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What do you mean? I'm sure Scott Eyre has been involved in many double switches this year, not just this one :D
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Where would you have suggested a double switch? Mateo was fine at the end of the inning-and you certainly don't double switch when the 9 spot was just up, as it just was. What I'm saying is that Baker usually does a double switch and if it was Perez hitting he would be playing second right now. Ouch, Everett had a good swing on the foul and he had Weurtz down. Perez would not have been put in the game in this situation..even Dusty knows you don't move the pitcher from 9th to 7th when you have the 2-3-4 hitters coming up-I don't think he's ever done anything that idiotic (with the possible exception of the 9th as a defensive replacement only)
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Where would you have suggested a double switch? Mateo was fine at the end of the inning-and you certainly don't double switch when the 9 spot was just up, as it just was.
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Ugh..I really had completely forgotten that Bynum was ever on this team. He's not signed for after this year, is he?
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Len and Bob said Dusty wanted to get more speed near the top of the lineup in order to play small ball against Clemens tonight because of his lack of giving up home runs.
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Pierre has been going to left quite a bit, especially over tha last 2 months. Izturis, I don't know about. I've seen Izturis line serveral balls down the left field line in his Cubs career-of course though, we haven't seen enough of him to know anything much about his tendencies.
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That's actually not as bad as Otis made it out to be-I feared instantly that Ramirez had been taken out for Neifi along with Barrett taken out for Blanco. BTW, this looks like straight batter-pitcher matchups here. Barrett is 4/23 against Clemens (.174/.208/.174)-Blanco apparently hasn't faced him, so this was decided to be the night Blanco plays. Murton is 0 for 2 against Clemens, and Pagan is 2 for 3 (not like either of that matters-probably more that Pagan is getting about 1 out of 3 starts right now, and this one is it) Pierre and Ramirez have the best numbers against Clemens-Pierre has a .368 average (7/19) with a .526 SLG against him, while Ramirez has a .333/.391/.476 numbers against him. Jones also has good numbers-7 for 26 with 5 doubles and a hr-.269/.376/.577 against Clemens.
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Making a Cubs walkoffs video (completed!)
CubColtPacer replied to Schwarber Fan's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Wow, was that really all the same game? I remember all of those incidences, but I don't recall them being in the same game. I certainly remember a Wood ejection after he walked two straight hitters, but I don't remember that being in the 9th inning. BTW, the score was 10-10 in the 9th. What kind of pitcher was "dealing" with the score 10-10? I think he meant series there. The double switch and the 2 home runs to win the game 11-10 was on Friday. Wood got tossed in a 3-2 loss on Saturday. I can't remember for sure which game Freel made that wonderful catch was in. -
At some point you have to leave the starters out there though-Marmol had to stay in that game on Sunday. There were 2 relievers who were unavailable for Sunday's game because they had pitched so much recently, and if we had taken out Marmol earlier we may have run out of pitchers.
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In 2004, the Cubs had the best chance of winning. When Hendry signed Maddux the chances increased even more. Disagree. The 2004 Cubs with Beltran and Cruz/Rusch (2004)/Mitre are a better team that the 2004 Cubs with Maddux and Patterson. The only way to get Beltran in 2004 was a trade. Maddux and Beltran were not choices up against each other. Maddux was signed after the 03 season, and Beltran was traded to Houston in June of 04 and became a free agent after the 04 season. We had no idea that a player like Beltran would automatically be available the next offseason (and of course Beltran hadn't completely broken out then either) when we signed Maddux before the 04 season.
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Furcal and Patterson would be an upgrade over Jones and Cedeno (Jones is 4 points worse in OBP then Patterson, and 52 points better in SLG, and Furcal has a 60-70 point edge in both)-but your lineup also adds about 10 million dollars more to the payroll then is currently there-Jones actually has made only about 1.2 million more then Patterson has this year. Furcal would have looked better on this team-but that salary would have hurt us for both 2007 and 2008 for a player who is a slightly above average offensive shortstop.
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# 2 slot is reserved for Nefei. Bruce asked Dusty about that. Well, let's see. I'm ok with the first part-Neifi has done a great job against Oswalt, and so I'm not unhappy about him starting in the 2 spot for that game. I'm fine with the end, because Murton might be producing and be more comfortable down in the order right now. The middle? Ridiculous-if anything, Pagan should have the same reason Murton has for staying down in the order-he's producing, so why move him? Instead, Dusty shows exactly what he wants out of the 2 spot-and I really don't understand even more then the speed why a switch hitter is so valuable at the 2 spot more then other spots in the lineup.
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Making a Cubs walkoffs video (completed!)
