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R.I.P. Felix Pie's Career (2001-April 20, 2008)
Elrhino replied to KingCubsFan's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
I'm wondering why everyone considers Pie such a great prospect in the first place. For people who supposedly value quality at bats, they sure have gotten behind a player with stunningly bad plate discipline at every level of the minor leagues. Couple an astonishingly bad eye with a long, loopy swing and I suspect Pie's ceiling is a poor man's Soriano ... when he's hot and he's seeing the ball well and his BABIP is high he's an effective player, but the other times he's an albatross in the lineup. Except, I highly doubt he'll have the power to slug at the rate of Soriano. So what are we looking at here? A .750 OPS type of guy ... which is exactly what Johnson is. And this is singlehandedly dooming the Cubs future? -
Tell me about it. How is it that Boston is ready to move on to Ellsbury, and yet the Cubs can't wait to move Pie back to Iowa? Probably because Ellsbury is a much, much, much better player than Pie right now, and likely in the future. Gammons sounds like the typical fan who believes other teams are more than willing to give up prospects for their bad contracts and garbage. It's one thing if the Cubs at a black hole at the CF position, but I'm sure Gammons has no idea that Reed Johnson is currently swinging at .850 OPS.
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Murton Called Up
Elrhino replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
Yeah, friggin Lou will probably bench Murt when Soriano gets healthy. What a moran. -
Gotta be frustrating for a Pirates fan watching your player make a grab like that when they make habit of botching even the most routine of defensive plays.
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4/17 Dusty Baker's Reds (Volquez) @ Cubs (Lilly) 1:20 WGN
Elrhino replied to ctcf's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
If NSBB had its way, the Cubs would go through 5 managers a week. -
Except hit home runs and play average defense. Murton knows he needs to do this to play everyday in the bigs. Unfortunately he just can't. Wow, you're just knocking them out of the park left and right today. What do you think is the real reason Murton isn't starting or in the bigs? Does Jim Hendry not like red heads? Murton isn't a flawless player without holes in his game, but neither is Eric Patterson by any means. Each has their own individual strengths and contributions they can bring to the team. The difference is that Hendry doesn't value Murton's strengths (OBP, Quality At Bats), but values Eric Patterson's (Speed, Left Handed). Granted. But Patterson will not be playing everyday. Fontenot will. If Murton is brought up, he would most likely be playing everyday. That exposes him more. Then the question is why in the world would anyone want Fontenot playing everyday over Murton playing every day.
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Except hit home runs and play average defense. Murton knows he needs to do this to play everyday in the bigs. Unfortunately he just can't. Wow, you're just knocking them out of the park left and right today. What do you think is the real reason Murton isn't starting or in the bigs? Does Jim Hendry not like red heads? Murton isn't a flawless player without holes in his game, but neither is Eric Patterson by any means. Each has their own individual strengths and contributions they can bring to the team. The difference is that Hendry doesn't value Murton's strengths (OBP, Quality At Bats), but values Eric Patterson's (Speed, Left Handed).
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If Hendry thought he was ever going to get anything substantial for Murton, he' just flushed it down the toilet now by letting teams know he doesn't even consider him an adequate fill-in when Soriano goes down with extended injury. Since has has absolutely no value to the club now as a player or as a bargaining chip, might as well do Murton a favor and just dump him off to whoever gives him the best opportunity to play.
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He looked horrible all spring. If he has the same problems next start, I have no problem sending him to AAA for a few starts to work on whatever is ailing him. The Brewers are going to be too tough this year to treat mlb regular season games as an experiment lab.
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Soriano is NOT a clutch hitter and neither is Edwin Encarnacion. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqYUmK9xpRY&feature=related
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His stuff was as good as i've seen it this season. His slider was unhittable tonight. But when you have a 1 run lead all it takes is one bad pitch out over the plate to blow a save.
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Sori should have moved up to 3rd on the sac, and he would have scored on the wild pitch. I know his cold and hot streaks are extreme, but he needs to at least keep his head in the game.
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I would suggest sending Pie back to AAA, but after that bat I'm thinking Daytona.
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Each team finding new and creative ways to not win.
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Yup. Two games under .500. Time to jump. We request rational and analytical thought from Cubs management, then we get to turn around and bop each other over the head with femur bones and throw feces at each other. That's the joy of being a Cub fan.
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I don't know what this board would do without their much needed boogeymen to kick to distract us from bigger issues. I guess Theriot gets the 2008 honor. Nevermind that Lee, Soriano and ARam are struggling out of the gate. That's rather meaningless in the grand scheme of things. If we could just get Ronnie frickin Cedano more at bats than Theriot. Boy, now there's a reason to pull your hair out.
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Two hits through 8 innings is a good place to start.
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This is why I hate carrying 12 pitchers. Sure could use Murt right about now.
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Look at that speed !! Dustyball baby !!!
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Come on Pie. Don't let Gagne off the hook.
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So I guess Theriot is this year's scapegoat, that we pile on to make ourselves feel better when no one else in the lineup is doing anything.
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Seriously, you would be hard pressed to find a GM who has been so thoroughly robbed in trades than Jon Daniels. People get angry that Hendry traded some of the dregs of the system for Pierre, how about Chris Young + Adrian Gonzalez for Adam Eaton. Soriano for Brad Wilkerson. Francisco Cordero for a two month rental of Carlos Lee. I don't know why the Rangers would want Salty playing C full time anyway. With that big body playing in that Texas heat, it's going to wear his bat down. I always thought that was the beauty of him going to Texas ... they didn't have an everyday 1B, so he could bounce around from C to 1B to DH depending on matchups and fatigue.
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Evidently every front office guy in baseball. Hendry has been dangling him all offseason, and no one seems to be in any hurry to take him off his hands.
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It was my understanding from listening to Gary Hughes a few weeks ago on XM MLB's channel that Fukudome made it pretty clear to the Cubs organization that he didn't want to play centerfield. We are short on the infield. Maybe EPat showed the brass this spring that he could be mlb ready if needed for an extended call up, so they are more likely to take the risk of going short there. The Cubs gotta hope DeRosa stays healthy, because if he goes down the bench is going to have to be completely rehauled in mid season. Which is probably the reason the Cubs have been trying to get him into the supersub position and limit him as an every day starter. Just from an offensive production standpoint, a Pie/Johnson platoon at that position is much better than just an every day Pie hitting righties and lefties, and at minimal cost.
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The Orioles aren't going to trade their only fan draw for a handful of magic beans just to make Cub fans happy. I don't really have a problem with the way things are playing out. I've often accused Hendry of being knee jerk, impatient and tunnel-visioned when he sets his eye on a player. Looks like he's willing to be patient on this and isn't acting hasty. Most of the teeth gnashing seems to be from people who just too wrapped up in internet message board land.