baker never disappoints

[jjgman21]

All...I didn't read every post in the thread, but I don't think the issue is that Cedeno does not physically possess a glove that he could use at 2B. My interpratation is that they are wanting Cedeno to take a few days of infield practice (DP footwork, groundballs, etc) before playing there in a MLB game. I know that we're all about at the end of our fuse with this organization, but let's not make a big deal about a few words that when taken literally indicate that Cedeno needs to buy a glove and break it in before playing.

 

like I alluded to earlier, even if that is the case, they wouldn't have put Walker at first a day or two after Lee went down when the Cubs were in first place.

 

these games are meaningless. put him out there in game action. the change is not that great. difficult turns at 2nd might cost you one out over the course of the next five games. big fricken deal.

 

Walker wouldn't have had a runner coming at him spikes first trying to break up a double play at 1st base. If Cedeno isn't accustomed to turning the DP (and evading a baserunner sliding) at 2B, then I don't think it's a bad decision to let him get a couple of days of work doing so in practice. Conversely, I think we'd likely care quite a bit less about a possible injury related to this type of scenario if we were still in the playoff race. There was no real reason to risk an injury to Cedeno by placing him at 2B a bit prematurely since we are out of the playoff picture. If we needed his bat in the lineup and we were in the playoff picture, he would have played 2B yesterday.....my opinion.

 

you're envisioning an incident that happens once every 10,000 major league baseball games happening withing the next 5 games.

 

with Ronnie's athleticism and familiarity playing around the keystone corner, I'd take my chances.

 

we just witnessed the closer being used four games in a row and in 7 of 8 days in a row, a little over a year after treating another pitcher with a surgically repaired arm, Chad Fox, in a similar way and ending his career. we've seen Kerry Wood go from 50 pitches for a month then up to 85 pitches in a rehab start. we've seen Mark Prior try to pitch through an achilles injury when anyone with any knowledge of the body or access to webmd.com could have told you the only prescription for an achilles injury is rest. please don't tell me the Cubs management suddenly become enlightened about the risk of injury to Cubs players.

 

I'm confused.

 

Are you saying that a 2nd baseman only turns a DP once in every 10,000 games? I must have misread that.

 

no, I'm suggesting that a 2nd baseman gets injured every 10,000 DPs turned. don't know the real number, but it's not an everyday occurrence, particularly with atheletic types like Cedeno. even viscious take outs don't usually cause injury, see White Sox v. Tigers two weeks ago. I just don't see Cedeno sitting there taking a spike to the knee ala Carlos Lee on Todd Walker.

[NCCubFan]

When I was posting the minor league probables this morning, I had to check a couple times to make sure that the I-Cubs were in Des Moines and not out in Tacoma. All because of Dusty's quote.

 

So not only is his excuse-making ridiculous...it's FALSE!

Hmm, maybe that explains a lot. Tacoma used to be the Cubs' AAA team, back in the late 60s and early 70s (around the time Dusty came up to the majors). Maybe he's suffering from memory loss and thinks it's 1971, not 2006. :D