Transmogrified Tiger
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I like Delucci, but Soriano won't play anything other than 2B. Why does that matter. He has a great slugging percentage, 17th overall. They can just go w/ Hairston and Delucci 1-2 or Delucci and Nomar 1-2. As CPatt pointed out, Soriano's road OPS is bad. Factor that with the fact that he's not a severe upgrade over Walker, and he becomes much less attractive a player to have. I'd much rather have Delucci on his own. The prospect cost would be more reasonable, too. His slugging % is 50 points better than Walker's and he's alot faster. Some of you guys overvalue the walk and undervalue the home run. Not many walks are going to push Lee, Burnitz and ARam across the plate. Most likely it just gives Neifi and Barrett the chance to strand them. Also home runs are a sure run. The Cubs would be pretty dangerous w/ three 35+ homer guys. 18 of Soriano's 24 Home Runs are at home. He's been horrible away from home this year, and he wasn't very good away from home last year. I really doubt he'd hit 35 HR as a Cub, not that any particular benchmark like 35 HR is especially important. -
Roster Move for Hill tonight???
Transmogrified Tiger replied to mjued926's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
Greenberg is on the DL so he isn't taking up a roster spot. They don't specify a move in any of the news about Hill starting tonight, but I'd be surprised if it was anything besides Wood to the DL or Mitre to AAA. -
I like Delucci, but Soriano won't play anything other than 2B. Agreed. Dellucci would be solid, but I don't want any part of Soriano and his .652 Road OPS When did Wrigley become a pitcher's park?? Same thing was said about Burnitz. Burnitz last year had a .775 OPS away from home, at least sub-par. .652 OPS is awful, and considering the money and players it would take to get Soriano, it's not close to being worth it.
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Is Nevin/Marquis/prospects really better than Ponson/Mora? Doesn't make sense to me. If Mora is available though, I would hope Hendry would be going after him. Solid production(can back up 3B too) at a very reasonable contract.
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I like Delucci, but Soriano won't play anything other than 2B. Agreed. Dellucci would be solid, but I don't want any part of Soriano and his .652 Road OPS
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It's not really a "so-called LF platoon." It's the definition of a LF platoon. Murton plays against lefties and Hollandsworth plays against righties. I don't agree with it, but Dusty is right when he says it's a platoon. Maybe so, but I don't understand the reasoning considering Hollandsworth's numbers vs. Lefties and Righties are remarkably similar. Mike Remlinger Dusty doesn't go by the numbers, he goes by the hand you throw/hit with.
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Sorry...I didn't hear your husband. I was there wearing a grey Cubs shirt and a blue Cubs BP hat. My wife was next to me in a blue 1980's style pullover. Where were you guys sitting? I was on the rightfield line in the first section of Loge seats. Section 231 IIRC. Sec 333, row 1. Ah, looks like you were almost right above me.
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Sorry...I didn't hear your husband. I was there wearing a grey Cubs shirt and a blue Cubs BP hat. My wife was next to me in a blue 1980's style pullover. Where were you guys sitting? I was on the rightfield line in the first section of Loge seats. Section 231 IIRC.
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No worries, you made all the appropriate disclaimers in your post.
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http://forums.stltoday.com/viewforum.php?f=11
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Yeah, Miller had a frayed labrum. On the other hand, so did Matt Morris, and he's better than ever.
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Does anyone really think the Astros are better than us? They've gotten some unexpected pitching(Wheeler, Pettitte), but I really doubt that Pettitte maintains that success. Plus their offense really isn't very good for playing half their games in MMP. I'm not saying that we're without flaws, but I've seen comments about acquiring players in order to "keep pace" with the Astros. Also, whatever happened to Mike Scott and Jimyisamisspell?
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We need a "about to puke while smashing head into a wall" smiley.
