Sammy Sofa
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OK, Hoff makes some sense, but why the [expletive] would you replace him with Barney, Fuld or Snyder? Snyder makes some sense. Former 1st round pick, had a good season in Iowa last year who is having a hot start this year. Barney contributes so little until Fontenot shows he cannot handle backup SS. Hoffpauir isn't really an option as he has started just like he played all of last year and Fuld is redundant and off to a bad start. Granted, I don't know a ton about Snyder, but isn't he an OFer? Has he played the corners at all in the minors? I know it's not rocket science, but that's one of the reasons Tracy is here. Agreed. WSR is just doing his usual bit of jumping all over someone way too early for being great or being terrible. Tracy's a long shot to have a great year, but we've seen way too little of him to know he'll stay this bad. It's not surprising that they're not using him tonight when he's having trouble getting going since it's supremely unlikely that he'll break out against a guy like Santana. -
What would be the point of that as opposed to shutting him down and putting him on the DL or having him have surgery if that's necessary? Again, we're talking about a 28-year-old pitcher here in the middle of a huge, largely untrade-able contract. How does it benefit the Cubs to "hide" an injury or let him pitch through it? It doesn't help at all, long term. It would be devastating. Short term, however, maybe you steal an extra 5 or 6 wins and sneak into the playoffs - thus saving your job until next year where you have to deal with Z recovering from surgery. Again, this isn't an option for competent, forward thinking GMs. Neither are 8 year deals with NTC to 31 year olds. But we're talking the long term now since it's only 2 weeks into the season. If Z has an injury that is keeping him from starting then he's not going to last the whole year, or if it does it won't be as an effective reliever or as one that you can call in enough to "steal those extra wins." It's simply not a realistic scenario at all.
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Every manager is going to have "blemishes." It's not like Lou has some amazing history that blows them or all other candidates out of the water. I just want a manager that isn't going to over-manage and lose games, because that's what a manager has far more impact over than teams actually winning.
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What would be the point of that as opposed to shutting him down and putting him on the DL or having him have surgery if that's necessary? Again, we're talking about a 28-year-old pitcher here in the middle of a huge, largely untrade-able contract. How does it benefit the Cubs to "hide" an injury or let him pitch through it? Yeah, there's significantly stupid and then there is unbelievably stupid. I'm sure moving Zambrano to the bullpen was only significantly stupid. Having him pitch his way through an injury would be unbelievably stupid. First off, make no mistake, I'm not advocating this. I'm just afraid that we have Lou/Hendry pegged for the wrong kind of dumb. You have a GM and Manager who are both in win-this-year-or-else mode. This pair also happily rode Rich Harden's "no risk to damaging it further, 5/6 inning" arm. You have an extremely hard headed starting pitcher who spent a significant amount of last few years skipping starts to rest a sore arm. While I agree that it is incredibly stupid, I wouldn't be totally surprised if the plan was to get him through the year and fix him after the playoffs (that we are throwing a hail mary at). That would just be insane.
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Dusty Baker won the first playoff series in 95 years and he should've been tossed on his ass before the NLCS was over. Stellar history? What happened to Lou's stellar history when he went to Tampa?? Or the World Series in Cincinnati or his 116 wins in Seattle. How'd that 116-win team do in the playoffs? Ah, I guess that's not his fault. Managers only get credits for the wins!
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OK, Hoff makes some sense, but why the [expletive] would you replace him with Barney, Fuld or Snyder?
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Lou hasn't won. He's managed teams that have won. People want him gone not because he doesn't "fit" with what we want so much as he's continually making inexplicably bad decisions and it's getting worse as the years go on. If I could have any input as to who the Ricketts should hire as manager I'd be perfectly happy if they could get someone like Larry Dierker or Bobby Valentine.
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*Sigh*
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What would be the point of that as opposed to shutting him down and putting him on the DL or having him have surgery if that's necessary? Again, we're talking about a 28-year-old pitcher here in the middle of a huge, largely untrade-able contract. How does it benefit the Cubs to "hide" an injury or let him pitch through it?
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Joe Morgan special advisor to baseball operations for Reds
Sammy Sofa replied to rocket's topic in General Baseball Talk
Why not? Morgan's made it very clear he's not fond of Sandberg. -
Gimme gimme gimme... Theriot Byrd Lee Soriano Soto Nady Tracy Baker ...please.
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I counter by asking whether or not he could truly play 2B in the first place. Answer: no.
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There's really nobody out there who is going to be anything resembling a sure thing in the 8th inning that won't require the Cubs to vastly overpay in a trade. The reality is that an 8th inning guy is going to almost certainly have to come from inside the organization.
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I'd say both since the oldest guy between the two is only 28. I mean, it's insane that we're even having to bring up that hypothetical. It shouldn't be choice between Cashner and Zambrano ever over anything.
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Easily Cashner in the bullpen. Without a second thought. It's not like calling up a position prospect and then having them sit on the bench. It's much easier to get a guy in the bullpen plenty of work.
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The speed of the players isn't making or breaking a team on its own. The bullpen is indeed a problem 2 weeks into the season, but with a bullpen that young and with options as yet unused in the minors, NOBODY is going to have a firm grasp of what this bullpen is capable of right now, and probably won't for another month or so. An "objective" eye would recognize that. I'm not saying that the bullpen is necessarily better than what we've seen. It could be better, it could be this bad and, my God, it could be even worse. But we don't know right now, and Lou isn't going to make it very easy on us or him to figure it out.
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One of things that frustrating me the most about this are hearing people on the radio talking about this move like it's the smart thing to do or that Zambrano effectively "deserves" it because he hasn't been the "20 game-winning true ace" that everyone wanted him to be. Yes, it would be one thing if he hadn't been that guy and ended up being someone struggling to stay in a starting rotation, but he's clearly well beyond that latter scenario. Just because he's not Halladay doesn't mean you give up on him. It's stupid.
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He's the champion...of life!
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Yeah, I generally agree with this. Why the final call as to who to put in and when to pull a guy and so on is up to the manager and not the pitching coach is beyond me.
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That and Kaplan's ringing endorsement should be more than enough to reinforce how bad an idea this is.
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Bat Soriano 4th and Soto 5th. If Soriano starts to go cold then flip them. Hopefully by the end of this month we'll be seeing Aramis looking more like Aramis again.
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Because you have other guys in the bullpen desperate for pitching time in low leverage situations. The Cubs need to capitalize on those. Besides, it's usually not a bad idea to make sure the opposing team doesn't have a chance to adjust to a reliever if he's given you a good inning, especially if it's a pitcher without overwhelming stuff. It's not like he had to go back out there because the bullpen was taxed or because the lead was close. In short, there was no need to send him back out there. He's a reliever, he got you your three outs, you have other guys that need to pitch; pick someone else.
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I fully support moving him up to bat 4th (and Soto 5th) until Aramis warms up.
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Marshall was fantastic in the 7th. It was stupid to leave him in.
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It really is a nice way to cleanse the pallet with a win like that. If Aramis can just get going this offense is showing it can be a LOT better than what we've seen.
