Where's The Beef?

As our good friend Sloth rightly ranted, most of us have been led to believe that the Cubs are going to be built via Farm System Players.

Well, where are they?

Bobby Hill? Gone. David Kelton? Yo-yo. Hee Sop Choi? Banished. Montanez? Sucks. Frese? Ditto. Patterson? Playing better, but strking out as often as he blinks and running the bases with the deftness of Norm Petterson in a beer can museum.

Every day I get an e-mail, The Baseball America Prospect Report. I look for "CHC" as I go down the list. I see far too few names. For every "CHC D.Bacon CF 4 2 1 0 .269 - 3 BB, K, 6 SB (71); 40 SB in 40 G, promoted to AA" I see 50 other names from other teams. And I never see the names at AA.

What is this team doing and when is it going to do it?

Barry Rozner on the chance that Steinbrenner might just take Sosa off our hands and allow the Cubs to get young and better at several positions all at once. If Sosa goes, Tejada, Vidro, Vasquez and Vlad are all possible acquisitions. Probably 3 of them would be a good bet.

Chuck