Coghlan complains about playing time

[ARCubsFan]

http://espn.go.com/chicago/mlb/story/_/id/13796030/chris-coghlan-chicago-cubs-benching-reasons

"I definitely have thought about it," Coghlan said of his role in the wild-card game. "Once your playing time decreases you start to have different questions. At the end of the day it's only about winning. That's it. Do I think I give our team the best chance to win in the wild-card game against Gerrit Cole? Yeah, I do. I feel like I'm one of the best eight guys out there."

 

"I expect to play every day," he said. "[Maddon has] already made his decision I'm not going to play against lefties, so I'm content in that. But if a right-hander is pitching I expect to play that night. So when it's not there, yeah, it is a disappointment.

 

"If you look at numbers at the end of the day I do feel like I've produced enough to earn that. Whether that happens or not, I don't know. That's all up to Joe ... I do know with Joe when you're not playing from the third inning on you have to be ready."

[imb]

that ... doesnt sound like complaining at all

[davell]

This is a stupid thread title. That's a complaint.

[OleMissCub]

[Hairyducked Idiot]

Another one of those dumb things where meatballs get to complain no matter how you answer the question.

 

"How do you feel about your playing time? Are you a selfish jerk who wants more, or are you a disinterested jerk who just cashes the checks and doesn't want to be on the field?"

[UMFan83]

Breaking news: baseball player wants to play baseball

[Little Slide Rooter]

On a side note, when a guy with 16 HR and a .783 OPS may or may not be one of our '8 best guys,' that's a pretty swell problem to have.

[RynoRules]

After watching LaStella "hit" last night, I think Cogs may not have to worry as much come Friday.

[imb]

I think cogs has good numbers against Lackey, too.

[davell]

Soler has the highest OPS on the team against Lackey(1.4+). No idea if I'd expect him to get a start though.

[biittner77]

" I do know with Joe when you're not playing from the third inning on you have to be ready."

 

Coghlan gets it. Doesn't mean he has to like it.

[Brian]

Soler has the highest OPS on the team against Lackey(1.4+). No idea if I'd expect him to get a start though.

 

Maybe

 

 

Fowler (CF)

King Schwarb (LF)

Bryant (3b)

Rizzo (1B)

Cogs (2B)

Soler (RF)

Russell (SS)

Ross ©

Lester (P)

[Tracer Bullet]

Given his 2nd half, and especially August/September, I hope Castro keeps rolling at 2B. Turned a couple nifty DPs too.

[Tracer Bullet]

I don't understand why you'd run Tommy out there at 3B rather than Soler in RF, Scharber in LF, and Bryant at 3B last night. Why question Joe when it all worked out, but that didn't make a ton of sense to me. Hope we don't see a lot of TLS in this series.

[Brian]

uh... while making sure I hadn't fever-dreamed Coghlan playing 2B this year I googled him, and 'Chris Coghlan wife' was the 2nd option on the search bar so I did some investigating... did we know this??

 

Remember Corrie Adamson, the virgin saving herself for marriage — and, ultimately, from Jake Pavelka — on The Bachelor Season 14?

 

She since found her Prince Charming, Florida Marlins baseball player Chris Coghlan, and married him on February 12. According to the greater Orlando area blog A Chair Affair, Chris saw Corrie on The Bachelor and thought she would be perfect for him. He contacted her on Twitter and they started dating.

 

The Coghlans recently started a blog called — get this! — cogz4Christ, described as "Corrie and Chris Coghlan of the the Florida Marlins. Navigating our way through life, marriage & baseball with Jesus Christ as our guide!" Sounds, er, unique?

[BigSlick]

Chris Coghlan is hella weird

 

I hope he starts Friday

[jersey cubs fan]

uh... while making sure I hadn't fever-dreamed Coghlan playing 2B this year I googled him, and 'Chris Coghlan wife' was the 2nd option on the search bar so I did some investigating... did we know this??

