From recent reports, it looks as if the Cubs are finalists in the quest for the services of the much-traveled Edwin Jackson, kind of a consolation prize for missing out on the Anibal Sanchez train. Hard to figure out what happened with that deal, other than that Sanchez always wanted to sign with the Tigers and used the Cubs for leverage, or else the Cubs were never that close to a deal. Another theory is that the Chicago press, anxious to see some glimmer of life coming from Addison and Clark Streets, however faint, broke the news prematurely and queered yet another deal.
Who knows? Who actually cares? Neither one of these guys is an impact player, though Sanchez right now is clearly the better pitcher. If the Cubs land Jackson, it means two things. One is that you have to seriously question a person's judgment if he prefers to tie up his career for three years with the Cubs when he could spend the same time with the Rangers. The other is that the Cubs are kind of convinced they can build a representative team around pretty good pitchers like Samardzija and Garza and, in this case, Jackson.
Good luck with that if you are saddled with a team that doesn't score runs. They kind of followed that strategy during the Hendry years and came close in 2007 and 2008, the difference then being they scored runs then and they had an ace in Carlos Zambrano who at least some of time lived up to his billing.
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