Too Good to Be True

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Let's see if Soriano shows up to the OBP class first before we get too giddy. The offense didn't click quite the same when the human strikeout led off games a couple weeks ago.

 

It's not like his replacements have done much better.

 

The replacements for Soriano in the lineup by day (including Fontenot replacing Soriano in the first inning when he got hurt):

 

Fontenot/Fontenot/Fontenot/Patterson/Cedeno/Cedeno? (could be either Cedeno or Murton)/Fontenot/Johnson

 

Those are the players who either played LF directly, or played 2B because DeRosa moved to LF to cover for Soriano.

 

And their performances:

 

Fontenot (leadoff) 1 for 5, 1 2B, 2 K

Fontenot (leadoff) 1 for 5, 2 K

Fontenot (leadoff) 0 for 5

Patterson (leadoff) 0 for 4, 2 K

Cedeno (8th) 2 for 4, 1 BB, 1 K

Cedeno (8th) 2 for 5, 1 2B, 1 K (if you believe Murton replaced him then it was 1 for 6)

Fontenot (2nd) 0 for 3, 1 BB, 1 K

Johnson (leadoff) 1 for 4, 1 BB, 1 K

 

Total numbers with Cedeno's 2nd day: 7 for 35, 2 2B, 3 BB, 10 K, a .200/.263/.257 line

Total numbers with Murton's day added: 6 for 36, 1 2B, 3 BB, 9 K, a .167/.231/.194 line

 

Soriano's numbers for the season: .175/.230/.298

 

Soriano was about the same as the people that replaced him, and 5 of the 8 days so far his replacement has batted leadoff, and another day his replacement batted 2nd. There is no evidence to support that Soriano getting hurt has led to the hot streak of the offense.

 

Oh, by the way. Soriano was striking out every 5.18 at-bats so far this season. His replacements are striking out every 3.5 at-bats. The Cubs strikeouts so far have actually gotten worse because Soriano has not been in the lineup.

 

Nice post. I wish Murton would have gotten the chance to play every day over the likes of Fontenot.

[Abe Frohman]

Records aside, when is the last time the Cubs had an offense as good as this? I can't remember one that got on base like this.

[hardcorecubfan]

I am still concerned about this base clogging that is going on with the Cubs this year

-Dusty

[El Ridda]

Way OT... my sincere apologies, but this is the most current thread so I am posting here.

 

 

Does anyone know where I can find a board like NSBB specific to the Bears??? Many thanks!

[Roast]

Way OT... my sincere apologies, but this is the most current thread so I am posting here.

 

 

Does anyone know where I can find a board like NSBB specific to the Bears??? Many thanks!

http://www.windycityfootball.com/

 

Run by the same folks who run NSBB

[El Ridda]

Way OT... my sincere apologies, but this is the most current thread so I am posting here.

 

 

Does anyone know where I can find a board like NSBB specific to the Bears??? Many thanks!

http://www.windycityfootball.com/

 

Run by the same folks who run NSBB

 

 

Awesome. Thanks Buddy!

[Derwood]

imagine if the 2004 Cubs offense was playing for anyone other than Dusty

[RynoRules]

imagine if the 2004 Cubs offense was playing for anyone other than Dusty

 

Great point.

 

I think this also may be evidence of how important organizational philosophy is.

[jersey cubs fan]

imagine if the 2004 Cubs offense was playing for anyone other than Dusty

 

They were a slightly above average run scoring teams with good batting average, bad OBP and great SLG. I'm not sure it would have been much different with another manager.

 

They didn't have one single OBP type stud. Their best hitter was Ramirez, a big free swinger. Lee had not yet emerged as a star. They got Nomar who was another free swinger. Ramirez, Nomar and Alou were fairly similar in their approaches. They neither struck out nor walked a lot. Then you had Sammy near the end, when he lost the ability to take walks and get on base at great rates. They had multiple good hitters, but no great production, and a couple weak spots.

[chuckywang]

imagine if the 2004 Cubs offense was playing for anyone other than Dusty

 

My view in hindsight of that team was that they had players either just before their prime or during their decline. The only player I could think of that could be considered in his prime was Michael Barrett.