Zach Links of mlbtraderumors.com (a must-read for baseball addicts) says in a recent blog post Gregg, "is admittedly not one of the sexier names on the free agent market" but "should garner a fair amount of attention this offseason."
The blog post is titled "Discussion: Kevin Gregg."
Kevin Gregg sucks. Discussion over.
Talk about wasting 140 words, a blog post and precious internet space on a guy who blew harder than a hurricane last season. I mean, we're talking about a guy who turned what could have been five Cubs wins into losses because of his appearance. He had a career-worst 4.72 earned run average and his WHIP was at its highest since becoming a full-time closer. (I use the term "closer" in the loosest terms possible.)
Jim Hendry already traded a young, talented arm for Gregg's services last year. Then inked him to a deal worth $4.2 million to avoid arbitration. Nothing says "baseball savvy" like trading a hard-throwing right-hander under team control for one year of a shitty middle-reliever posing as a closer.
I know the Cubs hate going to arbitration and haven't done so in more than a decade, but you have to think an arbitrator would look at Gregg's numbers, notice how bad the numbers are and rule that Gregg owes the team money for false advertisement of a product.
Hendry is the only GM in baseball that would go out of his way to re-up with Gregg and offer him a multi-year, multi-million dollar deal. And since he's already fallen for that trick once, he wouldn't fall for it again, would he?
OK, he probably would.
I guess I'll start pre-writing a post about why Hendry should be fired after signing Gregg to a four-year deal worth $44 million.
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