4/20 Reds (Bailey) @ Cobs (Volstad) 1:20 pm CDT, CSN TV

[jersey cubs fan]

several prospects are waiting to offer improvement,

 

Are we talking more than Rizzo and Jackson amongst that several? For comparison's sake, I'm not sure you can expect Rizzo to do any better than what LaHair has done to date. On the other hand, Jackson could probably start hitting right handed and do a better job than Byrd has.

[illiniguy]

several prospects are waiting to offer improvement,

 

Are we talking more than Rizzo and Jackson amongst that several? For comparison's sake, I'm not sure you can expect Rizzo to do any better than what LaHair has done to date. On the other hand, Jackson could probably start hitting right handed and do a better job than Byrd has.

Wellington Castillo would be a large upgrade at this point as well.

[Little Slide Rooter]

several prospects are waiting to offer improvement,

 

Are we talking more than Rizzo and Jackson amongst that several? For comparison's sake, I'm not sure you can expect Rizzo to do any better than what LaHair has done to date. On the other hand, Jackson could probably start hitting right handed and do a better job than Byrd has.

 

Perhaps LaHair could do LF, maybe platoon with Soriano. Rizzo could have 1st. Some combination of Castillo and Clevenger would be an upgrade over what Soto has done this year. Cardenas or Valbuena certainly couldn't be much worse than DeWitt, nor could Sappelt than Mather or Johsnon, despite Sappelts slow start in Iowa.

 

The trouble is, they were likely banking on guys like Byrd, Soto, and to a lesser extent Baker and Johnson to at least come somewhere close to their norms in hopes that they could get some value out of them through trade. The one who has been looking like he could really bring back something is Dempster, and he might end up on the DL.

[bcl412]

We're already 7 games out of first after only about two weeks. Cool.

[Little Slide Rooter]

We're already 7 games out of first after only about two weeks. Cool.

 

Chill out, it's only 14 games.

 

 

This time next month: chill out, it's only 41 games. Sure we're 9-32, but we could have won some of the close ones with more timely hitting. Marlon Byrd almost has his OPS at .400 and 4 of the 7 ER Volstad gave up in his 4 IP were in the 1st and he looked pretty good otherwise.

 

Mid July: chill out, we're 22-63, but we're only 13.5 games back. Besides, if the hitting and pitching were better we would have kept some of those games a bit closer.

 

July 31st: I wish we could have gotten more than a 28 year old AA loogy for Marlon Byrd, but the 2 fringe prospects we got for Soto might crack our top 30 prospects next year. And it was very generous of the Red Sox to send us that autographed Mike Greenwell rookie card for Reed Johnson and Blake DeWitt. Too bad Dempster had his leg amputated or we could have got something nice for him. And how the hell do the Cardinals have 3 guys I've never heard of with OPS over 1.400?

 

[SouthSideRyan]

At 3-11, with no change in projected winning percentage, you can already knock three wins off of whatever preseason win total you projected them to.

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You do this every year and it's still wrong. Not all games on the schedule are created equally.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

At 3-11, with no change in projected winning percentage, you can already knock three wins off of whatever preseason win total you projected them to.

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You do this every year and it's still wrong. Not all games on the schedule are created equally.

 

True. Pre-fire sale games should have come at a better than projected win rate, so losing them costs us even more.