Sammy Sofa

Wrigley is a dumpy, piece of [expletive], but it's a dumpy piece of [expletive] that makes them a ton of money.

I want to see him at 2B when Lee comes up.

Can't he refuse to go on the DL?

GOD DAMMIT ARAMIS THAT LINEUP SHOULD BE EPIC EXCEPT YOU KEEP WANTING TO BREAK MY HEART.

Nice. I agree that Caridad can be of huge help to this bullpen. It's just frustrating that if he screws up at all he'll end up in dumb ass Lou's doghouse.

He's definitely got more muscle on him at this point than I assumed. When they were showing him in practice yesterday I was surprised by the gun show.

Nobody questioned that he would ever put those numbers up "in his 20's." As young as he is right and as much as he'll still develop physically it's perfectly reasonable to assume he's not likely to have a mid .400 slugging his first year in the bigs. If he manages to pull it off everyone will be thrilled. If he doesn't, such is life, and there's still a great chance it'll come down the line.

A couple of deep counts and a couple of AB swinging at the first pitch.

I guess maybe he was suggesting that they DL him and then get him so "rehab" games. I think.

Miles, and it's not even close. Miles was at least coming off a career season, and at least at a 1 year/1 mil deal he would have made sense at the time. Grabow was basically your run of the mill middle releiver, and for some reason, Lou and Jim decided he was a top of the line set up man despite the fact that hed never done anything in his career to lead them to believe so. Grabows job could have been filled just as adaquately by John Gaub and 100X better by Sean Marshall. Doesn't matter. A reliever is much easier to bury and keep from doing too much damaging than a guy who was going to significant playing time even if had just been platooning 2nd with Fontenot. I mean, his career year was pretty underwhelming, and he's horrible against lefties so even relegated to a platoon he would have been terrible. Problem is, he wa signed to be a set up man, in a role where he could have done a lot more damage than a 25th man, as MIles wound upo being. Ive blocked it all out, but I know Grabow lost us a few leads and put a few close games out of reach. The worst Miles could really do was kill a rally. Cant we just agree that they were equally bad sigings and there was no excuse for either? No. Miles was much, much worse. Grabow at least has a history of being serviceable and average. Aaron Miles has a history being horrible except for one year where he was king of the world by squeaking in as below average. Signing Grabow to be the setup man was stupid, but there was at least a realistic chance he could be a decent reliever in some capacity. Miles was all but a lock to be horrible in any role.

fixed Sure wish we had him right now (for cheap).

Miles, and it's not even close. Miles was at least coming off a career season, and at least at a 1 year/1 mil deal he would have made sense at the time. Grabow was basically your run of the mill middle releiver, and for some reason, Lou and Jim decided he was a top of the line set up man despite the fact that hed never done anything in his career to lead them to believe so. Grabows job could have been filled just as adaquately by John Gaub and 100X better by Sean Marshall. Doesn't matter. A reliever is much easier to bury and keep from doing too much damaging than a guy who was going to significant playing time even if had just been platooning 2nd with Fontenot. I mean, his career year was pretty underwhelming, and he's horrible against lefties so even relegated to a platoon he would have been terrible.

History-making. Pretty impressive.

Miles, and it's not even close.

Only his first of the year. He's been stellar up until tonight. http://mlb.mlb.com/team/player.jsp?player_id=276514

Ugh, forget what I said about Grabow earlier. What a ridiculously dumb signing.

A liiiiiiiiiiitle over-anxious there.

Hey! Sneaky!

Looks to me like it hit the yellow line and stayed in.

Now if we could only blackmail Grabow into retirement... I still think Grabow will drag that WHIP down more towards his career norms. He'll still be overpaid, but hopefully he won't stay 1.9 WHIP bad. Byrd!

Marshall is pimp. Between him, Z (for now), Marmol, Berg and Russell the bullpen is looking much better.

Aramis is terrible at everything. I hate hoping that he opts out.

Aramis is really, really bad this season, and he's showing no signs of getting better.

Whoops.

Oh my God. Stop. And that goes for Silva, too.