CubColtPacer
-
Posts
13,877 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Content Type
Profiles
Joomla Posts 1
Chicago Cubs Videos
Chicago Cubs Free Agent & Trade Rumors, Notes, & Tidbits
2026 Chicago Cubs Top Prospects Ranking
News
2023 Chicago Cubs Draft Picks
Guides & Resources
2024 Chicago Cubs Draft Picks
The Chicago Cubs Players Project
2025 Chicago Cubs Draft Pick Tracker
2026 Chicago Cubs Draft Tracker: Picks & Bonuses
Blogs
Events
Forums
Store
Gallery
Everything posted by CubColtPacer
-
Another great outing Z-nice to see you back. Theriot, Hill, and then ???-maybe Barrett? It's either Barrett, Jacque, or Pagan.
-
seriously, what the hell is he arguing about? Otto says Black is arguing about DeRosa's foot possibly coming off the bag, and apparently it didn't. It was close. It's hard to tell, but it looks like his foot is still on the bag. It's on the side of the bag away from the Padres dugout though, so Bud would not have been able to see it from his vantage point.
-
Lee will likely appeal, and Ward will be back to play 1B on Tuesday. Murton is not eligible to come back up until a week from tomorrow I believe.
-
This is the only left-hander the Padres have in the bullpen, right? Because that middle of the order is ugly against left-handers right now. Pie is probably the worst, than Izturis, than Floyd-but none of them are good in that situation.
-
no I noticed. He's walking people, and it sounds from Pat like he's letting his arm drop back down. I hope he manages to keep the Padres from scoring, because he's gotten a couple lucky bailouts already. Anyone got his pitch count? 77 pitches through 6.
-
Piniella said yesterday that Aram is on target to come off when he's eligible to come off (Friday I believe). It's in a Cubs.com article yesterday.
-
I don't mind that send with 1 out-the guy had to make a perfect, quick throw and it just happened that time that's exactly what he did. If he's a little bit slower to the plate, Theriot scores there.
-
It's every weekend now with the Cubs :D Z and Barrett fighting Lou getting ejected Braves beanball war Lee-Young fight Usually that's enough to fill an entire year-the Cubs have managed to do it 3 weekends in a row. BTW, who do the Cubs play next weekend? The White Sox.
-
Ward on Tuesday and Ramirez on Friday-so at most the Cubs would have to have 1 game without Ward and 4 without Ramirez, but if Lee appeals both of them will likely be back before he has to start serving the suspension.
-
I don't think Wells said anything, but there was a quote from Peavy basically saying that he didn't appreciate Soriano showing them up and that he doesn't show up hitters when he strikes them out, or something to that effect. That was the quote from Wells. Peavy said that if somebody did that to him he'd hit the next batter in the ribs, hoping that he'd go back to his teammate the next time and tell him to run the bases next time.
-
I think he was throwing it away in disgust. Yeah, that's what I thought too-he knew he had a really good pitch to hit and just didn't get the right part of the bat on it.
-
Game isn't on WGN and it's blacked out on Extra Innings. Which, oddly enough, is good for my career today. It got me to come into work and just listen to the game online. Need to keep it rolling here...at some point the Cubs are going to need an 8-10 game win streak to get right back in the middle of things. Three down already. I think the Brewers come to Wrigley for a weekend series in two weeks. Would be nice to be in striking distance by then and really put the pressure on them. The game is on WGN in a little less than an hour. It's part of the 5 games in a row on WGN campaign, which btw the Cubs are 3-0 so far, which has to make the executives at WGN happy (they were promoting this for a couple of weeks, so more people probably tuned in than normal, and Cubs wins might keep them tuning in).
-
Augie's actually back in the major leagues. He was just called up by Arizona a day or two ago. And I believe hit a homerun! Yes, I was just coming here to post that-there was actually a fantasy note on Augie Ojeda in my league this morning saying that he homered and singled last night, and that when Hudson is healthy, Augie is supposed to be the first middle infielder off the bench.
