09-11-2009, 04:45 PM
<!--quoteo(post=62710:date=Sep 11 2009, 03:32 PM:name=Scarey)-->QUOTE (Scarey @ Sep 11 2009, 03:32 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->I don't think it makes that much of a difference honestly. I know Soriano has been a huge contributer to the crappy season, but I don't think switching one player on this roster makes that much of a difference... especially when you consider all the Cubs that sucked wtih Soriano.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Ack! I give up.
Ok, no I don't. Not having that contract doesn't translate into spending that much money on someone else. It could be spent on several players. Our payroll situation meant we weren't in the market for a bunch of otherwise affordable players.
I understand the gamble Hendry made. You give an old fart too much money for too many years because you're almost <i>there</i> and you're going after the brass ring. If the post-season had gone as advertised last year, no one would care that Soriano was going to be a grossly overpaid has-been before the contract was out. That's just how it works.
But winning it all during the first few years of that contract was only way it was ever going to work out well. Failing that, it just hamstrings the club too much. I'm not sure with everything else that went wrong for the Cubs this season that any one player could have had a year to offset the rest of the problems. I don't think it's about Soriano specifically. I think that committing that much of your payroll to anyone you know is going to go bad before you're done paying him is a bad idea. It's too big a gamble...if that one guy has a lousy year, you can't afford to retool.
I think ideally you'd want everyone on your club to be someone that if you had to deal them, you could because the amount of their contract you'd end up having to pay to get rid of them wouldn't be ludicrous.
Ack! I give up.
Ok, no I don't. Not having that contract doesn't translate into spending that much money on someone else. It could be spent on several players. Our payroll situation meant we weren't in the market for a bunch of otherwise affordable players.
I understand the gamble Hendry made. You give an old fart too much money for too many years because you're almost <i>there</i> and you're going after the brass ring. If the post-season had gone as advertised last year, no one would care that Soriano was going to be a grossly overpaid has-been before the contract was out. That's just how it works.
But winning it all during the first few years of that contract was only way it was ever going to work out well. Failing that, it just hamstrings the club too much. I'm not sure with everything else that went wrong for the Cubs this season that any one player could have had a year to offset the rest of the problems. I don't think it's about Soriano specifically. I think that committing that much of your payroll to anyone you know is going to go bad before you're done paying him is a bad idea. It's too big a gamble...if that one guy has a lousy year, you can't afford to retool.
I think ideally you'd want everyone on your club to be someone that if you had to deal them, you could because the amount of their contract you'd end up having to pay to get rid of them wouldn't be ludicrous.