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  1. Sammy Sofa
    I think you have to either sell Marmol or DL him at this point. Has to be DL. Trading him now is going to be at his least valuable, easily. DL him, hope he can come back strong to finish the year and move him in the offseason. DL preferably, but one or the other. If the Cubs keep running him out there, his value can go a lot lower. No, DL is really the only option right now. Trading him right now would be insanely stupid unless a team approaches the Cubs with a good offer, because they're not going to find [expletive] if they shop him.
  2. Sammy Sofa
    Yeah, don't boo Wood, you [expletive] morons. He's white, so it's not his fault. [expletive] meatballs.
  3. Sammy Sofa
    Haven't they both been pretty bad recently? Wood's been pretty up and down all season. Marshall seemed to be tiring heading into the break, but before that was pretty incredible. Just one game, but he looked really good tonight. Hopefully he just needed the break.
  4. Sammy Sofa
    I think you have to either sell Marmol or DL him at this point. Has to be DL. Trading him now is going to be at his least valuable, easily. DL him, hope he can come back strong to finish the year and move him in the offseason.
  5. Sammy Sofa
    Garza really needs to be allowed to take a bat to somebody's boombox tonight.
  6. Sammy Sofa
    Sweet, let's load them all over again.
  7. Sammy Sofa
    Just for shits and giggles, let's remember that Marmol is getting just under $17 million from the Cubs over the next two seasons.
  8. Sammy Sofa
    Yeah, great job dishing out a fat contract to a reliever yet again.
  9. Sammy Sofa
    About [expletive] time.
  10. Sammy Sofa
    That was on Barney. I agree. I still expect to see Hill.
  11. Sammy Sofa
    And, of course, Quade doesn't pull Marmol.
  12. Sammy Sofa
    Beautiful. Expect to see Hill tomorrow despite Soto's 3 hits because of that.
  13. Sammy Sofa
    Alright, Marmol has been garbage, but what a squeeze on that 1-1 pitch.
  14. Sammy Sofa
    What indications were these? None. OK, it seemed clear to me we wouldn't be loading up on huge, long contracts like we used to, but I acknowledge I could be wrong. Why is it clear to you? I'm honestly asking, because then you're privy to information the rest of us don't have.
  15. Sammy Sofa
    Thank you! Proves my point. These hitting coaches show more of a tendency, in either the minors or majors, toward better plate discipline than Joshua, Duncan, and Barbaro did during their careers. Wait, what? Did you actually read what you replied to?
  16. Sammy Sofa
    No, I really don't, mainly because none of us know what the threshold is. OK, so he does it his first 3 AB. Then they shift back and all of a sudden he's not bunting. Do they shift back into the shift? I just don't see managers falling for it. They're too stubborn that way, nor do I see a slugger willing to try such a thing. It's just never going to happen. You think they're too stubborn to play a straight up defensive alignment? It's not like the shift takes 300 points off the hitter's OPS. Managers would absolutely make that change, the fans and media would rake them over the coals if they got beat by it over and over and over. But that's my point; there's too many factors going against it even being attempted for any kind of sustained period of time for anyone to be beat over and over by it. Nobody's going to try it in the first place.
  17. Sammy Sofa
    No, I really don't, mainly because none of us know what the threshold is. OK, so he does it his first 3 AB. Then they shift back and all of a sudden he's not bunting. Do they shift back into the shift? I just don't see managers falling for it. They're too stubborn that way, nor do I see a slugger willing to try such a thing. It's just never going to happen.
  18. Sammy Sofa
    I'm not sure I agree with you, but that's the best case scenario for the Cubs if they don't adjust. Eventually, one of these power hitters is going to commit to it and whichever person does it his team will benefit greatly from it. I really don't think so. It's a combination of managers not being ballsy/smart/whatever enough to try it, players putting their egos aside to pull it off, and opposing teams not having an actual threshold as to which they'll stop shifting.
  19. Sammy Sofa
    But they wouldn't adjust.
  20. Sammy Sofa
    Think of it this way. Defensively, would you want to achieve the scenario where the #4 hitter walks 75% of the time? The only way giving away bunt singles all the time is effective for the defense is if the guy is a Bondsian hitter. Again, I'm not talking about Pena in a vacuum; I'm talking about Pena on the Cubs. And we're talking about a hypothetical scenario that has zero chance of happening. There isn't a breaking point where teams are going to say "gee, maybe the shift isn't such a good idea, let's shift back" because of how many times Carlos Pena bunts his way on base.
  21. Sammy Sofa
    Then I would say good luck to them! They aren't valuing OBP correctly if they do that. They would think you'd be crazy if you suggested intentionally walking Pena every time he came to the plate, but they'll let him get on because of a bunt 75-80 percent of the time? Sure, they'd probably be OK either way, since the Cubs aren't very good and Pena is one of their few offensive threats.
  22. Sammy Sofa
    I think it would just encourage the shift to continue. I'm sure any team would gladly give a bunt single to Carlos Pena almost every time he was at the plate instead of having him swing away. If it's luring a dangerous hitter to only bunt his way on, why stop?
  23. Sammy Sofa
    I don't know. I'd happily take a baserunner from my #4 hitter in many situations (which is also why I'm happy almost all the time when the #4 hitter walks). Sure, you have to pick your spots, but the bunt against the shift is so valuable precisely because of that. Pena can choose to do it when you're leading off an inning, but not when there are baserunners or when you come up with 2 outs/nobody on. Pena can choose to do it when there's a left-hander on the mound. He can choose to do it when he's slumping. It's already useful, but using it when he's less likely to get a hit/the team needs a baserunner makes it a big weapon. I personally think he should do it a little more than he does. No. I agree that if a guy is slumping it can help mix things up, but the last thing I want Pena doing when he's hitting is bunting, especially on a team this bad. Ultimately, however, he's much more valuable and team is probably more likely to score if he's trying to hit than if he's just getting on 1B for Byrd or Soto or Soriano.
  24. Sammy Sofa
    I flipped a coin to decide between Freeman and Espinosa. I hope it chose well.
  25. Sammy Sofa
    Yeah, but even then it should only be done once in a blue moon (if at all) because they're so much more useful swinging away and you're counting on them to drive people in, not just move people up a base. It's not like most teams are stacked enough where you want your #4 hitter bunting.
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