Good news

Good news all around early today, first, Jacque Jones signs with the Cubs, keeping him out of DL's greedy clutches. Then the first dose of sanity in months hits the Pirates front office and Josh Fogg was non-tendered last night. I like Josh Fogg, I think he's a good guy, though it's probably due to the constant grin. Still, he hasn't been good enough to warrant what he was probably going to make in arbitration. According to Rotoworld he was the only non-tender, which means that Vogelsong got a contract in addition to all of the "sure-things" to get an offer (Wells, CWilson, Gerut, Perez). I don't know what's going on with Cota at this point, on Sunday there were seven Pirates listed in the PG as arbitration eligible,but yesterday and today's articles in the PG (which was before the Pirates announcement as to who got contact offers) there were only six listed, with Cota being left out. Either way, he's going to be a Pirate next year and probably cheaply, so it's really not that big of a deal, though he'll probably be taking a roster spot from Paulino.

The only other thing currently of note that I missed in yesterday's article about the contract offers (see the link above) is that Matt Peterson passed through waivers and reassigned by the Bucs to AAA Indy. Seeing as how Peterson has been truly awful in Black and Gold, I don't know if anyone could be surprised that he passed through waivers.

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