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That is, unless someone has shown Lou Jacque's splits. You could be right, but I still see Lou putting in Murton and Floyd over Jones today. Could go either way, we'll see. The left-hander is not until tomorrow (responding to your comment about Jacque's splits). It was supposed to be today, but it's not until tomorrow now. If Lou cares about the batter/pitcher matchups, he won't play Floyd today-he's 2 of 14 against this pitcher. So you it is reasonable to see any of the three combinations, but I think the most likely is Murton and Jones.
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I thought about that, but I was kind of thinking that perhaps Lou might look at Jones' 1-6 game yesterday, plus the defensive lapse, and choose to give him a rest. That is, unless they're trying to show him off to some scouts. If they were thinking just about yesterday, I doubt Lou would hold Murton's 0 for 5 with a defensive lapse any higher than Jones going 1 for 6 with a defensive lapse. Anyway, I bet Lou doesn't really care about one day. It will probably be Murton and Jones again tonight, and then either Murton/Floyd tomorrow or Murton/Theriot. Looking ahead, Jones will likely play against Looper (he is 3/4 against him) and Murton against Reyes (2 AB's against him, both were home runs).
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Soriano willing to move if Pie stays on roster
CubColtPacer replied to Jehrico's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
BTW also, the reporter was the only one said that he would move to left field. If you look at what Soriano said, he said he would move to either left or right-the only time he mentioned left specifically was when he said he played left last year, which simply meant that he was willing to switch positions like he did from left to center this year. -
Soriano willing to move if Pie stays on roster
CubColtPacer replied to Jehrico's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Murton must be sitting on the bench thinking Soriano considers him chopped liver. I like the fact that he's taking to and looking after felix. He shouldn't be treating other teammates like they're nothing in order to do it though. Let the coach figure out who plays where and when, quit trying to play coach yourself, Sori. You're a newb on this team and you haven't done jack to earn your pay here yet, so in the mean time, sit down and shut up. Lou asked Soriano if he wanted to move to left field a couple of days ago. Soriano said he didn't need to, but now he's clarifying and saying that he will if Lou wants him to. I don't exactly seem the harm in that. -
Roster move on 4/18?
CubColtPacer replied to AlwaysaCub's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
The cubs are never fine when Ohman can go. Especially the way Lou has been using him. Well, I meant more that nobody is hopefully going to blow out their arms from overuse tonight. Hopefully Ohman can just be used as a LOOGY tonight, although I bet he'll have to go an inning. It all depends if Carlos goes 5, 6, 7, or 8. -
If someone has pointed this out before, I missed it, but.... What kind of weather does Lou Piniella plan on playing in if the Cubs make the playoffs? The average temperature is higher in October than in April, and even more importantly the wind doesn't blow in nearly as much. That allows the Cubs power hitters to hit it out of the ballpark, rather than watching them blast the ball and then watch in blow back onto the field of play like they did multiple times yesterday.
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Roster move on 4/18?
CubColtPacer replied to AlwaysaCub's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
Somebody brought up a good point-since Ohman would have to go on revocable waivers, I don't think another pitcher could join the roster until he passed through those waivers. Therefore, there's nothing that can be done with Ohman. The other two candidates for being sent down are Cotts and Wuertz, and they are pitching too well to be sent down for 10 days. The Cubs will be fine if they are careful tonight or tomorrow. Erye can go an inning or two. Ohman can go. Everyone else could possibly go 1 tonight, although anybody who does is definitely unavailable tomorrow. If the Cubs can get 6 out of Z, they should be fine-especially with Hill going tomorrow. -
The bad zone didn't affect Miller's pitching performance-it caused him to walk a guy or 2 in the 3rd that should have been struck out, but he got out of that inning without any damage. That's the only time it was a big deal, and the ump was very consistent-a tight zone for both sides.
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Not the losses-just this loss. The offense Sunday and the offense yesterday were two completely different things. Between the 6th and the 9th, the Cubs offense hit 5 hard hit low line drives-1 directly at the first baseman, 2 directly at the shortstop, and 2 hit directly at the 3rd baseman. In extra innings, the Cubs hit 4 balls that would have been home runs on any average day-none of them left the park. Could they have won the game even with all that bad luck? Yes-but yesterday, the Cubs were pretty unlucky-while Sunday had a ball or two that were unlucky, but most of it was simply a horrible offensive performance. Is that luck, or is that the reason those people play those positions -- because that's where most of the balls are hit? The people play those spots so that they can cover the available ground from right to left, not necessarily because that's exactly where the most balls are hit-of course I think you know that :D
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So, I just saw the Sportscenter highlights of the game. They didn't refer to Pie by the pronunciation that seems obvious, but neither did they do it the correct way. Instead, it was two syllables-the first syllable was Pie, and then they added the syllable that is actually at the end of his name, the a sound. so it's Pie-a. It sounds kind of ridiculous, and he said it at least 4 times during the highlights.
