Ron Coomers 2007 Cubs

[RichHillIsABeast]

rotation:

 

Zambrano

Zito (massively overpay for a non-stud, healthy lefty)

Marshall

Hill

Prior/Miller

 

pen:

 

Dempster/Wood

Eyre

Howry

Ohman

Wuertz

Guzman

[goonys evil twin]

Hideki and Murton are an interesting comparison. In his rookie year, playing a full season with nearly 700 plate appearances, Matsui hit 16 homeruns, 38.9 ab/hr. He was 29. And his line was .287/.353/.435. At 30 he hit .298/.390/.522, and last year he was .305/.367/.496. He's had an OPS+ of 111, 139 and 125.

 

At 24 Murton is hitting .291/.352/.424 (.300/.362/.452 for his career). So he's basically already what Matsui was in his rookie year, at 29, but the difference is Murton costs next to nothing and has 2 more pre-prime seasons to develop. He also doesn't have a broken wrist.

[J.R.]

Coomer made 386 plate appearances for the Cubs in 2001. Amazing that team won 88 games while giving some much playing time to multiple players of Coomer's calibre.

If it weren't for the late season injury to Flash Gordon I think they would have likely made the playoffs that year.

 

Seems hilarious now, but I recall the elation I felt knowing that we had locked up the division with the McGriff trade. I recall a decisive beatdown on the Cardinals that very weekend that further cemented the notion.

[goonys evil twin]

Coomer made 386 plate appearances for the Cubs in 2001. Amazing that team won 88 games while giving some much playing time to multiple players of Coomer's calibre.

If it weren't for the late season injury to Flash Gordon I think they would have likely made the playoffs that year.

 

Seems hilarious now, but I recall the elation I felt knowing that we had locked up the division with the McGriff trade. I recall a decisive beatdown on the Cardinals that very weekend that further cemented the notion.

 

The thing I didn't like about that trade was they were replacing one of the three productive bats in the lineup with a guy who was just a little more productive. It's not like they plugged a whole. Stairs was hitting, unlike a lot of the other guys.

[J.R.]

Coomer made 386 plate appearances for the Cubs in 2001. Amazing that team won 88 games while giving some much playing time to multiple players of Coomer's calibre.

If it weren't for the late season injury to Flash Gordon I think they would have likely made the playoffs that year.

 

Seems hilarious now, but I recall the elation I felt knowing that we had locked up the division with the McGriff trade. I recall a decisive beatdown on the Cardinals that very weekend that further cemented the notion.

 

The thing I didn't like about that trade was they were replacing one of the three productive bats in the lineup with a guy who was just a little more productive. It's not like they plugged a whole. Stairs was hitting, unlike a lot of the other guys.

 

In retrospect, that deal was stupid on many levels. I think having Fred around may have jacked with the team's chemistry, especially in light of all the time he wasted hanging around Tampa before joining the ballclub. It's like he was happy to rot away down there; unfortunately, he in the end decided to come rot away with us.

 

The choke job that was 2001 is largely lost in memory due to the 9/11 tragedy. The season, while not as bad as 2004, has to rank among the great Cub collapses.

[C.C.]

Coomer made 386 plate appearances for the Cubs in 2001. Amazing that team won 88 games while giving some much playing time to multiple players of Coomer's calibre.

If it weren't for the late season injury to Flash Gordon I think they would have likely made the playoffs that year.

 

Seems hilarious now, but I recall the elation I felt knowing that we had locked up the division with the McGriff trade. I recall a decisive beatdown on the Cardinals that very weekend that further cemented the notion.

 

The thing I didn't like about that trade was they were replacing one of the three productive bats in the lineup with a guy who was just a little more productive. It's not like they plugged a whole. Stairs was hitting, unlike a lot of the other guys.

 

Well that and he didn't want to come here. He wanted to stay in Tampa...Rmemeber it took him at least a week to make up his mind to come to chicago?

[Ding Dong Johnson]

Coomer made 386 plate appearances for the Cubs in 2001. Amazing that team won 88 games while giving some much playing time to multiple players of Coomer's calibre.

If it weren't for the late season injury to Flash Gordon I think they would have likely made the playoffs that year.

 

Seems hilarious now, but I recall the elation I felt knowing that we had locked up the division with the McGriff trade. I recall a decisive beatdown on the Cardinals that very weekend that further cemented the notion.

 

The thing I didn't like about that trade was they were replacing one of the three productive bats in the lineup with a guy who was just a little more productive. It's not like they plugged a whole. Stairs was hitting, unlike a lot of the other guys.

 

McGriff was actually quite a bit more productive, but I agree with the thinking. 3B was the obvious hole after Mueller went down.