VanceJergins

Who'd we trade from him again? Infante?

There's actually a lot more there than you think. One place it's missing is the starting rotation. While Dike and Mahalom are better than last year, Snell and Gorz have been awful, and Duke and Mahalom haven't been better enough to make up the difference. All else being equal, better starting pitching could easily have had us taking this past series. And better starting pitching could easily have had us sweeping the series.

Rangers score again in the 8th. 5-4

Soto is 5 years younger and had a great season in AAA. Luckwick has never been more than an average minor leaguer at the age of 30. Edit: Ludwick did have a good year in AAA a couple years ago, but still a good amount older than Soto.

Again, Marmol should be a starter.

Can you say a more idiotic statement than that? The kid goes from a poss. 3rd rd. selection to being selected in the teens. 1st, he gets questioned because of a low ceiling b/c of his FB sitting 88-90 and a below avg. change, still pitches well at Peoria. Heads to Daytona in '06 & does very well there and spends the 2nd half at AA as a 20yo (which is very young for AA), his FB which was criticized before not sits 90-94 to go along with curve and has improved his change-up, now projects as a #3 starter, but questions still remain about his conditioning. Heads back to AA in '07, does well in 11 starts and heads to AAA as a 21yo, does even better at AAA in 8 starts and gets called up as a back of the bullpen pitcher a role he is unfamiliar with and like most pitchers takes his lumps, has improved his FB and change-up to go along with his already established curve. Some concern remains about his weight but has started working out at the beg. of the off-season. Onto to '08, comes into ST in great shape, doesn't earn a starting spot or a role in the pen & goes to Iowa. Does well for a month, gets a call-up and proceeds to throw 4IP from April 28th to May 11th and then a gets a start on a day he isn't scheduled for nor has likely prepared for and pitches ok, doesn't show great control, but keeps the Cubs in the game and Fox has a chance to minimize damage but fails to do so. His next start is vs. Pitt. and pitches well against a decent offensive team in hitter friendly conditions to pick up his 1st major league win, something he's been dreaming of his entire life. Yet, you have the nerve to tell his father "to get his head out of the sand". :clapping:

Good thing the only thing holding them back was a winning attitude.

He bunted and pulled back the pitch before, so they knew it was coming. Then yeah, super dumb. A surprise attack bunt probably wouldn't have been a horrible idea since Fuku has been so good at it - although not if the corners were playing in.

I couldn't actually watch the game. Was Fuku's bunt a typical sac bunt, like where he squared around before the pitch and everything?

I remember in 04 when Nomar was my favorite non-Cub. Thanks for bringing back that memory.

Knowing them, they'll probably ask for Lieber and Edmonds. rabble rabble rabble

ooooh, badass

hopefully tomorrow's result is the same as the "automatic loss" to jake peavy Marquis wasnt pitching. Neither was Dumatrait

He just did a sac bunt? WHY?! He could have at least tried to bunt for a hit.

:scratch: I wouldn't mind it since Fuku is such a good bunter and there's a decent chance he'll get on.

Yeah, wth?

I'll videotape.

unreal

What similarities are there besides earned runs? Four innings, one run before falling apart in the fifth and leaving with the bases loaded. End result, 4 innings vs. 4.1 innings, 4 ER vs. 4 ER, 1 UER. Seems pretty similar to me. There are some similarites in the end results, but its quite a stretch to say Gallagher's outing was as bad as Zambrano's today.

What similarities are there besides earned runs?

that got a lawl

H yeah, he did. So dreamy.

Only 32 pitches. Our bullpen is getting nice and rested up these past few games.

He would have been out by 15 feet I guess it wasn't clear. I was just commenting on how he's hit a hr the first ab in the past 10 games.

Is Soriano hurt? Why'd he stop at 1st? That's very unlike him.