re: Cubs to hire Rick Renteria

I don't think it happens until the trade deadline. But I think if he's not extended by then he's dealt. I don't know how other front offices look at advanced stats but if I'm another front office and the cubs offer me shark I start pointing to the conventional pitching stats trying to drive down his price and we know theo and Jed would scoff at that so I expect the cubs will gamble on a good first half.

Shark is weird because we wanted to keep him away from football we gave him an inflated contract. And he seems to believe that inflation should be there for this new deal too. I just think ultimately he's asking for too much. I like the guy but I'd really like say Adam eaton and one of those high dealing pitchers from the d backs.