ALFONSO SORIANO RUMORS

Alfonso Soriano homered, Jeff Samardzija struck out eight in seven innings and the Chicago Cubs beat the San Diego Padres 5-3 Tuesday. Soriano hit a solo homer to center field in the sixth. After going homerless in his first 30 games this season, Soriano has seven home runs in his last 13 games. Samardzija (5-3) allowed eight hits and was one strikeout from tying his career high...

Alfonso Soriano homered, Jeff Samardzija struck out eight in seven innings and the Chicago Cubs beat the San Diego Padres 5-3 Tuesday. Soriano hit a solo homer to center field in the sixth. After going homerless in his first 30 games this season, Soriano has seven home runs in his last 13 games. Samardzija (5-3) allowed eight hits and was one strikeout from tying his career high...

Alfonso Soriano has always loved to carry a big stick — literally. Earlier in his career, it seemed to work out perfectly. During his years with the Yankees, Rangers, and Nationals, Soriano flirted with the 40-homer mark almost every season. He’s had a couple of similar years with the Cubs, but things have not exactly worked out the way Chicago had planned them to when...

You’d be hard-pressed to find a more polarizing figure in Chicago than Alfonso Soriano. Soriano hasn’t lived up to his massive contract with the Chicago Cubs, and is a small piece of many reasons that the club has taken such a major step back as an organization. After an offseason that saw the Theo Epstein Era begin on the North Side, many players were expected to be, and are...

We've yet to show the projections for any of the outfielders and since I've been going around the horn, we'll start with left field. I'm breaking this into four posts: one for each position and then one for the backups. Despite a .289 OBP last season, Alfonso Soriano managed to post a .325 wOBA, which was good for league average (99 wRC+). He did this thanks to his...

The Chicago Cubs didn’t make a mistake when they signed Alfonso Soriano in 2007. Soriano has been an impact player who could hit for power and had the ability to steal many bases. The mistake the Cubs general manager, at that time Jim Hendry, made was the length and the guaranteed money that went into his contract. Without Soriano the Chicago Cubs would not have won the National...

Bruce Levine on ESPN:Cubs president of baseball operations Theo Epstein and general manager Jed Hoyer have been trying to move Soriano, who is owed $54 million over the next three years, since December, according to major league sources. The sources say the Cubs have talked to as many as eight teams, mostly in the American League.(snip)"I won't go to just any team. I want...

Last week the Cubs did the (seemingly) impossible and trade headcase Carlos Zambrano while actually getting a decent player in return (Chris Volstad). Sure, the Cubs had to pay $15 million of the $18 million that Zambrano is owed in 2012, but, as Theo Epstein put it: “The calculus for us was would we rather spend that $18 million on one year of Carlos and try to make it work...

When the Chicago Cubs hired Theo Epstein it seemed like just a matter of time until changes would be brought upon the franchise that is desperately seeking any way to once again achieve greatness. The dealing of Carlos Zambrano to the Miami Marlins was probably not that big of shock seeing how Zambrano has been a bad influence in the locker room and not too popular with the front...

Another trade could be on the horizon for Theo Epstein. A day after sending Carlos Zambrano to the Marlins, the Cubs president of baseball operations is shipping around outfielder Alfonso Soriano and has spoken with at least eight American League teams over the past six weeks, according to ESPN.com. MASNsports.com reports the Orioles are one of the teams that inquired about the outfielder...