-
The umprire saw the fan touch the ball on the play where Floyd jumped up: http://chicago.cubs.mlb.com/news/gameday_recap.jsp?ymd=20070615&content_id=2028009&vkey=recap&fext=.jsp&c_id=chc
-
Minor League Discussion & Boxes 6-15-2007
CubColtPacer replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
not in the lineup... OF is (left to right) hoffpauir, walker, coats. Wonder why Murton isn't playing; I think he has to be in the lineup every day. Daryle Ward is playing first for the I-Cobs tonight, btw, and Soto is back at catcher. My guess is that Murton has decided to take his whole 72 hours available to him to get to the minors-which should mean that he should be in there tomorrow night. dumb move on his part. His production has sucked and if he sulks about the move, then he'll been worse off. Heck, in 110 AB he has 1 hr and 8 rbi, Fonentot in 30 ab's has 2 hrs and 9 rbi. My guess, we won't see Matt before Sept callups. The three days may do him some good. It's pretty obvious that there were some issues between him and the coaching staff, and a couple days to clear his head and simply get away from the situation might help him report to Iowa ready to get his hitting corrected (and hopefully he'll be hitting right away) I don't think it will take more than a few weeks to come back up and probably again be in a 50/50 share of playing time with Floyd. -
Lucky for us, he's a right-hander :D He's still pretty tough though, and the Cubs only managed 1 run in 7 innings last time. Z will have to be on top of his game to keep up because the Cubs likely won't get all that many off of Young. In fact, Young has not allowed more than 3 runs in any outing since April 26th.
-
Minor League Discussion & Boxes 6-15-2007
CubColtPacer replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
not in the lineup... OF is (left to right) hoffpauir, walker, coats. Wonder why Murton isn't playing; I think he has to be in the lineup every day. Daryle Ward is playing first for the I-Cobs tonight, btw, and Soto is back at catcher. My guess is that Murton has decided to take his whole 72 hours available to him to get to the minors-which should mean that he should be in there tomorrow night. -
Wouldn't it make more sense to send our 13th pitcher down when Ramirez is ready? Pagan is useful as a late innings defensive replacement, something that none of the Cubs other reserve outfielders have going for them. Ramirez is going to be available after Ward. I think the 13th pitcher will go down when Ward comes back, and then Pagan will go down for Ramirez.
-
This probably still has Fontenot at 2nd base most of the time against left-handers and Pie in center-I think that will be enough.
-
That gives a clue that Pagan will be the one to go when Ramirez gets back. They'll end up using DeRosa as the 5th OF (against LH's) and then have a combination of Fontenot, Theriot, and Izturis in the IF. It definitely is our best lineup against left-handers.
-
Well, lets see. Do I want to go to a winning team, or the Titans? Seems pretty easy to me :D It just depends on what you want. TN is his home right now, plus the fact that he could probably become the #1 back for the Titans this year when Lendale White bombs out. Those are tough variables to balance with the pretty good chance to win a SB title with the Bears.
-
I heard the lineup earlier on the radio while jogging. I think it's: Soriano Pie Lee Floyd DeRosa Barrett Fontenot Theriot Lilly I know Barrett is 6th and Fontenot and Theriot follow him... Floyd hits pretty well off of LHP in his career. The article said that Pagan would start against some lefties (implying that Floyd would get the majority of the time) but I think Lou feels Cliff can handle Wells. This year Cliff is hitting .375 against lefties in 8 ABs. I really like that lineup. As someone said a few days ago, Fontenot is actually the only left-hander on the team who hits left-handers at least decently. Floyd is 2-6 with a HR against Wells in his career, so he's been pretty good against him. Izturis is only 2-11 against Wells in his career and has been absolutely awful against LHP this year (.485 OPS against LHP), so it's good to see him out of the lineup today.
-
Why wouldn't Fontenot be starting? He didn't start against the left-hander on Tuesday-my guess from that is that he won't start today, although he certainly could.
-
I love how Murton gets a -1 rating in CF even though he only played there one inning, and didn't have a misplay (there was a bloop that no CF could have caught and Pujols's homer that was long gone). Also, I watched the Daryle Ward at first base games, and there is no way that he was better than Derrek Lee has been at first this year. I don't trust most of the other rankings either, but I think those are the only two that are blatantly wrong.
-
That actually looks like a moderate, certainly not easy, schedule: Padres - Best pitching staff in the league, even if we miss Peavy, best record in the NL and has owned us in recent past. (My prediction: 1 of 3) Rangers - Just beat our division leaders 2 of 3, still have a decent offense, Sammy will be inspired, and our strength is pitching, which goes to die in Texas (2 of 3) White Sox - Like you said, throw the records out, I have a bad feeling about this series (1 of 3) Colorado - Certainly not an easy team like you seem to be suggesting but still (2 of 3) Nationals - OK they are pretty bad (2 of 3) Pirates - Certainly not pushovers, and have good pitching (1 of 3..just a gut feeling) Would not surprise me in the least bit. The funny thing is-if they do that (go .500 over the next 3 weeks) there's a decent possibility that the Cubs will only be 3 or 4 games out in the division at that point.