Gammons Excerpts

[tgk]

Article on how the Yankees, Redsox and Cubs won't part with the best prospects in a trade. Mostly just the Yankees and Red Sox, but the Cubs do get some time:

 

It's an insider article, so you'll need a membership to read the whole thing but a couple of tidbits:

 

Hendry also is under pressure, in Chicago, where Cubs fans have become less patient. "We want to win today, but there has to be a steady growth with young players," says Hendry, who turned to Double-A this week and brought up outfielders Matt Murton and Adam Greenberg; had he not been hurt, Felix Pie would have been up two weeks ago. "We haven't yet done a great job developing positional players," says Hendry. "But we hope we will. Do we have a list of players we won't trade? Absolutely. I wouldn't say them publicly [Pie, Dopirak at the top]. And we can be wrong, and five years look back and think how silly we were. But that's not the way to look at it. You want young blood coming in, and in terms of business, you'd better have it or there's no way you can survive financially."

 

I like that quote!

 

and...

 

The Cubs felt that the only way Corey Patterson will ever get himself straightened out is by going back to the minors and starting over. They were going to bring Pie up two weeks ago, but he hurt his ankle on a bizarre play at third. So they brought in Greenberg and Murton, who were so excited to be in the big leagues that they were at the Florida park at noon Friday, and stood in the batters box at 1:30. But Greenberg got beaned Saturday in his first at-bat. "Some players have memorable first at-bats with home runs or game-winning hits," says Greenberg, "but I'll be remembered for being beaned." He still had stitch marks in the back of his head hours after the game. "Murton's going to hit, everyone knows that now," says West Tennessee manager Bobby Dickerson. "But Greenberg can have 10 years in the big leagues because he can really play center, he can run, slap the ball and, most of all, he's a winning baseball player."

 

http://insider.espn.go.com/mlb/gammons/story?id=2105299

[JC]

Is Greenberg a thicker Doug Dascenzo?

[tgk]

Is Greenberg a thicker Doug Dascenzo?

 

I don't know, we'll have to wait to see if he can pitch or not to know for sure.

[MembersOnlyJacket]

Is Greenberg a thicker Doug Dascenzo?

 

I don't know, we'll have to wait to see if he can pitch or not to know for sure.

 

I wonder how many other position players, who pitched at least 1 inning, retired with an ERA of 0.00 ?

[Brian]

Is Greenberg a thicker Doug Dascenzo?

 

I don't know, we'll have to wait to see if he can pitch or not to know for sure.

 

I wonder how many other position players, who pitched at least 1 inning, retired with an ERA of 0.00 ?

 

I believe in one of Brenly's MANY Diamondbacks stories, he said he had Grace pitch an inning in a blowout and I'm pretty sure he didn't allow any runs.

[Post Count Padder]

Is Greenberg a thicker Doug Dascenzo?

 

I don't know, we'll have to wait to see if he can pitch or not to know for sure.

 

I wonder how many other position players, who pitched at least 1 inning, retired with an ERA of 0.00 ?

 

I believe in one of Brenly's MANY Diamondbacks stories, he said he had Grace pitch an inning in a blowout and I'm pretty sure he didn't allow any runs.

I do remember Grace pitching an inning, but I'm not sure if he gave up any runs.

[jiml60]

He gave up a run: http://www.baseball-reference.com/g/gracema01.shtml

[Rooftop Bum]

Well based on those Hendry comments it does not sound like the Cubs will be getting involved with anyone worth much at the trading deadline. Unless he actually trades away players currently on the roster. Or he actually pulls a trade for Patterson which would not get anyone that great. Oh well. Hopefully the team can make a run at the WC regardless.

[AlwaysaCub]

Is Greenberg a thicker Doug Dascenzo?

 

I don't know, we'll have to wait to see if he can pitch or not to know for sure.

 

I wonder how many other position players, who pitched at least 1 inning, retired with an ERA of 0.00 ?

 

I believe in one of Brenly's MANY Diamondbacks stories, he said he had Grace pitch an inning in a blowout and I'm pretty sure he didn't allow any runs.

I do remember Grace pitching an inning, but I'm not sure if he gave up any runs.

 

http://baseball-reference.com/g/gracema01.shtml

 

Grace pitched an inning, and gave up a run. I think it was a homer, but I'm not positive.

[Knightlife_in_Lubbock]

Is Greenberg a thicker Doug Dascenzo?

 

I don't know, we'll have to wait to see if he can pitch or not to know for sure.

 

I wonder how many other position players, who pitched at least 1 inning, retired with an ERA of 0.00 ?

 

I believe in one of Brenly's MANY Diamondbacks stories, he said he had Grace pitch an inning in a blowout and I'm pretty sure he didn't allow any runs.

I do remember Grace pitching an inning, but I'm not sure if he gave up any runs.

 

http://baseball-reference.com/g/gracema01.shtml

 

Grace pitched an inning, and gave up a run. I think it was a homer, but I'm not positive.

 

He was doing his imitation of Mike Fetters while on the mound.

[Wabasha31]

If I remember correctly, Grace was doing his best impression of Fetters on the mound with the big exhale and quick turn of the head to face the batter.

[daske17]

The Fetters impersonation is correct. He also did give up a home run to a rookie pitcher for the Dodgers. How must that feel? Knowing that your first (and possibly only home run) came against a aged first baseman who was just having some fun on the mound.

[ThePenguin11]

I wonder if it was one of those majestic Duane Kuiper shots. I'll check with Steve Stone for that information...