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That's very questionable. Are you kidding me? Soriano is a terrible defensive player no matter where you put him. Soriano's thrown more runners out in a month in LF than Murton has his whole big league career. Soriano's "terrible" in LF? Give me a break. Hater. A strong arm does not mean he's a good LF. He takes really bad routes, and positions himself pretty poorly. Sincerely, The Hater http://www.out-of-kilter.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/11/silky_johnson1.jpg When the games on the line who would you rather have in LF. A guy that can gun down that lead guy or a guy that occasionally takes better routes to fly balls? It's easily the guy who takes better routes, given what you said. When you include Soriano's speed advantage, it's much closer. Jesus, this is getting annoying. He didn't suck? Murton is an above average LFer... it's not his fault Lou is a crappy manager and put the guy with the better arm in LF. Huh? Your post made no sense? it was quite clear and cogent, though that does assume you know that murton has been playing a position other than LF and that Soriano, who has a better arm than murton, has been playing LF. Given your previous posts, this one confused me greatly. You obviously know these things. Ah! I "careless"(ly) read your post wrong in the previous post.

If they scored 5 off Hill imagine how much they are going to score off of Marshall, who doesn't have the stuff Hill has?

At least Brewers and Houston also lost.

hahaha, the standards for success are so low. What's so funny! That's basically a HR in my book.

Damn. At least Izzy got wood on it.

Douche.

I hate Jones. I really do.

LOL! If it wasn't Peavy pitching I'd say yes...Giving him a 3 run lead is bascially giving Marquis 10 runs. Plus, what makes you think that Hill won't give up more?

Lilly is...But it was bound to happen sometime. Our starters were bound to come down a bit. Hopefully our offense will carry us. If not it's going to be a long season...

He's not fooling anybody right now. They are just mashing him...

Oh well. I knew we weren't going to win this game. Hopefully we'll get'em tomorrow...

Wow! Hill is getting lit up! Goodnight guys...

Meh!

It was over before the first pitch was thrown...

Dubois and Murton are worlds apart. No comparison what-so-ever.... Time will tell how different they are. My money is on Murton having a slightly better career... Murton's a little longer, but if he get's traded, he put his new manager in the same situation. Murton is far better in every single offensive category. I don't even have to look it up...

With his inability to drive in runs, this is a good thing, no? Percentage of baserunners driven in........ 04/02 - 05/20 BDI LOB RBI% Ward 5 9 0.357 Lee 22 54 0.289 Floyd 14 40 0.259 Ramirez 24 69 0.258 Pagan 2 6 0.250 Theriot 13 39 0.250 DeRosa 15 50 0.231 Jones 14 59 0.192 Blanco 2 9 0.182 Murton 7 32 0.179 Barrett 15 72 0.172 Pie 3 21 0.125 Soriano 7 50 0.123 Izturis 5 37 0.119 Cedeno 2 21 0.087 Fontenot 0 0 0.000 CUBS 156 618 0.202 But he still has a bad hammy...No?

Good god no!

Nice. 36 RBI's already. If he keeps this up he's going to get a nice contract next year...

Dubois and Murton are worlds apart. No comparison what-so-ever....

Jesus, this is getting annoying. He didn't suck? Murton is an above average LFer... it's not his fault Lou is a crappy manager and put the guy with the better arm in LF. Huh? Your post made no sense?

Jesus, this is getting annoying. He didn't suck?

Sori leading off? Meh!

That's very questionable. Are you kidding me? Soriano is a terrible defensive player no matter where you put him. Soriano's thrown more runners out in a month in LF than Murton has his whole big league career. Soriano's "terrible" in LF? Give me a break. Hater. A strong arm does not mean he's a good LF. He takes really bad routes, and positions himself pretty poorly. Sincerely, The Hater http://www.out-of-kilter.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/11/silky_johnson1.jpg When the games on the line who would you rather have in LF. A guy that can gun down that lead guy or a guy that occasionally takes better routes to fly balls? I'd rather have the guy who has the better chance of catching the ball in the first place than the guy who takes a stupid route and lets the ball go flying over his head. Maybe when his hammy improves Soriano will improve defensively, but so far I'm just not impressed. He looks clueless at times. And Murton hasn't? All I'm saying is taking better routes can be learned (he's only played LF for one year) having a strong accurate arm can't.

That's very questionable. Are you kidding me? Soriano is a terrible defensive player no matter where you put him. Soriano's thrown more runners out in a month in LF than Murton has his whole big league career. Soriano's "terrible" in LF? Give me a break. Hater. A strong arm does not mean he's a good LF. He takes really bad routes, and positions himself pretty poorly. Sincerely, The Hater http://www.out-of-kilter.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/11/silky_johnson1.jpg When the games on the line who would you rather have in LF. A guy that can gun down that lead guy or a guy that occasionally takes better routes to fly balls?

That's very questionable. Are you kidding me? Soriano is a terrible defensive player no matter where you put him. I think Soriano are about equal defensively-Soriano has superior range and the much better arm, while Murton takes much better routes to balls. Soriano's range doesn't mean crap if he can't figure out the right route to take. His poor play in the OF has probably negated the OF assists he's had. He's an absolute butcher. Now, add to that the fact that Murton will get on base at a better clip, and costs a fraction of what Soriano costs, and tell me that Murton is merely an average player in our OF. C'mon. Both have weaknesses and strengths to say one is clearly better then the other is a bit of a stretch.