04-23-2009, 02:46 PM
<!--quoteo(post=32532:date=Apr 23 2009, 02:40 PM:name=ColoradoCub)-->QUOTE (ColoradoCub @ Apr 23 2009, 02:40 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=32530:date=Apr 23 2009, 12:32 PM:name=Coldneck)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Coldneck @ Apr 23 2009, 12:32 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->Vizcaino's contract is a sunk cost. If improving the pen can be done by getting rid of a shitty pitcher than it should be done regardless of how much money he is paid. I question why Cotts is on the roster, but I do think we need a left hander and Vizcaino was a time bomb waiting to explode. Thankfully we get rid of him so he can blow up another team's bullpen.
THIS MOVE MAKES SENSE. The Cubs are better for it. At the end of the day we saved the $6 million difference between Marquis and Vizcaino's contracts.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
The move may make sense, but how we arrived at this point doesn't. If they didn't think much of Vizcaino, and never intended to carry him thru the season, he never should have made the roster out of spring training in the first place.
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Who would you have kept on the roster at the end of spring training? I guess your answer would have been Gaudin who would have been dropped when Spellcheck was ready anyhow. Spellcheck wasn't ready at the end of spring training. I see no reason not to send him to Iowa for extra work and keep Vizcaino or Gaudin. The order they were dropped really doesn't matter to me.
And the money argument makes no sense. Whether Vizcaino was on the team or not we would be paying his salary. I rather pay him to blow up another team's pen than ours.
THIS MOVE MAKES SENSE. The Cubs are better for it. At the end of the day we saved the $6 million difference between Marquis and Vizcaino's contracts.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
The move may make sense, but how we arrived at this point doesn't. If they didn't think much of Vizcaino, and never intended to carry him thru the season, he never should have made the roster out of spring training in the first place.
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Who would you have kept on the roster at the end of spring training? I guess your answer would have been Gaudin who would have been dropped when Spellcheck was ready anyhow. Spellcheck wasn't ready at the end of spring training. I see no reason not to send him to Iowa for extra work and keep Vizcaino or Gaudin. The order they were dropped really doesn't matter to me.
And the money argument makes no sense. Whether Vizcaino was on the team or not we would be paying his salary. I rather pay him to blow up another team's pen than ours.
