Just remember...he is the one who got rid of.....Corey Patterson..Nomar Garciaparra...Todd Hollandsworth...Jeremey Burnitz...I'm not sayin we didnt get some good players but you cant have a winning season without veteran players minus Corey Patterson
2006-09-13 10:06:37 · 12 answers · asked by ae_hottie_85 1 in Sports ➔ Baseball
Actually, the problem isn't Jim Hendry. The problem is within the coaching staff. Gene Clines, hitting coach, and Larry Rothschild, pithching coach, are the ones that are hurting the Cubs' players right now. Clines can't seem to get the marginal hitters to step up and take the bad ones, hit the good ones hard. Rothschild can't correct the mechanical problems that put about 10 of the Cubs' pitchers on the DL, including Prior and Wood multiple times. What the Cubs need to so is to get rid of those coaches and find a hitting coach and pitching coach who knows what the heck they're doing. The reason Patterson, Nomar, Hollandsworth and Burnitz are doing better now away from the Cubs is they're getting better hitting instruction.
2006-09-13 10:12:23 · answer #1 · answered by VanMan6 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cubs RF
Jeremy Burnitz - .232 AVG, 16 HR, 49 RBI, 1 SB
Jacque Jones - .284, 24 HR, 72 RBI, 8 SB
Cubs LF
Hollandsworth - .238 AVG, 6 HR, 33 RBI, 0 SB
Matt Murton - .299 AVG, 11, 57 RBI, 5 SB
Hendry offered Nomar a contract almost exactly like the one he has with the Dodgers currently, low initial cost + highly incentive laden, but Nomar was a liability to play to SS and that's what he wanted so he tried free agency.
And sure, Hendry traded Corey Patterson, but that fault belongs more on the fans who targeted Patterson with nothing but booing and the coaching staff who couldn't get Patterson to be a consistent hitter for the Cubs. Patterson needed to start somewhere fresh, he wasn't going to succeed in Wrigley.
With all this said, Hendry has been a bad GM - signing Neifi Perez and Glendon Rusch to 2-year deals, signing Ryan Dempster to a 3-year deal as the team's closer. Trading away 3 young pitchers for Juan Pierre when good young arms are the biggest commodity in baseball. Not going after another SP last offseason because he expected Wood and Prior to be back completely healthy when they haven't been consistently healthy. Signing Wade Miller who will make $1 million to pitch in 3-4 games.
So yes I would fire Hendry, but then again if I owned the Cubs I would handle the GM duties myself.
2006-09-13 11:28:51 · answer #2 · answered by badgerlicious03 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
YES.
How does the team with the 9th highest payroll whos payroll is 6x more then the marlins have one of the worst records in baseball and they also play in the worst division -national league.
They blame injuries but teams like the twins who have lost there rookie/cy young potential pitcher and there entire outfield to injuries are still competitve and wild card chance or even the red sox will finish above 500.
Hendry had a chance to get his team better at the all star but what does he do he gives up on maddux doesnt sign a big bat and gave up at the all star break.
2006-09-13 11:18:26 · answer #3 · answered by 34 RIP 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If I became the Cubs owner, Hendry would be fired within minutes! But I think Hendry can redeem himself in a month or two if he gets rid of Dusty and replaces him with the right guy (Joe Girardi- if he becomes available).
2006-09-13 10:12:26 · answer #4 · answered by TK 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Everybody and everthing must go because of the culture of losing that these people have with them. Its like okay to lose, I'm tired of it! Losing is a disease just like winning, so I'd bring in people who have won titles not just get there like Dusty. The CEO of the Cubs won the Series with the Twins and thats really the only person whos won anything.
2006-09-13 12:01:04 · answer #5 · answered by lobot1980 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Come on!! Wood lives on the DL. Hardly Rothchild's fault. The problem lay with the management who needs to bring in a manager to light a fire under the players and inspire them to win as Jim Leyland has done in Detroit. Someone needs to say to the players, "Play up to your potential or you are out the door"!! I don't see that happening under Jim Hendry.
Chow!!
2006-09-13 10:42:21 · answer #6 · answered by No one 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do you honestly think that they should've kept Todd Hollandsworth? Anyway, I don't have a problem with him finishing out his next two years. His biggest mistake last year was not shoring up the starting pitching, but it was a very weak free agent class. He should get a chance to fix that this offseason.
2006-09-15 04:24:58 · answer #7 · answered by alonzo_spellman 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i agree with VanMan we need a major overhaul of our coaching staff top to bottom ..Brenley as manager Maddux as a pitching caoch....Billy Williams as hitting coach Santo as bench coach
2006-09-13 11:00:22 · answer #8 · answered by nas88car300 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, after he let go of Maddux and got a nobody, absouletly!!
2006-09-13 11:30:36 · answer #9 · answered by Head Master 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He would be gone along with Dusty Baker.
2006-09-13 10:17:39 · answer #10 · answered by shominyyuspa 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