4/9 Cubs (Hammel) vs. Pirates (Rodriguez) 7:05 CT WGN-TV

[Guest]

Part of the reasons Lake and Olt have as few starts as they do is two (or 25%) of the games they've played against RHP were against Charlie Morton.

 

I don't think the numbers are going to reflect anything close to a straight platoon with those two by season's end (or until they play themselves out of jobs)

 

Personally, I don't see a big problem with having a straight platoon to start and letting performance dictate deviation from there. Lake and Olt may have higher ceilings, but Valbuena and Kalish are both prime aged guys with 3+ years of team control too. They aren't throwing away at bats to get Reed Johnson platoon ABs so he can be sold for a marginally better prospect this year.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

Winning with them doing that is even more OK. Why is this even a post?

 

It'd make sense if we were winning with Castro and Rizzo not hitting but then that would kinda suck

 

From yesterday's game thread.

 

I wouldn't push the reset button on this game if given the chance. I hadn't taken a real good look at the April schedule before today, but holy hell, we never stood a chance to get off to a good start. I'll take the day Rizzo and especially Castro had.

[Guest]

Part of the reasons Lake and Olt have as few starts as they do is two (or 25%) of the games they've played against RHP were against Charlie Morton.

 

I don't think the numbers are going to reflect anything close to a straight platoon with those two by season's end (or until they play themselves out of jobs)

 

Personally, I don't see a big problem with having a straight platoon to start and letting performance dictate deviation from there. Lake and Olt may have higher ceilings, but Valbuena and Kalish are both prime aged guys with 3+ years of team control too. They aren't throwing away at bats to get Reed Johnson platoon ABs so he can be sold for a marginally better prospect this year.

 

We can play Valbuena AND Olt though...(and Lake and Kalish if we really wanted to)

[Hairyducked Idiot]

Bonifacio!

 

What a great spring pickup that was.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

Productive out for Castro. Gritty!

[Guest]

Winning with them doing that is even more OK. Why is this even a post?

 

It'd make sense if we were winning with Castro and Rizzo not hitting but then that would kinda suck

 

From yesterday's game thread.

 

I wouldn't push the reset button on this game if given the chance. I hadn't taken a real good look at the April schedule before today, but holy hell, we never stood a chance to get off to a good start. I'll take the day Rizzo and especially Castro had.

 

 

Your post makes no sense because we are winning AND Rizzo and Castro are hitting.

[Guest]

Part of the reasons Lake and Olt have as few starts as they do is two (or 25%) of the games they've played against RHP were against Charlie Morton.

 

I don't think the numbers are going to reflect anything close to a straight platoon with those two by season's end (or until they play themselves out of jobs)

 

Personally, I don't see a big problem with having a straight platoon to start and letting performance dictate deviation from there. Lake and Olt may have higher ceilings, but Valbuena and Kalish are both prime aged guys with 3+ years of team control too. They aren't throwing away at bats to get Reed Johnson platoon ABs so he can be sold for a marginally better prospect this year.

 

We can play Valbuena AND Olt though...(and Lake and Kalish if we really wanted to)

 

Maybe, there's some doubt about Valbuena the 2B. And that might still happen if Bonifacio ever stops playing at a 15 WAR pace.

[Guest]

Rizzo!

[gscool89]

Rizzo!

[Smack]

Easy swing, off the wall.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

Your post makes no sense because we are winning AND Rizzo and Castro are hitting.

 

The point was that All winning >>>>>>> all losing to such a degree that acting happy with losses is dumb and I hate it.

 

Unrelated: I'm more worried about Lake making my hate look dumb than Olt. We're closing in on 300 PAs of reality refusing to deal with him.

[d_money]

Bash Beothers

[Guest]

rizzo locked in

[Guest]

hahah gtfo kyle

[ctcf]

MIKE OLT!

[Guest]

Olt [expletive] sucks

[ctcf]

Too bad Olt sucks and Kyle is so dang smart.

[gscool89]

Platoon that.

 

http://i.imgur.com/4VaPOZ0.jpg

Edited April 10, 2014 by gscool89

[Crack Wilson]

Looks great, but there's 3 more innings......Oh! More run/runs!

[Guest]

Your post makes no sense because we are winning AND Rizzo and Castro are hitting.

 

The point was that All winning >>>>>>> all losing to such a degree that acting happy with losses is dumb and I hate it.

 

Unrelated: I'm more worried about Lake making my hate look dumb than Olt. We're closing in on 300 PAs of reality refusing to deal with him.

 

It's hard to say this early in the season, but later in the season ask me if I'd rather have last night's game or a game we win 2-0 on a Sweeney 2 run bomb while Rizzo and Castro go hitless with a few K's and I might answer differently. (I hope the situation is such that my answer isn't different)

Edited April 10, 2014 by David

[Guest]

Olt running the bases for the first time as a Cub. Please do better than the last Cub to try doing that this year.

[Guest]

lick them please oh yes Kyle

[d_money]

Bad call

[Hairyducked Idiot]

Well, that was against a righty, so I guess Olt still sucks because he has no walks. He sucks until he hits a walk.

[Crack Wilson]

He looked safe