Thursday, August 23, 2007
Hendry still awake...
Cubs acquired outfielder Craig Monroe from the Tigers for a player to be named. It seems they weren't satisfied with Matt Murton's performance. Monroe will help out in left field while Alfonso Soriano is out and then likely act as the right fielder against left-handers when Soriano returns. His power should give him a little value in NL-only leagues.
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Matt Murton could be an excellent, excellent fourth outfielder... somebody somewhere realizes this.
Craig Monroe is batting .222 with 11 homeruns.
Murton can take a walk, Monroe can't but he's got a little pop.
This is simply moving the furniture around. But the Cubs are seeing Murton's trade value erase to the point where a DFA of their own is what's going to happen with him it seems.
Still, I kind of don't hate this trade by itself in the sense that Monroe sometimes gets pretty hot and hits a few homeruns in a week (or at least he used to)...and maybe he'll be like this year's version of "The Rat"...and they got him for nothing except for a few Matt Murton at bats...which seems, in isolation, innocent enough.
meh.
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