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Phil Rogers wants teams to bail out Cubs...


SoxFan562004

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People need to stop assuming that the Cubs are going to make a major move for a player with a monster salary committment that is going to seriously help their team. They have only one player with a $10 mil plus salary in the coming years, and that's when they had to sign Wood. They'll make some moves to get decent, cheap, younger players like Ramirez or Lee, but not the big knockout blow for an elite player, outside of Nomar for a one year committment (I wouldn't call him elite at this point anyways). Thome was damn near begging to play for the Cubs, not interested. In a free agent class where they had the means and the need to grab Tejada or I-Rod, they wait until everyone is gone and overpay Maddux, who plays a position that they didn't need that much. This year they passed on Renteria and Benitez/Percival, getting absolutely nothing. They make surprisingly few major moves for a team with such a high payroll. The only reason it is this high is they had to pay homegrown players like Wood, Prior and Sosa, and were nearly forced to resign the players they got in trades like Ramirez, Lee, and Nomar.

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