This is why Fukudome should be a number 2 hitter. He hasn't shown me enough power to make me believe he should be driving home the first 4 hitters in the order.
Imagine how good he will be when he's 39 and still playing for us? The guy already has regressed. How has he regressed? His OPS last year was the second best of his career. He was just never close to $18m good to begin with. He banked off a career season and the Cubs were dumb enough to give him both money and years. Why couldn't we have just gotten Beltran 2 years prior? Also, Soriano didn't sprint to that ball because he would have no chance of catching it even if he did sprint.
Pat thinks Ronny saw the opportunity and went on his own. If so that is absolutely moronic. With 5 outs to go in the game down by 1, I wouldn't want Ricky Henderson himself taking third, much less Ronny Cedeno. Guy has no brains. At least it worked out....
Man, the Tigers are awful, and I guess the White Sox might be good this year. So after a 1 year reprieve from our rivals being good, so far it looks like its back to Cubs hating by the baseball gods.
Why not? We did this last year too. He'll get the last out here and pitch the 7th. Sure I'd like to save him for the next time we face the 3-4-5 hitters, but A) the next time might be the 9th inning, and B) who would you honestly want here? Howry and his flat fastballs vs. Burrell?
I doubt if we came back to win you'd feel that way. C'mon, we're in the bullpen already for them. As long as we get Burrell here, we have a decent shot.
Of course Milwaukee is winning 8-6 and about to take 2/3 from the Mets in NY. Our whole team (offense, defense pitching) has underperformed this weekend.