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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.
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I doubt they think Ausmus is anywhere the same player that Barrett is. As somebody who values defense a great deal, it still doesn't make even close to the difference between a .930 OPS and a .586 OPS. Could it have been that they think Barrett could be average at another position defensively and still have that big bat? I'm still not sure it's worth it-to have offense at a position where offense is so scarce is still so valuable. Offense at a non-offensive position is only an advantage if you have offensive players in offensive positions. It's still an advantage-it allows you flexibility at some of the other positions-for example, Barrett's bat behind the plate might mean that we need a big bat for only one of left field and second (preference being second because left is the much better bat right now anyway), and not both.
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Yup-3 days before. I remember because the 16 inning game was my sister's wedding day and the corked bat incident was my birthday :(
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I doubt they think Ausmus is anywhere the same player that Barrett is. As somebody who values defense a great deal, it still doesn't make even close to the difference between a .930 OPS and a .586 OPS. Could it have been that they think Barrett could be average at another position defensively and still have that big bat? I'm still not sure it's worth it-to have offense at a position where offense is so scarce is still so valuable.
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The interesting question in this game is-whose lineup tonight is actually better? It's actually a pretty tough call with these two lineups.
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Hmm..are we going to end up scoring more runs this year than last? I didn't think that was possible a month and a half ago. If we can keep up those home run and walk stats, that would really help the ballclub. I know why they are hitting more home runs-a large part of that goes to Ramirez. What has happened to make them walk a great deal more though? The quality start stat-ouch. That's the growing pains-it's worth it to get all these young pitchers experience, but it still hurts.
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Neifi could still contribute on a team for 2007 with a different manager. He's never going to contribute to a team for 2.5 million dollars-that's for sure, but if you release him you have to pay his salary anyway. So, that's a mistake that's in the past-so we might as well keep him and use him in the role that he was intended. Neifi is playing hte role that he was intended, maybe not intended by God, but by Hendry and Baker. He was supposed to play a lot from the very beginning. That was the plan. You don't pay a guy that much money for a guarantee of 2 years if you don't plan on using him a lot. Oh, I agree. He was intended for the wrong role for this team. I meant the role that he is supposed to be playing for a player with his skills-a player who should be paid less than a million, not 2.5 million dollars.
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Neifi could still contribute on a team for 2007 with a different manager. He's never going to contribute to a team for 2.5 million dollars-that's for sure, but if you release him you have to pay his salary anyway. So, that's a mistake that's in the past-so we might as well keep him and use him in the role that he was intended. Nevin is just playing out the year-we don't have anybody they want to replace him with, so just like Mabry he is playing out the season and then they will say goodbye to him. Rusch-same situation with the money situation-I just hope that if he continues to pitch as horribly as he did this year that they option him to the minors at the start of next year-if he can regain even last year's form he'll be ok as a reliever-not worth his money, again, but that's a sunk cost. We might as well see if he can regain some of his form over the offseason (don't let him pitch again this season), and if he is still pitching horrendously in spring training, then would be the time to either option him out or release him.
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Baker sets the lineups. We're 19 games below .500 and we're not still not playing rookies as much as a team in this situation should. Big deal or not, there definitely seems to be a difference. What rookies are we not playing? I see 4 rookies basically on the squad today. 2 of them play in left field everyday, and Cedeno plays 4 out of every 5 games at second. So, the only problem is that Neifi gets some of the starts at second that Cedeno doesn't get, which is a problem, but not a huge one. I think that there have been reasons for getting a new manager in now-but right now I think they are doing a pretty good job of playing young players. I mean, for example, we haven't seen Nevin in left field lately-that's a Dusty move that has been stopped.
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Are the Cubs giving Murton The Treatment?
CubColtPacer replied to CubinNY's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
True..but if you only have 3-4 relievers available (I believe Wuertz and Aardsma were unavailable if not more), and you have to use a reliever starting the 6th inning-you need that reliever to give you 2 innings-and you then need to double switch in order to not have the reliever bat. Not all of his double switches make sense, but this made sense. -
Are the Cubs giving Murton The Treatment?
CubColtPacer replied to CubinNY's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
This time though it actually made sense. We had 2 relievers who were ruled out of the game-the double switch allowed Novoa to go 2 innings, and Pagan gets the triple to get one of the runs. -
come the end of the year, after losing their bowl game, I think you will find the pollsters had ND well ahead of all the computer rankings. they were by no means treated unfairly in 2002. quite the contrary. they jumped over teams when the should not have, and didn't drop as far as they should have when they lost. I don't think the Irish were treated unfairly in 2002-I think they were treated exactly as they should have been. The AP poll had ND at 17th at the end of the season after their bowl game with a 10-3 ND record There were only 2 teams behind them in the top 25 who had the same number of losses or less-Marshall and TCU, who had 2 losses each against a vastly inferior schedule. There were 6 3 loss teams in the poll-ND is dead last among those 6 teams. In fact, there are 2 teams with 4 losses who were ranked higher in the final poll than the Irish. As for the computer rankings, Sagarin had them at 9th after the bowl in his rating he uses for the BCS. Colley had them at 9th as well. Massey's BCS rating had ND at 10th after the bowl loss. Anderson and Hester had them at 10th. The other computer rankings of that year do not have the final results archived anymore that I can find. So the computers still thought ND was a top 10 team-ND was ranked behind every 3 loss team in the poll and even two 4 loss teams-how exactly is this favortism?
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Taveras immed. came to mind, how many speedster leadoff guys are there in general? (Of course, he has struggled at getting on-base) Hmm, do you count Ichiro as a speedster leadoff guy? I see Ichiro, Dave Roberts, Brian Roberts, Damon?, Furcal?, Reyes, Hanley Ramirez, Rollins, Posednik, Figgins-those are the other leadoff hitters out of the 19 that qualify that have at least 20 stolen bases (Sizemore had 18)-I'm not sure you would count those players as speedster leadoff hitters (that's a really hard thing to define). Looking at some players who didn't qualify, Freel, Lugo, and Luis Castillo could both be put in that category also. Of course, half of those players are not outfielders. You have 4 potential OF'ers, although I don't consider Ichiro a leadoff hitter in that manner, I'll use him. 1 cannon, the rest are avg. to below avg. That ratio isn't too unusual combining 2 + plus arms like Ichiro ans Taveras with Pierre, Posednik, Damon, and Roberts. I also think hitters like Reyes & Ramirez will be middle of the order type hitters, but at the top of the order b/c of the speed. Rollins has more power and a lower batting avg. than most at the top. No, it's not that unusual about the arms. I was actually surprised when I was looking through about how many people batting leadoff have that many stolen bases. I was expecting a much smaller list than that.
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Are the Cubs giving Murton The Treatment?
CubColtPacer replied to CubinNY's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
How do you explain Glendon Rusch then?