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Well, they won't be a top 15 team now with that conference record when the polls come out today-and I don't think any serious bracketologist has them as a 3 or a 4 seed either. CBS Sportsline has them as an 8 and ESPN has them as a 7.
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The records of minor league of teams don't matter. 90% of those guys won't make it to the big leagues. I was pointing it out to say that they are emphasizing patience so much to the detriment of these players. They might be teaching patience and players are walking more, but the overall offensive performance of their system was poor last year, and it could be partially due to their philosophy. I want my hitters to be patient at the plate, but the numbers that their system shows indicates that they are pushing that too hard, just like the Cubs system is not pushing it hard enough. Edit: BTW, I never said anything about their record-just about their amount of runs scored, which would seem to be a logical thing to look at after seeing the huge increase in walks to see if that paid off in more runs scored or not.
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The question is-did that approach help them or hurt them? I'm all for drawing more walks, but two of the 5 Padres teams (I can't find team statistics for rookie ball at the moment) finished dead last in runs scored on the season, even if one of those teams had a significant advantage in walks to everybody else (they had 608 walks while the second best team in walks had 535, but they finished dead last in RS). Is it something where you force an extreme version of patience on minor league hitters for a couple of years, and then hope that when you loosen the reins they will be able to have a nice blend of patience and aggressiveness? I'm not sure there is enough data to show either way right now-it would be interesting if they can repeat that and to see what happens to their runs scored totals.
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As I said, the announcers came off as total Duke homers. I wanted to see Hansbrough go ape on Henderson. Woulda loved that. Jim Nantz and Billy Packer. Enough said. Billy Packer is terrible. He did the GT/UNC game on Thursday and in the post game said Tech needed to win 2 or 3 more games. Today, he says Tech is a lock. Packer and Nantz will be there all the way through March. Meh. If Packer had his way, the NCAA tournament would only feature teams from the Big 6 conferences. If Packer had his way, the tournament might be a deja vu moment-the 12 team NCAA tournament that just happens to have all ACC teams in it. :D
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I don't think that's a shocking number at all considering the amount of money being thrown around right now.
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Yeah so that didn't happen. Kinda slept through the game. How bad did the Cubs look today? Starters didn't look terrible-Hill with a solo homer given up, but looked pretty good otherwise. Soriano was 3 of 3 with 2 doubles, and Murton added a pair of BB's. The pitching later was simply awful. It wasn't really as bad as the 13-2 score indicated though, and the starting lineup for the Cubs still looks all right.
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It's mostly the minor leaguers who are struggling here. Hope so, but last time I checked, Ohman isn't a minor leaguer. I doubt Ohman will be used anything but a LOOGY this year-he saw a good amount of at-bats against right-handers last year, but he is much more effective against left-handers, and with the depth in the Cubs bullpen I bet the Cubs will use him for mostly left-handers only with the occasional right-hander, which is not the way they are using him in spring-that accounts for the different result partially.
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Who hit it? It was Gustavo Molina.
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I was just thinking what Bob said-with the lack of SS's that the Cubs have in camp, Cedeno is going to get a lot of at-bats this spring. Nice BB there.
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After watching Rapada pitch a couple of pitches, I can see why he's great against left-handers, and why he was so terrible the other day against the right-handers in the Angels lineup.
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From viewing the replay (although the replay is not the best) I think we got a favorable call there. The ball beat him there, but I think he beat the tag.
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Exactly-pretty much all the starting hitters have been decent so far (the only one that hasn't been good is Ramirez), and the pitchers who will be on the roster have been good as well-it's been many of the other pitchers who have struggled. Ramirez will continue to struggle till the end of May. If he has a second half like he did last year, I'll take him being terrible until the end of May :D I won't. You don't pay all-stars to show up two months into the season when you might arleady be burried in the standings. They need to play consistent throughout the season. That's a good philosophical question. Would you prefer a steady .866 OPS or .600 in April & May and 1.000 for the rest of the season? I'd prefer a steady rate, but if someone told me that Aramis was going to have a better than .900 OPS once again for the season, I don't really care if all of that comes in a couple of months or not. I'd like him to hit better in the months that he doesn't, but he carries the lineup when he's hot-somebody else will just have to carry them when he's not.
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Exactly-pretty much all the starting hitters have been decent so far (the only one that hasn't been good is Ramirez), and the pitchers who will be on the roster have been good as well-it's been many of the other pitchers who have struggled. Ramirez will continue to struggle till the end of May. If he has a second half like he did last year, I'll take him being terrible until the end of May :D
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Now that's nice to see-D-Lee with the bomb!
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Exactly-pretty much all the starting hitters have been decent so far (the only one that hasn't been good is Ramirez), and the pitchers who will be on the roster have been good as well-it's been many of the other pitchers who have struggled.
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Well, this has been 3-4 days in a row where our minor leaguers have been rocked by their major league hitters in the middle of the game. That's not too bad-but I wish the Cubs could do the same to the opposing pitchers during that time.
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My guess is that he will-the starters have been getting at least 2 AB's each, and the fact that they all took the day off yesterday was probably to make sure that they got into the game for a while today for TV, so I wouldn't be surprised to see many of the starters go into the 6th, and I wouldn't be shocked if at least 1 starter played almost the entire game or the entire game.
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He took on 3-0-the swing was on the 3-1 count.
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Len apparently trying to add some drama to the broadcast :D
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It looks like Soriano might get to a few balls that some people might not be able to get to with his speed, and not be able to get to some that others do because of his route running.
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Beautiful play middle infield-quick flip by Izturis, and a quick accurate turn by DeRosa. Well done.
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Hill's control is not great right now-that's not a problem for the beginning of spring training though. His pitches are good with good movement, and that's about all that I think can be asked for at this point.
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The Big 10 tournament quarterfinals could potentially be amazing this year: Purdue vs Iowa-two pretty even teams. Purdue needs the win to get in the tourney, while Iowa probably needs to win the Big 10 tourney, and they've historically been good in it. Michigan vs Ohio State-they just played a great game on Saturday, another game would be great. Wisconsin vs Mich State-they've split 2 close matchups in the last couple weeks, and a 3rd game would be great. IU vs Illinois-do I need to say anything more about this game on this board? :D I'm very excited to watch-every game Friday and after could have some great intrigue.
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I'm not sure that even then that they could coast. The lower seeds get better every year. For example, here are the current 8/9 seeds from one bracketologist: 8's: Oregon, Kentucky, Butler, Villanova 9's: Air Force, Georgia Tech, Xavier, Indiana Those aren't easy teams to get by in the 2nd round. Wisconsin still would have a good chance of getting to the Sweet 16, but certainly not coasting. Obviously who those teams are in the 8/9 slot are going to change over the next week, but the same quality of teams will likely still be there.