Transmogrified Tiger

Felipe is a glutton for punishment. 3 days in a row with Hawkins in the 8th?

Isolated power: SLG-AVG Here we go with another obscure stat. The guy is hitting over .400 and we're worried about is ISOP. Assuming Nomar comes back with some power, we have at least average or better power at 1B, 2B (for the position), SS (for the position), 3B, RF, & C. The last time I looked, the WSox were running away with their Division without a power-hitting LF. I guess I'm too old to get excited about all of these new statistics. Give me the good old days when a guy hitting .400 should be playing. Instead, everyone wets their pants over a guy hitting .240 with 8 million strikeouts and thinks we ought to trade half our farm system for him. I don't disagree with Murton playing, but you don't seriously think he's going to hit .400 over the long run, do you? There's a difference between using stats for projection purposes (as they were used here) and deciding who should play today or who has performed the best. Since it's unlikely that Murton hits .455 for the rest of his career, people are trying to figure out what they should expect from him. i don't see why this bothers you so much. Well, I believe that when a guy is hot you play him and when a guy is in a slump you sit him. Murton won't hit .450 for the rest of his career, but there's a very good possibility he would outhit Hollandsworth. The Cubs are looking for a guy to get on base and then they platoon him. Thank God that Dusty sat him today against Tomko so that the veteran Hollandsworth could show him how it's done (3 strikeouts in the first 6 innings). Sometimes you need a little common sense instead of statistics. Again, no one said to sit Murton. We were only talking in context of future performance, and if that was good enough to not go after a bat in LF.

Z going to take one for the 7 man bullpen.

"Fastball...DON'T SWING"

It seems like Walker avoids throwing overhand if at all possible. Shovelling, underhand, flipping to Cedeno...

sheesh, 29 pitch inning blew up his pitch count.

Hey maybe his OBP is within 30 points of the guys he's playing in front of now!!

He did. That's why he's out today and was replaced last night. Weird. Wasn't that in the 1st inning? Strange that he'd play through it for most of the game and then come out.

You can't compare a free agent contract to an arbitration case, it's a completely different animal.

Holla gets shafted, then chases eye-high again.

Good hustle ARam!

It was in fair territory and hit his bat again. Oh, I thought it hit his foot. Either way, what is there to argue after the ump calls it a dead ball? He's out regardless. It didn't look to me like anyone was arguing. The umps called Z back to the plate, then conversed and called him out. No one really protested that I saw.

It was in fair territory and hit his bat again.

Zambrano is clinically insane.

Humiliating, Hollandsworth.

Aram is a lazy $%% ...../sigh He's lazy and his errors have been numerous lately....earn that money man! we should trade him now, if only some other team would take him. Never said anything close to Trade him....told him to earn his money.. He's been the best hitter in the NL for the last 2 months, IIRC. He's earning his money.

I don't think we have an equivalent to Marte, and IMO, Williams > McCarthy > Mitre. So maybe Williams and Wuertz?

Unfortunately, this isn't something that just popped up this year. For many Sox fans, it's a state of mind. Take a look at a typical Sox fan site, and see how many anti-Cubs screennames, avatars, icons, or sigs there are. Then take a look at a Cubs fan site, and compare.

Isolated power: SLG-AVG Here we go with another obscure stat. The guy is hitting over .400 and we're worried about is ISOP. Assuming Nomar comes back with some power, we have at least average or better power at 1B, 2B (for the position), SS (for the position), 3B, RF, & C. The last time I looked, the WSox were running away with their Division without a power-hitting LF. I guess I'm too old to get excited about all of these new statistics. Give me the good old days when a guy hitting .400 should be playing. Instead, everyone wets their pants over a guy hitting .240 with 8 million strikeouts and thinks we ought to trade half our farm system for him. I never said that Murton shouldn't play, I was just pointing out why he might not be a long term solution, because he certainly isn't going to hit .450 for the rest of his career. Just because a statistic is unfamiliar doesn't mean it's useless or overly complicated. Heck, IsoP isn't new at all, or complicated.

Twice now Murton's gone 4-5 and gotten benched the next game. STOP MAKING SO MANY OUTS. Macias will get 2 hits today, he always does when he starts. That doesn't make playing him and leading him off any less of a joke though. WE WANT JODY!

Branyan put up a 1061 OPS at High A ball at age 21. Sing put up a 782 OPS at High A ball at age 21. Dopirak has a 659 OPS at High A ball at age 21.

NONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONO

Phil Rogers wrote that article, so it's just his uninformed speculation. Wickman has been an okay reliever this year, and his save totals will inflate his trade value. Miller, Rhodes, Howry, Riske, and Betancourt have all been better than Wickman this year, and that's just in the Indians bullpen. I'd love to get my hands on Riske or Betancourt.

Sox fans obsess because they are always second fiddle. They will always get less media coverage because their fan base is significantly lower, yet some don't recognize this as the reason. This causes them to be angry at the Cubs and look for ways in which the team, the fans, the ballpark, and the media that covers them screws up

I started a thread about the article in this forum a couple days ago. It was titled "Damon likes the Cubs" or something to that extent. The link was in there.