North Side Baseball - Home Page

Ever browsed the Target clearence isle and found a once high ticket item for $9.99 and you buy it out of principle? Here's to bargain shopping.

Daniel Schlereth, 26. 26th pick of the 2008 Draft. Minor league career 73/149 BB/K in 110IP, mostly as a reliever

Mike Pelfrey, 28. 9th pick of the 2005 Draft 2006 #36 prospect. 2007 #20 prospect

Manny Parra, 30. Former highly regarded Brewer's pitching prospect. Got his ass kicked on live televison by Prince Fielder for hitting the showers too early.

Ryan Sweeney, 32. 27 Former top prospect. Has yet to develope power.

Jair Jurrjens, 26. We all know Jurrjen's story. Low risk alternative to Rick Porcello.

Pete Moylan, 33. Once very effective sidewinding reliever. Suffered some sort of injury.

More to come

_________________
Chicago Club has gone back on us. Please Send Expenses. Am Broke

Not so much a promise as it is a threat.

_________________

LOL

I kind of don't hate Sweeney as a backup outfielder type. But otherwise, that's a bad list.

_________________
Team Theo.

Rather have Jurrjens for nothing than Porcello for anything breathing.

_________________
http://www.mr-irrelevantpgh-chi.blogspot.com/

I'd rather have Ian Stewart back for 1/$10 million than Jurrjens.

_________________
Team Theo.

Porcello accumulated more fWAR this year than Jurrjens has in the past 3 years combined. Porcello is also 3 years younger and hasn't been riddled with injury problems.


For a LH OF platoon bat, Sweeney isn't too bad. Wish he had more than just 1 year to FA though.

Hannahan got NT'd. Granted, he's [expletive], but he's slightly less [expletive] than most other FA options.

Rafael Perez got NT'd as well. Looks like he was on the DL all yea with a left latissiumus dorsi muscle strain. Not sure how serious that is, but he's been a solid reliever for the Indians for all but one of his seasons, and been pretty good the last two. If that injury is one that is able to be recovered from well, then we could use a solid bullpen guy

_________________
"Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game."
- Jacques Barzun

Andres Torres got NT'd, as expected.

What's wrong with Daniel Schlereth? I was under the impression he was kinda intriguing.

_________________
Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best state, is a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
-Thomas Paine

To disarm the people is the best and most effective way to enslave them.
-George Mason

Shoulder issues. He had shoulder tendinitis and it kept him out all of last season before rehabbing in the minors toward the end at Single-A

_________________
"Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game."
- Jacques Barzun

Ah, thanks. Unless it's really damaged, I'd have some interest in Schlereth as a buy-low option. Might as well in the position we've put ourselves.

_________________
Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best state, is a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
-Thomas Paine

To disarm the people is the best and most effective way to enslave them.
-George Mason

I think the Cubs should be looking at any/every low risk-high reward bullpen candidate at this point.

_________________
"Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game."
- Jacques Barzun

Mr. "Take a flyer" himself starts a thread about non-tenders. All is right with the world.

_________________

Sorry if I'd rather fill the spring training roster with low risk/any type of reward players than AAAA flotsam.

_________________
Chicago Club has gone back on us. Please Send Expenses. Am Broke

We should pretty much buy every lottery ticket type of player we can. If things go south for us next year (and they probably will) you trade the ones that pan out for prospects. But hey, never underestimate the ability of Dusty Baker to ruin a ballclub. If he throws Chapman for 150 pitches in a game and his arm falls off all bets are off. Whatever pile of crap wins the Central next year would probably be 4th at best in the AL East but that's baseball for ya.

Why are you mentioning these players' prospect status'? All of them have lengthy MLB track records.

_________________
[The sound of fastballs] was one of those things that told me my pitches were fast....because I've never heard pitches as loud as mine.

Cubs non-tendered Jaye Chapman, Zach Putnam, and Ian Stewart

_________________
"Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game."
- Jacques Barzun

Who is Zach Putnam?

We just claimed him off waivers from Colorado at the beginning of November

_________________
"Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game."
- Jacques Barzun

Ok I feel less bad now.

I hope we keep Chapman and Putnam somehow. But moving them off the 40 man gives us solid flexibility.

Mark Reynolds was non-tendered.

As bad as he is defensively, he instantly becomes an excellent 3B option for us, with who's available, if we can't deal for Chisenhall.