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Not dominant, but quite good. He had one inning where he basically caused the run himself by walking a couple batters and hitting a guy. The 4 hits have been mostly bloops.
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Minor League Discussion & Boxes 7-3-2007
CubColtPacer replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
Jake Fox with 2 HR and 4 RBI already through 3 innings. Colvin 1-2 -
Come on Z-one more.
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I thought I read today that he is starting tommorow Excellent. Bruce said in another thread that Lou and the coaches are working hard with Felix to get him to improve mechanically before they start giving him regular PT again. Just like they fixed Murton? No, the opposite actually. Murton changed his mechanics over the winter, and the coaching staff wanted him to change back to what he was doing at the end of last year but Murton refused. I don't think that's true but, whatever. Pie's played pretty sporadically during his struggles. I like to call it The Murton Treatment. The Cubs always find a way to do the wrong thing no matter who is in charge. That info is from Murton's own quotes-what reason would he have to lie about that? As for Pie, I guess we'll have to wait to see what kind of adjustment they made to his swing before figuring out if it's good or bad. Bruce said it's some sort of toe tap, which might help him. Thats wrong. Murton said he never changed his mechanics, but Lou is saying he did. Murton said he didn't change his swing or his approach. He said he did change his stance, but denied that it was affecting his hitting at all. http://chicagosports.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseball/cubs/cs-070613cubsmoves,1,2566504.story?coll=cs-cubs-headlines
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I thought I read today that he is starting tommorow Excellent. Bruce said in another thread that Lou and the coaches are working hard with Felix to get him to improve mechanically before they start giving him regular PT again. Just like they fixed Murton? No, the opposite actually. Murton changed his mechanics over the winter, and the coaching staff wanted him to change back to what he was doing at the end of last year but Murton refused. I don't think that's true but, whatever. Pie's played pretty sporadically during his struggles. I like to call it The Murton Treatment. The Cubs always find a way to do the wrong thing no matter who is in charge. That info is from Murton's own quotes-what reason would he have to lie about that? As for Pie, I guess we'll have to wait to see what kind of adjustment they made to his swing before figuring out if it's good or bad. Bruce said it's some sort of toe tap, which might help him.
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I thought I read today that he is starting tommorow Excellent. Bruce said in another thread that Lou and the coaches are working hard with Felix to get him to improve mechanically before they start giving him regular PT again. Just like they fixed Murton? No, the opposite actually. Murton changed his mechanics over the winter, and the coaching staff wanted him to change back to what he was doing at the end of last year but Murton refused.
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That or Zambrano running through a stop sign and creating a play at the plate. Believe me, I wouldn't put it past him to bowl over a catcher. That's what I was worrying about-Theriot doesn't get that many extra base hits, and if he did single Z had a good chance of getting himself thrown out somewhere on the bases.
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Hopefully Snell can steal another one for the Pirates tomorrow.
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Pretty hard to get out of your slump, when you havent started in 4 days. Hes a young kid, and is going to have slumps like this, but that doesnt mean he should be relagated to Lous coffee getter. You make it sound like Lou is punishing him. According to everything out there, Lou is trying to keep Pie's confidence up, and he's having him work on things in batting practice. When asked if Pie was going to be sent down, he said absolutely not because he was so high on what Pie could offer this team. You're trying to do what's best for him, and so is Lou-both of you just have different opinions on what's best for his development. I understand that, but I dont care who you are, if you go from starting every game for 2-3 weeks straight, to not starting in 4 games, your confidence is going to take a hit. My problem with him sitting this much, is when he does get his 1 start or whatever to see if hes "figured it out" its pretty safe to assume hes going to be pressing. Of course if we had a SS or C who gave us even average to a little above average production, Pie's struggles in CF would be no big deal. The one thing I certainly hope is that if Lou is going to give him this time off to clear his head, Pie will get more than 1 consecutive start again when Lou puts him back in. I don't mind the break as much, but then I'd throw him back in there for at least another couple weeks.
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If this little breather lasts through the break, then definitely. Lou seems to think the bench time helped Riot - said his bat looked slow so he gave him a few days off. He is probably thinking the same thing will work with Pie. The difference of course is Theriot doesn't really have much of a future, he's either going to stick as a utility guy or not. There's no need to try and get him over slumps by playing. Plus, he never sat 4 days in a row. He had a week where played every other day. Pie is pretty much the 25th man. Theriot didn't start on Friday 22nd, Saturday 23rd, Sunday the 24th, Monday 25th, and Tuesday the 26th-so he sat 5 days in a row, and then he started 1 game, and then sat 2 more before starting the last 3 games now (including tonight).
