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He has been in the past. He wasn't in 2006, but so far he has a 1.65 G/F ratio, which means that so far he's regaining that status as a ground ball pitcher.
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Is Charlie Manuel in your league? Ben Sheets on the waiver wire? I couldn't believe it-somebody with a glut of starting pitchers dropped him to pick up a relief pitcher. I don't have a very high waiver claim, but I'm hoping nobody notices he was dropped (which has happened a time or two this year with pretty good players that a terrible team or two dropped), and I can pick him up-that would be quite a 5 starting pitchers considering that most of my top picks were on the offensive side of the ball.
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Let's just say I'm very happy that my fantasy rotation has Hamels, Rich Hill, Daisuke, and Roy Halladay in it, along with trying to pick up Ben Sheets off the waiver wire. I'm more than half a run ahead in ERA so far over any other team :D
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Winner. Anyone else notice how Lou isn't working his starters anywhere near as hard as Dusty? Doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure what the difference is here. Actually, this years' starters are averaging 96.18 P/G so far compared to 91.90 last season. that probably has more to do with the cubs' starters getting drilled and knocked out earlier last year, whereas this year a lot of guys have been able to go deeper into games. Agreed, not to mention the team having Maddux for a decent amount of the year last year, who of course was going to come out around that number each time as his maximum. Yes though, I agree that people getting shelled and going less than 3 innings was the primary cause of that. Every Cubs start this year has made it at least 4.
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If he was lucky (and he probably should have given up a run or two today) then it's the Cardinals hitters fault. It's not like they hit it hard right at people all day-pretty much every time they got runners on, they either struck out or hit a soft ground ball. So Pujols should be more concerned about that than anything Marquis threw.
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I was thinking about that, but then I realized that the last time Miller pitched the Cubs managed to keep the game tied for 14 innings-so I'm still ready to see what the team can do. Besides, Wainwright has been living dangerously as well-his ERA is good, but a WHIP over 1.5 means that the Cubs still have a chance of getting some runs off of him.
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Murton getting benched again for lesser player
CubColtPacer replied to RegulusBlue's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Who the devil are you comparing him to if it's not left fielders? Adam Everett? Yadier Molina? My guess would be that he's comparing him to all corner OF's-I mean, what is the only main difference between RF and LF? Defensive ability-and considering that Murton is about to have to move to RF to get playing time (with Soriano coming to left), comparing him against other RF'ers is probably more appropriate at this point. Well if we want to play that game, Soriano profiles more as a CF or RF than a LF. So we can still make the argument that with Soriano's defense in left and Pie in center, Murton only needs to play as well as a typical left fielder anyways. That's very true. With Soriano and Pie's range, Murton won't need quite the range that typically you'd need in RF. I'm not sure you're going to see that alignment for a while though-Pie still has a decent chance of being sent down late next week, and the lineup may have Jones in CF on a daily basis until he gets traded. -
Murton getting benched again for lesser player
CubColtPacer replied to RegulusBlue's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Who the devil are you comparing him to if it's not left fielders? Adam Everett? Yadier Molina? My guess would be that he's comparing him to all corner OF's-I mean, what is the only main difference between RF and LF? Defensive ability-and considering that Murton is about to have to move to RF to get playing time (with Soriano coming to left), comparing him against other RF'ers is probably more appropriate at this point. -
Minor League Discussion & Boxes 4-21-2007
CubColtPacer replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
That's not good. It's possible that he won't even get the Thursday start-if management decides that he is not right for the 5th spot, then I could easily see them not wanting him to start on Thursday because he will likely be recalled on Friday as a reliever. If that happens then (or if he pitches on Thursday and isn't absolutely outstanding) then I don't think he'll get another chance at starter for at least another month. -
this excludes hill, but i said it in the game thread: marquis (specifically, but lilly to an extent) reminds me of rex grossman early last season. rex threw several interceptable passes when he was doing well, the other team just wasn't catching them. later on, corners weren't dropping the ball. same thing with here. there have been more than a few fly balls that end up on waveland in july and august thrown, and it will catch up to them. hopefully not... Marquis cannot keep this up if his peripherals stay the same. It's going to be like batting practice come July, I just hope our offense is as good by then as I think it can be. P.S. TSB > Funeral, but other than that I liked your first set of albums better. :-) me too :lol: he just can't throw that middle of the road fastball around the letters of guys like carlos lee and albert pujols and get away with it in wrigley. I would agree with that, but part of the reason that his performance is better than his peripherals would suggest is that he has been very careful with big hitters so far this year. He hasn't let the guys with the big power beat him, and that's why the SLG against him has been so low this year. If he keeps that up and minimizes the damage, he has a good shot at being effective.
