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Thinking about how much of a bad streak Hendry has been on recently (the Bradley signing, the 2-year deal for John Grabow, not offering Rich Harden arbitration, etc.) I feel bad for Jim, and wanted to see what I can do to help him......Right now the Cubs bullpen looks like this: CL -- Carlos Marmol SU -- Angel Guzman, John Grabow LRá -- Sean Marshall MR -- Justin Berg, Esmailin Caridad, Jeff Samardzija or ...

I've written about this elsewhere, but I really don't think a Fontenot/Baker platoon would be the worst thing in the world.á Fontenot has hit righties well, except for last year, which Goat Riders of the Apocalypse has shown to be a fluke: "To demonstrate, look at the league average in BABIP for the past three years, compared to Fontenot's BABIP. I'll drop his OPS in, too. 2007: League - .306, Mike - ...

With things so quiet on the trade front, you have to assume that the winter meetings will start the momentum of the offseason going—someone will overpay for a reliever that had a career year or a position player that was great two years ago but has been injured since.  The question for us is, what will Jim Hendry do? Yes, getting rid of Heilman was a good move and saved $2 million, ...