Cubs Payroll

The Chicago Cubs are being looked at as a spend happy ball club lately but in all reality they are just trying to buy quality players to achieve their goals. All baseball fans know of the Yankees and how they can buy whoever they want. To me this just gets old and frankly I am sick of it. I appreciate what Cubs' management is doing because it shows me that they are trying to get that World Series ring at all costs. You don't see the Cubs going after anybody and everybody. I see them as carefully selecting the pieces to this never ending puzzle. Some of you may argue that you hear the Cubs' name everytime a big name becomes a free agent but I just see this as the Cubs looking over every possibility. At the moment the Cubs 2009 payroll is estimated to be around 138 million dollars. The only figure I could find on the Yankees is 201 million dollars and that was only for the 16 players signed on their current roster. I don't think the Cubs have over paid in many areas. The only players I could see an argument with that statement is Soriano and Fukudome. The same people wouldn't be saying that if Soriano could stay healthy and if Fukudome produced the second half of the year. All in all I hope those people are proved wrong this year when both these players come back into their own element.