Archive - Nov 12, 2008
Sweet Lou is NL's Manager of the Year
Submitted by Rob G. on Wed, 11/12/2008 - 3:10pm.
Lou Piniella won he NL Manager of the Year award today. Always a curious award that seems to honor lowered expectations than actual managing skill. Nonetheless, Piniella takes the honor and will likely just dump it into the spare closet as I'm sure he couldn't care less after the playoff debacle.
He would have probably gotten my first place vote as I thought the Cubs were about an 88-win team to start the year, so the Cubs certainly exceeded my expactations. Tony LaRussa was the only other manager that probably deserved some first place votes, but he finished 5th in the voting.
Wednesday Cubs Hot Stove Round-Up
Submitted by Rob G. on Wed, 11/12/2008 - 12:59pm.
I'll keep this brief...
- Jerry Crasnick says the Cubs will be in on Ben Sheets if they lose out on Dempster and Peavy. I suppose that could be an and/or since the Cubs were considering both.
- It seems someone in the mass media has finally gotten around to mentioning that Jake Peavy is a huge injury risk.
- Jeff Passan returns and I mostly ignore everything in it.
- Rosenthal says the Padres now want Single-A catcher Tyler Flowers from the Braves instead of center fielder Gorkys Hernandez. He says the Cubs have given from six to eight names for the Padres to choose from.
- Bruce Miles was apparently on the radio and says Felix Pie and Ronny Cedeno aren't of that much interest to the Padres and they're more interested in Josh Vitters, Welington Castillo, Sean Marshall and possibly some others.