The 2010 Cubs Free Agent and Roster Moves Thread: SAVEENG OUR KUBBEEZ!!11

[Slaky]

Curtis Granderson is a Yankee.

Commence the excitement over Mike Cameron! 

Anybody?  Anybody?

I'll start it off. YAY! 13th Best OFer in the MLB for WAR, 4th out of all CFers

He doesn't cost any prospects either.

Not only that but Melky's career OPS+ is 88. Eighty fucking eight. Yeesh.

Bring on the Mike Cameron era.

[Yeti]

Curtis Granderson is a Yankee.

Commence the excitement over Mike Cameron! 

Anybody?  Anybody?

I'll start it off. YAY! 13th Best OFer in the MLB for WAR, 4th out of all CFers

He doesn't cost any prospects either.

Not only that but Melky's career OPS+ is 88. Eighty fucking eight. Yeesh.

Bring on the Mike Cameron era.

As long as that era is 1-2 years long.

[Slaky]

Curtis Granderson is a Yankee.

Commence the excitement over Mike Cameron! 

Anybody?  Anybody?

I'll start it off. YAY! 13th Best OFer in the MLB for WAR, 4th out of all CFers

He doesn't cost any prospects either.

Not only that but Melky's career OPS+ is 88. Eighty fucking eight. Yeesh.

Bring on the Mike Cameron era.

As long as that era is 1-2 years long.

Yes. In my stupid assumption that it would be, I forgot we're dealing with Hendry. I hadn't heard how long of a deal Cammy is looking for.

[PenFoe]

Curtis Granderson is a Yankee.

Commence the excitement over Mike Cameron! 

Anybody?  Anybody?

I'll start it off. YAY! 13th Best OFer in the MLB for WAR, 4th out of all CFers

He doesn't cost any prospects either.

Not only that but Melky's career OPS+ is 88. Eighty fucking eight. Yeesh.

Bring on the Mike Cameron era.

As long as that era is 1-2 years long.

Yes. In my stupid assumption that it would be, I forgot we're dealing with Hendry. I hadn't heard how long of a deal Cammy is looking for.

If we're going to call him Cammy, I'd just assume start hating him now.

[MidgetSellingWater]

Curtis Granderson is a Yankee.

Commence the excitement over Mike Cameron! 

Anybody?  Anybody?

I'll start it off. YAY! 13th Best OFer in the MLB for WAR, 4th out of all CFers

He doesn't cost any prospects either.

Not only that but Melky's career OPS+ is 88. Eighty fucking eight. Yeesh.

Bring on the Mike Cameron era.

As long as that era is 1-2 years long.

Yes. In my stupid assumption that it would be, I forgot we're dealing with Hendry. I hadn't heard how long of a deal Cammy is looking for.

If we're going to call him Cammy, I'd just assume start hating him now.

For all intensive purposes, I don't think you're using that right.

[Andy]

Cameron's last deal was two years and $16 million.  Given that he's older now, I would figure that Hendry could probably get him for five years and $88 million, assuming he gives Cameron a full no trade clause.

[PenFoe]

Curtis Granderson is a Yankee.

Commence the excitement over Mike Cameron! 

Anybody?  Anybody?

I'll start it off. YAY! 13th Best OFer in the MLB for WAR, 4th out of all CFers

He doesn't cost any prospects either.

Not only that but Melky's career OPS+ is 88. Eighty fucking eight. Yeesh.

Bring on the Mike Cameron era.

As long as that era is 1-2 years long.

Yes. In my stupid assumption that it would be, I forgot we're dealing with Hendry. I hadn't heard how long of a deal Cammy is looking for.

If we're going to call him Cammy, I'd just assume as soon start hating him now.

For all intensive purposes, I don't think you're using that right.

Picky, picky.

[CBStew]

Curtis Granderson is a Yankee.

Commence the excitement over Mike Cameron! 

Anybody?  Anybody?

