Marquis has not been a decent hitter in years. Wow, I thought he did arlight last season, but checking BR, he's sucked with the bat for 3 full seasons now. Learn something new and sheeeeeeety every day.
Not only has Marquis totally crapped on his "he's kinda good early on in the season" annoyance, he's also completely forgotten he was a decent hitting pitcher, too. Congratulations, Jason! Complete worthlessness achieved!
Soto's ball was 390 feet to dead center. The ball doesn't carry great in this park, but there's a lot of parks that's not out in. It was 390 feet because it died in the air. That's gone most other parks.
What will it take for Marquis to get the boot? Him murdering someone? Maybe he has already murdered, and they won't kick him out out of fear of him killing everyone.
I'm hoping the Cubs offense takes care of this for Lou. Because I believe Lou would bring in Marmol in a game of 5 or less runs. The Cubs just need to blow the doors open for a few days (Till the 2nd game of the Dodgers) to get Marmol some rest. I still don't know why Lou took Lieber out after 1 inning. Maybe he's forseeing a short outing by Marquis tomorrow, but I wanted Lieber to go through the 7th, then use anyone but Marmol and Wood for the last 2.