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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.
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That should have been a DP-more bad defense. Come on Marquis, find a way to get out of it.
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bobble-he recovered to make a throw, but it was late by a step.
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It doesn't seem to matter who plays SS for Marquis-they are both good defensively, but they both look horrible in the field when he's on the mound.
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So.... you've stopped reading the worthless stats of the day, eh? :wink: By the way Fred, Gameday has Marquis at 61 pitches through 3, not 57. I'm not sure which one is right for sure, but based on his totals through 2 I think the 61 number might be the correct one (although most of the time if I'm looking at the stats, I trust yours more :D). Edit: Looks like you already changed it. Thanks :D
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Marquis had enough time because he stabbed to try to catch it in the air after Ramirez dropped it-that froze Duncan for long enough that Marquis had enough time to pick it up and fire to second.
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For the record, he didn't bunt-he hit a 2 bouncer to the second baseman :D
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Pie and Cedeno have had similar starts to the season. Each of them have 2 XBH and 1 BB with no singles, one of them in 16 AB's and the other one in 21.
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Cedeno is now 3-4 against Reyes in his career-good hit there! Come on Marquis, let's get a hit or at least move him over. Ok, you moved him over-have to bring him in here Pie.
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Marquis is locating his pitches really well so far-almost too well. Once he gets ahead in the pitch, every pitch is either a close ball, or a pitch that the hitter can do nothing but foul off. Unfortunately, they are doing that and protecting and fouling off a ton of pitches and driving up his pitch count.
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I would agree-I want to see him get some more time before he comes up. For all the first day heroics, he has really struggled in his very limited time in the majors. Good job Murton! Nice job going the other way.
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Izturis is at 3.67 P/PA... his career average 3.38 Yup-it's typical Izturis. He goes deep into the count a great deal, but he has enough 1 and 2 pitch at-bats to drag down his overall P/PA. The longer he goes into the count, the more likely it is that he will take the next pitch.
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It definitely would, but even with Lou's acceptance of putting players where they are not entirely comfortable and may make defensive mistakes (Sori in CF, Murton in RF, Theriot in the OF, etc.) that doesn't seem to apply to Theriot playing SS, which tells me that they must have had some really bad experience with him trying SS in ST.
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Actually, if they send down Pie (which is likely to get back to 12 pitchers) this is the absolute best thing for Murton. With Jones moving to CF, Murton is the only one left who can consistently play RF. He'll be starting most everyday until the outfield changes again. Floyd is the one who will really be hurt, as he can't play anything but LF and Sori will block him in that spot as long as he is there.