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The Cubbies can add anyone to the team but without Zambrano, Prior and Wood the Cubbies are dead in the water.
Don't get me wrong with Nomar it's a good addition but if I were a Cubs fan I'd look at Prior and Wood's health problems this year and focus on trading them out for other healthier great pitchers.
Hope I'm wrong but Prior being as young as he is and having problems this early, is scary. He may end up being the pitching equivalent of JR. And Wood being injured this season is showing it's the coaching and mechanics. I think this year maybe the Cubbies best and last shot.
This off season as unpopular as it may seem I'd trade Wood and Prior, sign Clement and get Zambrano an extension then go after like Pedro (he says he only wants to go to the Yankees but if the Trib opens their wallet I can see him in a Cubbies uni and I feel he'd be a better NL pitcher right now anyway) and Benson full force. Trade Lee and get Delgado at first and maybe try to trade Sammy for a young stud like Mike Young in Texas or Blalock.
I just don't know what fucking magic St. Louis has to keep having such great teams. They are not big spenders, other than Pujols, maybe Edmonds they don't have any "great" players. Their pitchers aren't what I'd consider "A-listers". Yet they win. Amazing, I just don't see their strength on paper but they are becoming the epitome of TEAM sport and not individual (which costs so many teams down the home stretch).
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