Rosenbloom: Who Makes Call On Starlin For Theo?
Steve Rosenbloom of the Chicago Tribune made a return to the "The McNeil and Spiegel Show" on Thursday to discuss all the happenings in Chicago sports. The Cubs General Manager and White Sox manager searches, the Bears 2-2 start and the Blackhawks getting things going on Friday night were all discussed.
Rosenbloom's latest edition of The RosenBlog:
If it's Starlin for Theo, who really makes that call?
As we wait for white smoke out of Fenway Park, one of the swirling Cubs issues is this:
Would you trade Starlin Castro for Theo Epstein?
That's the DEFCON 1 scenario as Tom Ricketts stalks Boston's general manager.
We don't know if the Cubs received approval to pursue the man who appears to be their top choice. We don't know if Epstein even wants to leave his hometown heroes for the most futile franchise in sports history.
If the answers are yes and yes, then it'll cost the Cubs because the man who brought two World Series to Boston has a year left on his contract. But cost them how much? Cost them what? Their best young player in decades?
Players win, but players account for one position at a time. A general manager affects all 25 roster spots, the 40-man roster, the draft, and blah, blah blah...
