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If they do make a deal today, either Hendry is working late or they did a really good job of not letting it leak. Well, the SD deal does show that GM's do work strange hours. It was reported at 6:30 in the morning SD time. As for Hendry, for all his faults, one thing that cannot be said is that he does not devote his life to the job. I think this offseason demonstrated that, and it wouldn't surprise me if he's working the trade lines right now, even if nothing ends up getting done.
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That makes sense from what he was describing. I wonder how sick he will get, and if he can keep playing or not. Get better soon Mark. http://chicago.cubs.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20070624&content_id=2046554&vkey=news_chc&fext=.jsp&c_id=chc
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Talking what to do about the second base logjam: And here's a quote about Fontenot: Well, let's see. If Fontenot is going to continue to play, and DeRosa is going to be put somewhere, that means 1 of only two things. Either DeRosa is going to play RF (which I can see him doing tomorrow night) or one of DeRosa/Fontenot is going to move to short. Since Lou hints at a surprise, I hope that in the next week one of those two will be seen at short, since of course the DeRosa to RF thing has been talked about a lot. That's the only thing that makes sense to me that could be labeled a surprise at all. If one of those two does move to SS, the Cubs become a lot better offensively. Since tomorrow night is a left-hander, I think we'll have to wait a few days to see how this shakes out against right-handers and left-handers. http://chicago.cubs.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20070624&content_id=2046554&vkey=news_chc&fext=.jsp&c_id=chc
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Cubs bringing Cotts back up soon?
CubColtPacer replied to E.J.'s topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
Of course, Hendry could overrule him or there could be a trade of some sort to get that reliever as well. http://chicago.cubs.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20070624&content_id=2046554&vkey=news_chc&fext=.jsp&c_id=chc -
Barrett and Bowen have both had bad starts with their new teams: Bowen-1/9 with 1R, 1RBI, 3 BB and 4 K Barrett (after the 0/4 day so far today)-2/12 with 1 RBI and 3 K
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How many real teams are there in the NL? There's a total of 5 teams that are 3 games above .500 or more-and the Brewers are one of them. So that's only 4 of 15 other teams that they face that are "real", and none of them are in their division so they don't face any of them that often.
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Right now, I just care about the Cubs winning the division (or the WC). If it takes 90, fine. If it takes 85 or less, I'm plenty happy with that as well. How the Brewers do over the next month has a big impact on if the Cubs are in the race or out of the race at the deadline (of course, what the Cubs do has a bigger impact). Is there even a chance at that?I havent seen the WC standings but Im guessing we are pretty far back 7th place in the WC entering the day, 8 back. There's only 2 teams near the top though, everybody else is within 3 to 3 1/2 games of the Cubs, so it's doable if the Cubs take advantage of their soft schedule coming up. BTW, if either San Diego or Arizona lose today, the Cubs will only be 7 back in the WC race after today.
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Right now, I just care about the Cubs winning the division (or the WC). If it takes 90, fine. If it takes 85 or less, I'm plenty happy with that as well. How the Brewers do over the next month has a big impact on if the Cubs are in the race or out of the race at the deadline (of course, what the Cubs do has a bigger impact).
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Marshall was throwing fine, and Dempster is not available. This was a dumb change. didn't the sox go like 1-66 against someone's bullpen last week? not saying he shoulda pulled him, but going from a soft tossing lefty to a hard throwing righty might just put the dagger in a team that clearly can't adjust to new pitchers. they weren't doing crap against the guy who was in there already hey, i said i didn't agree with the choice, but i can see where they got their inclination to do so. we also don't know if marshall said something to lou or larry when he was in the dugout last time. he didn't seem to argue too much when lou came out for him. That is very, very true. Marshall was neither surprised or upset. They had hit 3 or 4 warning track flyouts the last few outs, so maybe he told them he simply didn't have much left in the tank, or maybe they decided it themselves and he just agreed.
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He pitched an inning yesterday, and before that had 3 straight days off.
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He came in as a pinch runner for Ramirez in the 9th on Friday, but that's it.
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Minor League Discussion & Boxes 6-23-2007
CubColtPacer replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
The headline of the Daytona article is one of my pet peeves- The Cubs loose 5 straight? How are you a newspaper writer (or a headline writer) and you don't know how to write the word lose? I see lose spelled as loose on the Internet all the time as well. Normally, spelling mistakes don't bother me, but it's such a short, easy word. -
What do you get for premium? Is it worth it or is it basically just a donation to help keep the board going? The list of the benefits of premium are in this thread: viewtopic.php?t=14105 I think most premium users think of it as both-there are some nice benefits, and it's also a way to help Tim out in helping him to defray his personal costs in keeping the board going.
