Next stop on our amnesty tour around baseball is the NL Central.
NL CENTRAL
Cubs- When you try to trade a player and no one will take him unless you pay almost all of his salary, then the amnesty clause may be the best bet for you. This is the situation the Cubs are in with Alfonso [...]
02/22/12
According to Jon Heyman of Sports Illustrated, outfielder Alfonso Soriano has cleared waivers and the Cubs are willing to pay most of the $50 million pluss owed to him.
Heyman adds that Carlos Lee has also cleared waivers and that he’s a DH playing for a National League team, so any team looking for an offensive [...]
08/15/11
Cubs outfielder Alfonso Soriano has more than $60 million remaining on his eight-year, $136 million deal he signed in 2006. The team would be willing to eat a large portion of his contract if the right offer comes along reports Bruce Levine of ESPNChicago.com.
Even though Soriano has a full no-trade clause, he has said before [...]
07/22/11
General manager Jim Hendry told Carrie Muskat of MLB.com that the Chicago Cubs will not give up on the team and have fire sale. “”We’re not interested in trading people at all who will be valuable to us moving forward.” He added via Muskat, “”If we make moves, it will be designed to make us [...]
06/29/11
Baseball sources close to Bruce Levine of ESPNChicago.com are saying that the Chicago Cubs are bringing together their top Scouts on Monday and Tuesday to have meetings about the team’s direction for the July trade deadline. During the meeting, GM Jim Hendry will give the scouts direction on the team’s needs and which teams the [...]
06/23/11
Here’s the latest from the Boston Globe’s Nick Cafardo:
– “I guess it’s never too early,’’ said an American League general manager about looking at possible moves to improve their roster. “Sometimes you have to wait things out to see how well the team you’re trying to deal with is doing at the time [...]
05/15/11
Moment 3: Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants hits his 71st home run of the season on October 5, 2001.
Bonds played from 1986 to 2007, for the Pittsburgh Pirates and San Francisco Giants. Bonds’ accomplishments during his baseball career place him among the greatest baseball players of all-time. He has a record-setting seven MVP’s, [...]
12/31/10
The hot stove will be turned up a notch next week during the General Manager meetings in Orlando, Florida, but don’t look for the Chicago Cubs to turn too many heads, according to the Chicago Sun-Times’ Gordon Wittenmyer.
”I’m not worried about the ’splash’ factor,” said GM Jim Hendry. ”I’m worried about getting the right guys [...]
11/14/10
According to the Chicago Tribune’s Phil Rogers, the Cubs are kicking around an idea for a trade involving Kosuke Fukudome with the Boston Red Sox for Daisuke Matsuzaka as part of a multi-player package.
However, a source close to ESPNBoston.com’s Gordon Edes says that Matsuzaka’s name did not come up during the recent Cubs’ organizational meetings. [...]
11/10/10
Outfielder Kosuke Fukudome may have played his last game for the Chicago Cubs on Wednesday. The Chicago Tribune’s Paul Sullivan says the Cubs are likely going to trade the 33-year-old this winter, and they are likely going to eat a good portion of the remaining $13.5 million on his contract.
By moving Fukudome, it will open [...]
10/01/10