What to do with Hendry and Lou?

WAYSA · Post #1 » by **WAYSA** » Tue Aug 25, 2009 1:31 am

Off with both Hendry and Lou's head. This season has been a disaster and Lou only has 1 more year left on his contract anyway.

I could live with Alan Trammell as the manager, but a hot head in the Bobby Valentine mold is more suitable for my tastes. Enough of just laughing off (Please Use More Appropriate Word) mental mistakes. Hold the players more responsible.

I have no idea who is available for the GM & Manager jobs, but we need change.

Anyone think that Sandberg could be a candidate? He fits the mold as a hot head, but I have no idea how good of a manager he has been in the minors or if he's ready. If Ricketts is as big of a die hard as advertised than you bet your as$ he is a huge fan of Sandberg. Either way, hopefully it is an interesting off-season.

WAYSA · Post #2 » by **WAYSA** » Tue Aug 25, 2009 1:36 am

Oh and one more off-season note: I really hope Harden is back. As bad as he was in the first half and how inconsistent the guy has been, I still absolutely love watching him pitch.

If he jumps ship for a decent payday - the draft picks should be valuable. Pretty much a win win as long as Tim Wilken is not selecting with them.

SportsWorld · Post #3 » by **SportsWorld** » Tue Aug 25, 2009 1:48 am

I'd definitely give Jim Hendry the boot. There's really no reason to keep him after his abysmal offseason (Aaron Miles, Aaron Heilman, Kevin Gregg, Milton Bradley, Dempster's contract, etc). The only good thing he did since the signing of Jim Edmonds last year was bringing in Jeff Baker.

Do this:
http://www.northsidebaseball.com/Forum/ ... =2&t=55548

I'd probably keep Lou for one more year. He's been bad this year but I think the blame lies more on the players than on him for the struggling offense.

Post #4 » by **GYBE** » Tue Aug 25, 2009 2:40 am

I couldn't agree more with getting Sandy Alderson. He would be a fantastic president. Bringing in a sabermetric minded GM (like one of the Boston guys) would delight me.

SportsWorld · Post #5 » by **SportsWorld** » Tue Aug 25, 2009 3:47 am

Oh and please don't hire Ryne Sandberg as the next Cubs manager. I loved him as a player but I'd rather have Bob Brenly as next Cubs manager over him. (There are rumors that he might be next in line for manager when Lou leaves.)

#1TKfan · Post #6 » by **#1TKfan** » Tue Aug 25, 2009 3:07 pm

i would like brenly as the manager and have ryno come in as the assistant.

cold5 · Post #7 » by **cold5** » Tue Aug 25, 2009 5:20 pm

Brenly would pick his own staff. Ryno could be good as an assistant but if you hire Brenly as manager then you trust him to pick his own staff.

DanTown8587 · Post #8 » by **DanTown8587** » Wed Aug 26, 2009 4:33 am

SportsWorld wrote:I'd definitely give Jim Hendry the boot. There's really no reason to keep him after his abysmal offseason (Aaron Miles, Aaron Heilman, Kevin Gregg, Milton Bradley, Dempster's contract, etc). The only good thing he did since the signing of Jim Edmonds last year was bringing in Jeff Baker.

Do this:
http://www.northsidebaseball.com/Forum/ ... =2&t=55548

I'd probably keep Lou for one more year. He's been bad this year but I think the blame lies more on the players than on him for the struggling offense.

I'll go further. The number of good moves he made are WELL out shined by the bad ones. Sure its nice to have Lee, Ramirez and Lilly (his top three moves IMO) but he has KILLED any chance the Cubs can get a legit top FA without having a Boston payroll. I mean I am not a revisionist type of guy, but I said at the time that three deals he did would KILL us.

1. Not signing Furcal/trading Nolasco, Pinto, Mitre for Pierre
That was such a waste of farm talent and players who could have helped us. To only get ONE year out of Pierre for a team that was awful. And Furcal was perfect (play SS and hit leadoff), yet Hendry played hard ball and lost him to LA.

2. Signing Soriano. He WELL overpaid to bring in his answers to the leadoff spot. The only glaring issue was he gave a 31 year old Soriano an EIGHT YEAR DEAL. And this was for a guy who had ONE year of an OBP over .350, a guy who had 120+ SO each year of the previous six and a guy who only stole 41 bases so he could make the 40/40 club. He so overpaid (ala NY with Beltran) except Soriano is useless as a hitter if it isn't home runs. The Cubs have five more years for him to break down on them.

3. Paying Dempster so much money. We could argue that Dempster had turned a corner and was a rare pitcher who matures at 30 and becomes an all-star then. But alas, it didn't happen twice for them. Instead they overpaid Dempster, who is the fourth best starter on the team. And after overpaying third best Carlos Zambrano, they have their two best pitchers (Harden and Lilly) who have real good cases to say they deserve AT LEAST Dempster money. Again, Hendry overpaying for mediocre and then losing elite because of it.

GET RID OF HIM.

Posey H8er · Post #9 » by **Posey H8er** » Wed Aug 26, 2009 8:28 pm

Hendry definitely needs to go. Using sabermetrics can deepen the farm and bring in free agents that are the best per price. I honestly think Jim Hendry has never heard of sabermetrics and believes in batting average and wins as top tier statistics.