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Geez, are they trying to tease him or something by bringing him up several days after Soriano gets injured for the second time?
CubColtPacer South Bend Cubs

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That's a good move. Nothing against Patterson, but Murton and Hauffpauir are a better fit.

 

Agreed, and the funny thing is that these DH games are probably the thing that made Lou realize it. The bench tomorrow night against Kazmir would have consisted of Hoffpauir, Patterson, Edmonds, and Fontenot. Lou saw that and realized the team was slightly unbalanced.

 

I think we'll see Murton get the majority of starts against left-handers. I hope he gets all of them considering the alternative is Cedeno and his reverse splits, but I can definitely see Cedeno stealing some and possibly most of those at-bats. Even if he doesn't get those starting at-bats though, he's a better option for this particular team as the last man off the bench then Patterson was.

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just in time for him to get schooled by kazmir, labeled a AAAA player and sent back down.

I thought the same thing.

 

Piniella decided to give Murton another chance the day they're up against one of the toughest lefties aroud, who's on fire and nobody's ever faced.

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Boy, that was a huge waste of one of Patterson's options. We should've done this from the start.

 

Patterson burned his option for the year when the Cubs sent him to AAA out of Spring training. Everything done after that is on the same option year. Plus he was already up to the major leagues in April. The Cubs can call him up 100 more times this year if they need to. It has absolutely no effect on his option status.

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just in time for him to get schooled by kazmir, labeled a AAAA player and sent back down.

I thought the same thing.

 

Piniella decided to give Murton another chance the day they're up against one of the toughest lefties aroud, who's on fire and nobody's ever faced.

 

I bet he WANTS Murton to fail!

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Boy, that was a huge waste of one of Patterson's options. We should've done this from the start.

 

Patterson burned his option for the year when the Cubs sent him to AAA out of Spring training. Everything done after that is on the same option year. Plus he was already up to the major leagues in April. The Cubs can call him up 100 more times this year if they need to. It has absolutely no effect on his option status.

 

Oh, that makes sense.

 

I was just showing off my knowledge of the minor leagues ;)

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Maybe he's about to go to Toronto in the A.J. Burnett trade.
I hear you. There was absolutely no reason to make this move unless something else is going on.

 

There's lots of reasons to make this move. In fact, my guess is it has nothing to do with showcasing Murton for a trade. Murton has over 800 major league at bats. My guess is that any GM who may or may not deal for him has seen whatever they need in those AB's.

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Maybe he's about to go to Toronto in the A.J. Burnett trade.
I hear you. There was absolutely no reason to make this move unless something else is going on.

 

People said the same thing last time they pulled this.

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Good to see this. Hopefully we can see Theriot/Fukudome at 1/2 in Tampa.

 

(In a perfect scenario Fuku would be leading off, but I'm not getting my hopes up for that.)

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Maybe he's about to go to Toronto in the A.J. Burnett trade.
I hear you. There was absolutely no reason to make this move unless something else is going on.

 

You know other teams have scouts that can go to Iowa to check out Murton if their team is interested in him, right?

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Maybe he's about to go to Toronto in the A.J. Burnett trade.
I hear you. There was absolutely no reason to make this move unless something else is going on.

 

You know other teams have scouts that can go to Iowa to check out Murton if their team is interested in him, right?

 

Right now, getting to/around Iowa is a bit difficult...

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Maybe he's about to go to Toronto in the A.J. Burnett trade.
I hear you. There was absolutely no reason to make this move unless something else is going on.

 

You know other teams have scouts that can go to Iowa to check out Murton if their team is interested in him, right?

 

Right now, getting to/around Iowa is a bit difficult...

 

Only if you are driving into Des Moines from the east or north. If you are flying or coming from the west its pretty much business as usual.

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