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Cubs bringing Cotts back up soon?
CubColtPacer replied to E.J.'s topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
Cotts will be the same thing that Gallagher just was-the long man out of the pen. He'll get in if they need someone to eat some innings if a starter goes out early. Cotts is the best option for this type of role-the team is not hurting his development by putting him there, and he is stretched out already to be able to handle the role. They are going to call up a 12th pitcher no matter what-that's the only sure thing right now. -
No Pie booo. Although I understand him getting an off day as he has been in there every day basically since the call up. Yeah, I just wish Lou could have waited a day for that. If he was going to give him a day off anyway, he should have done it with the left-hander on the mound tomorrow night.
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Absolutely not. The Cubs really don't need Gagne-he would be nice, but he's not necessary. If you trade Marshall, you've just made a small improvement to your bullpen and gotten rid of your only good 5th starter option. Gagne only has 12 teams that he can be traded to-I'm not sure that the Cubs are on that list. If this is true (that Jones is going to get traded by tomorrow for a pitcher), my guess is that Jones is traded for a decent middle reliever, which would be just fine.
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Wow-I'm not nearly as optimistic as you. I see a 7-6 season on the horizon. I wouldn't be shocked by 8-5, but 9-4 would be very surprising to me. It is a very young team that really doesn't have much to fall back on. Their offense mostly moved on, and their defense really needs to improve. I'm confident that both the offense and defense will get better, but the problem is that ND's tough games are at the front of the schedule when the team has not had time to gel yet. The future is bright, but I just don't see great hope for this year.
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they showed on BBTN CPatt was robbed of a near GS, although I think it would have bounced off the yellow line if not caught. I really wonder how much time has been spent on this board ridiculing the ex-Cubs playing in this game. We have Patterson, Bynum, Paul Bako, Augie Ojeda, and Juan Cruz. That's quite a group.
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I get the feeling Lou doesn't like Ohman
CubColtPacer replied to Buford T Justice's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
SD and Seattle. Can look at his game log here: http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/players/6612 OK, now I remember the Seattle game...I remember being pissed that he was in for so long. LOOGY or not issue aside, he shouldn't be out there for more than an inning most of the time. On the upside, he's continuing to strikeout guys and his walks are way down, especially if you look at that long outing as an exception. I still think he's doing a LOT better now and I really don't worry seeing him come out. He's definitely not deserving of still being lumped in with Eyre. Eyre has been a lot better than Ohman in June. They are both doing better lately, and they both are still our most questionable relievers (soon to be our 2nd and 3rd most questionable when somebody comes up from the minord on Monday). -
Also, Pie's numbers would look better if they sat him down against a few more left-handers: Against RHP: .269/.330/462 (93 AB's) Against LHP: .129/.129/.129 (31 AB's) There's no need to acquire another player for CF-if the Cubs really want to play for this year, they just need to platoon him a little more.
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I just checked in on the Baltimore-Arizona game. Patterson is 1 for 3 Freddie Bynum is 1 for 2 with a 2 run HR
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Games Jacque has started: 25-25 (.500) Games Jacque has not stated: 9-14 (.391) So his Neifi index would be -.109
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So Floyd has an average of .166 and thats good, but Lee has an avg of .285 and thats bad? I go by their OPS numbers when assigning good/bad. Floyd has an .833 against Contreras, Lee has a .714. Besides, Lee spends so many good days in the good category that he can afford to spend one day in the bad one :D.
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The Cubs against Contreras are interesting: The Good: Ramirez is 3 of 7 with 3 HR and 1 BB Floyd is 1 for 6 with 1 HR Soriano is 2 for 4 with 2 HR The Bad: Jones is 2 for 11 with 1 BB Lee is 2 for 7 with 1 2B Izturis is 0 for 6 DeRosa is 0 for 3 Nobody on the White Sox has more than 3 at-bats against Marshall.
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Koyie Hill had to come in the ballgame in the 9th anyway. If Jones had pinch-run, then Hill would have had to come in for him and the bench would have been completely emptied. If Hill didn't need to come in the game, Jones would have probably been the pinch-runner chosen.