Cubs acquire Gregg

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The Chicago Cubs acquired right-handed reliever Kevin Gregg from the Florida Marlins on Thursday for minor league pitcher Jose Ceda.

http://www.tsn.ca/mlb/story/?id=2557...s=topStory_mlb

[JBH3]

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Is this a stop-gap measure if Wood doesn't resign? Is he going to be the set-up man to Wood? Or is this move signifying the Cubs desire to part ways w/ Wood?

This one is interesting. So who becomes the closer in Florida now? Tankersly?

[duke776]

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Is this a stop-gap measure if Wood doesn't resign? Is he going to be the set-up man to Wood? Or is this move signifying the Cubs desire to part ways w/ Wood?

This one is interesting. So who becomes the closer in Florida now? Tankersly?

Apparently the cubs are going to part ways with Wood...

http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2008/11/kerry-wood-and-cubs-split.html

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GM Jim Hendry says the Cubs will part ways with lifetime Cub Kerry Wood.

[dkgojackets]

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what the hell is florida doing?

[snepp]

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what the hell is florida doing?

Where did my "Jeffrey Loria is a scumbag" post run off to?

[ThreeKing]

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what the hell is florida doing?

Jose Ceda is the Cubs best reliever in their farm system. He throws 95+ with good breaking stuff. He started in Class A last year and almost made the squad in spring training.

I'd say the Marlins know what they are doing.

[Marino]

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It doesn't matter what Florida does, they are going to win the world series this year.

[ZM Punk]

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Ceda is a quality prospect. I think the Cubs got the better end of the deal. But the Marlins didn't get ripped off by any means. Supposedly Ceda was the closer of the future in Chicago.

[Herky]

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GM Jim Hendry says the Cubs will part ways with lifetime Cub Kerry Wood.

Not a smart move IMO and I'm not a fan of the Gregg trade one bit since Ceda was involved.

[rsox]

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what the hell is florida doing?

At the start of the offseason the Marlins had 15 players eligable for salary arbitration, most, if not all are expected to get hefty raises. In the past two weeks they have dealt 4 of those players and may move at least 1 more (Hermida or Uggla) before the offseason ends.

The bottom line is the Marlins don't want to spend money. Jeffery Loria once again received $30 million dollars in revenue sharing and plans on using it to cover his stadium costs rather than put it towards player salaries as it is supposed to be used for.

[BunnyHardaway]

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I like it for the Marlins, Ceda is a very good prospect. I don't know too much about Gregg but IIRC he was pretty shaky as a closer.

[poster]

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I am going to miss the K-Man. Through good times and bad, he was a class act grade A person.

I see why the Cubs did this though. He wanted a multi year deal, they only wanted to give him 1. I don't like paying closers lots of money. Marms is ready, and Gregg is insurance. They better use the money elsewhere now to improve other areas. The pen will be a question mark next year no doubt.

K-Man will now get paid which is good for him.

[JBH3]

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I said it here 1st...Kerry Wood signs w/ the New York Mess to become their closer.

[DIESEL]

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For the sake of Cub fans I hope they plan on using Gregg as a set up guy. As a Marlins fan I would have been happy to get a bag of baseballs in return for Gregg. His 9 blown saves cost the Marlins any chance they had at making a run last year. Sounds like the fish got a decent prospect out of the deal.