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Originally Posted by Aguakate
I'm just saying...why pay more for Pujols or Fielder, who will ask for a lot of money, when you can sign Peņa for less money and get good production from First Base? With the money you save, you can better the ball club...
...if they sign one of those 2 guys, the Cubs will be similar to what they were for most of Sammy Sosa's tenure in Chicago: a losing team, but hey...they've got a superstar, so...
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221/341/439 is "good" production? Granted, the OBP is not bad, but Pujols, in a down year where his wrist was repaired, has a similar OBP, higher SLG and higher OPS. Pujols is far superior than Pena, and even if the Cubs were to try and spend their money on several players rather than one, they are not going to accumulate the lone production that Pujols alone would bring them.