Sammy Sofa
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Of course not. He just shouldn't have been hitting there in the first place. -
What? He was horrible last year. An ERA over 8 as a starter with a WHIP around 2. He was slightly better in the bullpen but not much. He had three starts, one of which he went 6 with 3 earned runs and 10 k's. The other two starts were 3ip 5er, 4ip and 4er. Those numbers are pretty bad and I think the first start is more prominent in my mind. However, he only has three starts under his belt and everyone is writing the guy off. I'd like to see he and Coleman get called up for a couple starts. Way too many walks and guys on base. About the only thing he has going for him is the 10 strikeout game, and those 10 accounted for almost all of the 13 strikeouts total that he had (vs. 10 walks). In the meantime he had a WHIP over 2 as a starter and gave up this line to hitters: .347 .444 .490 .934
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No, but if you're talking about guys who aren't stretched out then Shark is in a much worse position than Russell. He and the Cubs approached everything going into this season like he was going to be in the bullpen.
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Something like that. It nothing aginst Russell, but hes a relief pitcher. Its what he is. as much as it sucks to lose 2 starting pitchers who happened to look great to the DL, they should use the opportunity to give someone a look see who has a future as a starter. After all, thats how Randy Wells ended up in our rotation. The only guy that really makes sense is McNutt, and I think it's way too early for him to get a start at the big league level. Carpenter isn't stretched out, so he'll only be brought up to fill Russell's spot in the bullpen if Russell is headed to the rotation. Also, Russell came up through the system as a starter. He pitched extended innings in the spring, is already on the 40 man roster, and can swing between the starter role and bullpen. It makes a whole lot of sense for him to make a start or two. Problem is, we dont want McNutts clock to start ticking just yet. and is Russell really stretched out either? We really should have done a better job stretching guys out. Wasn't Russell in the mix to win the #5 slot pretty late in the spring? It's not going to be a huge deal to stretch him out to get some spot starts as the Cubs' #5.
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Right. Players whose performances who are that easily swayed by their moods aren't going to last long on a team or sometimes even in baseball period. People who are that prone to regular emotion-based performance fluctuations are usually on a Milton Bradley-level when it comes to their emotional health and mindset, and that's just not very common. Professional baseball players simply are not the emotional roller coasters/lightweights (to the point that it regularly impacts their performance on the field) that some people are convinced they are. That's one of the reasons WHY they're professional baseball players and Joe Blow who stunk in his high school game because he was dumped never got beyond that point.
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Yeah, that's all I had heard, too. I hadn't heard anyone comparing him to them in terms of the HR he's going to hit, and I haven't heard Len & Bob doing anything along these lines either. All I've heard are people saying "he's going to hit for more power" and the specific projections hovering around 15 or so season with most of the more optimistic ones projecting him to have a few 20+ HR seasons. Nothing terribly unreasonable.
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Yeah, both sound, hopefully, like they're precautionary moves early in the season more than anything else.
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What do you have against Diamond? He did alright last year in limited starts. Why not give him a shot? "Alright?" Are we talking about the same Thomas Diamond? http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/d/diamoth01.shtml
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No problem moving Soriano up right now. The problem is who is hitting #3. Move Byrd out of there, slide everyone up and then have him hitting after Soto and it's fine.
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Hm, that Cashner news is pretty good, isn't it? For the time being. Hope it doesn't end up being something worse once he comes back, but for now it sounds much better than most of the alternatives.
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I was kidding. Calm down. We shouldn't have any problems handling Galarraga. Perhaps I should have used the green font. I am calm. It's a very soothing prophecy.
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Cubs are going to beat Galarraga so brutally that erik is going to savagely [expletive] his pants. MARK MY WORDS.
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I love how you have to clarify that you are legitimately asking a question. :) Man, I need to take on this "I'm going to bring something up and then just randomly decide when I'm not going to talk about it anymore" approach.
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Someone needs to update the sweep photo with Quade's terrifying face instead of Lou's.
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What have Len & Bob said in regards to his power? Seriously, I don't know.
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By this season do you mean the last 5? I honestly cannot remember ever buying a $5 beer at Wrigley. Definitely. The beer from the carts in the main concourse were only like $5 or $6. I'd specifically buy from them instead of the vendors because it was that much cheaper.
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Right, and I think that's significantly different than what people are typically talking about when it comes to "chemistry," which is in regards to the players getting along. Someone's capability as a leader is very, very different.
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I haven't been to a game yet this season, but before it was $5 for most beers if you went and got them yourself. Well, at least at those little cart dealies. They were more expensive if you bought the ones that the vendors were selling in the stands.
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Because that approach worked so well with Corey Patterson. Because Castro and Patterson are comparable players and have had comparable histories.
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Right. Have another 2003 or 2007 or 2008 and it bounces back. Here's the Cubs' average attendance numbers over their history: http://www.baseball-almanac.com/teams/cubsatte.shtml Capacity changes at Wrigley: http://www.baseball-almanac.com/stadium/wrigley_field.shtml
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Not just comfortably in the 90's; according to Comcast he was hitting as high as 97 and 98.
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Well, Mateo wasn't doing himself any favors, but he got squeezed in that AB.
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I agree that poor team performance is often times the cause of low team morale, but that low team morale does then make the problem worse. It's like what came first, the chicken or the egg? :D Personally I think team morale has little to with the performance on the field. If the talent and health is there it will usually overcome. There's been plenty of winning and championship teams that were made up of guys that didn't get along or downright hated each other or had scattered malcontents or unlikeable guys in the clubhouse/locker room. There's also tons of losing teams that get along great and are the best bunch of supportive buddies you've ever seen. Sure, ideally you want the players to get along or at least tolerate each other, but at the end of the day if they can perform they're going to regardless of who is friendly and who is a jerk, especially when it comes to a sport like baseball that is so reliant on individual performances. When it's moment of truth time, be it hitting or pitching catching the ball or throwing for the out I highly, highly doubt that that player is going to be thinking about a teammate they don't like. There's an almost complete disconnect. Again, it's tremendously unlikely he actually meant it as you put it and his statement was a result of his grasp of English.
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Did anyone ever figure out when exactly it was that this happened last? The last day of the 2009 season.
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BA-BOOM. CUBS WIN!!!
