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Originally Posted by Lefty
1.) How the Cardinals run their organization has little to no impact on how Ricketts will run the team he just borrowed $1 billion to buy, especially considering all his talk of fiscal responsibility since buying the team.
2.) Fine, for clarity's sake, let's just go with the already-assumed $15 million starting salary for Dunn. In that case, the Cubs would still be paying upwards of $30 million just to get Adam Dunn. And as I mentioned earlier, the Cubs will most definitely have to pay a huge portion of Z's 2012 guaranteed money, and if Dunn's deal includes any escalation in salary whatsoever that second year (hell, even if it doesn't escalate) the Cubs will be paying close to $30 million just for Adam Dunn in 2012. With the contracts already on this team, and given what would need to be done to bring Dunn in, Ricketts isn't going to shell out that kind of cash for one guy.
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If the team did not have so many holes, I could see them doing it, but the team has so many holes. The team is better off keeping zambrano and fukudome imo for financial reasons. also the starting pitching would take a hit.
if you were to move zambrano to try to land dunn how would the rotation look?
dempster
gorzo
wells
silva
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even with dunn, that pitching is pretty weak. and you would be wasting alot of money.