The Corey Patterson Thread

[SouthSideRyan]

What is it with this coaching staff? I remember when he had no clue how to steal a base here. Now, he's stolen in 13 out of 14 attempts. He's hitting .300, and only has 19 or whatever k's on the year.

 

I hope they dont do to murton what they did to Patterson. Sadly though, they probably will.

 

Nah, Corey was a pretty efficient base stealer here 86/109

[BigSlick]

i hate the change of scenery claim. it gets so overblown b/c when a guy goes to a new place and revives his career it gets all kinds of pub. the thousand other times when a struggling player goes to a new team and continues to suck, you don't hear anything about it.

 

Huh? Why does anyone want to hear about a player sucking? Why should that be publicized? A player reviving his career, OTH, is actually news.

 

i was just saying i don't buy the change of scenery argument.

 

You ever feel like you got a fresh start...got a second chance? Maybe thats how he feels. He doesn't need to worry about the pressure as much anymore.

 

Heck, its not like he didn't have the tools. It was always a mental thing with Cpatt.

[cubs121]

i really feel like killing my self!

[Laura]

Misery loves company, let's chill out just a little bit.

[stitchface]

sarcasm. any improvement in corey is likely solely the result of better pitch selection.

[CubfaninCA]

omg

 

you're trying to embarrass people!

 

:lol:

[abuck1220]

i hate the change of scenery claim. it gets so overblown b/c when a guy goes to a new place and revives his career it gets all kinds of pub. the thousand other times when a struggling player goes to a new team and continues to suck, you don't hear anything about it.

 

you don't think that a player, specifically one of patterson's breed, can go to a new team with a different coaching staff/approach and do better? that's essentially a change of scenery.

 

that's a change in coaching staff. that can make a difference. but just saying the guy goes from la to seattle and poof, he's turned it around...i don't really buy that. not saying it doesn't happen, but it's not as frequent as people think.

[RonnieWooWooSanto]

Maybe Corey just needed to get away from Gail Fischer.

[soccer10k]

i hate the change of scenery claim. it gets so overblown b/c when a guy goes to a new place and revives his career it gets all kinds of pub. the thousand other times when a struggling player goes to a new team and continues to suck, you don't hear anything about it.

 

Huh? Why does anyone want to hear about a player sucking? Why should that be publicized? A player reviving his career, OTH, is actually news.

 

i was just saying i don't buy the change of scenery argument.

 

You ever feel like you got a fresh start...got a second chance? Maybe thats how he feels. He doesn't need to worry about the pressure as much anymore.

 

Heck, its not like he didn't have the tools. It was always a mental thing with Cpatt.

 

He also doesn't have to worry about getting booed every time he does something wrong.

[Roast]

Nor does he have to worry about our terrible hitting coaches.

[frostwyrm]

Hendry's offseason keeps looking better and better.

[Roast]

And patterson just walked on 4 straight. Hooray for OBP.

[Andy]

My White Sox fan friend called Dusty a miracle worker today.

 

As long as no one seems to understand that our coaching staff actively tries to lower the team OBP and our manager refuses to bat high-OBP guys at the top of the order other than NSBB posters, no changes will be made. :(

[Roast]

oh, he just stole second, btw.

[frostwyrm]

When all is said and done Hendry's last offseason could be one of the Cubs' alltime worst, the type of offseason that people still talk about 10 or 15 years later. Still too early to make that call, but preliminary indications are pretty bad for Jim.

[BigSlick]

When all is said and done Hendry's last offseason could be one of the Cubs' alltime worst, the type of offseason that people still talk about 10 or 15 years later. Still too early to make that call, but preliminary indications are pretty bad for Jim.

 

Me and my friends were high-fiving about our off-season earlier in the year.

 

 

We were so innocent then...

[RonnieWooWooSanto]

Patterson just got hit by a pitch for those keeping tabs.

[BigSlick]

Patterson just got hit by a pitch for those keeping tabs.

 

Does that count for OBP?

[Guest]

Patterson just got hit by a pitch for those keeping tabs.

 

Does that count for OBP?

Yep.

[Warpticon]

Wow. Corey's having pretty much *exactly* the season I expected him to have last season.

[IWU_CUBS_FAN]

i like the orioles manager refusal to lead him off saying that he loves what he can do towards the bottom of the order....hmm i think corey said that is where he wanted to hit in chicago way to listen lack luster dusty

[abuck1220]

two walks for patterson tonight, giving him 8 for the season (in 115 or so PA). pierre also has 8 walks (in 187 or so PA). amazing. he also had two more steals.

 

nice

trade

jimbo

!

[CubfaninCA]

so much for accountability.

 

.602 ops. that's ok corey. you get the starting job.

 

baseball players aren't robots. sometimes a change of scenery can be beneficial. corey got 170 ab's in the bottom of the order last year, and sucked there too.

 

thanx for sucking as a cub, bud.

[abuck1220]

 

.602 ops. that's ok corey. you get the starting job.

 

 

well then pierre should lose his starting job w/ his sub-.580 OPS.

[CubfaninCA]

 

.602 ops. that's ok corey. you get the starting job.

 

 

well then pierre should lose his starting job w/ his sub-.580 OPS.

 

i hope so. trade hill for craig wilson and move jj to cf.