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That's Ward's 5th walk- 3rd intentional walk of the season-1 of them was after he took the count to 3-0.
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It hasn't been a strength this year, but it hasn't been a weakness-the bullpen ERA is still in the top half of the league.
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When Eyre got hurt in August of last year, the pitcher that the team has seen since then hasn't been anywhere near the same.
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apparently absolutely nobody for either tonight or tomorrow night.
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That's the second hit in 2 days for Pie that was pure luck-somebody is going to see these hits and think that he is actually hitting well :D
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Honestly how many teams have really strong 7 and 8 hitters other than the Yankees? Come on. Izturis and Blanco are two of the worst hitters in the Majors. They have to basically get lucky to get a hit. Yadier Molina, Brad Ausmus, Adam Everett, Alex Gonzalez, Craig Counsell-those are just some of those hitters in our division that are just as bad over a typical full season, and I'm sure I could come up with 3-4 more if I thought harder.
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Honestly how many teams have really strong 7 and 8 hitters other than the Yankees? Not many teams-that's for sure, especially when they are playing a backup catcher like the Cubs are tonight.
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So-how was the defensive play on the DP? Pat is going on and on about how Jones hit it so hard and it should have been a base hit that Hardy made a great play on to stop it.
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Lou just needs to use him correctly. Hopefully Lou "gets it", now. I think Lou always knew that. He was used in one game correctly, and most of the rest were just mop-up innings in blowouts. The only other close game that Ohman was in was the game in the 14th inning, where Lou was forced to go to him against both left and right-handers
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This is a good move-Gross has a very large right/left split.
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I don't know why you'd be shocked. Before Saturday (the last time I saw the stats) DeRosa was only behind Pie in P/PA. It goes all the way down to the position player who sees the least pitches of anybody-Theriot.
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Send Izzy packing and let Theriot play short. Miller, Izturis, and Eyre for ARod. Miller is on the DL and can't be traded. Miller is on the DL? Placed on the DL today. Cherry was called up. Excellent. So I assume we'll be skipping the fifth starter spot this time around with the off day on Thursday? Yes. Hendry said Guzman is the probable starter next Tuesday, somewhat depending on his next outing in the minors. If not, I guess it could be Marmol.
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Double post.
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I dont think i have seen this said anywhere. Hendry and Piniella have always stated that they were going to start with 12 and evaluate it in late April depending on injuries, effectiveness, and the team. With the injuries to Soriano, ARam, and DeRosa, i cant see us going with 12 right now. There was a story about the need for 12 pitchers on Saturday, but here's another one from last night: http://chicagosports.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseball/cubs/cs-070422cubsbits,1,4150910.story?coll=cs-home-headlines
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Would not be surprised. If he had to leave the game for a PR in yesterday game how in the world is he going to be play? I wouldn't go so far as to say he HAD to. Lou probably had it in his mind before sending him out there that if he got on, he was coming down for a PR. Lou wanted his bat out there, nothing more. (That is, assuming there wasn't any press about this that I missed.) That's how I felt as well-Lou let Soriano come in, but he almost certainly told him that he was coming out for a PR as soon as he got on base. Soriano saw the ball going into the corner, so he jogged very slowly around. I'm sure you'll see him going at a much higher speed today. Sori wouldn't have been begging to play the last 3-4 days if he was really moving that slowly.
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LOL@the DL. Miller on the DL = buying time. I doubt there's anything really wrong with him other than his ineffectiveness. I would've sent him down. At least he would've gotten some work done. I don't think that Miller would have accepted the assignment. This allows them to sort of hedge their bets-keep him, but not let him pitch, and see what happens the next couple weeks. Then they could send him on a rehab assignment, which lengthens the time they can keep him in the organization just in case a few injuries happen while keeping him out of the majors.
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Exploratory huh, classic. Its like the kid that goes to the nurse's office at school wanting to go home because they are "sick." I bet Prior didn't win any perfect attendence awards. Exploratory surgery isn't to gauge if there is a problem or not, it's to try to isolate where a problem is. It's done on the shoulder frequently because shoulder injuries are so hard to diagnose-I think the criticism of Prior is unwarranted in this case. I'm kidding. Just seems that is there was that big of a problem it wouldn't be that hard to pinpoint. There are just so many things that can go wrong to cause those symptoms, and some things doctors cannot explain yet. I'm not sure they'll ever know for sure what's wrong-medicine has simply not advanced far enough in that type of area to be able to catch a problem like that in some cases.
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No-the team still has 11 pitchers, and they want 12. When Guzman comes up, it will be at the expense of a position player-if that be a Jones trade, Pie to AAA, or the less likely option of Cedeno to AAA.
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Exploratory huh, classic. Its like the kid that goes to the nurse's office at school wanting to go home because they are "sick." I bet Prior didn't win any perfect attendence awards. Exploratory surgery isn't to gauge if there is a problem or not, it's to try to isolate where a problem is. It's done on the shoulder frequently because shoulder injuries are so hard to diagnose-I think the criticism of Prior is unwarranted in this case.
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The DL option huh? Well, that gives one of the young guys a chance next Tuesday. It's their job to make sure that they pitch well enough to make sure that he can't come back in the rotation without some major injuries.
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Holy Crap, Floyd in RF. I'm not that into defense, but that is really bad. That at least would seem to indicate that they want Soriano to stay in left for quite a while.
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Nope, no coincidence-it is in fact in before the lock.
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Ohman needs to go to AAA
CubColtPacer replied to bc2k's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070422/SPORTS02/704220632/1050 More speculation from Detroit. Just to get this straight - the Detroit paper knows how to use our players better than our manager does? Ok. Great. The other humorous thing is I think the only time he was used correctly this year (when he was brought in to face Hatteberg with the bases loaded last week relieving Z in the 5th) was the time Lou was most criticized for bringing him in. -
Murton getting benched again for lesser player
CubColtPacer replied to RegulusBlue's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Thanks Fred-yeah, I expect that Murton will be able to keep up his overall BABIP, just not his BABIP if you take out the 0/9 from his numbers (pinch-hitting and getting subbed into the game) like VJ was talking about. -
Ugh...you just reminded me how interminably long the draft is. Yup-expect to wait at least 4 1/2, maybe 5 or more hours for your first pick. A couple of years ago the Colts had something like pick 28-they traded it when it came time for their pick for like pick 36, then when it came time for their pick again they traded it for pick 44. By the time pick 44 came (like 7 1/2 hours-8 hours into the draft) even though I liked the trades, I was screaming for them to pick somebody-just anybody at all considering I had been watching for that long!