Zambrano

[Butcher]

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I think I get you now. To him, for sure. I guess I just meant that I'm not convinced the Cubs saw it that way - I think they just needed to open a spot, and (mistakenly) thought he was the best to move out of the rotation.
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I'm not so sure they didn't think of it as a demotion, too. It seems they thought Silva/Wells/Gorz could give the club more quality innings than Z. They tried to paint a rosy picture of it, but if they couldn't see how it would be seen as a demotion (by Z and many others), then management, at the very least, wasn't thinking of the big picture.