ST - 3/3: Cubs (Marshall) vs. A's (Gallagher), 2:05 pm CT

[Hall7810]

Lou's pulling Cashner.

[Little Slide Rooter]

Fox really forcing management to take a look at him.

Offensively he has done all he can do, but he is going to have to show he can play multiple positions (3B, 1B, LF, RF) with at least average D to make the team.

 

 

This I realize.

 

I don't think he makes the squad, but should be an adequate midseason injury replacement. Like the power off the bench.

 

Didn't Fox go unselected in the Rule5 Draft this year?

 

Fox has always put up nice numbers in the minors, but not been able to produce in the majors in his limited opportunities. The problem with being on a "win now" team for guys like Hoff, Fox, Dubois, and the recently departed Kroeger is the organization will chose to go the free agent route than give young guys on the job training at the big league level.

 

And that's fine with me as I don't see Jake Fox as anything more than a poor man's Eric Hinske. He does seem to be a solid late inning RH PH if needed though.

 

I really think that these types of guys could have some success at the big league level if they were on a team that were going to give them the opportunity as regular players. However, we dont have a team that will do that. These are guys who would be best suited as DHs or spot starters. Believe me, every minor league system has a few of these guys.

[BeerHere]

That is disappointing.

[pitchcs]

Not Cubs game related, but Corey Koskie is starting for Canada vs. Toronto on MLB Network.

 

Wow, boring day

[Little Slide Rooter]

Not Cubs game related, but Corey Koskie is starting for Canada vs. Toronto on MLB Network.

 

Wow, boring day

 

Games over. He went 1-2 with a double and a walk.

[Little Slide Rooter]

Randy Wells pitched a perfect 8th according to scoreboard. He looked good for what we saw of him last year.

[pitchcs]

Not Cubs game related, but Corey Koskie is starting for Canada vs. Toronto on MLB Network.

 

Wow, boring day

 

Games over. He went 1-2 with a double and a walk.

 

Wondered why it started so late. Sadly, it's still the best thing on TV right now.

[Little Slide Rooter]

Caridad to pitch the 9th for us. Of course knowing MLB scoreboard, the game probably ended 15 minutes ago.

[Fred Hornkohl]

Just in case anyone missed it..... the final was 6-4 CUBS.

 

 

Go CUBS !!!

[Brian]

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SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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Old friend

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Aram and another old friend

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[Guest]

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Cashner

 

And Welington Castillo in the background.

[Guest]

Arizona Phil / The Cub Reporter[/url]"]In a battle for the #5 starting job, Sean Marshall got the start for the Cubs and was simply marvelous, retiring all nine men he faced in three consecutive 1-2-3 innings.

 

Unlike his last time out, when he kept bpuncing his curve while leaving everything else up in the strike zone, Marshall was right on target today, dropping his curve in for strikes, and coaxing the A's into five ground ball outs through the first two innngs while facing the likes of Jack Cust, Matt Holliday, Jason Giambi, Bobby Crosby, and Kurt Suzuki.

 

Marshall might have begun to tire just a little bit in the top of the third when the A's put a couple of balls into the air, but then the lefty finished off his outing by striking out pinch-htter Jeff Baisley.

 

For the day, Marshall threw a total of 35 pitches (24 for strikes), with a 5/3 GO/FO, and no balls were hit hard.

 

Kevin Gregg worked an EXTREMELY quick 4th inning, retiring the side on five pitches (all strikes, with four of the balls put into play, and all four of those on the ground)..I think I might have blinked twice (three times max) during that inning.

 

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Making his 2009 Cactus League debut (he was late to camp, supposedly due to "visa problems"), RHP Luis Vizcaino (acquired from Colorado for Jason Marquis during the off-season) worked the 6th, and he looked very good (a 1-2-3 inning, retiring Holliday-Giambi-Bowen, 1/1 GO/FO, one K, on only 12 pitches). I have to admit I was half-expecting to see a broken-down sore-armed guy slinging the ball up to the plate, but his fastball actually had some zip on it, and his breaking ball looked good, too.

 

2008 #1 draft pick RHP Andrew Cashner (he of the 99 MPH fastball and high 80's slider) made his Spring Training game debut in the 7th. As one would expect, he had command probblems (24 pitches - only 12 strikes), and along the way he allowed two runs on three hits, a walk, and a wild pitch (and got no punch-outs), before leaving the game with runners on 1st and 2nd and only one out in the inning.

[ChiCubsFan]

Good to see Marshall, Gregg, and Vizcaino all pitch well. Not good about Cashner, though.

[chuckywang]

Holy crap, is that Ryan O'Malley?