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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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From the Cubs.com article... Barrett is playing today and Sunday Jones is getting time off to clear his head-no word on how long. Floyd will start against right-handers and Pagan against left-handers for now in right field. With that said, the lineup will most likely be: Soriano Pie Lee Barrett DeRosa Theriot Pagan Izturis Lilly Here's the link on that info-has some good quotes on Barrett that I provided in another thread. http://chicago.cubs.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20070614&content_id=2026053&vkey=news_chc&fext=.jsp&c_id=chc
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Here are some interesting quotes from a cubs.com article: That's nice to hear-the Cubs could use his bat. Looks like they aren't going to use him with Z just yet-and that's just fine as well for now. There is the managerial accountability that some people wanted, and also good to know that Lou is not blaming Barrett for the lack of good pitching at times. http://chicago.cubs.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20070614&content_id=2026053&vkey=news_chc&fext=.jsp&c_id=chc
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Could it be that Soto was already hurting a little bit when Hill came up? Raisin reported that the reason Soto is playing 1B is because he has an injury and he cannot catch. Looking back through the game logs, Soto was at 1B on June 2nd, at catcher on the 3rd and 4th, and then stopped playing at catcher. Hill was called up on the 1st-so it's somewhat probable that Soto had the injury even then. He tried to play through it on the 3rd and 4th, and then when it got worse because of him catching they decided to move him to 1B for a while. The Cubs might not have had much of a choice on which catcher to call up. Did it specify a date on that injury Raisin?
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Pie might be given a break tomorrow. He has been rested against a lot of LHP. Is this a trend? I'd like to see him get some experience rather than Pagan playing center against LHP. Since he came back up, I'm pretty sure the Cubs have only faced two left-handers. Pie played against 1, and Pagan played against the other. I don't think it's quite known yet which one of the two will get more at-bats against left-handers in the coming weeks.
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CubColtPacer replied to killthegoat06's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
I think the second player to go will be Pagan. DeRosa and Theriot (and in a pinch Ward) can play OF if needed, and that makes the 5th OF not as necessary on this team. -
Wells did a pretty good job against the Cubs when they played in SD the last time. That will probably be true again, so Lilly better be on his game. Even though it's a left-hander, Floyd should get the start in RF, because 1)he's 2/6 with a home run against Wells, 2) He had 3 hits today, and 3) with Aramis out, having a lineup against a left-hander with Pagan in RF leaves the team with almost no power potential whatsoever. I hope that Fontenot/Theriot play up the middle tomorrow, as Izturis struggles with left-handers in general this season and is only 2/11 against Wells.
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No-Dempster is the closer until he proves he cannot handle the role, and he hasn't come that close to doing that this year. Howry's run is very nice though. His last 8 outings: 9 2/3 IP, 4 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 8 K Howry coming back and Marmol's emergence has really made this bullpen quite a bit better. With 4 good relievers at the back end (Dempster and Wuertz the other two), they can handle most of the close games, which should improve the Cubs record in close games.
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Yup-two walks by DeRosa and Fontenot, K. Hill bunted them over, and Izturis hit a double to drive both runs in (8th inning).
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You assume someone else would sign him and put him on their ML roster. Even if that happened, it would save the Cubs however much money the other team was paying him. If his agent told him, "sorry, there's nothing out there, nobody wants a reliever with an ERA of over 10 who can't throw strikes to save his life" then he'd go to AAA. He wouldn't like it, but he would. If nobody wanted him, I don't know why he would go to Triple A. He would force the Cubs to either keep him in the majors or pay him to sit on his couch.
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Yeah, I heard that. Well, it is composed of two LOOGY's, a guy who was unavailable today, a long man who has had just two outings in the major leagues, and Scott Eyre. That doesn't leave too many people who can give innings in close games. My guess is that Rapada will be sent right back down on Tuesday when Ward hopefully comes back. If he does come back then, the Cubs could really use him as the DH during the Rangers and White Sox series.
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i agree, but you gotta take the error into consideration because he got the ground ball he needed with 1 out in the inning...DeRo gets that and no runs score that inning Exactly-DeRosa picks that one up, and suddenly Marquis has allowed 1 hit, 0 runs, and struck out 7 through 6 innings. He also walked 2 that inning, and hit the pitcher. Derosa should have made that play, but plenty of blame goes to Marquis in that inning. Plenty of blame does go to Marquis for that inning, you're right. Still, 5 runners given up and 3 earned runs in 5 2/3 isn't an awful outing-it might not be a great outing, but it's not awful either. Plus, the fact that he was that good over the first 5 innings is a hopeful sign for his next start that maybe the game in Atlanta was an aberration and not the rule.
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i agree, but you gotta take the error into consideration because he got the ground ball he needed with 1 out in the inning...DeRo gets that and no runs score that inning Exactly-DeRosa picks that one up, and suddenly Marquis has allowed 1 hit, 0 runs, and struck out 7 through 6 innings.