Saturday, February 21, 2009

Cubs Offseason Moves Good or Bad??

Well the Chicago Cubs had another busy offseason compared to most other teams in the league. We have gotten rid of a few keys to last season's success. The trade of DeRosa for 3 minor leaguers is one that is still puzzling me to this day. Last year DeRosa was one of our best players if not the best player when you add in the veratility he gave our team. Every team has to have enough good players on the bench to pick up the slack when someone went down with an injury. DeRosa did that job by himself. We also got rid of one of our best relief pitchers Kerry Wood. Wood is a homegrown product of the Chicago Cub farm system. I can still remember him pitching his 21st K in a single game so early in his career. But what many still see are all the injuries in his past. The one two punch of Wood-Marmol was leathal last year and I am afraid that we won't have the tools for that same situation in the upcoming season. I don't understand how we can stand by Wood in the past few years when he has constantly been hurt but when he is finally coming back into his own we let him go. Granted I know the economy is down and we don't know how this is going to effect the Cubs yet but we still need to make the best moves for the ball club and I just don't know if either of these deals should have happened. O well thats the Cubs and how we do things...... I wish the Cubbies the best this season and hopefully we can get that ring put back on our finger.

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