Byrd Flying East for the Summer
UPDATE #2: @Sean_McAdam: Red Sox will be responsible for only the pro-rated minimum - about $400K -- of Marlon Byrd's $6.5 million salary. Cubs eat the rest.
UPDATE: @Sean_McAdam Baseball source: Byrd to Red Sox for Michael Bowden and PTBNL done. Cubs will pick up "most'' of Byrd's $6.5 million.
Nick Cafardo was the first to report that the Cubs and Red Sox are working on a deal to send Marlon Byrd to the Red Sox. It would also make sense of the earlier roster move today where the Cubs called up Tony Campana to put Ryan Dempster on the disabled list since they still need to lose a body to make room for Randy Wells tomorrow.
Bruce Levine is saying the Cubs will get a left-handed reliever and a minor leaguer in the deal and it should be completed today. I'm presuming Cubs will pay a healthy portion of Byrd's roughly $6.5M salary as well, but no word on that yet. Franklin Morales and Justin Thomas are the 2 lefties on their current active roster. There's also Michael Bowden, a righty, that was DFA'd last week by them.
Lineups for today's loss after the jump...
Reds | Cubs |
Cozart, SS |
*DeJesus, RF |
Stubbs, CF |
Barney, 2B |
*Votto, 1B |
Castro, SS |
Phillips, 2B |
*LaHair, 1B |
Ludwick, LF |
*Stewart, 3B |
Rolen, 3B | *Clevenger, C |
Heisey, RF | *DeWitt, 2B |
Mesoraco, C |
Mather, CF |
Leake, P |
*Maholm, P |
Keep an eye out here for more updates on the trade.
Comments