CubColtPacer replied to Schwarber Fan's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
That game was one of the wildest games I've ever seen. Baker actually snapped in that game as well as he couldn't execute a double switch properly. I wish he would do that more often. Get in an umpires face. Throw things. Go on a profanity laced tirade in the media. He won't do it b/c of his 5-year old son. Does anyone else think the age of his son is why he doesn't do these things like Ozzie?? B/c Ozzie's kids are all grown-up. I don't think it has anything to do with his son. Are there no crazy people with young kids? Are all people with young children perfect role models? All people are different, if he didn't have any kids he'd still most likely act the same. I think it does, for the only reason being that Reds game where Baker got tossed a couple years ago and went crazy (the game where Martinez got called out for batting out of order). The story in the paper was that when he got home, his son was scared to see him and called him something like crazy daddy. Baker apologized, and said he would control himself better in the future-and he has, to the detriment of some. -
Z can throw over 100 pitches as many times as he wants as far as I'm concerned. It's the amount of times he gets to 115 and 120 that concern me. That's how I feel as well-from his numbers, he gets tired between 106-120 pitches, so I'm fine with him at 100-but I don't want him going over 110 all thta often.
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No, in 2005 is when people started to question Hendry. In 2003-04 he was considered gold from everything I read. And what do Dusty pitch counts have to do with Hendry? I'm not going to argue about this, because obvisouly we have vastly different views and/or memories about Hendry in first couple of years as the Cubs GM. Hey, if you saw Hendry faults from 2003 and on, you deserve Kudos! Because I sure didn't... There were a few voices of dissension for Hendry even in 03 and 04-most of those were from his hiring of Baker-but even that move was still agreed as a good move by the majority of people at the time. There were very few people criticizing Hendry for anything else until the end of the season in 2004, and most people considered him to be an excellent GM. At that point, the Sammy controversy started to really heat up, and questions about Hendry really started to heat up-and it has been exacerbated by the lack of anything more then mediocre moves in the 05 and 06 offseason along with getting nothing worth anything in the 05 offseason. Hendry has also been dragged down by his refusal to fire Baker so far.
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Everyone is over-reacting. 120 pitches for Zambrano is not a big deal. 120 pitches for Wood is a big deal. This idea of a fixed pitch count ceiling for all pitchers without regard for the specific pitcher is silly. Were you watching the game last night? He had lost his mechanics in the 7th, and Dusty trotted him out for the 8th. That's what gets pitchers hurt. Yup-I wasn't all that concerned about him going out for the 7th, but it just didn't make much sense for him to go out for the 8th-especially because what would have happened if the first batter had fouled 6 pitches off and struck out? They wouldn't have removed him, and his pitch count would have ballooned-there was no margin for error in the 8th, and therefore no reason to send him out again.
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Agreed! I remember a time when Hendry was a Genius and Williams was trading away his farm system for worthless players. All my Sox fan couldn't stand the guy before 2005. I don't remember Hendry as Genius. I think he meant the general perception of him as a genius. After the Hunley for Karros and Grudz deal, the Hill and Beltran for Ramirez and Lofton, the Choi for Lee deal, the signing of Hawkins, Walker, and Maddux, and the Nomar trade (the Barrett trade was one of the best during that time, but doesn't factor in to this because no one knew how to judge at the time)-Hendry was widely considered to be one of the up and coming best GM's in baseball-of course, now that perception has done a 180.
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Izturis is actually Wally West in disguise. I'm confused-that reference went over my head. GO BACK TO RUSSIA!!! Wally West is the Flash. LOL-sorry, not my best area. I guess it does answer my question though that it was a well-turned DP, so thanks :D
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Izturis is actually Wally West in disguise. I'm confused-that reference went over my head.
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Great win Cubs! Wow-we doubled off Taveras-was it just a really hard hit ball, or was it quickly turned?
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I spy a typo..... where??? Sprigner instead of Springer. Also the fact that it only lists Z for 7 innings instead of 8.
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I do..I would be shocked if he came out in the 9th.
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If anyone's arm is going to get over-extended, it should be someone like Novoa vs. someone like Zambrano (who has already thrown the most pitches in MLB this season). I completely agree with that-but it's everyone in the bullpen who is throwing a great amount of innings-and they are going to continue to because 3 out of the 4 young starters every time out will not get out of the 5th or 6th (on average-it will be variable each time about which one gets deeper into the game). That said, I said that before the 7th-I don't support at all him going out for the 8th.
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I'm not sure about Z going out here..but I don't want to completely exhaust the bullpen out either-and considering the bullpen pitched just as much as the starters on the road, those guys are getting way too many innings also. So I guess I hope Z gets this done near 110, and pull him before he gets to 120.
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What is with these teams tonight? The Cubs aren't usually very patient, but they are not big first pitch swingers-but they are tonight. The Astros have gotten partially into the act though. The Cubs are 3-8 in putting the first pitch in play through 4 innings The Astros are 1-4 through 3 innings. That's not usual even for this team. So far, it's working pretty well though.