I think this offseason may be more frustrating than the second half of last season. Pretty well every move we've made or are seeking to make is trying to reverse a bad decision from last year. Let's think about the big additions we made last season:
-Aaron Miles: gone
-Kevin Gregg: gone
-Milton Bradley: would be gone if someone would take him
It is really as if this offseason, the plan is to simply right the wrongs of last season. So, as I've said before, we'd have been better in 09 if we had just made no changes in the previous offseason. While trying to unload Bradley, we're letting anyone worth having slip through our fingers.
And here's the dumbest thing that has been done by Cubs management: they started talking about unloading Bradley before the season was over. Everyone in baseball knows the Cubs really, really want to dump him. So, there is no chance for any leverage on the Cubs' side. We will end up paying the rest of his contract, getting nothing in return, or getting some other team's problems in return (or all of those).
On a completely unrelated note, though, how cool would it be to go ice skating at Wrigley Field? So far, this has, by far, been the greatest Cubs decision in the offseason.
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
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