 

Remember Corrie Adamson, the virgin saving herself for marriage — and, ultimately, from Jake Pavelka — on The Bachelor Season 14?

 

She since found her Prince Charming, Florida Marlins baseball player Chris Coghlan, and married him on February 12. According to the greater Orlando area blog A Chair Affair, Chris saw Corrie on The Bachelor and thought she would be perfect for him. He contacted her on Twitter and they started dating.

 

The Coghlans recently started a blog called — get this! — cogz4Christ, described as "Corrie and Chris Coghlan of the the Florida Marlins. Navigating our way through life, marriage & baseball with Jesus Christ as our guide!" Sounds, er, unique?

twitter account suspended

[Guest]

I didn't know that, but I did get the impression that he was a super religious guy (aside from the fact that lots of baseball players are) from his crappy Christian rock walkup song.

[Sammy Sofa]

Gross. Sounds like someone TBFiB would adore.

[Guest]

I don't understand why you'd run Tommy out there at 3B rather than Soler in RF, Scharber in LF, and Bryant at 3B last night. Why question Joe when it all worked out, but that didn't make a ton of sense to me. Hope we don't see a lot of TLS in this series.

 

I think the primary considerations were:

 

- LF needed to be handled by an above average defender because PNC's LF is enormous

- Joe did not want Jackson or Denorfia's bats in the lineup from the start against Cole

 

From there that leads you to Bryant in LF. Then you can go back and forth whether La Stella or Baez is the better 3B, Joe leaned towards the LH bat that also got him a little more diversity of offensive style.

 

In any case though, it's important to remember that alignment lasted 5 innings, and most of Maddon's lineups are not designed to be 9 inning stone tablets with this roster.

 

As for La Stella, I don't think it's terribly likely he starts in the Cards series. *Maybe* against Lackey, but it's hard to see Maddon not preferring Bryant/Castro on the IF and Coghlan/Schwarber/Soler in the OF.

[UMFan83]

Interesting article about why Coghlan might not be involved as much as he'd like the next series and possibly NLCS

 

http://wrigleyville.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2015/10/09/grounded-coghlan-might-be-neutralized-throughout-playoffs/

 

Coghlan rode the bench during the Wild Card Game on Wednesday night, too, though, and now, something is officially up. We can safely presume it’s not an injury; Coghlan wouldn’t be publicly beefing about playing time if he were unable to go. We know it’s not poor performance: Coghlan has been just as good and just as consistent recently as he was throughout the season.

 

That leaves one possibility: matchup vulnerability. At some point, Maddon and his staff decided that Coghlan is a poor fit for the team’s lineup in the playoffs, against the specific opponents they’ll face there. And you know what? They’re right.

 

Here’s the first important fact to know: the Cubs’ next two (likely) playoff opponents—the Cardinals, who are locked in, and the Dodgers, who the Cubs might face—are among the most grounder-heavy pitching staffs in baseball.

 

The second important fact: Coghlan is one of the Cubs’ most grounder-prone hitters.

 

The combination of Coghlan’s tendencies and the way batted-ball platooning works should help you guess how Coghlan does against pitchers with various batted-ball tendencies, but in case you can’t work it out, here are those splits:

 

Chris Coghlan, vs. Ground-Ball/Fly-Ball Pitchers, 2015

 

Split	PA	AVG	OBP	SLG	sOPS+
Fly-Ball	195	.257	.330	.457	113
Avg. Fly/Grd.	168	.274	.369	.514	147
Ground-Ball	140	.210	.321	.336	86

[jersey cubs fan]

looks like the squeaky wheel got his grease.

[biittner77]

The Cardinals are locked in? Does that mean the Cubs definitely play them because when I hear "locked in" I equate that with "playing well".

[Tracer Bullet]

The Cardinals are locked in? Does that mean the Cubs definitely play them because when I hear "locked in" I equate that with "playing well".

 

the former. we know we're playing the cards and they induce a lot of ground balls.