With the Brewers getting Sabbathia, the Cubs had to do something. And picking up Rich Harden is HUGE! Our rotation is as follows:
1) Zambrano
2) Harden
3) Dempster
4) Lily
5) Marquis
and Sean Marshall can come in and make spot starts while giving long relief from the bullpen. He's also a lefty, which is great, and he closed a game earlier this year.
We didn't give up that much to get Harden, either. Gallagher has a lot of promise, but Harden is young and more established. Also, Marshall has just as much upside as Gallagher and has the advantage of being a lefty. We didn't have room for Patterson in the infield (Theriot, DeRosa, Cedeno, and Fontenot) and Murton wasn't getting playing time behind Fukodome, Soriano, Edmonds, and Johnson. This gives Patterson and Murton a chance to play and show that they can compete at the big league level. The Cubs also got to keep Fontenot and Hoffpauir, two lefties who are needed in the Cubs overly right-handed lineup. Pie can also stay at Triple-A and work on his hitting, we got to keep a real good CF prospect and got an ace pitcher!
We're looking pretty good to make a big playoff run this year, but I'm staying cautious as of right now. Still very excited about this, though!
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Yeah watch out for Rich "I can't stay healthy for more than a month, and if I could more teams would have wanted me" Harden.
That all we ever heard here in the AL. That Rich Harden, he is going to be a Cy Young winner, and then invariably, he was always injured.
Also would like to point out one of his losses was to the Red Sox.
And Ted Lilly. Why is it that mediocre AL pitchers become great in the NL?
Hey, man, Harden is a big step up for this rotation. He may have been hurt a lot, but he usually only has the one a year and he got it out of the way early.
I'm pretty excited about it.
I agree that Lily isn't that great, but when you have a 9 game winner in the 4 slot, you're in good shape.
It's the Cubs' year.
I wouldn't go that far. We're looking good all the way around, but we need to do better head-to-head against the AL.
I like how we played against the Rockies (were around .500 when we beat them), DBacks, Dodgers, Cards, and Brewers so far, but we need to do a little better against the Phils and the like.
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