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Hey, at least you're still ahead of 2 teams in the OBP department.
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I only checked your ERA, but I think the 3 have combined for a 1.62 ERA so far.
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No, he's pretty used to it. In 2006, he had 10 games where he threw over 105 pitches. 05, 15 games over 105, and 2 of those went over 120. 04, 16 games over 105. He doesn't really have any violent pitches either, so the extra pitches are probably less stress on his arm than some other pitchers.
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Completely false. That makes a lot of sense. See the post right below this yours. Not to mention that Pie gets amazing reads on balls and has a superb throwing arm; two things that Jones does not have. I don't know why people are calling for Pie and Murton's heads. It really makes little sense. I don't understand why people are calling for Murton's head, but there were serious questions if Pie could hit ML pitching all offseason. So far, he hasn't done anything to change those question marks, and people wonder if he's really ready. He should be better than Jones eventually, but I doubt he will be this year. As long as JJ keeps pulling the ground on the ball to the right side of the infield, I'd much rather have Pie in there. He's probably going to get on base just as much as Jones even if he doesn't offer the same power. He's also much quicker on the basepaths. Jones was hitting a lot of deep drives that the wind was pushing back onto the warning track last week. He looks like he made an adjustment, and he probably will adjust back when the wind starts blowing out a little more often.
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Completely false. That makes a lot of sense. See the post right below this yours. Not to mention that Pie gets amazing reads on balls and has a superb throwing arm; two things that Jones does not have. I don't know why people are calling for Pie and Murton's heads. It really makes little sense. I don't understand why people are calling for Murton's head, but there were serious questions if Pie could hit ML pitching all offseason. So far, he hasn't done anything to change those question marks, and people wonder if he's really ready. He should be better than Jones eventually, but I doubt he will be this year.
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5 run lead and Ward needs to stay sharp too to "stay" there would suggest that a person was currently sharp. 875 OPS entering that at-bat.
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A lot of AB's? You mean him starting? Most of his AB's this year have been starts.
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I'm happy with the end result, but things could have just as easily broken the other direction. He got lucky to get out each and every single jam he got himself into. Still, it's enough for me to be happy about for a while. The big key for him was avoiding the XBH. He didn't give up any today, and that was largely due to great location. Unfortunately, him avoiding XBH also caused him to nibble a little bit and raised his pitch count. He was lucky to avoid giving up 1-2 runs today though.
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Cedeno actually didn't need to dive there-he ended up diving too far for the ball.
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Isn't it 10 days after he was sent down? And if that is the case, I do not recall when he was in fact sent down. About 5 days ago I believe. That was only five days ago? I'm in Gooz withdrawl... I thought it had been longer than that. Yeah, it was Tuesday-I believe that means he would be eligible to come back on Friday. If he comes up as part of the rotation, my guess is that they won't pull him back up until that next week..because after tomorrow, the Cubs don't need a 5th starter until May 1st. That allows Pie to stay up an extra 5-6 days with the team after Soriano comes back, and then Guzman can return just in time to make the start on that day. If they do that though, they make a separate move to get another reliever up here.
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Yup-defensively, he's been great. Offensively, he has been a complete black hole so far.
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I bet the Cardinals infield would have been in again-Murton's ground ball wouldn't have resulted in a run in that instance.
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I would agree with all but Ward.
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Marquis at 91-with that 8 pitch inning, I think he can go another.
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That is true-Marquis relies on working around the big bats in the lineup and trying not to give up XBH. Because of that, there will be runners on a lot, but those runners will not usually be on with a good hitter at the plate. That doesn't make it any less worrisome though.