Hate To See You Go, Zambrano

The Chicago Cubs are trading Carlos Zambrano to the Miami Marlins (that still sounds weird) for Chris Volstad. The Cubs are going to pick up all but $2.5 million of Zambrano's salary, which basically cancels out Volstad's salary for the Marlins. I don't understand this move for the Marlins. They are losing the years of control they have over Volstad, a younger pitcher with more upside, for (probably) one year of Zambrano, who has had too many problems to count. The guy probably can't pitch a full season anymore, and chances are he'll just have another blow-up this year that will be a cancer to the team, and the Marlins are all too familiar with those kinds of things already.

Sure, IF Zambrano were to stay healthy and pitch a full year, he would almost surely be a better pitcher than Volstad, which makes sense for the Marlins "win now" mentality, but this move comes with a lot of risks. I guess that's what a team like the Marlins has to do at this point though when trying to compete with the Phillies.

Then again, I'm not a Marlins blogger, so I don't know this stuff as well as others would. Read this post from a real-life Miami blogger and that'll give you a good idea of what this deal really looks like.

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This article is also a good read. If you scroll down awhile in the article you'll see a list of all the incidents and problems Zambrano has been involved with. It's a good humor-read.

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