06-22-2010, 03:42 PM
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David Kaplan posted 13 minutes ago | no comments
Several baseball sources have confirmed to me that the Chicago Cubs have been extremely active in trying to move Kosuke Fukudome to open up regular playing time for rookie Tyler Colvin. Fukudome is owed approximately 8 million dollars for the remainder of this season and an additional 14 million for 2011.
My sources tell me that Cubs GM Jim Hendry has offered to pick up the bulk of the remaining dollars on the 2010 commitment and half of the money in 2011 but so far has found no takers for the under performing right fielder.
I have also been told that upper management is being extremely patient despite the poor performance of the Cubs so far in 2010. They will wait a few more weeks and evaluate the club's position at that time before they determine a course of action in advance of the July 31 trade deadline.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Maybe I should have posted this in the Hendry's failures thread [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/ph34r.gif[/img] The notion that we need to move Fuk to "open up regular playing time for Colvin" seems a bit silly. Hendry needs to just step up and tell Lou to swap Fuk and Colvin's roles. At that point, we'd need to get Fuk off the roster because he's a waste of space.
David Kaplan posted 13 minutes ago | no comments
Several baseball sources have confirmed to me that the Chicago Cubs have been extremely active in trying to move Kosuke Fukudome to open up regular playing time for rookie Tyler Colvin. Fukudome is owed approximately 8 million dollars for the remainder of this season and an additional 14 million for 2011.
My sources tell me that Cubs GM Jim Hendry has offered to pick up the bulk of the remaining dollars on the 2010 commitment and half of the money in 2011 but so far has found no takers for the under performing right fielder.
I have also been told that upper management is being extremely patient despite the poor performance of the Cubs so far in 2010. They will wait a few more weeks and evaluate the club's position at that time before they determine a course of action in advance of the July 31 trade deadline.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Maybe I should have posted this in the Hendry's failures thread [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/ph34r.gif[/img] The notion that we need to move Fuk to "open up regular playing time for Colvin" seems a bit silly. Hendry needs to just step up and tell Lou to swap Fuk and Colvin's roles. At that point, we'd need to get Fuk off the roster because he's a waste of space.