Dusty supports the Big Murt

[CubColtPacer]

Oh my God, Dusty sort of stood up for both Murton and Cedeno (to a lesser extent).

 

:shock:

 

There's nothing 'sort of' about it. He came right out and said Murton should be the guy next year.

 

And yet he won't start him everyday right now.

 

I believe he's been playing Murton more than Jones the last few weeks-3-4 weeks maybe?

 

I think you mean Pagan, not Jones.

 

I think many people would argue that Dusty could play Pagan in CF if he really feels the need to see him play.

 

No, I meant Jones. In early August, Pagan was playing 30-40 percent of the time in LF. Now, Dusty has switched some of Pagan's at-bats over to RF and taken Jones out instead of Murton, at least some of the time. Apparently Pagan is still getting a little more playing time in LF than RF, but it's gotten better.

 

Yes, Dusty could play Pagan in center-but we know he's not going to do that, except for that one game where he came in late to play CF.

[Jehrico]

BIG MURT FOR LF in '07!!

 

Then they will need to replace both CF and RF. Doesn't matter, either way they needed to replace 2 guys out there, IMO.

 

I always come back to my idea of platooning Murton with Jacque with the idea he'd hopefully be able to take over RF after a year or two. Get big bopper for LF a la Dunn, C-Lee, etc. and haul up Pie.

 

That, or Jacque in CF.

 

What about getting Matthews Jr for CF and Durham for 2B?

 

that leaves quite a bit of money available for 2 pitchers, that I think are more needed.

 

I'd favor Jones over Matthews in CF. I think he'd be serviceable in CF, maybe slightly below average at worst (no worse than speedy P).

 

His offensive production would be pretty valuable from that position. We're saddled with him, I don't see anyone trading for him with 2 years left on his contract. Maybe if there were only one...If you keep Jones in RF, it's much more difficult and more expensive to get the big increase in the OF if you only have CF to replace. If you move Jacque to CF, then that position is upgraded significantly, and a big bat for RF is still a good possibility. Our overall potential for improving the OF is better if you move Jones to CF and look for a RFer, and can be done more cheaply.

 

Of course, that's wishful thinking. I doubt Hendry would go for that. We would need that "prototypical leadoff man" that we'd be missing after the departure of Pierre, and there's not too many RF "prototypical leadoff men" out there.

[NorthsideAvenger]

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/stats/batting?seasonType=2&type=reg&sort=OPS&minpa=100&split=182&season=2006&pos=lf&hand=a&league=mlb&ageMin=17&ageMax=51

 

Yeah, but dude, Carlos Lee does have a triple. And with that kind of speed you can expect Carlos Lee not to be clogging up the basepaths.