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I was going to say Marmol hitting a HR is worse, but he was a position prospect for like 3 years before moving to the mound, and had a 648 OPS in the minors (albeit with only 1 HR). So yeah, allowing Bynum to reach base twice is rock bottom. Two teams this year have allowed him to reach 3 times in a game :D Which two? Split squad games between the Cubs don't count. the Indians and the Cardinals-one game he was 3 for 4, the other he was 2 for 4 with a walk.
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I was going to say Marmol hitting a HR is worse, but he was a position prospect for like 3 years before moving to the mound, and had a 648 OPS in the minors (albeit with only 1 HR). So yeah, allowing Bynum to reach base twice is rock bottom. Two teams this year have allowed him to reach 3 times in a game :D Actually, seriously though, Bynum has been pretty good since May the 8th (of course, he had a month and a half of injury time in there also). .278/.321/481-doesn't make me want to jump up and down, but he certainly hasn't been terrible for most of the season.
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I was going to say Marmol hitting a HR is worse, but he was a position prospect for like 3 years before moving to the mound, and had a 648 OPS in the minors (albeit with only 1 HR). So yeah, allowing Bynum to reach base twice is rock bottom. Two teams this year have allowed him to reach 3 times in a game :D
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Very good AB by Bynum there
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It wasn't a pinch hit..Marmol pitched last inning, and they wanted him to keep pitching.
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That Blanco play was actually quite comical.
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I thought Theriot was caught stealing third with two outs??? If so, it's a completely different situation than JP trying to get to third w/ 1 out. If this is the case, then these are two completely separate situations and should be viewed differently. I do believe that is the scenario - you never make the 1st or 3rd out at 3rd base. The 2nd out can be lived with, but obviously not great. But you could make the argument that since JP was the tying run with 2nd, 3rd hitters up, he is already in scoring position. The only reason why you do that is to score then on a sacrifice (fly most likely). And I doubt that Theriot is your primary sacrafice fly candidate. Agreed that Theriot is not your primary fly ball candidate-they may have tried a squeeze there though. Also, the number 3 hitter was going to be a little worse than usual-remember that Ramirez had been thrown out of the game (the pinch hitter the next inning in the 3 slot was Soto to give you an estimate of the caliber of hitter we had left). So it was a good chance that it was Theriot or nothing, and giving him a chance with the infield in might have been worth the risk-it's a tough call.
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Upgrading in LF?
CubColtPacer replied to soapy's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
Agreed with this-most teams have 2 places where they have hitters that struggle-C, and 1 of 2B, SS, or CF- a few teams don't, but pretty much every team has 1 and most teams have 2. We have the catcher position covered with Barrett-the problem is the other positions. A big bat at second would overcome that deficiency, and allow Murton to stay in left. (Let's say we added Soriano-Soriano's SLG make him a pretty good offensive LF, and Murton's OBP would make him a good offensive 2B-their positions would just be switched from the traditional roles). Find a platoon partner for Jacque, and even if he likely comes down from his numbers this year you still could be getting an 850 OPS out of RF. That offense will be much better, regardless who is starting in center at that point, and even with Izturis. Of course, you could go the other direction and try to trade for somebody like A. Jones, but I think the big hitting second baseman is much more likely. -
Entering the game Howry-67.2 IP Dempster-64.2 IP That's certainly not a huge difference at all. I don't think he was necessarily advocating that Dempster should be the one being brought in for the ninth. True-the rest of the bullpen is right behind though. Most of them would be right there, if they weren't in the minors part of the season (which adds to their innings also) or on the DL.
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Prior for Delmon Young?
CubColtPacer replied to synergy's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
1 start in June (0 ERA), Average (for a MLB pitcher) in July (4.30 ERA), bad in August (5.00 ERA), and back to normal in September (3.45 ERA). His ERA was definitely higher after his injury, yes, but it was still 3.89 Post All Star Break-I'd still take that. -
True, but Furcal would be absolutely hated if he were here as well. He's the same offensively as Murton this year making 13 million dollars, and his defense at shortstop is not exactly considered the greatest. Would he have been better than the current options signed for 2006 that made up that 13 million? Yeah-but at least we get to try again here in the offseason, while Furcal would have resigned us to having a player that was overpaid by at least 5-6 million dollars for 2 more years after this one.
