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I'd like a higher than .342 OBP out of my leadoff hitter.
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He's as good as we've got........ 04/02 - 08/29 AB R H 2B 3B HR TB RBI BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS BABIP Zambrano 67 8 17 1 0 2 24 5 0 23 0.254 0.254 0.358 0.612 0.357 Miller 4 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0.250 0.250 0.250 0.500 0.250 Marquis 59 9 9 3 0 1 15 4 1 20 0.153 0.167 0.254 0.421 0.211 R Hill 50 0 7 2 0 0 9 5 1 28 0.140 0.157 0.180 0.337 0.318 Lilly 60 5 8 0 0 0 8 4 1 26 0.133 0.148 0.133 0.281 0.235 Marshall 27 0 2 1 0 0 3 0 1 12 0.074 0.107 0.111 0.218 0.133 Guzman 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 Totals 274 22 44 7 0 3 60 18 4 111 0.161 0.173 0.219 0.392 0.256 He's easily the best hitting pitcher we have, but he's not that good of a hitter (which is the statement stitchface made).
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Hopefully this will kill all that "Aram is lazy" crap certain Chicago writers like to spew. The AZ announcer shredded him for not running all out on a groundball to 2nd. Rozner still takes a potshot whenever he can. This isn't going to kill any of that. People have known he's not 100%, but they don't care. This is 1/2 on subject, 1/2 off....but some guy next to me at the game last night kept going on about how he hates Soriano because he's not a team player and demands to bat leadoff, etc. Do people just believe what they want to? Sometimes people believe what they read (or hear), despite the old saying. Some people think certain shows, writers, analysts are great and always give out accurate information. So if they say Soriano demands to hit leadoff or ARam is lazy or whatever, certain people are going to believe it without question.
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i'm guessing it's gonna be harder to score tickets to next week's game hotels are so full that people are renting rooms in their houses for $1500+ for the Notre Dame weekend Notre Dame needs to get embarrassed early and often. I don't know if PSU is good enough to "embarrass" the Irish, but they certainly are plenty capable of beating them. I'll be very excited if ND can scrape a split of the PSU/Michigan road games in back to back weeks. On a side note, I can't remember a harder first 8 games for ND in my life. Every team the Irish plays until the calendar turns to November has a great shot at winning their conference except UCLA (only because USC is there) and maybe BC. Couldn't have picked a better year to have a totally inexperienced (or, if Sharpley starts, nearly totally inexperienced) QB and all new starters at every skill position, plus a new defensive scheme. Something tells me these 8 games are either going to go really well or really poorly and I'm not putting a lot of money on the former.
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Are you kidding? You post this and then tell us that the "saber crowd" is condescending and self-righteous?
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I hate to play the East Coast bias card, but I fear it's at play here. Cub Nation is much larger, imo. I agree w/ Howry - the Sox just won a WS after 90+ years with several near- misses. Suddenly Sox fans are coming out of the wood work (just like White Sox fans in Chicago - suddenly everywhere you turned there was a black hat on someone's head - and they probably couldn't even have named 7 of the starting players for the team that won the WS). It's easy to be a fan of a team that competes every year, makes the playoffs almost every year, won a championship just a couple years ago (in dramatic fashion) and is pitted against the "Evil Empire." It's another thing to be...well...one of us.
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Wow, good catch! Thanks for re-posting! I've been thinking about this for a few days. I've been a proponent of having a nice balance between statistical analysis and scouting. Kendall's numbers weren't good in Oakland, but in talking with Gary Hughes (you'd like him if you met him, trust me), he said the bat speed was still there. I don't know if you can directly measure that in numbers. Speaking of numbers, they're looking pretty good with the Cubs, and that hit-and-run single last night was a thing of baseball beauty. I agree - but it seems like the current balance is 20/80 in favor of scouting. I'm not a big fan of that balance. You need a balance, neither side should be ignored. Who knows what it is right now. The only problem that I have is often times when pro-scouting arguments are made they are mocked at by the other side. Might be, but I honestly can never remember seeing that here.
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That was my first though. How did it take 20 posts for someone to mention this?
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"Go down in history" - has to be the Sox b/c it would be the Yankees that overtook them. And since there are only 2 baseball teams that are ever remembered by the media for doing anything, it has to be choice #2.
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Monroe started against a righty today!!!
