Dontrell to the Cubs?

[chibearsfan]

Well...what do you think? What do we have to give up to get him?

[SportsWorld]

Will Ohman and Craig Monroe for Willis please

[Action Paxson]

Matt Clement and Antonio Alfonseca

[cold5]

Mark Prior, Will Ohman, and Ryan Dempster for D-Train and Taylor Tankersley

[HDMAVS760CA]

Didn't the Cubs had Willis already? I heard that years ago they traded Willis to the Fish. Another dumbass trade they did, like the Lou Brock trade.

[GYBE]

There was a topic about this near the beginning of the year and I'll repeat what I said then. It's a terrible idea.

This season by Willis isn't an abberation. It's a product of his incredibly high innings pitched at such a young age. As Cubs fans, we should know how this affects a pitcher's performance and future health. Hell, I fear it's happened to Zambrano and he'll never be what he was.

This is how small market teams like the Marlins work. They know they'll never give pitchers expensive, long-term deals because they can't afford to and pitchers are often wildly erratic in how they perform. So they burn them out and overuse them as much as they can when they have them cheaply and pawn them off to some stupid GM at the end, who overpays for past performance and gets a worse version likely to suffer injuries.

Whoever gets Willis will regret it.

[Howling Mad]

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reference: Ryan Dempster

[cold5]

Some examples of young pitchers whom this haven't effected are: Peavy, Beckett, Webb, etc

[cold5]

But if young pitchers can't pitch too many innings, no pitchers can. Because when you are 34 and older, you pretty much suck.

[2poor]

Beckett has had all sorts of injury problems, but all that aside, the pitchers you've mentioned all have spot-on mechanics. Dontrelle on the other hand is on the opposite side of that spectrum. His mechanics are awful.