Outshined_One

There is one thing in particular that bugs me. The starting pitching staff has been handled fairly well in terms of pitch counts and whatnot...save for one person. Zambrano's pitches per game is currently at a career-high 112.1. Say what you will about pitch counts and blah blah blah, but I'd really like to see the team let up on Zambrano a bit over the next few starts. I do not want to see Zambrano fade down the stretch because his arm is tired.

After Lou was hired, there was much consternation that Rothschild would be retained. Most people on here were not happy about Larry's performance during his time with this team, especially regarding high pitch counts, mechanics tweaking adventures with the pitchers, and a few other problems this pitching staff had over the past few years. When he was signed, a lot of people were upset. When he was re-signed, news started leaking out that much of that was a result of Dusty Baker overriding Rothschild's advice on decisions. Rothschild apparently was going to get more free rein under Piniella since the two had a positive relationship with one another prior to Piniella coming to Chicago. As most people might recall, Rothschild was more of a Hendry hire than a Baker hire. Now that we're at the halfway point here are how the Cubs stack up against the rest of the majors pitching-wise: #5 in ERA #2 in Ks #14 in BBs allowed #2 in BAA #8 in HRs allowed #2 in OBP Against #6 in SLG Against #4 in OPS Against All in all, those are some very good numbers. So, given this team's pitching performance, how do you feel about Larry Rothschild this season? Do you think he was unnecessarily handcuffed by Dusty Baker and is finally getting a chance to strut his stuff with Lou Piniella? Was it a good idea to re-sign him?

Happily, he's out until 2008.

Well that's encouraging. Hasn't Wandy pitched really well against the Cubs in the past? Derrek Lee and (oddly enough) Jason Marquis have hit him pretty hard.

Anyone see Wandy's home/road splits this season? Home: 5-2, 1.81 ERA, 59.2 IP, 9 GS, 4 HR, 12 BB, 51 K, .202 BAA Away: 1-5, 6.60 ERA, 45.0 IP, 8 GS, 8 HR, 14 BB, 39 K, .296 BAA :shock:

Bastard!! Let's hope Jock sits this game out.

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Lincecum is inconsistent. Cain has been pretty bad. Morris is decent, but should be familiar. Zito has been the worst of them all. Cain has a 122+ ERA and a disappointing but not unacceptable 1.35 WHIP. He hasn't been bad anyway you slice it. Ye ol' 3-10 record is pretty much the way 90% of people would say he's been bad. That 4.24 BB/9 isn't all that good, though. This team just needs to be patient...which is why I'm concerned about that particular game.

Truf, please tell me you think Soto can do better than Bowen? How can he not? Earlier in the thread the argument was being made that Soto was no better than Bowen. That's not exactly right. The argument was that Soto probably isn't much better than Bowen. Again, career minor league OPS: Soto .715 Bowen .715 Over a big sample, they're almost identical players. Cripes, did you see my argument from earlier in the thread? Bowen's two years older than Soto and Bowen spent every year from 1999 to 2006 spending at least part of his time in the minor leagues. He's spent significantly more time in the major leagues compared to Soto. They are NOT almost identical players.

Yeah, let Lilly go another inning or two, then air out the dirty laundry and let guys like Eyre get in some work.

Really, that's not what I've heard. Cue twinkie story.

I <3 Napoleon Dynamite.

Right here... I could easily see Dunn having the same result right there. I could too, but his bat would be a heck of a lot better than Floyd's.

Rob Bowen: Born February 24, 1981 Geovany Soto: Born January 20, 1983 Unless I'm mistaken, this is the first year Bowen hasn't spent any portion of time in the minors.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

In other news, there's a reason why the Brewers lost 3 of 4 in Pittsburgh recently.

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This should end today. Knowing this team, it won't.

However, it took him 20 pitches to strike each out. After his 60th pitch, a fiery explosion engulfed Wood's arm, disintegrating everything below the shoulder. He'll be out for a few weeks and should be back rehabbing in Mesa by the end of the season.

You should watch out for when I get into arguments with my evil twin, Outshined_Two. Yeah, Cubbies150 is an arch-nemesis of mine. My arch-nemesis is CaliforniaRaisin101. :^o I always though ArizonaRaisin would be your nemesis. Nah, it'd be SouthernCaliforniaRaisin.

You should watch out for when I get into arguments with my evil twin, Outshined_Two.

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I'll second this.

But he has a 7.36 ERA and no strikeouts...Im surprised you guys havent completely given up on him yet!! :lol: Give it a few weeks. :P

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