12-29-2009, 05:43 PM
<!--quoteo(post=73299:date=Dec 29 2009, 03:05 PM:name=Runnys)-->QUOTE (Runnys @ Dec 29 2009, 03:05 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->Cherp...you DO realize that Soriano was not 100% healthy at ANY point of the season last year...right?<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
and he wasn't healthy in 08...and he missed a lot of games in 07 also. I know his health severely impacted him last year. But the guy started a downward trend at age 30. That's not uncommon in the pre and post steroid age that guys don't last much past that age. Certainly they don't usually deliver to be worth 18mm after that age usually.
Soriano may completely rebound. The Cubs can take that chance if they want to. If they found someone to take that contract off their hands, I'd be shocked if they didn't do cartwheels over it.
That said, you are right, he isn't dead yet.
and he wasn't healthy in 08...and he missed a lot of games in 07 also. I know his health severely impacted him last year. But the guy started a downward trend at age 30. That's not uncommon in the pre and post steroid age that guys don't last much past that age. Certainly they don't usually deliver to be worth 18mm after that age usually.
Soriano may completely rebound. The Cubs can take that chance if they want to. If they found someone to take that contract off their hands, I'd be shocked if they didn't do cartwheels over it.
That said, you are right, he isn't dead yet.