Without further ado, the trade-deadline verdicts: The Winners: 1. Cubs: General Manager Andy MacPhail talked Fred McGriff out of Tampa (and his loved ones) to give Sammy Sosa lineup protection, then added reliable reliever David...
...Paul Saints and the Northern League were gaining their footing in the early 1990s, then-Twins general manager Andy MacPhail referred to the operation as "a beer league." In those days, any cooperation between the Saints and Twins was all...
...stay in Chicago but said Sosa wants to remain in a Cubs uniform. Adam Katz, Sosa's agent, met with Cubs president Andy MacPhail on Thursday as part of ongoing talks about a possible contract extension. Sosa is signed through 2001. ''His preference...
...Ernie Banks may be Mr. Cub. But Sosa is now The Cub -- of all time. Trade the manager, Don Baylor. Trade the GM, Andy MacPhail. But keep Sammy. The Yankees don't look too brilliant, either. They probably could have had Sosa for Ricky Ledee...
...Moorad said. The two sides have been negotiating since Tuesday and Moorad said he spoke twice Thursday with Cubs CEO Andy MacPhail. "This is not a typical player-like negotiation," Moorad said on the Cubs' flagship station, WGN radio, Thursday...
...but he couldn't make it because of a winter storm. Instead, Bartholomay, Cubs president and general manager Andy MacPhail and Louis Susman, a former member of the St. Louis Cardinals' Executive Committee, fielded questions. Part of...
...to be worth $5.2 million for four years. ''This was somebody who wanted to be here,'' said Cubs president Andy MacPhail, who traded for Baylor when he was general manager of the Minnesota Twins. The 1987 Twins won the World Series...
...agent), which you couldn't help but do because there has been so much attention paid to it,'' Cubs president Andy MacPhail said Tuesday. ''You make a deal when you think it is in your best interest, and they'll do the same. It's...
...game long enough not to preclude opportunities that might measurably improve the organization,'' Cubs president Andy MacPhail said. MacPhail wouldn't identify which teams are interested. ''In addition to the usual suspects, you have some...
...longterm extension to his $42.5 million, four-year contract that expires after this season. Though his agents and Andy MacPhail, the Cubs president and general manager, express optimism something will work out, they're a long way from signing...
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