Please don’t hate me for my broken promises. It’s been 328 days since my last post and I’m well aware that running a blog with actual readers requires, at the very least, semi-frequent activity. I promise to keep the venting of utter frustration to a minimum because that’s really my only fear with this thing. The Cubs are going to do something stupid and it’s going to piss me off. However, I suppose both of those are foregone conclusions. Bear with me and I’ll try to keep the thoughts positive (most of the time.) Here we go again....
The Cubs traded southpaw starter Tom Gorzellany to the Washington Nationals yesterday for three prospects. Pardon me while I scratch my head for a minute.
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um....why did this happen?
Gorz (I really don’t want to type his full name every time) isn’t the second coming of Jesus, and just might be the ugliest man in all of professional baseball, but he was amazingly efficient. Are the Cubs really that confident with the back of their rotation to feel they can part ways with a pitcher who had oddly similar numbers to Matt Garza in 2010.
It’ll be interesting conversation pondering the Cubs potential starting rotation as spring training gets going. Is this what Mike Quade is envisioning?
1. Dempster (Opening Day Starter)
2. Garza
3. Zambrano
4. Randy Wells
5. The Fat Man/Andrew Cashner/Jeff Samardzija
Even though Carlos Silva (aka Fat Man) had a jaw-dropping 2010, I don’t think anyone fully trusts him. Cashner is obviously the sexy pick if he can step it up, but a guy like Gorz answers this question pretty easily. He’s proven he can be a consistent starter in the back of the rotation and he’s LEFT-HANDED! The Cubs have only one lefty on the roster who has any experience as as starter and that’s Sean Marshall. He’s pretty much locked into his bullpen role and even with the addition of John Grabow I would hate to see the Cubs spot-start Marshall for any reason. He was a huge success in the ‘pen.
Essentially, the Cubs just gave up on Gorz as soon as they signed Matt Garza. I certainly hope those prospects from the Nationals were worth it.
I agree completely. He was cheap and relatively effective. We're apparently that confident in Randy Wells and Carlos Silva...strange. The last couple months they've been itching to trade Gorzelanny. Reports have been good on Samardzija (BTW, you can't spell out Gorzelanny, but you can for Jeff Samardzija?).
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