06-22-2010, 06:05 PM
<!--quoteo(post=102490:date=Jun 22 2010, 04:52 PM:name=jstraw)-->QUOTE (jstraw @ Jun 22 2010, 04:52 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=102486:date=Jun 22 2010, 04:44 PM:name=rok)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (rok @ Jun 22 2010, 04:44 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=102485:date=Jun 22 2010, 04:41 PM:name=1060Ivy)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (1060Ivy @ Jun 22 2010, 04:41 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->Not implying that Fuk is a problem but trading him for salary relief/decent prospects could definitely be part of the overall solution for 2011. 2010 is a pretty much a lost cause<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
If he wasn't making so much, he wouldn't be a problem at all as a platoon player. All things considered, he is a waste of a roster spot, that would be better served on another team.
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Fuk has to get significant starts until he can be dealt. If he's made a bench player it just depresses his value further.
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Every GM in baseball already knows that the Cubs need to dump Fukodome. Even if he starts every game and pulls his battiing average up to the .300+ range, adds 5 HR, and he cures cancer, we're still not going to get much for him and we're not going to get anything but (at absolute BEST) 50% salary relief. It doesn't matter. Fukodome isn't starting as much because Colvin needs playing time, not because Fukodome is sucking ass (though his BA over the last months has dipped).
It's like trying to trade Milton Bradley... when everyone knows you MUST make a trade, you get offers like (a) you pay 80% of his salary and we'll take him for a PTBNL, ([img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/cool.gif[/img] take an expensive one-dimensional player (Burrell) and pay us the salary difference, or take on an even more cumbersome contract that looks even more hopeless. JH spun shit into gold that time... maybe he can do it again with Fukodome. But I maintain his starting time, or lack thereof, has not much bearing on the situation. If us knuckle-heads here know Fukodome's not starting to get Colvin at-bats', I think every MLB franchise has a scouting department that can tell them the same things we know, too.
If he wasn't making so much, he wouldn't be a problem at all as a platoon player. All things considered, he is a waste of a roster spot, that would be better served on another team.
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Fuk has to get significant starts until he can be dealt. If he's made a bench player it just depresses his value further.
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Every GM in baseball already knows that the Cubs need to dump Fukodome. Even if he starts every game and pulls his battiing average up to the .300+ range, adds 5 HR, and he cures cancer, we're still not going to get much for him and we're not going to get anything but (at absolute BEST) 50% salary relief. It doesn't matter. Fukodome isn't starting as much because Colvin needs playing time, not because Fukodome is sucking ass (though his BA over the last months has dipped).
It's like trying to trade Milton Bradley... when everyone knows you MUST make a trade, you get offers like (a) you pay 80% of his salary and we'll take him for a PTBNL, ([img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/cool.gif[/img] take an expensive one-dimensional player (Burrell) and pay us the salary difference, or take on an even more cumbersome contract that looks even more hopeless. JH spun shit into gold that time... maybe he can do it again with Fukodome. But I maintain his starting time, or lack thereof, has not much bearing on the situation. If us knuckle-heads here know Fukodome's not starting to get Colvin at-bats', I think every MLB franchise has a scouting department that can tell them the same things we know, too.
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