Cubs Looking at Derek Lowe?

[Scarey]

<!--quoteo(post=5343:date=Dec 16 2008, 10:53 PM:name=Coldneck)-->QUOTE (Coldneck @ Dec 16 2008, 10:53 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=5340:date=Dec 16 2008, 10:42 PM:name=Scarey)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Scarey @ Dec 16 2008, 10:42 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->I have a very strong feeling that Lowe is going to flop big time on whoever signs him. The guy is turning 36 in June. I would only feel comfortable signing him if my home ball park had an expansive outfield.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

Since Lowe is one of the best sinkerballers in the league I am not to worried about the size of the yard he plays in. I more worried about the defense we'd put behind him and the fact that he is 36 years old with a lot of mileage on his body.

Over the last 4 years he has been quite consistent with last year being the best of them.


EDIT - I just checked Lowe's home/road splits. Over the last 3 years he is almost a full run worse when he's not pitching at Dodger Stadium. That's definitely a concern.
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Ideally, sinker ballers will get ground balls. But look at Marquis. There's times where he can't fool people with his sinker and then when he throws a fast ball it gets shot into orbit.

I just don't trust giving a guy that old the amount of money he'll get paid.

[rok]

This is preposterous BS. And I don't hate Lowe, actually think he would be a good fit here, but we've been acting as though we have a million salary constraints and such, so why this? Our name seems to get mentioned in connection with just about every FA these days.

[Coldneck]

It probably has something to do with the agent. They feed stories to the press to drive up the market value of the player. I doubt it fools many gm's, but probably works on occasion.