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  1. CubColtPacer
    all of our guys? who's sitting...soto and bradley? it's pretty reasonable to give your catcher a game off on a day game after night game. everybody has been wanting to get Hoff more at bats, and Bradley probably needs to be handled carefully. i don't see the big problem. edit: and Theriot. i knew i was forgetting someone. Why not let hoff play today at first since we got a tough righty on the mound and we have to be more lefthanded this year when possible? I would have been fine with that as well. But the team is not being careful with Lee like they are with Bradley. And Bradley is needed the next couple of days against the left-handers.
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    Billingsly does have pretty consistent splits. Right-handers hit home runs off him at a bigger rate, but left-handers have a much higher average and many more doubles and so have much better numbers overall against him (80-130 points difference in OPS). With the wind blowing in today, a left-handed dominated lineup isn't a bad way to go. Wrigley isn't the greatest of ballparks to hope for a lot of ground balls/line drives, but it's the best hope.
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    I've always had a hunch that a majority of his walks are taken when there aren't RISP's. He doesn't seem to mind working the count and taking a walk in those situations, but when there are RBI opportunities, he gets super aggressive and swings at horrible pitches. He will still sometimes take pitches, but only to get ahead in the count in order to increase the probability of him getting a hittable pitch. If he gets a 2-0 count, he'll just start flaling away at anything to avoid walking. Soriano has actually walked a lot more in his career with RISP than with nobody on. In fact, he has walked at more than double the rate. Intentional walks account for some of that but not all.
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    From what I've heard, it's not his arm that's the problem. It's his glove. Apparently he can't catch the ball behind the plate or in the field. That's what I don't understand, how can you be a catcher your entire high school and college career and all of a sudden not be able to catch the ball behind the plate? From what I've heard he would drop routine strikes, is that true? How do you just lose the ability to do that after being in that position for close to a decade? Probably the same way a guy can forget how to throw strikes. Throwing strikes is a lot more difficult than not being able to catch a ball. That can be the result of improper arm slot, injury, overthrowing, etc. All he has to do is hold his glove up, move it a few inches to a foot at a time, sometimes not at all, and squeeze the mitt. How do you do that for so long and then just not be able to do it anymore? Throwing the ball accurately I get, but catching a ball? I don't think he lost anything. I just don't think it was bad enough to get him moved in college. It wasn't like he was dropping every 3rd pitch. But his defense was also nowhere near major league level. And as he moved up the levels and people started to get more and more movement on their pitches, that just contributed to the problem.
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    If Z took the suspension starting tonight the Cubs rotation wouldn't really be affected because of the off day on Monday. But I bet he'll appeal that length of a suspension.
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    He was a catcher in both high school and college.
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    All that is well and good, but it doesn't change the fact that a NTC is just a negotiating asset, and a pitcher would be foolish to pass up the opportunity to pitch in SD. That might be for most players, but it doesn't seem to be that way for Samardzija (who is following in the footprints of someone like Brian Giles who doesn't use it as a negotiating asset either). And yes, I do believe Samardzija would be foolish to pass up a trade to SD. He could make a lot of money in his career over there. But while most people with a NTC in trade talks say that they'll consider their options if the club wants to trade them but they're happy there etc., Samardzija came right out during the trade talks last offseason and said that he wouldn't even consider waiving the NTC no matter what the Cubs did. I think he's prepared to be that foolish.
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    Im not, but Shark probably is, and since, he has a full NTC, thats the only guy who needs to be against it. Yeah, the NTC was the only way we could talk him out of playing football. I don't think there's a chance he would accept a trade. I don't think it was the only way. The main thing was the money. The NTC is just a bargaining chip. I think any pitcher would be a fool to turn down a potential trade to SD, especially a young one trying to build up his resume for arbitration/free agency. A couple years pitching in Petco could help Samardzija big time. He can use the NTC to negotiate something else into his deal. I'm thinking I remember hearing that the NTC was a necessity, but I could be remembering wrong. And as far as Shark waving it, doesn't he live near Chicago and wants to stay close to home? That may override the idea of getting earlier playing time in SD. Yes. Jeff grew up in NW Indiana and he has consistently said that the main reason he picked baseball was because he could play close to home and have his family come see him. He has also said consistently that he wouldn't waive the NTC for any reason and the only place he ever wants to play is Chicago.
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    I actually thought Fox looked pretty bad in his first 4 swings at the plate yesterday. He was getting fooled by those changeups but managed to work the count and foul weakly some pitches off before driving that fastball well. It's only Lee's 2nd game back..he doesn't need another rest. They might decide to rest Bradley one of the next 2 days though with the night game/day game and so Fox might be able to get a start in RF.
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    Really nice to only see 2 BB's in the last 10 innings to go along with the 17 strikeouts he has in those two starts.
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    Not exactly a guy who would know a real exact timetable, but from the last line of the Bruce Miles blog from earlier today, We haven't had a lot of information on the injury time, so that's at least some encouragement, even though I expect that will be pushed back 2-3 weeks.
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    I was just thinking..this is the type of situation Reed tends to hit his home runs..and then the next pitch it was gone :D
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    Z and the ump were having an animated conversation when the ump moved towards Z..as he was moving towards him Z moved his shoulder and they bumped shoulders..the big problem is going to be is that Z kind of flexed his forearm which kind of pushed the ump's shoulder away.
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    Z looks to be going out there for the 7th as nobody is warming up.
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    I'm going to say legitimate injury. It's not like the Cubs were anxious to bring Blanco up for any reason. But Miles probably could have played through that injury longer if he needed to or was hot at the plate. Scales might have a chance to quickly come back up depending on what happens with Freel.
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    He squared around to bunt more than once. That pretty much means sacrifice. But he squared around during the pitch..and Theriot frequently fakes the bunt so the third baseman plays in anyway, so the surprise factor isn't as much with him. I think he was trying to bunt for a hit .
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    It looked to me like Theriot was doing the bunt like Fukudome does. You bunt and hope for a hit, but at the worst it's a sacrifice. But it was a pretty bad bunt.
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    Why did they make the change? Freel slid after he made the turn at 1st presumably to stop his momentum..and when he went back to 1st he was limping and grabbing his left leg.
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    With only one IF backup, if Freel needs to be out more than 2 days they probably will put him on the DL and call Scales right back up.
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    Close play on Lee. That was his first double play of the season.
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    So why didnt they just bring up Fox for Miles and leave the rest be? Blancos defense isnt anything to write home about. Blanco can play SS. Scales can't. Neither can Freel, and Fontenot only barely can (and the Cubs probably don't want him thinking about another new position right now). From the way Len described it, that's exactly what it was. The Cubs needed a backup SS with Miles gone so Blanco had to be the choice.
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    It doesn't sound like Scales will be up anytime soon. He just got caught in the roster crunch and they decided they'd rather have the extra bat in Fox than Scales.
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    They have said in some places. Sore shoulder..apparently has been bothering him since March.
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    Yup. Not a wizard there but good to very good.
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    This should put them at 38 for the 40 man roster. Fox was already on there, but Waddell and Blanco need to be added.
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