Cubs Commitments - A look ahead

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When you sign aging talent to long term deals the assumption of injury loss should be made, especially when the player has an injury history.
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BINGO!
Also, I cannot believe we're actually still arguing this, but we've been arguing it all year long: Aramis Ramirez is an injury risk. Period. He has been his whole career. That's one of the reasons we got him from the Pirates in the 1st place.
His #1 backup was............Mark Fucking DeRosa.
So, no...it was NOT a good idea to have NO BACKUP PLAN for inevitable injuries.
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Aaron Miles was our backup plan for injuries.
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Actually Mike Fontenot is/was the backup 3B.