Mat Gamel

[Guancous]

Mat Gamel is on the Cubs?

 

http://my.chicagotribune.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-77648304/

[XZero771679666304]

Knew that was coming as soon as I saw he had been waived.

[Cubswin11]

I'm on like year 5 of my RTTS on The Show and Gamel somehow winded up on the Cardinals in like my 2nd year and has been a annual MVP candidate ever since. So we have that going for us, which is nice.

[pitchcs]

Mat Gamel once made something like 282 errors at Triple-A in a month.

[illiniguy]

In before sneakypower makes his really funny joke again about me liking Mat Gamel when he was a prospect. Then him disappearing when I bring up his love for Francis Beltran, who might be dead.

[Backtobanks]

Seems kind of redundant after getting Olt, but I guess it's worth a flier because he's cheap.

[Rob]

I sincerely doubt they're looking at Gamel as a 3B. Outfield corner and backup 1B most likely.

 

I think he's out of options though, so I imagine he's cut at the end of spring training if he doesn't impress.

[Smack]

I sincerely doubt they're looking at Gamel as a 3B. Outfield corner and backup 1B most likely.

 

I think he's out of options though, so I imagine he's cut at the end of spring training if he doesn't impress.

 

Yeah he was supposed to hold down 1B in Milwaukee this year with Hart out and then move to 1B / corner OF backup (Hart was supposed to come back). My guess is that things don't look good for his future if Milwaukee cut him. They were just as bad as the Cubs this year and have a smaller budget. If they thought Gamel could produce much of anything at the league minimum they would've kept him.

[Little Slide Rooter]

What's great about fliers is that you can take out as many as you want and they don't take up much space, and you can toss them as you please.

 

But I'd love it if he were to have a breakout season and cause Brewer's fans to flip out for two years.

 

Lot of interesting big league ready 3B depth between Olt, Gamel, and Vitters.

[WrigleyField 22]

What's great about fliers is that you can take out as many as you want and they don't take up much space, and you can toss them as you please.

 

But I'd love it if he were to have a breakout season and cause Brewer's fans to flip out for two years.

 

Lot of interesting big league ready 3B depth between Olt, Gamel, and Vitters.

Once you get good, not really. The Cubs have been "lucky" they could give a flier to any waived player because there was always an expendable piece they could part with. As we improve and get a fuller 40/25 man roster, that gets harder to justify fliers.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

A "flier" does you no good until you give him playing time to see if you got anything out of it, and that is very much not free.

[ctcf]

Well now we've finally learned that SCS doesn't actually know how signing baseball players works. Suddenly a lot of his past posts make more sense.

[imb]

Lot of interesting big league ready 3B depth between Olt, Gamel, and Vitters.

 

thats one way of putting it

[Hairyducked Idiot]

Lot of interesting big league ready 3B depth between Olt, Gamel, and Vitters.

 

thats one way of putting it

 

The PCL is a big-ish league. Way bigger than, like, the NWL or something.

[bukie]

Lot of interesting big league ready 3B depth between Olt, Gamel, and Vitters.

 

thats one way of putting it

Loose definition of the words "Lot" "interesting", "big", "league", "ready", "3B", "depth" and "between" make that sentence potentially true.

[biittner77]

Lot of interesting big league ready 3B depth between Olt, Gamel, and Vitters.

 

thats one way of putting it

Loose definition of the words "Lot" "interesting", "big", "league", "ready", "3B", "depth" and "between" make that sentence potentially true.

 

When was the last time Gamel actually played 3rd base? I could be way off but I thought that ship sailed 3 years ago. It wouldn't shock me if Junior Lake was ahead of Gamel and Vitters on the 3rd base depth chart.

[Sammy Sofa]

SCS hasn't been around much lately, but he's seemingly making what few posts he's posting really count.

[SouthSideRyan]

Lot of interesting big league ready 3B depth between Olt, Gamel, and Vitters.

 

thats one way of putting it

Loose definition of the words "Lot" "interesting", "big", "league", "ready", "3B", "depth" and "between" make that sentence potentially true.

 

When was the last time Gamel actually played 3rd base? I could be way off but I thought that ship sailed 3 years ago. It wouldn't shock me if Junior Lake was ahead of Gamel and Vitters on the 3rd base depth chart.

 

Villanueva most likely is as well

[XZero771679666304]

I may be wrong, but I'm pretty sure Gamel is pretty much 1B or corner OF material at this point.

[Little Slide Rooter]

If by big league ready depth, we're talking bridges to Baez or Bryant that could potentially offer big payoffs in what's likely to be another season focused more upon building than anything else, I'm not sure why anyone would take issue with the terminology. I'd certainly rather cycle through them than another round of Lillibridges and Murphys. But what do I know.

[Guest]

The issue is that they are not third basemen. The organization publicly announced that Vitters is a LF now, and Gamel had converted to 1B because he was a horrific defender at 3B, THEN blew out his knee which has put him out of commission for the last 18 months. Lillibridge and Murphy have actually done something at the MLB level in their careers, which makes them preferable to the injury prone, maybe-good-enough-bat-for-3B-but-definitely-can't-field-3B that Gamel and Vitters offer.

[Little Slide Rooter]

Didn't realise quite how awful Gamel was at 3rd. Hadn't heard about Vitters being offically name a LF either; I thought he'd been making progress at 3rd. I still like the idea of stocking up on boom or busts, regardless of the likelyhood, or lack there of of them booming.

[EhDubya]

Didn't realise quite how awful Gamel was at 3rd. Hadn't heard about Vitters being offically name a LF either; I also was just informed Olt may be blind. At least we still have Kelton though, right? Either way, all of these guys might be terrible, but if just one of them makes it up to play putrid baseball for a year until Baez or Bryant is ready, that means we're deep at the position, right? Right?!

 

FIFY

[Beer Kaese]

Didn't realise quite how awful Gamel was at 3rd. Hadn't heard about Vitters being offically name a LF either; I thought he'd been making progress at 3rd. I still like the idea of stocking up on boom or busts, regardless of the likelyhood, or lack there of of them booming.

 

23000+ posts and you don't know Vitters can't play Third Base?

[Bull]

Didn't realise quite how awful Gamel was at 3rd. Hadn't heard about Vitters being offically name a LF either; I thought he'd been making progress at 3rd. I still like the idea of stocking up on boom or busts, regardless of the likelyhood, or lack there of of them booming.

 

23000+ posts and you don't know Vitters can't play Third Base?

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