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Buzz: No Interest in Trading Carlos Zambrano

by Matthew Cerrone on September 25th, 2009 at 9:05 am

Jayson Stark of ESPN.com believes the Cubs have never shown any interest in trading Carlos Zambrano, despite recent reports suggesting otherwise.

In a follow up from Baseball Prospectus, Christina Kahrl writes:

“If Jim Hendry’s lucky, a starter-hungry team might deal for Zambrano out of a unique conviction that they know how to turn him around or that they just need that one pitcher who will put them over the top.  Paging Omar Minaya?”

…typically, teams will meet at the end of September to discuss a general plan for the off season, which is fine tuned following the GM Meetings in November… none of this has happened yet… so, it’s hard to take any of these sorts of rumors seriously… that said, i will not be surprised to see a TON of Zambrano-Cubs-Mets rumors this off season, because he’s a controversial, former-No.2 pitcher, and the Mets are in need of a No. 2 pitcher