09/12 CUBS (Lopez) @ DBR (Willis) 6:10 CDT, CSN

[CubmanPi]

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Rodrigo Lopez (4-6, 4.82 ERA)

 

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Dontrelle Willis (0-5, 4.21 ERA)

[CubmanPi]

Insert 600 lines of stats/random facts here.

 

Go CUBS !!!

[Little Slide Rooter]

Insert 600 lines of stats/random facts here.

 

Go CUBS !!!

 

Theres only one that matters:

 

Rodrigo Lopez Sucks

 

Go Cubs!

[CubmanPi]

I think the importance of "21 games back with 16 to play" trumps anything involving Rodrigo Lopez. Last night during halftime, I switched to the Cubs game for a couple of minutes. I doubt I'll bother tonight.

[Little Slide Rooter]

Rodrigo Lopez has no business being on the mound. Jay Jackson should have gotten a 4 start audition starting at Lopezes last start. They'll have to either roster him or expose him to the Rule 5 anyway, so why not just call him up and let the flotsam like Lopez, Ortiz, and Grabow just go away?

[Ballgame64]

Jeff Baker - the guy who couldn't be traded even though he couldn't beat out Darwin Barney - is back in the line-up again. Since June 1 he has been horrible. Why not just let Lemahieu play 1B again like he did when he was with the team earlier this year?

 

I know you shouldn't place too much emphasis on Sept stats, but there really isn't a reason for Quade to keep playing Johnson and Baker against left handed starters when there are young guys on the roster who could play.

[CubmanPi]

Castro SS

Johnson RF

Ramirez 3B

Baker 1B

Soriano LF

Byrd CF

Soto C

Barney 2B

Lopez P

 

Definitely not a fan of stacking the lineup against LHP. I hate it even more in mathematically lame duck baseball. Reds are nowhere close to competing, so it's not an integrity-of-the-race issue either. I'd rather see every lefty bat Quade can find. Start Hill at catcher and make him bat lefty too.

[Little Slide Rooter]

I didnt realise that DeWitt (.261/.301/.420) was having an all around better season than Baker (.270/.299/.378). Bakers really starting to look like a non tender candidate with LeMahieu and Flaherty coming up.

[Bull]

Our Cubs have quietly gone from absolutely putrid to merely very bad.

[Guest]

Our Cubs have quietly gone from absolutely putrid to merely very bad.

 

They are now 60-59 in games not started by Coleman, Davis, or Russell. And that includes our heaping helping of Rodrigo Lopez.

[bukie]

Our Cubs have quietly gone from absolutely putrid to merely very bad.

 

They are now 60-59 in games not started by Coleman, Davis, or Russell. And that includes our heaping helping of Rodrigo Lopez.

At this point, I'm more concerned about the Cubs upgrading the pitching rotation in the offseason than the offense. Yes, a star 1B would be great, but the pitching is what made the team atrocious all year. Injuries hurt, of course, but the system was ill prepared to deal with the injuries, which was the big season killer.

[CubColtPacer]

Rodrigo Lopez has no business being on the mound. Jay Jackson should have gotten a 4 start audition starting at Lopezes last start. They'll have to either roster him or expose him to the Rule 5 anyway, so why not just call him up and let the flotsam like Lopez, Ortiz, and Grabow just go away?

 

If the Cubs aren't going to roster him this winter then they shouldn't roster him now. Rostering him and then de-rostering him makes it more likely to lose him than exposing him to the Rule 5 draft.

[Sammy Sofa]

Jeff Baker - the guy who couldn't be traded even though he couldn't beat out Darwin Barney - is back in the line-up again. Since June 1 he has been horrible. Why not just let Lemahieu play 1B again like he did when he was with the team earlier this year?

 

Is this the guy that hilariously hates Jeff Baker like he's the 2nd coming of Neifi?

[SouthSideRyan]

BOMB

[TruffleShuffle]

a home run AND a walk from castro? need to change my pants.

[TruffleShuffle]

holy hell, did that home run that juan francisco hit actually land yet? that has to be one of the longest home runs ever hit in the GABP.

[woodchip2153]

:lol: Len and Bob mocking the Cardinals for complaining all the time.

[Little Slide Rooter]

 

 

Definitely not a fan of stacking the lineup against LHP.

 

You were saying?

 

Hopefully this lead is big enough to hold off the awfullness that is Rodrigo Lopez.

[Little Slide Rooter]

Rodrigo Lopez has no business being on the mound. Jay Jackson should have gotten a 4 start audition starting at Lopezes last start. They'll have to either roster him or expose him to the Rule 5 anyway, so why not just call him up and let the flotsam like Lopez, Ortiz, and Grabow just go away?

 

If the Cubs aren't going to roster him this winter then they shouldn't roster him now. Rostering him and then de-rostering him makes it more likely to lose him than exposing him to the Rule 5 draft.

 

Why would the de-roster him? Just roster him now and keep him on the roster. Whats the worst that can happen, he takes a roster spot from Justin Berg/John Grabow/Rodrigo Lopez/Ramon Ortiz/Esmailen Caridad?

[Fred Hornkohl]

Thirty one games without scoring double digit runs once ..... And now we've done it in consecutive games. Go figure.

 

 

Go CUBS !!!

[Little Slide Rooter]

Gaub has some stuff.

[bcl412]

Just kind of a random thought, I wonder if in 5 years I will remember that Rodrigo Lopez was on the Cubs.

[Little Slide Rooter]

Just kind of a random thought, I wonder if in 5 years I will remember that Rodrigo Lopez was on the Cubs.

 

I bet a lot of people have forgotten that Phil Nevin was a Cub 5 years ago.

[UMFan83]

I really hope that Castro can hit at least 1 more HR this year. Really want him to reach double digits.

[NCCubFan]

This game thread is getting dangerously close to making it to a second page.