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Pretty hard to get out of your slump, when you havent started in 4 days. Hes a young kid, and is going to have slumps like this, but that doesnt mean he should be relagated to Lous coffee getter. You make it sound like Lou is punishing him. According to everything out there, Lou is trying to keep Pie's confidence up, and he's having him work on things in batting practice. When asked if Pie was going to be sent down, he said absolutely not because he was so high on what Pie could offer this team. You're trying to do what's best for him, and so is Lou-both of you just have different opinions on what's best for his development.
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This Brewers-Pirates game has been a pretty long one-still only 4 innings done. The Brewers have actually not only made Gallardo a reliever, but they've announced that he's their official "long" reliever. It might help today, but the long reliever should not normally be one of the best pitchers on the team. It shouldn't even be one of the best relievers on the team.
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He's batting 2nd.
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Last I knew, I think the Braves signed him. The Braves signed him in the offseason-they then cut him in May. He's on the DL at AAA Charlotte in the White Sox organization now.
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They say that Capuano is not on a pitch count even though this is his first start back from the DL-it will be interesting to see if that's true. He threw 23 pitches in the first.
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Last night during the MASN telecast of the game they said 20 different starters. Then they said, "not 20 total pitchers, but 20 starters!" Knew that couldn't be correct. For all the horror of 2006, did the Cubs even start half that many last year? The Cubs had 15 different starting pitchers in 06.
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Exactly...doing the same exercise last year. Jacque Jones 306/336/528 How well is that working out for us? Uh, you might want to look at his statement again-he's making a play on words. Obviously, things could change I don't think anybody is disputing that.
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the production from SS isn't anything to write home about either And it's not just when Izturis starts. The Cubs are still bottom of the league in SS OPS, and Izturis actually has the best numbers out of the SS position. Plus, RF is still ranked 10th in the league. They are being carried by 3B (2nd in league), 1B (3rd in league), LF (4th) and 2B (5th in league). I can't believe that there are 6 worse RF in the NL than what the Cubs have had. That hasn't been nearly the abyss that SS and CF have been, but I'm surprised it's ranked that high. It's propped up by their OBP in right. The OBP is 4th in the league, the SLG is 15th.
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So who is telling the truth? It doesn't make any sense that the Trib Tower would veto a trade of Jones based on salary. (For the reason Bruce stated). It also doesn' t make any sense that MLB offices would come out any deny having any involvement in stopping the trade, if they truly vetoed the trade. How about Hendry? I suppose that could be true, but wouldn't he have had to make the deal with Florida (which leaked to the press) and then at the last minute decide it wasn't a good deal and pull it off the table? The precise money amount was probably done last. Hendry found out their interest and offered to pay some of the contract. Then they agreed on the prospect. Finally, Florida came with their demand of exactly how much money they wanted, and Hendry thought about it and then demanded less money or a better prospect. While this was going on, Florida people leak the story that the deal is done (almost all of the reports came from a Florida source). When the Marlins don't budge on the money or the prospect, Hendry shuts down the negotiations.
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All you have to do is click on view results-it's right under the poll options, and you can look for yourself as many times as you want without having to vote.
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Shane Youman, a 27 year old left-hander out of LSU.
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I love how, in all that talk about pitchers having excellent seasons despite the lack of wins, those articles are written like the win category is a hurdle that needs to be overcome, rather than admit that wins are a worthless measuring stick. No pitcher with a 1-5 record and a 3.47 ERA is going to feel bad about his season, other than perhaps that it's being spent with the wrong team. I don't know about that-pitchers get pretty concerned about their win-loss record. It doesn't mean much as a stat, but pitchers themselves do care about it, and I'm sure that many care about wins more than their ERA, which is kind of strange.
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That's very true. I probably should have listed him, although he was basically unavailable with how much the Nationals were reportedly asking for him. I mentioned him mainly because Westbrook was mentioned. It seemed like the Cubs had as much interest in Church as they did in Westbrook. I actually think the Cubs had a lot more interest in Church than Westbrook. From what Bruce told us, Hendry was in conversations about Church for a while this off-season, but the Nats weren't giving him up without a king's ransom. I listed Westbook because I didn't know how much the Indians wanted for him exactly, and he was one of the main 2 or 3 pitchers that the board wanted.
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That's very true. I probably should have listed him, although he was basically unavailable with how much the Nationals were reportedly asking for him.
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I was looking at Miller's numbers last night-he's had above a 710 OPS every year since 1998 with the exception of 1 (and most years was above a 750). That year of course was 2003 with the Cubs, when he had a 679.