I'll start it off. YAY! 13th Best OFer in the MLB for WAR, 4th out of all CFers

He doesn't cost any prospects either.

Not only that but Melky's career OPS+ is 88. Eighty fucking eight. Yeesh.

Bring on the Mike Cameron era.

As long as that era is 1-2 years long.

Yes. In my stupid assumption that it would be, I forgot we're dealing with Hendry. I hadn't heard how long of a deal Cammy is looking for.

If we're going to call him Cammy, I'd just assume start hating him now.

For all intensive purposes, I don't think you're using that right.

I think that is clover.

[Weebs]

According to Tim Brown of Yahoo! Sports, the Cubs and Mariners are discussing a swap of Milton Bradley for Carlos Silva.
If Seattle GM Jack Zduriencik pulls this off, we might as well hand him the Executive of the Year award today. Silva, 30, posted an 8.60 ERA and 1.70 WHIP in 30 innings this past season and a 6.46 ERA in 153 1/3 innings the year before. Bradley may be a clubhouse cancer and may have had an off year in 2009, but he's not nearly as terrible as Silva.

If this is true, I think I'm officially done with the Cubs.

[Slaky]

According to Tim Brown of Yahoo! Sports, the Cubs and Mariners are discussing a swap of Milton Bradley for Carlos Silva.
If Seattle GM Jack Zduriencik pulls this off, we might as well hand him the Executive of the Year award today. Silva, 30, posted an 8.60 ERA and 1.70 WHIP in 30 innings this past season and a 6.46 ERA in 153 1/3 innings the year before. Bradley may be a clubhouse cancer and may have had an off year in 2009, but he's not nearly as terrible as Silva.

If this is true, I think I'm officially done with the Cubs.

I think I can become a Mariners fan. They've ever offended me. Seattle has contributed some pretty nice things to society...good rock music, decent coffee, lots of fish, other shit I'd probably enjoy. I don't care for their uniforms but I can get over that.

Go Mariners!

[PenFoe]

According to Tim Brown of Yahoo! Sports, the Cubs and Mariners are discussing a swap of Milton Bradley for Carlos Silva.
If Seattle GM Jack Zduriencik pulls this off, we might as well hand him the Executive of the Year award today. Silva, 30, posted an 8.60 ERA and 1.70 WHIP in 30 innings this past season and a 6.46 ERA in 153 1/3 innings the year before. Bradley may be a clubhouse cancer and may have had an off year in 2009, but he's not nearly as terrible as Silva.

If this is true, I think I'm officially done with the Cubs.

Looks like Silva is owed $11.5 this year, then he can be bought out for $2 million the following year.

Still, this is a really, really shitty deal. 

Paying Milton $21 million to just stay home would be better than this.

[Weebs]

According to Tim Brown of Yahoo! Sports, the Cubs and Mariners are discussing a swap of Milton Bradley for Carlos Silva.
If Seattle GM Jack Zduriencik pulls this off, we might as well hand him the Executive of the Year award today. Silva, 30, posted an 8.60 ERA and 1.70 WHIP in 30 innings this past season and a 6.46 ERA in 153 1/3 innings the year before. Bradley may be a clubhouse cancer and may have had an off year in 2009, but he's not nearly as terrible as Silva.

If this is true, I think I'm officially done with the Cubs.

Looks like Silva is owed $11.5 this year, then he can be bought out for $2 million the following year.

Still, this is a really, really shitty deal. 

Paying Milton $21 million to just stay home would be better than this.

Money has nothing to do with it.  If you're trading a player like Bradley, however big of an asshole he is, you get something even halfway decent in return.  I'd rather the trade be for Jerry Hairston if he had a $12 million contract.  Luckily, it looks like the Muskrat has shot down these rumors, but thinks a deal will likely get done tomorrow.

