7-10 Cubs vs Cards

[Butcher]

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Giving Fontenot the job at 2B while trading DeRosa so we could get more left-handed will go down as one of the dumbest things Jim Hendry has ever done in his life.
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That's only part of what he did. He did it to sign Bradley as well.
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I actually thought Bradley was a good risk. But it had nothing to do with Fontenot and DeRosa.
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It did, but let's not get into this discussion for the 50th time on this board.
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OK. Let's not.

But it didn't.
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Dude, you're wrong.


"According to Abreu’s people, the Cubs already had a verbal agreement with Bradley by the start of the winter meetings, and were waiting to clear salary (DeRosa, Marquis, etc.) to fit Bradley into their 2009 budget."
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"I remember when we signed DeRosa [on Nov. 14, 2006] and there was more second-guessing about that than anything," Hendry said. "Mark's a terrific guy and he was a good player for us. <b>But the thinking in the winter was that we already had five right-handed hitters penciled in that weren't going anywhere. And we were concerned with how [Kosuke] Fukudome was going to come back [as a left-handed power hitter]. ... If he hadn't come back well and we kept Mark, we were probably looking at seven out of eight right-handed hitters every day in the lineup. Then we would have that issue again.</b>"