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Corey Patterson & Scott Williamson Report
Transmogrified Tiger replied to Buford T Justice's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
His walk rate has been pretty good thus far, and his IsoP has been very good as well, both encouraging signs. Hopefully he can start getting more hits soon. -
Baker, Nomar, Wood and Patterson
Transmogrified Tiger replied to CubfaninCA's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Not to nitpick, but The trade is pretty even financially either way. The Cubs are paying 1.8 mil to Hairston and 15.5 to Sosa, 17.3 total. Had they just kept Sosa, they would have owed him 17.875 mil. Add in the fact that Burnitz likely would not have been signed for 5 mil if not for the deal, and I don't think you can make the argument the Cubs would be paying more this year with Sosa. -
I went to see the A's play the Indians this year, but they were in their crappy phase and lost. I got to see that sweet Elarton v. Saarloos pitching matchup.
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Over half of Neifi's career at bats came as a Rockie. His highest OPS+ for a full season ever is 82. That qualifies under "super-duper bad".
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WOW. First game I've been to since 2003, and I get Blanco and Perez driving in 6 of 8 runs. The crowd reaction after the Ramirez and Perez home runs was amazing. For his contributions to this most stellar of wins, I hereby swear not to speak ill of Neifi....for a week. Terms of promise subject to change without notice.
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IIRC, he went 7 innings in his last start. Here's his last 4 starts from what I can gather: 7/1: 3 IP, 5 H, 3 ER, 5/1 7/5: 5 IP, 5 H, 3 ER, 6/2 7/14: 6 scoreless, 4 H, 5/2 7/19: 7 scoreless, 3 H, 6/0 That's 21 IP, 6 ER, 17 H, and 22/5. 2.57 ERA, 1.04 WHIP, 9.43 K/9, and a 4.4 K/BB. Really solid work.
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Brandon Sing appreciation thread
Transmogrified Tiger replied to TruffleShuffle's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
Sing = Dubois Hopefully his defense is good enough to be trusted with the heavy defensive responsibility of a corner OF spot. -
Minor League Discussion & Boxes 7-23-05
Transmogrified Tiger replied to Jon's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
Hooray Marmol and EPatt. -
I don't understand this criticism. Novoa wasn't trying to walk Pujols, he was just being careful(he was also robbed of a strike call in the AB) with him. If you leave Ohman in, who has been bad against RH this year, a mistake he makes in pitching around Pujols is more likely to hurt you than a mistake by the right handed Novoa who has better stuff.
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Dusty Bad Managerial Moves Thread
Transmogrified Tiger replied to rawaction's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
I'm not disagreeing with you, but if you pitchout 1-1, it almost guarantees the squeeze at 2-1 unless you are trying to walk him. Actually that would not have been a bad move, to walk him. He meant nothing as a runner, and would have set up a double play. That's true, but that also brings you one step closer to Pujols and Edmonds without getting an out. It's basically putting all your eggs in one basket that you get the DP ball. The odds that Pujols(Or Edmonds if you walk Pujols) beats you with 2 outs is higher than Eckstein beating you with 1 IMO. I almost forgot, Welcome to the Forum!! -
Can you support that stance? The Sox are scoring half a run less this year than last per game. There can be games where you score 10 runs and then next day get shutout and still avg a higher RPG than teams that consistently score 5 rpg. It's all about consistency and that's what guys like Pod bring, that's a player that consitently finds ways to get on base and steal them, I don't care if you avg 10 rpg if you score all those runs in half your games played. It's too late to start now, but tomorrow or at the next opportunity, I'm testing this theory.
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So if I understand you correctly, you're saying that the pitcher is affected by Pierre being on the basepaths, causing that pitcher to perform worse. So, if Pierre is on the basepaths less often, like this year compared to previous years, then shouldn't players behind him also be performing below expectations because the pitcher is focused on them more often? Let's take a look at that. Pierre hitting #1 2003: .302/.359/.370/.729 (667 PA's) 2004: .336/.382/.422/.804 (632 PA's) 2005: .272/.319/.357/.676 (385 PA's) Luis Castillo hitting #2 2003: .325/.389/.406/.794 (590 PA's) 2004: .285/.372/.332/.704 (488 PA's) 2005: .333/.423/.415/.838 (271 PA's) As you can see, Pierre's success seems to have the opposite effect on Castillo. Maybe it's an aberration, but it's certainly food for thought.
