Garwilly

05 Astros April 9 13 May 10 19

By the way... Colorado 8 13 Chicago Cubs 7 13 Kansas City 6 14 Washington 6 14

I prefer winning to losing.

Your timeline's off by a couple of years. Grace was let go after 2000, Choi wasn't hurt and left on the bench until 2003. but wasn't he let go to make room for a younger, cheaper 1B. Julio Zuleta maybe? Zuleta had 106 ab's in 2001. He started 23 games.

If Soriano is really an adequate CF then by all means Pie should be traded while his value is high. LF is an easy position to fill and Soriano's offense is far more valuable coming from CF. People who say positions are unimportant don't understand the economics involved. How valuable would Pujols be if he played CF? Certainly more valuable than at 1B or LF. Define "valuable". Like as in trade value? Soriano's not getting traded. And his value on the FA market is obviously irrelevant now. Soriano does not have more value to the Cubs as a CF, if they're sold on Pie. Similarly, Pujols is not getting traded, and he doesn't have value to the Cards as a CF (or at least hasn't in the past), because of Edmonds. For Soriano to have value as a CF to the Cubs, you'd need to find a trade involving Pie that nets a LF that's better than Pie, both offensively and defensively. Only then would the Cubs be better off as a team with Soriano in CF. Value is production (and salary) relative to average for the position. There are a lot of LF'ers who hit at near the level Soriano does, but there are few CF'ers, and even fewer 2B. So when he is in LF the Cubs are paying him an enormous sum to be not that far above average for the position. Offensively, Alsonso would be an elite CF, but not so with LF. So the Cubs would be that much better by switching Pie to LF and Soriano to CF (as Garwilly suggested earlier)? The point is, the same 8 guys hitting in the same spots in the lineup are going to generate the same number of runs regardless of where each one stands when it's the Cubs' turn in the field. So if playing Soriano in CF allows you to upgrade from Pie to someone better (considering hitting, baserunning, defense, age, salary, etc etc), then having Soriano play CF provides value *to the Cubs*. Short of that though, this whole discussion of "value" is off base. There's no value unless/until it enables a better and/or cheaper option to be plugged into the lineup (and they don't come any cheaper than Pie). Just want to make sure it was clear I was being searcastic. Go on..

How are people convicted of anything? Mountains of "evidence". Innocent until proven guilty is only applicable in COURT. Someone saying he took steroids, does not need to meet that same criteria.

Nate Bump would have a similiar situation. As would Peter Pitchersmound. Touche.

Nate Bump would have a similiar situation.

I believe that the pitcher's mound should be refered to exclusively as "Rich's Hill", "The Hill" etc whenever #53 takes the....hill.

Well that sucks. A terrible contract just got worse. You're right, put Pie in left and Soriano is center...........

I smell something. I think its a win.

I'm excited, I bought an authentic nameless #20 last year planning on this. I know it looks a little cramped when adding a name above the 2006 models (the numbers sit a tad higher), but it still looks fine. I'm dropping it off for lettering tomorrow.

Your timeline's off by a couple of years. Grace was let go after 2000, Choi wasn't hurt and left on the bench until 2003. 2001, the year of Matt Stairs.

See you there.

See you guys Saturday.

Umm....Dave Rosello is alive!

Hmmm, I can't see the game but surely on a walk it's a dead ball situation. no it's not. Why not? You can advance after a wild pitch on ball 4. You can keep running to 2nd base after a walk. You can steal a base as a walk occurs. It just isnt a dead ball.

is the ruling that he was "trying to advance to third"? Why does that matter. He touched second and came off. As soon as he touched second his "free pass" was over.

You can advance on a wild pitch on ball four. The ball isn't dead. You can also keep on runnging to 2nd on a walk.

4/20 vs St. Louis- RammyFanny Today's Piniella pool

JESUS!!

Always.

Learn the rules Eckstein.

Jones, exceeding all expectations!

I thought that IS what they were saying!