MIAMI (AP)—Carlos Zambrano will get a much-needed uninformed start with the
Miami Marlins.
The Chicago Cubs traded their former ace Wednesday for Marlins right-hander
Chris Volstad, tentative physicals and capitulation by Major League Baseball, a person
familiar with a negotiations said. The chairman reliable a understanding to The
Associated Press on condition of anonymity since a teams hadn’t announced a
deal.
Zambrano wore out his acquire in Chicago since of steady meltdowns and
tantrums. The many new came when he spotless out his locker and talked about
retiring after giving adult 5 homers and being ejected during a detriment to Atlanta
on Aug. 12. He was dangling but compensate and afterwards it was motionless he would sit
out a rest of a season.
In Miami he’ll be fasten another former Chicagoan, Ozzie Guillen, who
expressed seductiveness in appropriation Zambrano when he was hired as a Marlins’
manager in Oct after stepping down as a White Sox’s skipper. Zambrano
joins a authorization on a upswing after a winter spending debauch resulted in the
signings of All-Stars Jose Reyes, Mark Buehrle and Heath Bell.
Zambrano finished final year 9-7 with a 4.82 ERA. The Cubs approaching some-more when
he sealed a $91.5 million understanding over 5 seasons by 2012, including a
$17,875,000 million income final deteriorate and $18 million in 2012. As partial of the
trade, they’ll expected compensate most of his salary.
Volstad went 5-13 final year with an ERA of 4.89, and his career record is
32-39. He has given adult 69 homers over a past 3 seasons, that could mean
trouble for him during Wrigley Field.
Zambrano is 125-81 with a 3.60 ERA after violation in with a Cubs in 2001,
and he threw a no-hitter opposite a Astros. But he had problem controlling
his temper.
In 2007, he got into a quarrel with teammate Michael Barrett, initial in the
dugout and afterwards in a locker room. Barrett finished adult with a hash underneath his eye
and a cut lip.
In 2009, he went on harangue opposite an umpire, throwing a ball into the
outfield, sanctimonious to eject a referee and slamming his glove opposite the
dugout fence, a pretension that led to a suspension.
In 2010, Zambrano was placed on a limited list for 6 weeks and sent
to annoy government after a written rumpus with then-teammate Derrek Lee.