Tracer Bullet replied to RegulusBlue's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
How does that make sense? With a guy on 3rd, a fly ball scores a run, plus the infield comes in, making it easier to get hits. Besides, even is that "run expectancy" is true, Kendall must be an exception because he hits a lot of ground balls, that = double plays. Kendall rarely K's as well. I think it was the right move by Lou. If I'm reading it correctly, that's the average number of total runs you'd expect to score from those 2 situations; not the probability that 1 run will score. It shouldn't be surprising that the team is more likely to score more runs in the first situation than the second. Outs are valuable. In our situation, the more important number for me is probability that the team will score at least 1 run. That # might also be higher with guys on 1st and 2nd and no outs, I don't know. -
Latest example of why Brett Myers is an idiot
Tracer Bullet replied to Bruno7481's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
I'm not defending Myers at all, but if you ask a guy in a playoff race that just gave up 2 HRs to blow a save if he can spell something (even if its a stupid insult), you shouldn't be surprised if he tries to punch you in the face. The insult was stupid and Myers is clearly a moron (more so for his past infractions), but it sounds like the writer was antagonizing him. -
Wow, good catch! Thanks for re-posting! I've been thinking about this for a few days. I've been a proponent of having a nice balance between statistical analysis and scouting. Kendall's numbers weren't good in Oakland, but in talking with Gary Hughes (you'd like him if you met him, trust me), he said the bat speed was still there. I don't know if you can directly measure that in numbers. Speaking of numbers, they're looking pretty good with the Cubs, and that hit-and-run single last night was a thing of baseball beauty. I agree - but it seems like the current balance is 20/80 in favor of scouting. I'm not a big fan of that balance.
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too bad that doesnt apply to murton, considering his season is nothing near solid. I'm quite sure he was referring to last season, which should have earned Murton the starting gig in LF (or RF) to start this year. Or were you arguing that last season he wasn't solid?
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How long has Monroe been on the team? And when talking about Jones, are you referring to Pie as the younger player? Monroe? A few days. But he's going to platoon with either Floyd or Jones. I expect that Murton will get very few ABs for the rest of the year. Monroe's presence (as the RH part of a platoon with either Floyd or Jones) all but guarantees that. And yes, for this year, I'm referring to Pie in CF. But next year if JJ is still here, I'm guessing the OF is Soriano, Pie, JJ/RH platoon. I'm praying that RH player isn't Monroe. Either way, I think Murton should have had a starting job in our OF from the start of this season (esp given the alternatives). Part of that is Floyd's presence, to a much lesser extent, JJ's presence, and for the next month, Monroe's presence. Next year, if Pie is deemed ready to play CF, JJ will slide to RF.
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I love the Cubs, but man do I hope they trade him to a decent team that will give him a chance to play. Watching Floyd, Jones, and Monroe play every day would be a little easier if I didn't know we had a less expensive, younger player that could match their production (if not easily exceed it).
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But it's not that simple. Overall, he's been pretty good against LHP, but it fluctuates greatly from year to year. If we get the .734 OPS against LHP that he had last year, this isn't that helpful.
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Detroit is speculating that it's Rapada. "Leyland stopped short of disclosing the traded player, but speculation is centered on Clay Rapada, who is 6-2 with a 3.74 ERA at Triple-A Iowa." link
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I guess I still don't understand what it means to use Monroe properly. In < 100 ABs this year against LHP, he's been good. But last year in 140-ish ABs against LHP he was terrible. '05 - great against LHP. '04 - terrible. If we trade him nothing and he doesn't do anything other than PH against LHP, that's harmless. But it sounds like Lou is going to run him out there to start against LHP and I question whether that's a good move.
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We're sure Monroe can hit LHP? Sure, he's been good this year, but last year he was terrible against LHP. In, he's rotated from good to terrible against LHP the last 5 seasons. The switch in leagues (esp ALC to NLC) should help, but I'm not banking on him crushing LHP the rest of the year. It's not like his splits are consistent year-in and year-out. Maybe this is like Farns and he's great in odd-number years and terrible in even-numbered years (or was it vice versa w/ Farnsy?).
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You say that as if a .435 SLG somehow justifies a terrible OBP. While an incredibly high SLG could somewhat offsets a terrible OBP, a .435 SLG doesn't really help.
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No, actually he sucked.
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There's really a Minnesota State University? Who took over for Hayden Fox? Was Mankato State until the late 1990s. Apparently they thought that the positive association people have with the state of Minnesota was better for admissions...
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You don't love him. You take every possible opportunity to knock him.
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You must let things roll off your back better than I do. I find it infuriating.
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Are you reading the posts Tim and I are writing or are you just basing this off of the fact that there are new posts in this thread so you assume its some sort of flame war? That post makes no sense.
