Cubs General Manager Jim Hendry Part 2: The Bad

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Players rumored to be sought after by MacPhail included Rich Hill, Felix Pie, and Jose Ceda. Now, all of those players are gone and the best the Cubs have to show for it is Kevin Gregg, their new closer.

He refused to let any of them go last year, but in 2009, he practically gave them away. Would the Cubs have had a better chance in the playoffs last year with Roberts leading off instead of that albatross Soriano batting first?

Then this year he repeats it with the Jake Peavy watch. Again, supposedly he didn’t have the goods to make the trade and traded away a fan and team favorite in Mark DeRosa, allegedly to get more prospects to throw into the pot so he could complete the trade.

Why he even wanted Peavy is a mystery to me. The starting staff isn’t the problem. He still needed that lead-off hitter.

We all know that never happened and the worst possible scenario happened to the Cubs. Aramis Ramirez went down for at least two months with an injury and no adequate back-up to replace him. Wouldn’t DeRosa look really good if he was still with the team? I won’t mention he also has far more RBI than any current Cub player.

This is the end of Chapter 2, The Bad. Stay tuned for The Ugly, coming soon to a computer near you.

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