Let's call this Part 1 because there's too many aspects of his sucktitude to fit into one post. Let's start with this from today's Tribune:
Upon returning to New York on Monday, former Met Cliff Floyd said he was surprised at his relative lack of playing time with the Cubs.
"A lot of things we talked about earlier in contract negotiations hasn't worked out," he said. "I thought I'd be playing more."
So not only did Jim sign Cliff to what could end up being a multiyear deal, he actually promised the old bag of bones some playing time. The Floyd signing fits in with a few of Jim's great strategies:
- Give a multiyear deal to some old/bad player for no reason. This inflates your payroll so that a $100 million team is in reality an overpaid $80 million team. Check this out: Hank, Derosa, Eyre, Floyd, Howry, CesEar, and Jacque are getting paid over $25 mildo this year. And most of them will be around next year. That is an awful allocation of resources.
Upon returning to New York on Monday, former Met Cliff Floyd said he was surprised at his relative lack of playing time with the Cubs.
"A lot of things we talked about earlier in contract negotiations hasn't worked out," he said. "I thought I'd be playing more."
So not only did Jim sign Cliff to what could end up being a multiyear deal, he actually promised the old bag of bones some playing time. The Floyd signing fits in with a few of Jim's great strategies:
- Give a multiyear deal to some old/bad player for no reason. This inflates your payroll so that a $100 million team is in reality an overpaid $80 million team. Check this out: Hank, Derosa, Eyre, Floyd, Howry, CesEar, and Jacque are getting paid over $25 mildo this year. And most of them will be around next year. That is an awful allocation of resources.
- Overvalue somebody based on one good year. Mark DeRosa? Most people would see a 32 year old with a career OPS of .738. This is bad. Jim puts on his marinara colored glasses and sees the guy who hit .332 before the All Star break last year. CesEar? Coherent baseball execs see a guy with a .633 career OPS - this is actually worse than Neifi. Jim instead sees the guy that had a good couple months to somehow make the All Star team in 2005.
- Tell these bums that they're going to start. So it's pretty obvious that Hendry told Floyd (and probably Derosa) that he would start this year. This really screws over your manager. If Lou goes along with Hendry's moronic "promise" to these guys, he's robbing Murton and Theriot of the chance to prove they can play every day. If he does the right thing and plays the young guys, you get a bunch of bitter old men giving grumpy quotes in the paper like Cliff did.
That's just the tip of the Jim Hendry sucks iceberg. Hopefully the new owner gets rid of this turd sandwich, until then at least we have this and this to look forward to.
- Tell these bums that they're going to start. So it's pretty obvious that Hendry told Floyd (and probably Derosa) that he would start this year. This really screws over your manager. If Lou goes along with Hendry's moronic "promise" to these guys, he's robbing Murton and Theriot of the chance to prove they can play every day. If he does the right thing and plays the young guys, you get a bunch of bitter old men giving grumpy quotes in the paper like Cliff did.
That's just the tip of the Jim Hendry sucks iceberg. Hopefully the new owner gets rid of this turd sandwich, until then at least we have this and this to look forward to.
3 comments:
How dare you lump Hammerin Hank White in with that group of has beens and never was's.
Also HATE is a strong word... but not strong enough for Jimbo! ZAP!
I love Hank just as much as the next guy, but he is going to make $2.8 million next year. I'm sure Joltin Jake Fox could be a decent backup for about 1/10th of that.
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