[PenFoe]

According to Tim Brown of Yahoo! Sports, the Cubs and Mariners are discussing a swap of Milton Bradley for Carlos Silva.
If Seattle GM Jack Zduriencik pulls this off, we might as well hand him the Executive of the Year award today. Silva, 30, posted an 8.60 ERA and 1.70 WHIP in 30 innings this past season and a 6.46 ERA in 153 1/3 innings the year before. Bradley may be a clubhouse cancer and may have had an off year in 2009, but he's not nearly as terrible as Silva.

If this is true, I think I'm officially done with the Cubs.

Looks like Silva is owed $11.5 this year, then he can be bought out for $2 million the following year.

Still, this is a really, really shitty deal. 

Paying Milton $21 million to just stay home would be better than this.

Money has nothing to do with it.  If you're trading a player like Bradley, however big of an asshole he is, you get something even halfway decent in return.  I'd rather the trade be for Jerry Hairston if he had a $12 million contract.  Luckily, it looks like the Muskrat has shot down these rumors, but thinks a deal will likely get done tomorrow.

Gordon Wittenmyer of the Chicago Sun-Times reports the Mariners have shot down rumors of a Milton Bradley-for-Carlos Silva swap.

Crisis averted.

[PenFoe]

According to Tim Brown of Yahoo! Sports, the Cubs and Mariners are discussing a swap of Milton Bradley for Carlos Silva.
If Seattle GM Jack Zduriencik pulls this off, we might as well hand him the Executive of the Year award today. Silva, 30, posted an 8.60 ERA and 1.70 WHIP in 30 innings this past season and a 6.46 ERA in 153 1/3 innings the year before. Bradley may be a clubhouse cancer and may have had an off year in 2009, but he's not nearly as terrible as Silva.

If this is true, I think I'm officially done with the Cubs.

Looks like Silva is owed $11.5 this year, then he can be bought out for $2 million the following year.

Still, this is a really, really shitty deal. 

Paying Milton $21 million to just stay home would be better than this.

Money has nothing to do with it.  If you're trading a player like Bradley, however big of an asshole he is, you get something even halfway decent in return.  I'd rather the trade be for Jerry Hairston if he had a $12 million contract.  Luckily, it looks like the Muskrat has shot down these rumors, but thinks a deal will likely get done tomorrow.

DPD, but just wanted to point out that, whatever you were attempting to say here, you're wrong.

[Weebs]

According to Tim Brown of Yahoo! Sports, the Cubs and Mariners are discussing a swap of Milton Bradley for Carlos Silva.
If Seattle GM Jack Zduriencik pulls this off, we might as well hand him the Executive of the Year award today. Silva, 30, posted an 8.60 ERA and 1.70 WHIP in 30 innings this past season and a 6.46 ERA in 153 1/3 innings the year before. Bradley may be a clubhouse cancer and may have had an off year in 2009, but he's not nearly as terrible as Silva.

If this is true, I think I'm officially done with the Cubs.

Looks like Silva is owed $11.5 this year, then he can be bought out for $2 million the following year.

Still, this is a really, really shitty deal. 

Paying Milton $21 million to just stay home would be better than this.

Money has nothing to do with it.  If you're trading a player like Bradley, however big of an asshole he is, you get something even halfway decent in return.  I'd rather the trade be for Jerry Hairston if he had a $12 million contract.  Luckily, it looks like the Muskrat has shot down these rumors, but thinks a deal will likely get done tomorrow.

DPD, but just wanted to point out that, whatever you were attempting to say here, you're wrong.

I don't mean for the actual trade.  I just meant for the Bradley-Silva rumor.  The problem with that trade isn't that they might only have to spend $13.5 million on him (though I didn't think he had a buyout), it's that they'd trade a good outfielder for one of the worst pitchers in baseball.  At least Pat Burrell could hit a homerun once-in-a-while.  Carlos Silva would do nothing productive.  Of course, it looks like that crisis has been averted, so who cares.  Bring on the Lyle Overbay talk!