Ryan Dempster exercised his player's option for 2012. No surprise here as he is set to make $14M plus in one of Jim Hendry's friendliest holdover deals.
Too bad for the Cubs on this score. I've never been a big fan of Dempster. He is certainly not a #1 starter, more like a #4 or #5. His stuff has been diminishing steadily over the last few years and last year he just plain stunk most of the time.
Theo Epstein keeps talking about assets. Dempster is not an asset, but the Cubs are stuck with him unless they can unload him in the off-season or at the trade deadline. At least we did not see Epstein taking the bait Dempster was dangling for a multi-year extension.
The next pressing decisions for Epstein will be Ramirez and Pena, plus, of course, the future of MIke Quade.
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