Wilson A2000
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Because Z was running hard? Fixed
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Johnson is a platoon player. Look at his L/R splits. One thing this injury should NOT do is parlay a platoon player into an everyday spot. I think the real reason why Murton isn't called up is because he has very similar splits as Reed. Which begs the question, why did we sign Reed when we already have Murton? The Lou factor. I don't think Lou likes him. Reed has a little more pop than Murton. -
But looking at the stats, Patterson is having a poor spring too. I think I just lost a friend.
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I never said that he should have tried to stretch it into a triple.
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How'd the Cubs win Sunday? an error? Caused by...you are so close! a bad throw by utley? Why did Utley say he made a bad throw? Why did DeRosa say he made a bad throw?
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How'd the Cubs win Sunday? an error? Caused by...you are so close!
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I have a friend!
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How'd the Cubs win Sunday?
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I think he would have too. I have seen him do it. I just want to see him do it consistently.
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I was wrong on that. I don't know who will be playing everyday. My point is only that it is not as if some huge injustice has been done to Matt Murton when the difference between what he brings compared to what Patterson brings and the rotations involved are incredibly negligible at best.
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Except hit home runs and play average defense. Murton knows he needs to do this to play everyday in the bigs. Unfortunately he just can't. Wow, you're just knocking them out of the park left and right today. What do you think is the real reason Murton isn't starting or in the bigs? Does Jim Hendry not like red heads? Murton isn't a flawless player without holes in his game, but neither is Eric Patterson by any means. Each has their own individual strengths and contributions they can bring to the team. The difference is that Hendry doesn't value Murton's strengths (OBP, Quality At Bats), but values Eric Patterson's (Speed, Left Handed). Granted. But Patterson will not be playing everyday. Fontenot will. If Murton is brought up, he would most likely be playing everyday. That exposes him more. Then the question is why in the world would anyone want Fontenot playing everyday over Murton playing every day. Because Fontenot doesn't have to play everyday. Johnson can play left and DeRosa can play 2B.
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How did the Cubs win on Sunday? Zambrano hit a grounder, hustled to first base, and Utley threw it wildly to first. An error occurred, and the Cubs scored. Utley admitted that he saw Zambrano running hard and that made him rush his throw. With the Cubs' lack of solid starting pitching, the race for the division will be tight. Every game will be important. That's why you hustle. Do you realize that you can say the exact same thing about how much Ramirez getting hurt would harm the team if his "hustle" managed to cause an injury? The guy has leg issues and, on top of it, he's slow. Asking him to leg out every ball he hits is tantamount to wanting injury prone pitchers to pitch through pain. Nothing good can come of it. The situations are not the same. First of all, you don't know if Ramirez is injured right now. Second, how did ARam get hurt last year? By running slow to first, seeing that there would be a play, trying to turn it on, and then hurting himself. Do you want Kerry Wood to not throw sliders because he might get hurt? If Ramirez hits a gapper, I am not so much concerned that he jogs into second. I don't like him having to run hard to second because he stood and watched what he thought was a homer. I guess I wish Zambrano would have just jogged into second so that Utley wouldn't have had to make an easy play, thus prolonging the game just so that Zambrano doesn't hurt himself.
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Except hit home runs and play average defense. Murton knows he needs to do this to play everyday in the bigs. Unfortunately he just can't. Wow, you're just knocking them out of the park left and right today. What do you think is the real reason Murton isn't starting or in the bigs? Does Jim Hendry not like red heads? Murton isn't a flawless player without holes in his game, but neither is Eric Patterson by any means. Each has their own individual strengths and contributions they can bring to the team. The difference is that Hendry doesn't value Murton's strengths (OBP, Quality At Bats), but values Eric Patterson's (Speed, Left Handed). Granted. But Patterson will not be playing everyday. Fontenot will. If Murton is brought up, he would most likely be playing everyday. That exposes him more.
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How did the Cubs win on Sunday? Zambrano hit a grounder, hustled to first base, and Utley threw it wildly to first. An error occurred, and the Cubs scored. Utley admitted that he saw Zambrano running hard and that made him rush his throw. With the Cubs' lack of solid starting pitching, the race for the division will be tight. Every game will be important. That's why you hustle.
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Except hit home runs and play average defense. Murton knows he needs to do this to play everyday in the bigs. Unfortunately he just can't. Wow, you're just knocking them out of the park left and right today. What do you think is the real reason Murton isn't starting or in the bigs? Does Jim Hendry not like red heads?
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You really shouldn't be surprised at this.
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What? Does baseball involve a lot of running? No.
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I find you odd. Since when did asking a guy to hustle make anyone odd? It's odd dwelling on a ridiculous and subjective intangable over the actual concrete production a player accomplishes. How much of baseball is physical and how much is mental? If a good portion of it is mental, is this subjective or objective? My point is that if you are in a slump, at least do what you can to improve. What's so hard about running? My goodness, it's not like any of them run a lot. So run hard while you can. No running is not a big deal and doesn't significantly alter one's stats, but it is one of my pet peeves, especially when a person's stats are down.
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Because they are not obvious doubles Sure they are. The risk isn't worth the reward. Especially when the reward is absolutely nothing. Ramirez thought this was an obvious homerun. The reward is that you make it to second base safely. He did, but I believe that he ran hard into second.
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I find you odd. Since when did asking a guy to hustle make anyone odd?
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Because they are not obvious doubles
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If you did, you would be stupid
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Are you seriously saying that it is OK to loaf on a ball that was not absolutely crushed? No, he would not have gotten a triple, but he could have gotten thrown out. This wasn't the first time that Ramirez did this and it won't be the last. I find it odd that people who make tons of money don't give it all on the field. I find it even odder that Cubs fans who haven't won squat in 100 years don't demand this from their players. Piniella, the supposed tough manager, treats Soriano and Ramirez with kid gloves. One thing I did like about Baylor is that he held Sammy accountable.
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Except hit home runs and play average defense. Murton knows he needs to do this to play everyday in the bigs. Unfortunately he just can't.
