I have been meaning to write about baseball trades for a week or more, but it has also been trade deadline season for the Playstation Cubs. I am a much better gm than the computer, so my team is greatly improved. It remains to be seen if the real life Cubs have improved. Several Cubs were being mentioned as trade candidates today, but I think their pricetags were too high.
We did make several moves earlier in the month. Garza, Feldman, Marmol, Harriston, and Soriano have all been traded. Mike Olt is the biggest name prospect to join the club. I was pretty excited until I read that he has been having vision problems lingering from a concussion last season. Hopefully that is behind him, and he can hit like he has in the past. I think everyone else who came over were pitchers, most of them still years away from the majors.
In his six seasons before Chicago, Soriano had 5 90 rbi seasons, 4 100 run seasons, and 4 30/30 seasons, one of them a 40/40. He should have made the Cubs into perennial contenders. They did win the division his first two seasons before being swept out of the playoffs, but otherwise it was a disappointing injury plagued career at Wrigley. I had given up on Soriano ever being traded. His huge contract made him impossible to move. The Cubs will still have to pay 18 of the 25 million left on his contract, but at least we saved 7 mil and freed up some at bats for Junior Lake.
The Cubs are still at least another season away from being competitive. It doesn't help that division opponents St Louis, Pittsburgh, and Cincinnati are all really good. At least the team is in better shape than it was this time last year. As a Cubs fan, that is really all you can ask for.
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