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Cubs to Sign Jim Edmonds
Published 5/13/2008 by Charlie at Bucs Dugout: Front Page Posts
... NL teams, including the team with the worst record in baseball. I've seen Edmonds several times this year and he looks like he's toast. Maybe I like Pie more than I should, but I don't think you have to like him much to think he's got to be better than Edmonds and Reed Johnson. Pie has better numbers than Edmonds so far this year, and he's obviously a more important part of their future as well. He has nothing left to prove in the minors. The Cubs need to start him regularly, but they haven't and won't. ...

Jim Edmonds To The Cubs? Nooooooooooo! [Jim Edmonds]
Published 5/13/2008 by Leitch at Deadspin
... • Bleed Cubbie Blue: "If the Cubs insist on signing a washed-up, injured, 38-year-old centerfielder who was released by a team in desperate need of hitting, at least send Jim Edmonds to Iowa for a week or two first, and let Pie play. The bottom line is: the Cubs are 23-15, winners of four in a row and five of six, and scoring metric buttloads of runs. Why mess with success? Please, Jim. Don't do it." ...

The answer to a question no one was asking
Published 5/14/2008 by Minneapolis Red Sox (noreply@blogger.com) at Siberian Baseball
... the signing imminent, this just sounds like a dumber and dumber idea by the hour. Chicago's brass honestly thinks that Edmonds has a place on this team that was already having a tough time finding playing time for their outfielders? You have rookie Felix Pie who has struggled to find his feet, but still needs time to develop and Reed Johnson - who was signed just before the season - who has already cornered the market on scrappy white center fielders at Wrigley. From Bleed Cubbie Blue: If the Cubs insist on signing a washed-up, injured, 38-year-old ...