 69 career plate appearances has them "set" at DH? I am not saying he won't get that job, that would be the prudent and cost-effective course of action, but it would hardly be out of character for the Yankees to bypass a hot prospect so they could sign the free-agent flavor of the month. Not to mention Montero is probably the best chip they have if they want to trade for a pitcher.

As for Ortiz, it depends what's out there -- if someone else matches the $13M he got this season and gives him extra years, or if the Sox have a bug up their ass about him (as that article on the collapse seems to indicate), there's no telling how that goes.

I agree Pujols and Fielder wouldn't be interested in DHing. But it's foolish to say the Yankees and Red Sox won't be bidders.

 

Beckett might have weight and attitude issues but he was in the Cy discussion at one point and had one of his best overall seasons, statistically.

 

Montero isn't just a hot prospect. He is the No. 3 prospect who tore it up in his call up and has done well in the minors. They aren't shipping him off.

Anyways, Tex isn't moving over to DH either so they don't have anywhere to put Fielder or Pujols.

Red Sox have A-Gon at 1B and he obviously isn't moving either. Both teams are set at 1B with players who won't move to DH and neither Fielder nor Pujols will sign if they are going to DH.

The Yankees and Sox may fake interest a bit just to try and rise the price but its obvious they aren't really interested.

 

I'm down to one contact lens, so I first saw the subject line this way:

There goes the Cubs

 

Though I don't deny that Theo may have grown a bit arrogant in recent years, I think he's going to be very successful in Chicago. He's not a fraud. He clearly knows how to pick people who are good at scouting. According to Passan, he's the name that comes up the most when other GMs are asked who they respect the most. Chicago is a sleeping giant. It might be good too that he can't fall in love with the hottest free agent on the market. Outside of Adrian Gonzalez, his record is spotty there (at best). But he not a fraud. He might be a douche and a liar but he's not a fraud.

 

I know he was playing hurt, but based on the way Youkillis was moving around and how big he was, I'm guessing he'll be seeing plenty of time at DH over the rest of his contract.

 

If Fielder is going to command the kind of money Scott Boras thinks he deserves, than he's only going to get it from an AL team who projects him not necessarily as a DH now, but at the end of his contract.

No way a NL team gives him the years and the money Boras is going to demand, and likely, get.

Prince will be in Anaheim, Baltimore, Seattle, and if money really talks, perhaps with the Yankees or Red Sox, where he decides perhaps DH'ing isn't that bad after all.

I'm all for the Cubs hanging a contract around their necks they can't afford though!

 

It's a good job short-term, because the idiotic way that team's been constructed in recent years makes it virtually impossible for anyone with a brain to walk into Wrigley and do worse.

Seeing the whole job through, after the early, easy cosmetic changes? Not so easy.