Ugh, I hope not. This team needs someone capable of power and/or OBP, not Campana.
How about making moves with a horizon of more than the next couple of weeks? This season is going nowhere. Instead of making moves to add power and/or OBP right now to a team which is going nowhere, how about instead making moves now which are intended to help the team in later years. I don't know if Campana is such a move, but looking to add power and/or OBP now in order to win this season is not.
Bruce Miles:
Here is what GM Jim Hendry told reporters in Cincy:
"He had a really good year for us and since the first days of spring training he never played up to that level. We're in the production business.
With some minor changes in that, Ricketts could make the same statement about Hendry in firing him -- "He had a really good (first) year for us and since the(n) he never p(roduced) up to that level. We're in the production business."
Unless Hendry can make a trade with himself, there's no way any other team will take Soriano no matter how much money we eat. May as well just release him and swallow the rest of the contract. It's better than letting him kill you on the field every day for the life of the deal.
If the Cubs cut Soriano, and another team picks him up off waivers, doesn't the new team only have to pay his waiver salary, something like $25K? And if the Cubs found a trade partner willing to take Soriano if the Cubs ate 90% of his salary, wouldn't the Cubs be better off? Or are you assuming that any advantage the Cubs might get in that scenario would be more than offset by what it would take to get Soriano to waive his No Trade Clause?