Disgusting

I'm really not going to even try to summarize these games any more. What is the point? It is essentially the same scenario. The pitchers pitch reasonably well, sometimes really well, sometimes they make a mistake or two, but it doesn't really matter because you know that this team will never score any runs, so the whole exercise is pointless.

The Cubs are finished with a third of their season and they are on a pace to lose 90 games with the third highest payroll in baseball. Changes are clearly in order, starting at the top. There are rumors floating around that people are interested in Lee and Nady and maybe Lilly and Gorzelanny. That's mostly good news except that the guy who will be evaluating the players the Cubs will get in return is Jim Hendry who is responsible for, among other things, the Soriano and Bradley signings, and also letting Casey McGehee (who leads the NL in RBI) go for absolutely nothing and for a whole series of idiotic misjudgments and trades since the few decent moves he made in 2003. So the odds of doing anything but dumping salary that is likely to be dumped in any case in the off-season seem pretty slim.

The Angels are interested in Lee or Nady, but I don't see them as a likely trading partner just because looking over their roster and their prospects, they don't seem to have much to give. The Giants and Red Sox may be more likely buyers for the washed up or marginal hitters we have to market. I agree with the guys at MLB Trade Rumors that Gorzelanny is potentially a bigger chip to deal, especially if the Cubs think they have pitching prospects coming along to replace him, which I think they do. Lilly is also a chip to spend, but maybe a less valuable one. I've also come to think of Theriot, who I formally thought was a smart and over-achieving gamer, as a guy who has become pretty much useless, but who retains some value to dump. The real question is whether the Cubs can figure out what they need, which, in my opinion is a switch-hitting or left-handed first baseman, third basemen, or catcher who produces runs, preferably two of those three.