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Well, he'll get a chance on Sunday to see what he can do on 4 days rest. The Cubs cannot afford to give him consistent starts after that if he doesn't pitch well on Sunday.
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Not the losses-just this loss. The offense Sunday and the offense yesterday were two completely different things. Between the 6th and the 9th, the Cubs offense hit 5 hard hit low line drives-1 directly at the first baseman, 2 directly at the shortstop, and 2 hit directly at the 3rd baseman. In extra innings, the Cubs hit 4 balls that would have been home runs on any average day-none of them left the park. Could they have won the game even with all that bad luck? Yes-but yesterday, the Cubs were pretty unlucky-while Sunday had a ball or two that were unlucky, but most of it was simply a horrible offensive performance.
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You know how everybody was talking about how if there was no wind today or it was warmer that the Cubs would have hit a few home runs. Well, let me just say that things work both ways. If the conditions are different, Miller's line looks way worse. And like you said, those types of conditions will happen in the summer so things can only get worse. Let me preface this by saying that I hope Sunday is Miller's last start. With that said, I don't think he would have been way worse. The balls that were hit that would have been home runs against him (Gonzalez, Cameron) at least one of them and possibly both of them scored anyway. He really didn't allow any moderate to deep fly ball outs-they were either line drive hits or shallow pop outs.
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This is why Ohman has value: Ohman against LHB in 2005:.173/.269/.321 2006: .158/.277/.257 BTW, here are his numbers against LHP in 2007-.200/.429/.200 He got brought in one time in the right situation this year, and he failed that time. The other times, he hasn't been brought in the situation he's supposed to be for-he is absolutely great against LHB, and LHB only.
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I doubt that Hendry would want a lot for Jones. He hasn't been producing here at the start of the year, and just getting out of that contract would be worth it. Plus that would open up an outfield spot since we seem to have a glut of outfielders. It's kind of weird though...Hendry couldn't find a taker in the offseason, but now after a cold start for Jones, there's interest? Like I was saying in another thread, the fact that Jones didn't get traded doesn't mean there wasn't interest in him over the offseason. The hangup seemed to be more that the Cubs could not find the CF they wanted to replace him, and they weren't willing to trade Jones until that CF was ready to be acquired. Once Soriano said he was willing to play CF, that CF was no longer needed, and the club stopped trying to trade Jones.
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Ok, some quick thoughts: Guzman could not have helped us today. He threw 2 innings yesterday, and do you really want to put that much stress on his arm by having him go out again? I'm glad that he wasn't here to get in this game-we are going to need his arm to be healthy so he can be the 5th starter. Ohman is the LOOGY. He shouldn't face right-handed hitters. When you're forced to put in your LOOGY for a full inning because all your other guys have been used, you should expect to lose-even then, the loss is not on Ohman because of the terrible outfield defense in his inning. The loss is on 2 things today: 1) The offense. Theriot, Lee, and Ramirez were the only people that were on base twice today, and in a game where home runs are almost impossible, that hurts. The 5-7 spots were our biggest undoing today-besides Ward's double in the 14th, those 3 spots were a combined 1-16 with 1 BB (Murton 0-5, Jones 1-6, Cedeno 0-5 with 1 BB). When the 2-3-4 hitters did get on their couple times, these 3 hitters could not get the job done today. 2) The (corner) outfield defense. Murton's really bad play led to at least 1 of the runs in the 1st. Theriot and Jones combined for the run in the 14th. That's half the runs the Padres scored right there.
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I think pitch 20 was his first pitch of the inning..so he should be around 26 or so now.
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Yeah, from what I remember, he spent the majority of the year at Iowa. He spent a solid 3 months in AAA. He didn't get called up until mid to late July IIRC. Yup-last game on April 14th last year-went down, came up and got shelled in one outing on May 22nd, and then went down and came up and had his first outing on July 23rd when he stayed.
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The scary thing is that he hasn't even been the best reliever on his team so far :D
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Yeah-it will be Barrett/Pie/Theriot next inning.
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Pretty solid. Offensively, he pulled an inside pitch to the second baseman, lifted an easy fly to left, and hit a ball into the gap into left-center for a double. Defensively, he's looked pretty smooth-nothing to complain about.
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Cotts on the season now: 5.2 IP, 3 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 5 K It compares with the other two best Cubs relievers so far this year: Wuertz-5.1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 2 BB, 8 K Dempster: 5.0 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 8 K
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Giles tried to jump against the doors in right field-it hit off the doors and bounced towards the corner. Giles just stopped and watched the CF run and pick it up in right field. Aramis made it to 3rd easily.
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Somebody will need to pitch April 22 if there are no rainouts. The next off day is not until 8 games from now. That's what he said-he said the 5th starter wouldn't be needed until May after Sunday (the 22nd).
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Guzman was sent down, both because he pitched 2 innings last night and probably to get a start or two at Iowa.