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Prior for Delmon Young?
CubColtPacer replied to synergy's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
Mark Prior made 27 starts in 2005 with a 3.67 ERA and a 1.21 WHIP. I'd hardly call that a handful of games, or a bad year. This year was miserable-I don't think anybody would deny that, but before this his worst year of his career was 21 starts with a 4.02 ERA. I don't want to throw out a guy for one terrible year-if he repeats his 2005 and misses some starts, then he'll still be extremely valuable for the team. -
Hendry simply can't plan on having Cedeno be the starting 2Bman next season. That's completely true..there is simply not a single valuable part to his game right now. I wish him the best of luck-I hope he finds a way to turn it around. Right now though, he is absolutely terrible offensively and below average defensively, and there is simply not time to see if he will get any better.
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Entering the game Howry-67.2 IP Dempster-64.2 IP That's certainly not a huge difference at all.
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Isn't that Cedeno's third throwing error in the last month while throwing home? I mean, there aren't that many times where a shortstop throws home-Cedeno seems to throw wildly in that direction just about every time.
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I think if Hill doesn't blow up in the next couple of weeks (which I don't think he will do) he is the only one of the youngsters who has completely secured a rotation spot for next year. I think there should probably be 1 other spot available as an open competition between Guzman and Marshall (with Marmol and Mateo being sent down for more seasoning). Great work Hill for proving a great number of us wrong by turning the corner!
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17 pitch inning - just a little better than the league average I believe. 5.4 P/PA-I believe that crushes the league average. We were very patient that inning-when the hits come, we'll be able to push Duke out of the game early if that can somehow even come close to continuing.
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Did our first two hitters really just take the first 5 pitches of each at-bat?
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That's how I was on Sunday when Blanco was batting 6th-the horrible thing was, that was the proper spot in the order for him-he was better than the people in the 7th and 8th spots.
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I have to think that Cesar will not come back at this point. He's been out for 3 weeks or so, and we've heard nothing about him-I bet they are telling him that there is little point at rushing it right now, and if he hasn't started to come back yet it will be very late if he comes back at all. Edit: Nevermind, I guess I should do more reading. Izturis is supposedly coming back at the end of the week-I do hope that it is more at the expense of Cedeno than Theriot at this point.
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I think you're forgetting dumping Hundley and getting Grudzielanek and Karros. That was definitely a good trade. Barrett was a trade as well-also, the trade for Nomar was a good trade-even though Nomar didn't work out for the team, it still netted us Murton for barely anything.
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I'm guessing that Murton will be in LF, Pagan in RF, and Theriot at second today along with Cedeno at short. Is it Lee's day off? Wasn't Lee off on Sunday or Monday? Sunday-but he's only supposed to be playing 2 out of 3 right now, or at least that's the plan.
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I'm guessing that Murton will be in LF, Pagan in RF, and Theriot at second today along with Cedeno at short. Is it Lee's day off?
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Most thickheaded organazation in baseball?
CubColtPacer replied to Jazz's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
LOB is how many guys were left on base after 3 outs. Double plays, pick offs and caught stealing along with force outs and fly balls that nail a runner attempting to advance with less than 2 outs are just some of the ways OBP can be higher but have a lower LOB. And the team who gets on base the least is typically going to be right there in terms of having the lowest percentage of runners left on base. I didn't think about force outs-fielder choices may change that, but that's still a big difference there. To score 43 less runs while putting more runners on (I calculated it out by each of their at bats-the Dodgers have put about 20 more baserunners on this season). Over a 65 baserunner difference using the ways to get out mentioned above (the difference in the runners who scored+the Dodgers extra baserunners) seems remote statistically. -
seriously if cpatt had his bad seasons and hit .240 with 20 hrs...how much better would we be with jones' .275 and 25hrs for double the money and no upside? If CPatt had a season like he's had this year, he would be a moderate downgrade from Jones (13 points less in OBP, 70 points less in SLG). If he had a season like last year, the players are like night and day (73 point difference in OBP, 142 points in SLG). Jones is a great deal better than Patterson's bad years.